Chapter 22Application of Lactic Acid Bacteria for Food Biotechnology
Ling Li and Nam Soo Han
Concise Definition of Subject and Its Importance
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB), which produce lactic acid as the main fermentation product, have received considerable attention as probiotics in recent years. LAB play an important role in maintaining the quality of fermented vegetables, milk, dairy products, wines, and meats and show great potential in biotechnological applications such as enzyme and vaccine delivery systems. LAB exhibit a number of properties that make these bacteria interesting alternative candidates as efficient cell factories to produce recombinant proteins for metabolic engineering and therapeutic proteins for disease treatment. ...
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