1.1. General Considerations Structural intricacies of carbohydrate molecules and their
propensity to form varied linkages, substitutions, and branching patterns have fascinated …

Humans have been increasingly recognized as being superorganisms, living in close
contact with a microbiota on all their mucosal surfaces. However, most studies on the human …

Pathogenic bacteria encode virulent glycosyltransferases that conjugate various glycans
onto substrate proteins via the N-or O-linkage. The HMW system in nontypeable …

Protein glycosylation was once considered as an eccentricity of a few bacteria. However in
the recent years multiple O‐glycosylation mechanisms have been identified in bacterial …

Multiple species within the A cinetobacter genus are nosocomial opportunistic pathogens of
increasing relevance worldwide. Among the virulence factors utilized by these bacteria are …

Francisella tularensis is a highly-infectious bacterium that causes the rapid, and often lethal
disease, tularemia. Many studies have been performed to identify and characterize the …

Francisella tularensis is known to release unusually shaped tubular outer membrane
vesicles (OMV) containing a number of previously identified virulence factors and …

Over the last decade, studies on the virulence of the highly pathogenic intracellular bacterial
pathogen Francisella tularensis have increased dramatically. The organism produces an …

Bacteria of the B urkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are pathogens of humans, plants, and
animals. B urkholderia cenocepacia is one of the most common Bcc species infecting cystic …

C lostridium difficile is a prominent nosocomial pathogen, proliferating and causing enteric
disease in individuals with a compromised gut microflora. We characterized the post …