Pathogenic bacteria have evolved a variety of highly selective adhesins allowing these
microbes to engage specific surface determinants of their eukaryotic host cells. Receptor …

Escherichia coli are present in the human and animal microbiome as facultative anaerobes
and are viewed as an integral part of the whole gastrointestinal environment. In certain …

Modern studies on binding of proteins to glycans commonly involve the use of synthetic
glycans and their derivatives in which a small amount of the material is covalently printed …

The seeds of Vaccaria segetalis (Neck.) are from a traditional medicinal plant Garcke, also
called Wang-Bu-Liu-Xing in China. According to the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, the seeds of …

Histo-blood group antigens in the intestinal mucosa play important roles in host–microbe
interactions and modulate the susceptibility to enteric pathogens. The B4galnt2 gene …

Nearly 50% of women are affected by urinary tract infections (UTIs) during their lifetimes.
The most common agent to cause UTIs is Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). UPEC …

Materials and Methods: Clinical, immunological, bacteriological, and histological studies
were conducted on 15-day-old white Leghorn birds (n= 20). The birds were divided into two …

The ability of bacterial pathogens to adapt to host niches is driven by the carriage and
regulation of genes that benefit pathogenic lifestyles. Genes that encode virulence or fitness …

The investigation of carbohydrate recognition in a natural environment suffers from the
complexity of overlapping functional effects such as multivalency and heteromultivalency …

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) can undergo extensive filamentation in the host
during acute urinary tract infections (UTIs). It has been hypothesised that this morphological …