Sugar Coating the Envelope: Glycoconjugates for Microbe–Host Crosstalk

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 853-861

  Tytgat, Hanne L P ^a,b   de Vos, Willem M ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

glycobiology; glycoconjugates; glycoproteins; microbiota; microbiota host interactions; pili

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN; GLYCOCONJUGATE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; SERINE RICH REPEAT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLYSACCHARIDE;

FIRMICUTES; FUCOSYLATION; HOST BACTERIUM INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; REVIEW; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROFLORA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GLYCOCONJUGATES; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOTA; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84978532305     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.06.004     Document Type: Review

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