Meningococcal disease remains an important cause of morbidity and death worldwide
despite the development and increasing implementation of effective vaccines. Elimination of …

Glycosylation of proteins is one of the most prevalent post-translational modifications
occurring in nature, with a wide repertoire of biological implications. Pathways for the main …

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 …

Bacterial surfaces are rich in glycoconjugates such as capsules, lipopolysaccharides, and
peptidoglycans. The discovery of prokaryotic protein glycosylation systems has revealed that …

This review is the sixth update of the original article published in 1999 on the application of
MALDI mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings …

Multiple species within the A cinetobacter genus are nosocomial opportunistic pathogens of
increasing relevance worldwide. Among the virulence factors utilized by these bacteria are …

The Bacillus subtilis extracellular biofilm matrix includes an exopolysaccharide (EPS) that is
critical for the architecture and function of the community. To date, our understanding of the …

The foodborne bacterial pathogen, Campylobacter jejuni, possesses an N-linked protein
glycosylation (pgl) pathway involved in adding conserved heptasaccharides to asparagine …

The opportunistic human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii is a concern to health care
systems worldwide because of its persistence in clinical settings and the growing frequency …

The ability of pathogens to cause disease depends on their aptitude to escape the immune
system. Type IV pili are extracellular filamentous virulence factors composed of pilin …