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The big idea We aim to engineer a probiotic bacterium to improve its medical applications. Our work focuses on four main areas: (1) pathogen defense, either by expression of pathogen-specific bacteriophage or by targeted bursts of reactive oxygen species; (2) vitamin over-expression and delivery; (3) treatment of lactose intolerance, by preferentially metabolizing lactose and funneling it to vitamin production; and (4) regulation of these three treatment functions to produce subpopulations specialized for each function. Why engineer gut microbes?The large intestine: an ideal bioreactor Talk about the colon Probiotic bacteria and other natural examples Talk about probiotics Nissle 1917: Probiotic, commercially available E. coli Talk about Nissle 1917 For more details, please see our project page. |
