Biofilms confine bacterial cells within self-produced matrices, offering advantages such as protection from antibiotics and entrapment of nutrients. Polysaccharides are major components in these macromolecular assemblies, and their interactions with other chemicals are of high relevance for the benefits provided by the biofilm 3D molecular...
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October 29, 2021 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: March 25, 2023
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June 9, 2020 (v1)Publication
Fluid biphasic systems are one of the most interesting dynamic systems in chemistry and biochemistry. In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the study of the solute dynamics across fluid biphasic systems requires the introduction of dedicated NMR methods, due to their intrinsic heterogeneity. Diffusion and spatially resolved NMR...
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September 23, 2022 (v1)Publication
In recent years, Saturation Transfer Difference NMR (STD NMR) has been proven to be a powerful and versatile ligand-based NMR technique to elucidate crucial aspects in the investigation of protein-ligand complexes. Novel STD NMR approaches relying on "multi-frequency" irradiation have enabled us to even elucidate specific ligand-amino acid...
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June 9, 2020 (v1)Publication
Ruminococcus gnavus is a human gut symbiont wherein the ability to degrade mucins is mediated by an intramolecular trans-sialidase (RgNanH). RgNanH comprises a GH33 catalytic domain and a sialic acid-binding carbohydrate-binding module (CBM40). Here we used glycan arrays, STD NMR, X-ray crystallography, mutagenesis and binding assays to...
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March 3, 2021 (v1)Publication
The availability and repartition of fucosylated glycans within the gastrointestinal tract contributes to the adaptation of gut bacteria species to ecological niches. To access this source of nutrients, gut bacteria encode α-l-fucosidases (fucosidases) which catalyze the hydrolysis of terminal α-l-fucosidic linkages. We determined the substrate...
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December 14, 2020 (v1)Publication
The human gut symbiont Ruminococcus gnavus scavenges host-derived N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) from mucins by converting it to 2,7-anhydro-Neu5Ac. We previously showed that 2,7-anhydro-Neu5Ac is transported into R. gnavus ATCC 29149 before being converted back to Neu5Ac for further metabolic processing. However, the molecular mechanism...
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May 27, 2022 (v1)Publication
Ligand-based NMRtechniquesto studyprotein–ligandinteractionsare potenttoolsin drugdesign.Satura-tiontransfer difference (STD)NMRspectroscopystandsoutas one of the mostversatiletechniques,allowing screeningof fragmentslibraries andproviding structural informationon bindingmodes.Recently,ithas beenshown that amulti-frequencySTD NMRapproach,...
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