A review on Lactococcus lactis: from food to factory

AAL Song, LLA In, SHE Lim, RA Rahim - Microbial cell factories, 2017 - Springer
Lactococcus lactis has progressed a long way since its discovery and initial use in dairy
product fermentation, to its present biotechnological applications in genetic engineering for …

Current progress and challenges in the study of adjuvants for oral vaccines

B Ou, Y Yang, H Lv, X Lin, M Zhang - BioDrugs, 2023 - Springer
Over the past 20 years, a variety of potential adjuvants have been studied to enhance the
effect of oral vaccines in the intestinal mucosal immune system; however, no licensed …

Intestinal enteroids recapitulate the effects of short-chain fatty acids on the intestinal epithelium

SC Pearce, GJ Weber, DM van Sambeek, JW Soares… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Enteroids are cultured primary intestinal epithelial cells that recapitulate epithelial lineage
development allowing for a more complex and physiologically relevant model for scientific …

M cell targeting engineered biomaterials for effective vaccination

MA Islam, J Firdous, AZM Badruddoza, E Reesor… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Vaccines are one of the greatest medical interventions of all time and have been successful
in controlling and eliminating a myriad of diseases over the past two centuries. Among …

Adjuvant strategies for lactic acid bacterial mucosal vaccines

AC Vilander, GA Dean - Vaccines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are Gram-positive, acid-tolerant bacteria that have long been
used in food fermentation and are generally recognized as safe (GRAS). LAB are a part of a …

Bacteria-based microdevices for the oral delivery of macromolecules

Z Cao, S Lin, J Liu - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The oral delivery of macromolecules is quite challenging due to environmental insults and
biological barriers encountered along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Benefiting from their …

Oral Immunization of Mice with Cell Extracts from Recombinant Lactococcus lactis Expressing SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

B Xuan, J Park, JH Yoo, EB Kim - Current Microbiology, 2022 - Springer
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread all over the
world and became a pandemic that named coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). At …

Genetic Engineering of Lactococcus lactis Co-producing Antigen and the Mucosal Adjuvant 3′ 5′- cyclic di Adenosine Monophosphate (c-di-AMP) as a Design …

I Quintana, M Espariz, SR Villar, FB González… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Lactococcus lactis is a promising candidate for the development of mucosal vaccines. More
than 20 years of experimental research supports this immunization approach. In addition …

Physiology-Oriented Engineering Strategy to Improve Gamma-Aminobutyrate Production in Lactobacillus brevis

C Lyu, W Zhao, S Hu, J Huang, T Lu, Z **… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) is an important chemical in the pharmaceutical field. GABA-
producing lactic acid bacteria (LAB) offer the opportunity of develo** this health-oriented …

Targeting Melanoma Hypoxia with the Food-Grade Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus Lactis

R Garza-Morales, BE Rendon, MT Malik… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Hypoxia is a feature of the tumor
microenvironment that reduces efficacy of immuno-and chemotherapies, resulting in poor …