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"BCS3-L1 has four main genetic modifications: It produces a weak antibiotic, mutacin-1140, which kills competing oral bacteria. It’s immune to mutacin
by unaindz 3y ago
"BCS3-L1 has four main genetic modifications:
It produces a weak antibiotic, mutacin-1140, which kills competing oral bacteria.
It’s immune to mutacin-1140, so it doesn’t kill itself.
It metabolizes sugar through a different chemical pathway that ends in alcohol instead of lactic acid.
It lacks a peptide that its species usually uses to arrange gene transfers with other bacteria."
A strain with modifications 1 and 2 was found. 3 and 4 were added to it.
This means we could check for mutacin-1140 health issues by tracking those people but not the increased alcohol in blood.
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