Adhesins are proteins that are present on the surface of bacteria or fungi that help in attaching to biotic or abiotic surfaces Many pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria associate with surfaces, and ...

Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, adheres specifically to human ciliated respiratory-epithelial cells. In order to identify the adhesins of Bordetella, we tested mutant ...

The glycosylation mechanisms in Streptococcus bacterial adhesins constitute a complex post-translational modification system that is vital for bacterial adhesion, biofilm formation, and pathogenicity.

It’s usually bad news when a swarm of foreign bacteria pursues cells in the body. But some scientists want to deploy engineered microbes to specific parts of the body to kill tumor cells or deliver ...