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.

Disclosed are a construction method of a recombinant drug-resistant Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strain and a pharmaceutical composition for treating tuberculosis (TB). The construction method includes: using BCG as an original bacterial strain to construct a drug-resistant BCG strain resistant to at least one selected from the group consisting of STR, LFX, EMB, PRO, PAS, and AMK; and further inserting sequence fragments that can express related antigens Ag85b and Rv2628 causing an immune response into a genome of the strain to construct a recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain. The recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain can compete with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) for growth, thereby accelerating the death of Mtb. When used in combination with a drug for treating TB, the recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain can further enhance a therapeutic effect for Mtb, and can also avoid re-infection of a patient.

The invention relates to modified Mycobacterium cells, and their uses as vaccines, and, particularly, modified Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccines. The invention extends to the use of the modified vaccines for vaccination applications in a wide range of animals, including cattle and humans. The invention extends to novel antigens, kits and compositions comprising these novel antigens and to their use in diagnosis. The invention also extends to apparatus comprising the modified vaccine and the antigens, and compositions comprising the antigens.

The present invention relates to the use of an immunomodulator comprising non-pathogenic non-viable Mycobacterium, such as Mycobacterium obuense (IMM-101), and one or more biologically-active agents, suitably an antigen or antigenic determinant, in a method of treating or preventing a infection and/or the symptoms associated thereof in a human subject at elevated risk of exposure to and/or severity of said infection, such as a healthcare or social care worker or cancer patient, wherein said viral infections are preferably caused by a coronavirus. The invention is particularly applicable to those infections caused by SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, or SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). The invention also provides an adjuvant and pharmaceutical composition comprising said immunomodulator optionally with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, diluent or excipient, as well as the use of said adjuvant or said pharmaceutical composition in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment or preventions of said infections.

Recombinant BCG, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. A shuttle plasmid that can express a FimH protein on the surface of BCG is constructed, and a gene fragment that expresses the FimH protein is transformed into wild-type BCG to thereby obtain recombinant BCG. Upon verification, the recombinant BCG can express the FimH protein on the surface of BCG; therefore, the BCG can specifically bind to subjects that can selectively bind to the FimH protein. The recombinant BCG can also enhance the local innate immune effect and adaptive immune effect induced by BCG and the anti-tumor effect of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and also significantly improves the effect of BCG against bladder tumors, and is used to treat bladder tumors.

Described herein is a Mycobacterium mutant, comprising at least one mutation in at least one gene sequence encoding global gene regulators (GGRs) selected from the group consisting of sigH, sigL, sigE, ECF-1, and mixtures thereof, wherein the GGR gene is at least partially inactivated. Described herein also is a vaccine based on the mutant and a method of differentiating between subjects that have been infected with Mycobacterium and subjects that have not been infected with Mycobacterium or have been vaccinated with a Mycobacterium vaccine.

The present invention relates to a method for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can replace the conventional culture method that takes a long time of four to eight weeks to detect active tuberculosis, and which is a method for detecting active Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using isotopes on a sample of a patient's sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.

The present disclosure relates to chimeric small molecules, which find utility as modifiers of target substrates according to the formula A-L.sub.1-E-B or A-L.sub.1-E-L.sub.2-B, wherein A is a kinase binding moiety; B is a target binding moiety; L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 are each a linker; and E is an electrophilic reactive group. Molecules according to the present invention find use making substrate modifications such as post-translational modifications to targets that are not the natural substrate of the kinase; accordingly, diseases or disorders may be treated or prevented with molecules of the present disclosure.

To provide an effective 1,4-dioxane-degrading bacteria culture method. Provided is a 1,4-dioxane-degrading bacteria culture method in which 1,4-dioxane-degrading bacteria are propagated using a medium containing diethylene glycol.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) infection.