The present disclosure is in the technical field of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. The disclosure provides engineered viable bacteria. In particular, the disclosure provides viable bacteria with reduced cell wall biosynthesis additionally modified for production of glycosylated product. The disclosure further provides methods of generating viable bacteria and uses thereof. Furthermore, the disclosure in the technical field of fermentation of metabolically engineered microorganisms producing glycosylated product.

The present disclosure relates, in part, to a composition for promoting virolysis and/or inhibition of infection of a vims in a mammal, the composition comprising a lectin mutant. In certain embodiments, the lectin mutant comprises mutant cyanovirin N (CVN) and mutant Griffithsin (GRFT). The present disclosure further provides methods of treating, preventing, and/or ameliorating viral infection in a subject. In certain embodiments, the viral infection is caused by a vims selected from the group consisting of SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, and HIV-I. The present disclosure further provides cyclic compounds useful for the treatment, prevention, and/or amelioration of HIV-I in a subject.--