Nata de Coco

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What is it?

the name of your traveling companion is Gluconacetobacter hansenii (cellulose strain).

Below is the media for optimal cellulose production, but we use it for culturing etc.

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Hestrin–Schramm (HS) medium (for 500mL)

  • 2.5g yeast extract (0.5% w/v)
  • 2.5g peptone (0.5% w/v)
  • 1.35g Na2HPO4 (0.27% w/v)
  • 0.75g citric acid (0.15% w/v)
  • 10g glucose (2%w/v) - NB autoclave this separately as 20% glucose, and add 50ml to 450ml of the rest of the media

other tips

I think is no problem with split the amount I gave you. To accomplish it, you should inoculate the media with a piece of the cellulose-bacteria layer and left it growing without agitation at room temperature (you only have to be careful with the contamination at the moment of inoculation!).

You can get a lot more information from this group of iGEM: http://2014.igem.org/Team:Imperial

If you are interested on dye the cellulose with bacterial pigments, we usually do this way:

  • grow the cellulose paper
  • remove the excess of media
  • use the cellulose paper as substrate, by plating (with L-shape spreader) a pigment producer O.N. bacterial culture over the wet cellulose paper.
  • Bacterias will grow on that side of the paper and produce the dye. If you want to have both sides dyed, repeat the process on the other side.

I hope it is clear :)

have a good time on Japan and don't hesitate to ask me if you need something.