The widespread use in urological practice of biological and artificial materials, on the surface which bacterial biofilms form, increases risk pathogen persistence human body. Nowaday, there is an acute problem catheter-associated urinary tract infections (САUTI), are most commonly caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strains, either monoculture as part polymicrobial associations wit...

The bacterium Helicobacter pylori can cause peptic ulcer disease, gastric adenocarcinoma and MALT lymphoma. The cell-surface mucin MUC1 is a large glycoprotein which is highly expressed on the mucosal surface and limits the density of H. pylori in a murine infection model. We now demonstrate that by using the BabA and SabA adhesins, H. pylori bind MUC1 isolated from human gastric cells and MUC1...

UNLABELLED There is increasing evidence that many amyloids in living cells have physiological functions. On the surfaces of fungal cells, amyloid core sequences in adhesins can aggregate into 100- to 1,000-nm-wide patches to form high-avidity adhesion nanodomains on the cell surface. The nanodomains form through interactions that have amyloid-like properties: binding of amyloid dyes, perturbati...

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