Hi everyone. I've been thinking about this for a long time and lately with the terrifying implications of climate change being felt, I feel compelled to explore this idea.
Using crispr technology, is it within the realms of possibility to isolate useful sequences from chloroplasts to convert sunlight into ATP and the sequences from electrocytes (specialist cells in electric eels et al) to take that ATP and convert it to stored electricity.
I have always been fascinated by the idea of biological solar panels, but with crispr it seems to me, forest power generation is perhaps possible. Speculating even more wildly, mycelium may play a role in collection.
Anyway, I welcome your thoughts and recognise this is wildly speculative.
david
Hi David. First up apologies for the long delay in getting back to you. This actually sounds like an awesome idea. I get the idea you're going for and i'm not 100% that CRISPR is all that necessary for this. Essentially you're coupling the production of ATP synthesis in plants with it's usage in the production of electricity in Eels. The production of ATP is a multi step pathway in plants.
While each of these proteins has it's own special job in the pathway to creating ATP, the last protein (ATP Synthase) is what makes the most ATP through the flow of Hyrdogen ions from the bottom to the top (which represents two sides of the Chloroplast wall. What i'm getting at, it's not just a matter of expressing the protein to get it to make ATP. The proteins also have to be in a specific arrangement. This means that you can't just have the needed proteins floating around a test tube, shine some light on it, and expect some ATP to come out. check out a paper called
CELL-FREE ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS SYSTEM
I could see a couple of ways your idea could work. You either create an artificial system like the one in the paper above. You modify chloroplasts in someway to incorporate the usage of the electrocytes instead of sending ATP to be used up in the Krebb's cycle OR you modify the plants.
In Australia were somewhat limited in what we can do because of facility requirements. Genetically modifying plants requires a higher level of compliance we at BioQ can't meet. So we can't work with plants. However working with chloroplast might be an idea, you could even try to grow them outside of the plants. Anyway if you're still curious about this idea, let me know! Now that we've finished our move i'll be more watchful over all of our communication channels :)
No worries. Thanks for reply Andrew. This is stretching my science knowledge;) what if we focused on chloroplasts that use the C4 pathway. Eg from Hydrilla verticillata or Orcuttia viscida? Thier architecture might increase efficiency?
Check out this paper.
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article-pdf/68/2/255/25199178/erw374.pdf
Here are some more relevant papers:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.7b00039
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/usui2/
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/energy-electrogenic-grass-plants/
Very cool paper really like the one on electrogenic grass plants. Not too sure where you're based out of but in Aus, legislation requires that we do any kind of genetic engineering on plants in a PC2 plant facility. So not sure it will be possible for us to do that as is. Still a really cool idea and i'm sure there has to be someway to do something similar.
No worries am happy to talk alternatives. I'm in Healesville about an hour and change out of Melbourne.
Could we modify and culture chloroplasts. I reckon we split the problem in two. Solve the generation problem and then the harvesting problem. Then worry about efficiency and scalability later.
This sounds doable! Send me an email at info@bioquisitive.org.au
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