Engineering of lactic acid bacteria for delivery of therapeutic proteins and peptides

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 2053-2066

  Plavec, Tina Vida ^a,b   Berlec, Aleš ^a,b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Engineering; Lactic acid bacteria; Lactobacillus plantarum; Lactococcus lactis; Peptide delivery; Protein delivery

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BACTERIA; DISEASES; ENGINEERING; LABORATORIES; PEPTIDES;

LACTIC ACID BACTERIA; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PEPTIDE DELIVERY; PROTEIN DELIVERY;

LACTIC ACID;

PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; ENZYME; ORGANIC ACID; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RNA;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASES; ENGINEERING; HOST CELL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; GENE EDITING; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 85060257356     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-09628-y     Document Type: Review

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