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                 <h1 class="content_title">Description</h1>
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                 <h1 class="content_title">Design</h1>
 
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                     <!------------------------Liver function and protection------------------------------ -->
 
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                     <h3 class="content_subtitle">Liver function and protection</h3>
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                        Good health is dependent upon proper liver function. The liver is a huge chemical plant of the
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                        human body. It has many major functions as shown in Fig.1. In the daily life, as shown in
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                    font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;">Design
                        Fig.2, there are many reasons which overload liver to disease. Liver disease can be divided
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                         and integration of three different modules (gshF, met K and
                        into viral liver and non viral liver diseases. Non viral liver diseases consist of alcoholic
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                        cwaA)</h6>
                        liver, drug or toxic liver disease, metabolic abnormal liver disease, fatty liver, etc.
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                         Liver functions
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                     font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;">Functional characterization of pNZ-SGC in <i>L.lactis</i> NZ9000</h6>
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                        Daily life overloads liver leading to liver diseases
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                            href="https://www.clinicians.co.nz/">https://www.clinicians.co.nz/</a></p>
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                    <h3 class="content_subtitle">Protection agents</h3>
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                        Liver disease is a common disease with great danger. And the incidence rate in East Asia is
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                        higher than the average in the world. Scientists have made great efforts to prevent or treat it
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                        by hepatitis virus vaccine inoculation, clinic operation, and medicine administration, etc. At
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                        present oral administration of two protective drugs (glutathione and S-adenosyl methionine) is
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                        very effective against a variety of liver diseases in hospital.
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                    <!-- -------------------------Glutathione --------------------------- -->
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                        Glutathione (GSH) is biosynthesized from glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine, and distributes
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                        in many organs in human body, especially in the liver where the highest concentration of GSH
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                        exists. GSH plays an important role in liver biochemical metabolism. The liver therapeutical
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                        effects of glutathione are listed in the following:
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                            <li>Inhibit the formation of fatty liver.</li>
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                            <li>Directly antagonize the toxicity of oxygen free radicals.</li>
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                            <li>Preventing hepatocyte injury.</li>
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                            <li>Treatment of fulminant hepatic failure caused by drug poisoning.</li>
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                        <span style="margin-left:-50px; margin-right:200px">Glutathione</span><span>S-adenosyl
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                            methionine</span>
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                        Fig.3 Molecule structures of GSH and SAM
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                        S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) is an important intermediate product in liver metabolism. As a
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                        methyl donor and a precursor of physiological sulfhydryl compounds, SAM participates in
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                        important metabolic reactions in vivo. The liver therapeutical effects of SAM are listed in the
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                        following:
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                            <li>Delay the need for liver transplantation and reduce mortality in patients with
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                                alcoholic cirrhosis in a 24-month trial.</li>
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                            <li>Significantly increase hepatic glutathione levels in nonalcoholic liver disease with
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                                oral administration of 1200mg SAM daily<br>
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                                (J Hepatol 1999, 30(6) 1081-1089).
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                        Oral administration is the most attractive option for drug delivery due to convenience of
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                        administration, patient acceptance, and long-term compliance. However, this strategy is not
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                        feasible for many drugs, especially peptide or protein drugs, due to poor biochemical stability
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                        (degradation and denaturation) in the harsh gastrointestinal environment (Fig.3) and low
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                        epithelial permeability. Synthetic cell therapy is a field that has broad potential for future
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                        applications in human disease treatment. In vivo synthesis and delivery via cell therapy has
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                        several important advantages over traditional oral systemic treatment.
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                            <li>The required dosage is reduced by several orders of magnitude.</li>
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                            <li>The route of administration is less invasive than intravenous or subcutaneous
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                                injection.</li>
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                            <li>Multiple therapeutic agents can be produced by the same cell simultaneously.</li>
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                            <li>No need for purification and formulation of the active compound.</li>
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                    <h3 class="content_subtitle">Our objective</h3>
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                        <i>Lactococcus lactis</i> is one of the most common organisms used in bacterial drug delivery system.
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                        <i>Lactococcus lactis</i> is a food-grade bacterium that is widely used in the dairy industry. It is a
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                        Gram-positive bacterium and therefore lacks endotoxic lipopolysaccharides (LPS) which are
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                        associated with commonly used Gram-negative bacteria. It is also non-invasive and non-commensal
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                        and thus has less potential to trigger immunotolerance or side effects upon prolonged use. The
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                        bacterium has an established safety profile through its long use in fermented dairy products
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                        and is considered as a GRAS (generally recognized as safe) microorganism. During the last two
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                        decades, significant advances have been made in the field of <i>lactococcal</i> genetics and protein
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                        expression systems. The most commonly used system is the nisin-controlled gene expression
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                        (NICE) system, containing the nisin promoter.
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                        in-vivo strategy of produce and deliver them simultaneously by using NICE system. In the
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                        experiment, two-functional GSH synthetase gene (<i>gshF</i>) and SAM synthetase gene (<i>metK</i>) were in
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                         NZ9000/pNZ-GMcA</h6>
                         tandem inserted into the expression vector (pNZ8148), and the resulted plasmid (pNZ8148-SG) was
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                        employed to construct the target vector pNZ8148-SGC by introducing adhesion factor gene (<i>cwaA</i>).
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                        This target vector was transformed to get recombinant <i>Lactococcus lacti</i>, which was employed to
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Design

Design and integration of three different modules (gshF, met K and cwaA)

Functional characterization of pNZ-SGC in L.lactis NZ9000

Production of “smart yogurt” with our constructed L.lactis NZ9000/pNZ-GMcA

https://www.nyas.org/ebriefings/cytokine-therapies/