Bacterial polysaccharides are usually associated with the outer surface of the bacterium.
They can form an amorphous layer of extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) surrounding the …

Extracellular solute-binding proteins of bacteria serve as chemoreceptors, recognition
constituents of transport systems, and initiators of signal transduction pathways. Over 50 …

Among 75 urosepsis isolates of Escherichia coli, 29 virulence factor (VF) genes were
detected by use of a novel polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. Compared with probe …

The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria portends an impending
postantibiotic age, characterized by diminishing efficacy of common antibiotics and routine …

The ABC transporters (also called traffic ATPases) make up a large superfamily of proteins
which share a common function and a common ATP-binding domain. ABC transporters are …

Colanic acid (CA) is an extracellular polysaccharide produced by most Escherichia coli
strains as well as by other species of the family Enterobacteriaceae. We have determined …

Peter R. Reeves, Matthew Hobbs, Miguel A. Valvano, Mikael Skurnik, Chris Whitfield, David
Coplin, Nobuo Kido, John Klena, Duncan Maskell, Christian RH Raetz and Paul D. Rick ost …

We have undertaken the inventory and assembly of the typical subunits of the ABC
transporters encoded by the complete genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These …

Campylobacter jejuni strain 81‐176 (HS36, 23) synthesizes two distinct glycan structures, as
visualized by immunoblotting of proteinase K‐digested whole‐cell preparations. A site …

Campylobacter jejuni, a Gram‐negative spiral bacterium, is the most common bacterial
cause of acute human gastroenteritis and is increasingly recognized for its association with …