Objective: Develop an enzyme based process that can degrade laundry stains more effectively and sustainably than current cleaning agents.

About our design: We planned to add a hydroxyl functional group to increase solubility as it increases the polarity of the substance.

Experiment details / plans: We intended to use Escherichia coli to create oleate hydratase enzymes to degrade oleic acid. We planned to use transformation to insert a plasmid with a gene that encodes for oleate hydratase from Elizabethkingia meningoseptica.