Engineered bacteria as therapeutic agents

C Piñero-Lambea, D Ruano-Gallego… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
… to fully reprogram bacteria as human therapeutics, including novel … bacterial engineering
for human therapies, but similar concepts can be applied for the development of live bacterial

Engineered bacteria: general overview as therapeutic agent and a novel drug delivery system

PL Patil, SK Gharat, KR Jadhav… - Current Pharmaceutical …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
… use as an effective therapeutic agent. Engineered bacteria were the first organism modified
in the laboratory by manipulating the genetic sequence of bacteria to treat various diseases …

Engineering bacteria for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

DT Riglar, PA Silver - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
… testing of engineered bacterial diagnostics and therapeutics. We … engineered bacteria for
future clinical applications, and we discuss approaches to more efficiently evaluate engineered

Use of genetically engineered phage to deliver antimicrobial agents to bacteria: an alternative therapy for treatment of bacterial infections

C Westwater, LM Kasman, DA Schofield… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
… One of the challenges of molecular therapy is how to deliver the therapeutic agent to the
offending bacterium. Phage delivery systems provide the opportunity to target specific bacterial

Genetically engineered bacterium: Principles, practices, and prospects

Y Liu, J Feng, H Pan, X Zhang, Y Zhang - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… GEBs are not only effective therapeutic agents against chronic diseases due to their … The
use of engineered bacteria in disease treatment is still in the infancy stage and has limitations …

Chemically and biologically engineered bacteria‐based delivery systems for emerging diagnosis and advanced therapy

Z Li, Y Wang, J Liu, P Rawding, J Bu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… could be either directly delivered to treat diseases, such as probiotics-mediated treatment
against ulcerative colitis, or utilized as carriers for therapeutic agents to increase the drug …

Genetically engineered oncolytic bacteria as drug delivery systems for targeted cancer theranostics

Y Chen, X Liu, Y Guo, J Wang, D Zhang, Y Mei, J Shi… - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
… In addition, we discuss novel strategies of cancer therapies integrating oncolytic bacteria, …
Engineered bacteria flood into tumor tissues and even small metastatic lesions follow blood …

Progress of engineered bacteria for tumor therapy

JX Fan, MT Niu, YT Qin, YX Sun, XZ Zhang - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
engineered bacteria applied to the field of antitumor therapy were outlined and the construction
methods of engineered bacteria … Nowadays, many kinds of therapeutic agents including …

Bacteria and genetically modified bacteria as cancer therapeutics: Current advances and challenges

SC Nallar, DQ Xu, DV Kalvakolanu - Cytokine, 2017 - Elsevier
… maximum tolerated dose – a single maximal dose of a therapeutic agentbacterial-based
therapy. Future studies should first address whether tumors arising in genetically-engineered

Sustainable therapies by engineered bacteria

B Álvarez, LÁ Fernández - Microbial Biotechnology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… of the use of engineered bacteria for the … engineered bacteria against cancer will not be
discussed here because it is the topic of a different article in this issue. Engineering bacteria