Sentences with phrase «bacterial surface»

Their study determined that killing of ST258 corresponds with a portion of the complement system known as the membrane attack complex (C5b - C9), which contacts bacterial surfaces.

We performed bacterial surface occupation experiments using microfluidic culture methods.

New study details bacteria's «sense of touch» — Brooks Hays — UPI Paper: Obstruction of pilus retraction stimulates bacterial surface sensing — Courtney K. Ellison — Science

BACTERIAL Surface Infection: Pyotraumatic dermatitis hot spots, wet eczema, acute moist pyoderma Body fold pyoderma Superficial Infections: Impetigo Superficial and generalized pyoderma Staphyococcus ssp (including MRSA) Pseudomonas ssp.

But researchers have developed molecules that mimic a lipid on the bacterial surface.

In test tube studies (as opposed to studies in animals), c - di - GMP influences biofilm formation by acting on various targets — bacterial pili and flagella, organelles involved in locomotion, and extracellular polysaccharide, a part of the bacterial surface which helps the bacterial cells stick together in a biofilm.

Research groups in Munich, Essen, and Brussels have now detected a highly specific and exceptionally strong variant of this adhesion, in which the bacterial surface molecule HopQ binds itself to so - called «Carcinoembryonic Antigen - Related Cell Adhesion Molecules,» or CEACAMs for short, inside the stomach.

The research team found that Alphamers not only bind strep and recruit anti-Gal antibodies to the bacterial surface, they also helps human immune cells engulf and kill the Alphamer - coated bacteria.

Alphamers (purple) act as homing beacons, attracting pre-existing anti-alpha-Gal antibodies (green) to the bacterial surface.

Force measurements indicate that MtrC is distributed rather uniformly on the bacterial surface, and OmcA is localized at the cell - mineral interface.

That mechanism is a miniscule protein tip of a needle - like structure docked on the bacterial surface.