Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, recurrent infections that can be mild to life-
threatening. The continued emergence of antibiotic resistance, together with our increasing …

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) cause a substantial health care burden. UTIs (i) are most often
caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC),(ii) primarily affect otherwise healthy …

Advances in synthetic biology permit the genetic encoding of synthetic chemistries at
monomeric precision, enabling the synthesis of programmable proteins with tunable …

Acinetobacter baumannii—a leading cause of nosocomial infections—has a remarkable
capacity to persist in hospital environments and medical devices due to its ability to form …

While biofilms formed by bacteria have received great attention due to their importance in
pathogenesis, much less research has been focused on the biofilms formed by archaea. It …

Pili are filamentous surface extensions that play roles in bacterial and archaeal cellular
processes such as adhesion, biofilm formation, motility, cell-cell communication, DNA …

The ability of yeast cells to adhere to other cells or substrates is crucial for many yeasts. The
budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can switch from a unicellular lifestyle to a …

The presence of a diversity of virulence factors such as Chaperone-Usher (CU) fibers in
uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) pathotypes virulome has offered these bacteria a …

Studying mechanisms of bacterial biofilm generation is of vital importance to understanding
bacterial cell–cell communication, multicellular cohabitation principles, and the higher …

Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC), which cause urinary tract infections (UTI), utilize type 1 pili, a
chaperone usher pathway (CUP) pilus, to cause UTI and colonize the gut. The pilus rod …