Engineering of bacterial strains and their products for cancer therapy

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5189-5199

  Bernardes, Nuno ^a   Chakrabarty, Ananda M ^b   Fialho, Arsenio M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Azurin; Bacteria; Cancer; Immunotherapy; Metagenomics

Indexed keywords

ANTI-CANCER AGENTS; AZURIN; BACTERIAL STRAINS; BIOACTIVE PRODUCTS; CANCER; IMMUNOTHERAPY; METAGENOMICS; THERAPEUTIC AGENTS;

DISEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ONCOLOGY; PEPTIDES;

BACTERIA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZURIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL VECTOR; CANCER VACCINE; CARBON NANOTUBE; DENILEUKIN DIFTITOX; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DOXORUBICIN; ENDOSTATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; IMMUNOTOXIN; LISTERIOLYSIN; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE; METRONIDAZOLE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN E7; ROMIDEPSIN; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CANCER; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CANCER GENE THERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER THERAPY; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MELANOMA B16; METAGENOMICS; METASTASIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHOTOBACTERIUM LEIOGNATHI; POSITRON; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR REGRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AZURIN; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; IMMUNOTOXINS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METAGENOMICS; NEOPLASMS; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84878687925     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4926-6     Document Type: Review

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