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ReviewMicroorganisms2022

Plasmid-Based Gene Expression Systems for Lactic Acid Bacteria: A Review.

Tawsif Ahmed Kazi, Aparupa Acharya, Bidhan Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Sukhendu Mandal, Ananta Prasad Arukha, Subhendu Nayak, Swadesh Ranjan Biswas

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Review in Microorganisms, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Phenotypic and Safety Assessment of the Cheese StrainInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Tawsif Ahmed KaziDepartment of Botany, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235, West Bengal, India.ORCID 0000-0003-1663-6858
Aparupa AcharyaDepartment of Botany, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235, West Bengal, India.
Bidhan Chandra MukhopadhyayDepartment of Botany, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235, West Bengal, India.
Sukhendu MandalLaboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, Department of Microbiology, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India.ORCID 0000-0002-7752-0982
Ananta Prasad ArukhaResearcher 5 Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Subhendu NayakSr. Scientist, Clorox, Better Health VMS, Durham, NC 27701, USA.
Swadesh Ranjan BiswasDepartment of Botany, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235, West Bengal, India.
Visva-Bharati University · INNovant Health · USUniversity of Calcutta · INUniversity of Minnesota Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) play a very vital role in food production, preservation, and as probiotic agents. Some of these species can colonize and survive longer in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), where their presence is crucially helpful to promote human health. LAB has also been used as a safe and efficient incubator to produce proteins of interest. With the advent of genetic engineering, recombinant LAB have been effectively employed as vectors for delivering therapeutic molecules to mucosal tissues of the oral, nasal, and vaginal tracks and for shuttling therapeutics for diabetes, cancer, viral infections, and several gastrointestinal infections. The most important tool needed to develop genetically engineered LABs to produce proteins of interest is a plasmid-based gene expression system. To date, a handful of constitutive and inducible vectors for LAB have been developed, but their limited availability, host specificity, instability, and low carrying capacity have narrowed their spectrum of applications. The current review discusses the plasmid-based vectors that have been developed so far for LAB; their functionality, potency, and constraints; and further highlights the need for a new, more stable, and effective gene expression platform for LAB.

Indexed as

constitutive expressionlactic acid bacteriaNICE systemplasmid-based vectorsrolling-circle replicationtheta-mode of replication

Identifiers

PMID35744650
PMCPMC9229153
OpenAlexW4281745533

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