Team:Paris Bettencourt/Project/Indigo


Making patterns on denim

Goals

  • Find microorganisms that naturally degrade indigo
  • Test enzyme known for degrading indigo
  • Make patterns on jeans

Methods

Someone should write down this part

Results

3 strains degrading indigo in liquid M9 were identified

We exported the idea of cleaning stains with biology and our methods to do so into a more artistic approach with the indigo part of our project. Our goal is to find microorganisms and enzymes that can degrade indigo and to test them on denim. The final aim will be to use them to make patterns on jeans.

We basically reproduce the work of enzyme and microbe’s team in a smaller scale: through literature we identified one interesting enzyme that we tested, and we collected different microbes with potential capacity of degradation of indigo.

Sources:
Perchloroethylene, Pubchem
US National Library of Medecine
Report on Carcinogens, Thirteenth edition
Ministère de l'Environnement, de l'Énergie, et de la Mer

Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI)
Faculty of Medicine Cochin Port-Royal, South wing, 2nd floor
Paris Descartes University
24, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques
75014 Paris, France
+33 1 44 41 25 22/25
igem2016parisbettencourt@gmail.com
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