Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms

Mucus is thought to serve as a protective coating on wet epithelial surfaces. Recent research has shown that glycans, which are branched sugar molecules found in mucin, a part of mucus, can prevent bacteria from communicating with each other and forming biofilms. This could hinder microbes from caus...

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Autor principal: Olsen, Ingar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32944151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20002297.2020.1788352
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description Mucus is thought to serve as a protective coating on wet epithelial surfaces. Recent research has shown that glycans, which are branched sugar molecules found in mucin, a part of mucus, can prevent bacteria from communicating with each other and forming biofilms. This could hinder microbes from causing infections. The present editorial, focusing on a paper by Wheeler et al. [1], published in October 2019 in Nature Microbiology, describes how mucus can attenuate the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In addition, streptococci and Candida albicans can be ‘tamed’ by mucin.
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spelling pubmed-74827632020-09-16 Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms Olsen, Ingar J Oral Microbiol Editorial Mucus is thought to serve as a protective coating on wet epithelial surfaces. Recent research has shown that glycans, which are branched sugar molecules found in mucin, a part of mucus, can prevent bacteria from communicating with each other and forming biofilms. This could hinder microbes from causing infections. The present editorial, focusing on a paper by Wheeler et al. [1], published in October 2019 in Nature Microbiology, describes how mucus can attenuate the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In addition, streptococci and Candida albicans can be ‘tamed’ by mucin. Taylor & Francis 2020-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7482763/ /pubmed/32944151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20002297.2020.1788352 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms
title Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms
title_full Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms
title_fullStr Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms
title_full_unstemmed Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms
title_short Mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms
title_sort mucus is more than just a physical barrier for trapping oral microorganisms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32944151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20002297.2020.1788352
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