Lactococcus Strain may Offer End to Food Allergies
...College Cork bioengineered a strain of Lactococcus lactis to produce anti-inflammatory interleukin-10 (IL-10...hypothesis that oral administration of Lactococcus lactis bioengineered to secrete murine IL-10 could inhibi...he presence of cholera toxin and then given the L. lactis IL-10-secreting strain. The researchers report tha...Bacteria In Yogurt Can Combat HIV Infection
...rugs. The research team, headed by Bharat Ramratnam, a specialist in HIV/AIDS have sucessfully altered the genetic constitution of Lactobacillus lactis to enable release of cyanovirin. This drug has already been found to confer protection against HIV infection in monkeys and human cells (in vitro cult...Viruses evolve to play by host rules, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers
...University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University have examined the complete genomes of viruses that infect the bacteria E. coli, P. aeruginosa and L. lactis and have found that many of these viral genomes exhibit codon bias, the tendency to preferentially encode a protein with a particular spelling. ...Creation of antibiotic in test tube holds promise for better antibiotics
...ed nisin simply in a test tube by using a single cyclase enzyme to re-create the process that normally occurs in a strain of the bacterium Lactococcus lactis found naturally in milk. They demonstrated how just one protein (NisC) makes 10 new chemical bonds in a stereochemically defined fashion. Specifically...