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Bitter Sweetness of Complexity.- Carbohydrate Receptors of Bacterial Adhesins: Implications and Reflections.- Structure, Function, and Assembly of Type 1 Fimbriae.- The Multiple Carbohydrate Binding Specificities of Helicobacter pylori.- Ins and Outs of Microbial Adhesion.- Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilms: Functional Molecules, Relation to Virulence, and Vaccine Potential.- Architectures of Multivalent Glycomimetics for Probing Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions.



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bacterial carbohydrate recognition are conveyed, covering Gram-positive as well as Gram-negative bacteria, in Chapter 4 Streptococci and Staphylococci, and in Chapter 5, carbohydrate binding specificities of Helicobacter pylori. In Chapter 6, "Bitter sweetness of complexity," the collected reflections on mic- bial adhesion are expanded by a perspective on a broader impact of glycosylation on cellular adhesion, motility and regulatory processes, paralleling the complexity of N-glycan structures on cell surfaces. It highlights particularly how structural details of N-glycans have been causally related to pathological scenarios, with a focus on ?(1,6)-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase. In the final chapter, biofilm formation is reviewed, covering knowledge about structure and biosynthesis of polysaccharide intercellular adhesins (PIAs) which are central to biofilm formation. This comprehensive chapter explains all PIA-related principles of medical device-associated infections. It is our hope, that this collection of expert articles, ranging from structural ch- istry and structural biology to biochemistry and medicine, will be a stimulation and motivation for our colleagues in the life sciences. At the same time, we hope that these reflections on microbial adhesion will awake interest in and promote und- standing of the complex processes associated with the glycocalyx and the multif- eted interactions between the host cell and its "guest," as well as the biological consequences resulting from this mutual interplay.

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9783642013034: Glycoscience and Microbial Adhesion: 288 (Topics in Current Chemistry, 288)

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ISBN 10:  3642013031 ISBN 13:  9783642013034
Editorial: Springer, 2009
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