Bio-Products

Bioactive Peptides

Through recombined DNA techniques, the UGA Center for Molecular Bio-Engineering laboratory has devised an intracellular approach which allows for the direct screening of 5 to 20 amino acid inhibitory peptides that can prevent the growth of pathogenic bacteria.

Succinic Acid

Succinic acid is a four carbon dicarboxylic acid which has diverse application in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, and also serve as a four carbon building block for polymers. The laboratory is developing means to optimize the productivity of succinic acid by modification of operational parameters toward eventual commercialization.

Recombinant Proteins

Recombinant proteins are a $10 billion industry, and include diverse products including immunoassay proteins, industrial enzymes and therapeutic proteins. UGA developed a technology to use the anapletoric enzyme pyruvate carboxylase to divert carbon to the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and in so doing provide more carbon to protein synthesis.

Amino Acids

Ten of the twenty natural amino acids are biochemically derived from oxaloacetate. UGA's laboratory has developed a means of increasing the yield of this amino acids by increasing the carbon flux to oxaloacetate during cell growth. The laboratory is working with industry partners to commercialize this technology.

Bio-Pesticides

UGA is developing ways to grow crops using bio-pesticides which are less harmful to humans and animals but just as effective against insects.

Land Application Systems

Land application is the utilization of by-products. Along with land applying waste from farmers and livestock growers industrial waste can also land applied to soil. Outreach has access to labs that test soil quality for land applied areas.

Industrial Technology Partnership

GITP assists Georgia's industries in acquiring and implementing their collective long-term research and development needs that assure attainment of their identified goals for energy efficiency, competitiveness, and sustainability