| Literature DB >> 29550614 |
Zachary Js Mays1, Nikhil U Nair2.
Abstract
The trillions of microbes hosted by humans can dictate health or illness depending on a multitude of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that help define the human ecosystem. As the human microbiota is characterized, so can the interconnectivity of microbe-host-disease be realized and manipulated. Designing microbes as therapeutic agents can not only enable targeted drug delivery but also restore homeostasis within a perturbed microbial community. Used for centuries in fermentation and preservation of food, lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have a long history of safe, and occasionally health promoting, interactions with the human gut, making them ideal candidates for engineered functionality. This review outlines available genetic tools, recent developments in biomedical applications, as well as potential future applications of synthetic biology to program LAB-based therapeutic systems.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29550614 PMCID: PMC6139064 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.01.028
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Biotechnol ISSN: 0958-1669 Impact factor: 9.740