Recent Patents on Live Bacteria and their Products as Potential Anticancer Agents

Arsenio      M. Fialho; Nuno      Bernardes; Ananda      M. Chakrabarty

doi:10.2174/157489212798357949

Abstract

This review intends to provide a comprehensive coverage of the various patents, published or issued, since 2007 on live or attenuated bacteria as potential anticancer agents, as well as microbial products including toxins, enzymes, antibiotics, various proteins and peptides as well as other small molecular weight products. Below is a list of such published/ issued patents and a summary of the main contents of many such patents.

Keywords: Anticancer drugs, bacteria, bacterial produts, cancer, patents, Tumor Growth, Therapeutic Vaccine Vector, Uterine Cancer, Oncopathic Therapy, Colon Cancer Cells