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- Title
Temperature-sensitive bacterial pathogens generated by the substitution of essential genes from cold-loving bacteria: potential use as live vaccines.
- Authors
Duplantis, Barry N.; Bosio, Catherine M.; Nano, Francis E.
- Abstract
Temperature-sensitive (TS) viruses have been used for decades as vaccines capable of limited replication in their hosts. Although attenuated bacteria, such as the Bacille Calmette-Guérin anti-tuberculosis vaccine, have been used for almost a century, it is only recently that there has been progress in using TS bacterial strains as live vaccines. Decades of work on essential bacterial genes and the recent explosion in the number of available bacterial genomic sequences set the groundwork for the identification of essential genes from diverse bacteria. This knowledge has allowed for the substitution of essential genes from cold-loving bacteria into the chromosomes of pathogenic bacteria. Many of these gene substitutions generated TS pathogenic bacterial strains, and some were demonstrated to provide protective immunity in mice. This work opens the possibility of engineering many pathogenic bacteria to create TS strains that can be used as vaccines.
- Subjects
PATHOGENIC bacteria; BACTERIOPHAGE mu; REPRODUCTION; PATHOGENIC microorganisms; BACTERIAL vaccines; VACCINATION; VACCINES
- Publication
Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2011, Vol 89, Issue 5, p437
- ISSN
0946-2716
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00109-010-0721-3