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Platelets, Bacterial Adhesins and the Pneumococcus

Cells, 2022
Systemic infections with pathogenic or facultative pathogenic bacteria are associated with activation and aggregation of platelets leading to thrombocytopenia and activation of the clotting system.
Kristin Jahn, Thomas P. Kohler, Lena-Sophie Swiatek, Sergej Wiebe, Sven Hammerschmidt   +4 more
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Discovery of fibrillar adhesins across bacterial species

BMC Genomics, 2021
Background Fibrillar adhesins are long multidomain proteins that form filamentous structures at the cell surface of bacteria. They are an important yet understudied class of proteins composed of adhesive and stalk domains that mediate interactions of ...
Vivian Monzon, Aleix Lafita, Alex Bateman   +2 more
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Binding Strength of Gram-Positive Bacterial Adhesins

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Bacterial pathogens are equipped with specialized surface-exposed proteins that bind strongly to ligands on host tissues and biomaterials. These adhesins play critical roles during infection, especially during the early step of adhesion where the cells ...
Yves F. Dufrêne, Albertus Viljoen
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Sticking to the Subject: Multifunctionality in Microbial Adhesins

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Bacterial and fungal adhesins mediate microbial aggregation, biofilm formation, and adhesion to host. We divide these proteins into two major classes: professional adhesins and moonlighting adhesins that have a non-adhesive activity that is ...
Peter N. Lipke, Peleg Ragonis-Bachar
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Vibrio cholerae biofilms use modular adhesins with glycan-targeting and nonspecific surface binding domains for colonization

Nature Communications, 2023
Bacterial biofilms are formed on environmental surfaces and host tissues, and facilitate host colonization and antibiotic resistance by human pathogens.
Xin Huang, Thomas Nero, Ranjuna Weerasekera, Katherine H. Matej, Alex Hinbest, Zhaowei Jiang, Rebecca F. Lee, Longjun Wu, Cecilia Chak, Japinder Nijjer, Isabella Gibaldi, Hang Yang, Nathan Gamble, Wai-Leung Ng, Stacy A. Malaker, Kaelyn Sumigray, Rich Olson, Jing Yan   +17 more
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Adhesins in the virulence of opportunistic fungal pathogens of human

Mycology, 2021
Aspergillosis, candidiasis, and cryptococcosis are the most common cause of mycoses-related disease and death among immune-compromised patients. Adhesins are cell-surface exposed proteins or glycoproteins of pathogens that bind to the extracellular ...
Amrita Kumari, Ankita H. Tripathi, Poonam Gautam, Rekha Gahtori, Amit Pande, Yogendra Singh, Taruna Madan, Santosh K. Upadhyay   +7 more
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Helicobacter pylori employs a general protein glycosylation system for the modification of outer membrane adhesins

Gut Microbes, 2022
Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with the development of several gastric diseases including gastric cancer. To reach a long-term colonization in the host stomach, H.
Kai-Wen Teng, Kai-Siang Hsieh, Ji-Shiuan Hung, Chun-Jen Wang, En-Chi Liao, Pei-Chun Chen, Ying-Hsuan Lin, Deng-Chyang Wu, Chun-Hung Lin, Wen-Ching Wang, Hong-Lin Chan, Shau-Ku Huang, Mou-Chieh Kao   +12 more
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Stopping Tuberculosis at the Gate: The Role of M. tuberculosis Adhesins in Infection and Intervention [PDF]

Vaccines
The global burden of tuberculosis (TB), exacerbated by the rise of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), underscores the need for alternative intervention strategies. One promising approach is to block the infection at its earliest
Haoyan Yang, Yinuo Ma, Xinkui Lei, Siyu Chai, Sigen Zhang, Guimin Su, Songping Li, Lin Du   +7 more
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A Review of the Mechanisms of Bacterial Colonization of the Mammal Gut

Microorganisms
A healthy animal intestine hosts a diverse population of bacteria in a symbiotic relationship. These bacteria utilize nutrients in the host’s intestinal environment for growth and reproduction.
Qingjie Lin, Shiying Lin, Zitao Fan, Jing Liu, Dingcheng Ye, Pingting Guo   +5 more
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A Conserved Regulatory Circuit Controls Large Adhesins in Vibrio cholerae

mBio, 2019
The dinucleotide second messenger c-di-GMP has emerged as a central regulator of reversible cell attachment during bacterial biofilm formation. A prominent cell adhesion mechanism first identified in pseudomonads combines two c-di-GMP-mediated processes:
Giordan Kitts, Krista M. Giglio, David Zamorano-Sánchez, Jin Hwan Park, Loni Townsley, Richard B. Cooley, Benjamin R. Wucher, Karl E. Klose, Carey D. Nadell, Fitnat H. Yildiz, Holger Sondermann   +10 more
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