The present invention relates to a bio-assisted method for treatment of spent caustic by treating with haloalkaliphilic consortium of bacteria capable of reducing or transforming sulphides, thiols, mercaptants and other sulphur containing compounds, phenols, hydrocarbons, naphthenic acids and their derivatives in spent caustic.

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.

Binding agents able to disrupt bacterial biofilms of diverse origin are described, including monoclonal antibodies secreted by human B lymphocytes. Methods to prevent formation of or to dissolve biofilms with these binding agents are also described. Immunogens for eliciting antibodies to disrupt biofilms are also described.

The present invention refers to a method for the production of live attenuated bacterial strains, suitable as vaccine candidates, comprising the steps of: A. providing a bacterial strain capable of expressing glutamate racemase and possibly D-amino acid transaminase and comprising a peptidoglycan cell wall, and B. inactivating the gene or genes encoding for the glutamate racemase enzyme and, if needed, the gene or genes encoding for the enzyme D-amino acid transaminase in such way that the bacterial strain is no longer capable of expressing a functional glutamate racemase and/or a functional D-amino acid transaminase;
wherein the inactivation of said genes causes said bacterial strain to be auxotrophic for D-glutamate.

The present disclosure provides recombinant bacterial cells that have been engineered with genetic circuitry which allow the recombinant bacterial cells to sense a patient's internal environment and respond by turning an engineered metabolic pathway on or off. When turned on, the recombinant bacterial cells complete all of the steps in a metabolic pathway to achieve a therapeutic effect in a host subject. These recombinant bacterial cells are designed to drive therapeutic effects throughout the body of a host from a point of origin of the microbiome. Specifically, the present disclosure provides recombinant bacterial cells comprising a heterologous gene encoding a branched chain amino acid catabolism enzyme. The disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the recombinant bacteria, and methods for treating disorders involving the catabolism of branched chain amino acids using the pharmaceutical compositions disclosed herein.

The subject invention provides methods for improving the treatment of effluents and waste matter produced during food processing and production. In particular, the subject invention provides methods for remediating fats, oils and greases (FOG), suspended solids, proteins, and other organic matter that are discharged from plants that process, for example, meats, poultry, seafood, dairy and plant-based oils. The methods of the subject invention utilize a customized microbial cocktail comprising facultative anaerobes, in combination with one or more microbial growth by-products, e.g., enzymes and/or biosurfactants, to digest and/or liquefy food processing waste matter.

Provided herein are antibodies including antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically recognizing Pseudomonas Psl. Also provided are methods of making and using these antibodies.

A use of citronellol in preparing a preparation for promoting an expression of a virulence gene toxA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is disclosed. It was found that citronellol slightly inhibits the growth of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 strain and can promote the transcription of the toxA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can increase the yield of an exotoxin A, namely, an encoded product of toxA. Therefore, citronellol is applicable to the preparation of a preparation for promoting the expression of the virulence gene toxA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

The present invention provides use of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa vaccine in the manufacture of a medicament for the prevention and treatment of respiratory system disease. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa vaccine of the present invention can effectively prevent and treat pulmonary infection caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and COPD complicated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection by activating the specific immune response of the body. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa vaccine of the present invention can reduce the bacterial load in the immunized subject through the established immunization procedures, thereby providing a technical solution that can effectively prevent pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which avoids the technical problems caused by the use of antibiotics such as poor effectiveness, difficulty in curing and proneness to drug resistance in the prior art to a certain degree.

The present invention belongs to the field of microbiology, and particularly relates to membrane vesicles (MVs) isolated from bacteria, and an isolation and preparation system and method for the membrane vesicles, and applications of the membrane vesicles. The bacteria of the present invention comprise Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria. The invention uses ionizing irradiation to irradiate bacteria, and isolates and purifies the produced membrane vesicles. The membrane vesicles prepared can be used as a vaccine, a vaccine adjuvant and/or a pharmaceutical carrier. In addition, the present invention provides a biological composition comprising the membrane vesicles and inactivated bacteria. In addition, the present invention also provides a preparation system, and isolation and purification system for bacterial membrane vesicles and the corresponding method. The membrane vesicles obtained by using the system and method have high yield, high purity and easy to be industrialized.