Olsen Ingar
Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
J Oral Microbiol. 2020 Jul 3;12(1):1788352. doi: 10.1080/20002297.2020.1788352.
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 . In addition, streptococci and can be 'tamed' by mucin.
黏液被认为是湿润上皮表面的一种保护涂层。最近的研究表明,聚糖是黏液的一部分——黏蛋白中发现的分支糖分子,可以阻止细菌相互交流并形成生物膜。这可能会阻碍微生物引起感染。本期社论聚焦于惠勒等人[1]于2019年10月发表在《自然·微生物学》上的一篇论文,描述了黏液如何减弱……的毒力。此外,链球菌和……可以被黏蛋白“驯化”。