Bacteria possess an extraordinary repertoire of cell envelope glycans that have critical
physiological functions. Pathogenic bacteria have glycans that are essential for growth and …

Sialic acids are cytoprotectors, mainly localized on the surface of cell membranes with
multiple and outstanding cell biological functions. The history of their structural analysis …

Sialic acids are a diverse family of monosaccharides widely expressed on all cell surfaces of
vertebrates and so‐called “higher” invertebrates, and on certain bacteria that interact with …

Investigations into bacterial protein glycosylation continue to progress rapidly. It is now
established that bacteria possess both N-linked and O-linked glycosylation pathways that …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes serious nosocomial infections, and an important
virulence factor produced by this organism is lipopolysaccharide (LPS). This review …

General control non-repressible 5 (GCN5)-related N-acetyltransferases (GNAT) catalyze the
transfer of an acyl moiety from acyl coenzyme A (acyl-CoA) to a diverse group of substrates …

This review covers the O antigens of the 46 serotypes of Shigella, but those of most Shigella
flexneri are variants of one basic structure, leaving 34 Shigella distinct O antigens to review …

Humans have been increasingly recognized as being superorganisms, living in close
contact with a microbiota on all their mucosal surfaces. However, most studies on the human …

Of the many post-translational modifications proteins can undergo, glycosylation is the most
prevalent and the most diverse. Today, it is clear that both N-glycosylation and O …

Sialic acids (Sias) are nonulosonic acid (NulO) sugars prominently displayed on vertebrate
cells and occasionally mimicked by bacterial pathogens using homologous biosynthetic …