A stably engineered, suicidal strain of Listeria monocytogenes delivers protein and/or DNA to fully differentiated intestinal epithelial monolayers

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1052-1061

  Kuo, Cheng Yi ^a,b   Sinha, Shubhra ^a   Jazayeri, Jalal A ^a   Pouton, Colin W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Tensall Bio Tech Co   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antigen delivery; Bacterial vaccine; Gene delivery; Listeria monocytogenes; Protein delivery; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VECTOR; DNA; LIPOFECTAMINE; LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMAL CELL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL WALL; DNA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUCIFERASES; PLASMIDS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 68249125832     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp800153u     Document Type: Article

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