Many bacteria, both environmental and pathogenic, exhibit the property of autoaggregation.
In autoaggregation (sometimes also called autoagglutination or flocculation), bacteria of the …

Interest in arthropod-borne pathogens focuses primarily on how they cause disease in
humans. How they produce a transmissible infection in their arthropod host is just as critical …

The human pathogens Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica cause
enterocolitis, while Yersinia pestis is responsible for pneumonic, bubonic, and septicaemic …

A poor understanding of the mechanisms by which antibiotics traverse the outer membrane
remains a considerable obstacle to the development of novel Gram-negative antibiotics …

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 …

Antibiotic resistance is an ever-increasing global problem. Major commercial antibiotics
often fail to fight common bacteria, and some pathogens have become multi-resistant …

Yersinia pestis forms a biofilm in the foregut of its flea vector that promotes transmission by
flea bite. As in many bacteria, biofilm formation in Y. pestis is controlled by intracellular …

We collected several biofilm samples from Japanese rivers and established a reproducible
multi-species biofilm model that can be analyzed in laboratories. Bacterial abundance at the …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are at the front-line of host defense during infection and play
critical roles both in reducing the microbial load early during infection and in linking innate to …

Enzymes in the α-d-phosphohexomutases superfamily catalyze the reversible conversion of
phosphosugars, such as glucose 1-phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate. These reactions …