The frequently studied polysaccharide, chitosan oligosaccharide/chitooligosaccharide
(COS) is the major degradation product of chitosan/chitin via chemical hydrolysis or …

Abstract Background Chitosan oligosaccharides (COSs) are the degraded products
prepared from the deacetylation and depolymerization of chitin or chitosan using physical …

Glycoscience assembles all the scientific disciplines involved in studying various molecules
and macromolecules containing carbohydrates and complex glycans. Such an ensemble …

New drugs are urgently needed to combat the global TB epidemic. Targeting simultaneously
multiple respiratory enzyme complexes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is regarded as one of …

N-glycosylation is a ubiquitous modification of eukaryotic secretory and membrane-bound
proteins; about 90% of glycoproteins are N-glycosylated. The reaction is catalysed by an …

Being the most versatile biopolymer, chitooligosaccharide/chitosan oligosaccharide (COS)
has been extensively studied for a range of exceptional biological activities and potential …

Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters mediate excretion of
xenobiotics and toxic metabolites, thereby conferring multidrug resistance in bacterial …

PglK is a lipid-linked oligosaccharide (LLO) flippase essential for asparagine-linked protein
glycosylation in Campylobacter jejuni. Previously we have proposed a non-alternating …

The eukaryotic plasma membrane's lipid composition is found to be ubiquitously asymmetric
comparing inner and outer leaflets. This membrane lipid asymmetry plays a crucial role in …

Teixobactin (Txb) is a recently discovered antibiotic against Gram-positive bacteria that
induces no detectable resistance. The bactericidal mechanism is believed to be the …