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2018

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Kayla TempletonChemistryUndergraduate Student,Azariah CoblentzChemistryUndergraduate Student,Wesley JenkinsBiologyUndergraduate Student,Christopher De AlbaBiologyUndergraduate Student,Dr. Jenny A. CappuccioChemistryFaculty

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Due to the many industrial processes of modern America, heavy metal contamination of our waterways, specifically in densely populated areas, has become a major issue. The Prokaryotic species Caulobacter vibrioides exhibits a surface layer protein, RsaA, forming a 2-D crystallin array above the cell membrane. RsaA can be modified to exhibit a high binding potential with many of the charged ions, such as heavy metals, which are found in waterways. Here we show through an quantitative fluorescence assay that upon exposure to 39.063nM Pb solution, engineered C. vibrioides strains Hcm 027, and 028 remediated approximately 10% more Pb than the wildtype, Hcm 009.

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