.... Vaccines have controlled, and in some cases, eradicated global viral and bacterial infections with high efficiency and at a relatively low cost. Carbohydrates form the capsular sugar coat that surrounds the outer surface of human pathogenic bacteria. Specific surface-exposed bacterial carbohydrates serve...

..., clinical anticoagulant heparin and semi-synthetic analogues thereof, have been reported to inhibit and disrupt interactions between microbial proteins and carbohydrates present on the surface of host cells. However, the anticoagulant properties of unmodified, pharmaceutical heparin preparations preclude...

...N. Avonce; B. Leyman; J. Thevelein; G. Iturriaga Plants sense and respond to changes in carbon and nitrogen metabolites during development and growth according to the internal needs of their metabolism. Sugar-sensing allows plants to switch off photosynthesis when carbohydrates are abundant...