1. X Peanut Butter and Jelly Salmonella
Our research question was to try to determine why salmonella can survive and grow in less than ideal conditions, such as a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter. In the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a lipase enzyme has been isolated from a strain which is capable of growing in water restricted environments. Our hypothesis is that the lipase enzyme may be involved in that process by permitting the bacteria to grow in a low water high fat environment. .
To address this problem we compared lipase protein sequences from a variety of prokaryotes to determine a link between structure and function