The interaction of bacteria with surfaces has important implications in a range of areas,
including bioenergy, biofouling, biofilm formation, and the infection of plants and animals …

With the rapid spreading of resistance among common bacterial pathogens, bacterial
infections, especially antibiotic‐resistant bacterial infections, have drawn much attention …

Ligand–receptor interactions that are reinforced by mechanical stress, so-called catch-
bonds, play a major role in cell–cell adhesion. They critically contribute to widespread …

Bacterial infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and are
increasingly problematic to treat due to the rise in antibiotic-resistant strains. It becomes …

Background Escherichia coli strains adhere to the normally sterile human uroepithelium
using type 1 pili, that are long, hairy surface organelles exposing a mannose-binding FimH …

The Escherichia coli fimbrial adhesive protein, FimH, mediates shear-dependent binding to
mannosylated surfaces via force-enhanced allosteric catch bonds, but the underlying …

One of the most exciting discoveries in biological adhesion is the recent and counter-
intuitive observation that the lifetimes of some biological adhesive bonds, called catch …

The bacterial adhesive protein, FimH, is the most common adhesin of Escherichia coli and
mediates weak adhesion at low flow but strong adhesion at high flow. There is evidence that …

Catch bonds are bonds between a ligand and its receptor that are enhanced by mechanical
force pulling the ligand-receptor complex apart. To date, catch-bond formation has been …

Bacterial biofilms are found under diverse environmental conditions, from sheltered and
specialized environments found within mammalian hosts to the extremes of biological …