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<h2> Demonstrate </h2>
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<p>For the gold medal “Demonstrate your work” requirement, we have shown that we can recreate kombucha from scratch by adding isolated strains of microbes to tea media. Our tea media, made with water, black tea, and sucrose, simulates the starting mixture used to brew kombucha. We have performed extensive recapitulation trials to determine which strains of yeast and bacteria are necessary for brewing kombucha. Cataloguing these vital strains is a necessary step toward modifying the starting population to create a “designer beverage” with a variety of properties that could benefit kombucha consumers and manufacturers outside the lab. </p>
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<h2>Kombucha Strains</h2>
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*Successfully isolated microbes from various samples of kombucha.
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*Characterized each of the isolated microbes to facilitate further experimentation.
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<h2>Conjugation</h2>
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*Attempted conjugation with <i>G. oxydans</i>.
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*Performed minimum inhibitory concentration experiments between <i>G. oxydans</i> and spectinomycin, carbenicillin and kanamycin.
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*Determined that <i>G. oxydans</i> is resistant to spectinomycin and carbenicillin.
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*In a process called "recapitulation," we successfully created a kombucha-like culture by adding individual strains of microbes instead of a living culture containing the entire kombucha microbiome.
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*Determined that the microbe <i>Ga. hansenii</i> is essential for the fermentation of kombucha.
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*Determined that two distinct strains of the yeast <i>Lachancea fermentati</i> are necessary for the fermentation of kombucha, including one that appears to produce high quantities of C02.
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*Found literature describing sequences for genes involved in the metabolism of ethanol to acetic acid in the bacterium <i>Ga. hansenii</i>.
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*Designed Golden Gate parts for the assembly of these genes into a functional construct.
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*Used a bromothymol blue assay to compare changes in pH resulting from fermentation in multiple strains of <i>Lachancea fermentati</i> isolated from our kombucha.
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*Successfully created a neutral pH sensor with a reporter.
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*Further characterized the P-atp2 Biobrick.
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*Found literature describing three putative promoters in <i>Gluconobacter oxydans</i> that increase transcription under acidic conditions, and currently characterizing these sequences.
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* Successfully made Gellan Gum plates from <i>Sphingomonas paucimobilis</i>
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Imperial/Project"> Imperial</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/Project_Overview"> UC Davis</a></li>
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<p>Many of the microorganisms involved in the fermentation of kombucha produce acidic metabolites that lower the pH of the culture. Using pH-sensitive promoters to control the expression of reporter proteins, such as GFP or a chromoprotein, would allow visualization of the pH change. The promoters Cpx, P-atp2, and Cadc were selected as pH sensors to indicate pH in the neutral, basic, and acidic ranges, respectively.<sup>1,3,5,6</sup> These constructs have been or will be transformed into <i>Escherichia coli</i> to confirm pH sensitivity prior to introduction to kombucha and to see if these constructs could be utilized as sensors in mediums besides kombucha.</p>
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Demonstrate

For the gold medal “Demonstrate your work” requirement, we have shown that we can recreate kombucha from scratch by adding isolated strains of microbes to tea media. Our tea media, made with water, black tea, and sucrose, simulates the starting mixture used to brew kombucha. We have performed extensive recapitulation trials to determine which strains of yeast and bacteria are necessary for brewing kombucha. Cataloguing these vital strains is a necessary step toward modifying the starting population to create a “designer beverage” with a variety of properties that could benefit kombucha consumers and manufacturers outside the lab.

Click the images below to learn more about our results!

Kombucha Strains

Conjugation

Recapitulation

Ethanol

pH

Gellan Gum