«Although an in vivo role
for microcins has been suggested for 40 years, it has never been convincingly demonstrated,» said Raffatellu, who's affiliated with UCI's Institute for Immunology.
Not exact matches
She added that
microcins are essential
for the therapeutic activity of E. coli Nissle, and her next step is to purify
microcins and test whether they can be given as targeted antibiotics.
For that purpose, we used aggregates of the Tau protein, implicated in Alzheimer's disease, as well as the bacterial amyloid protein
microcin (Mcc).