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Team:Newcastle/glue
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ULB-Brussels developed BioBricks for production of Caulobacter crescentus glue, and won the Best New BioBrick Part, Natural award in 2009. Caulobacter crescentus is a gram-negative bacterium.
E. coli
The hfsE hfsF hfsG hfsH genes are organized in operon and their products are required for the
minimum repeat unit holdfast synthesis while the polymerization of the repeat unit of the hold-
fast substance needs the expression of hfsC and hfsI genes.
The products of the 3 adjacent hfsD hfsA and hfsB genes are involved in the holdfast export.
The anchoring of the holdfast polysaccharide is carried out by the hfa gene products.
