Bacterial interaction with

This chapter will provide an overview of the research on anti-adhesion agents. Particular attention will be devoted to the anti-adherence agents derived from or foimd naturally in foods. In addition, the pathogen infection process, the architecture of host epithelial cell surfaces, and the chemistry and mechanisms involved in bacterial interactions with host cell surfaces will also be reviewed. 

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H. pylori infection tends to persist for life despite the gastric inflammatory response. This persistent infection requires a balanced host-bacterial interaction, with continuous adaption of bacterial binding properties to match the dynamic changes of glycosylation of the gastric epithelium. This may be achieved by phase variation as described for SabA [8], or by recombination events as described for BabA [17]. 

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The presence of organic acid substituents in exopolysaccharides increases the lipophilidty of the molecule. In addition, for some exopolysaccharides with relatively high organic acid contents, their interaction with cations and with other polysaccharides may be influenced. Several amino adds have also been found in bacterial exopolysaccharides, including serine and L-glutamic add (Figure 7.1). 

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Bacterial or viral proteins linking T-cell receptors and MHC molecules through simultaneous interaction with the constant domains of all MHC class II molecules and of T-cell receptor (3-chains. Hence, superantigens are polyclonal T-cell activators most likely involved in the development of autoimmune diseases. 

Figure 37-6. The predominant bacterial transcription termination signal contains an inverted, hyphenated repeat (the two boxed areas) followed by a stretch of AT base pairs (top figure). The inverted repeat, when transcribed into RNA, can generate the secondary structure in the RNA transcript shown at the bottom of the figure. Formation of this RNA hairpin causes RNA polymerase to pause and subsequently the p termination factor interacts with the paused polymerase and somehow induces chain termination.

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