Erzsebet Papp-Szabo

TL;DR: This study examined the effect of glucan structure on recognition and binding by murine recombinant Dectin-1 with a library of natural product and synthetic (1→3)-β/(1→6)-β-glucans as well as nonglucan polymers and found that glucan derived from a saprophytic yeast was recognized with higher affinity than glucanderived from the pathogen Candida albicans.

TL;DR: From the one-dimensional neutron scattering length density profiles, it is found that water penetrates Ca2+-LPS bilayers to a lesser extent than either Na+- or Mg2-L PS bilayers, which could have implications as to how small molecules permeate the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria and, possibly, how nonlamellar phases are formed.

TL;DR: In this article, the structure and hydration of aqueous dispersions of phytoglycogen nanoparticles using neutron scattering was characterized. But the authors did not consider the effect of the number of water molecules in the dispersions.

TL;DR: Electron density profiles were reconstructed from the reflectivity curves, and they indicate that the presence of Ca2+ ions induces a significant change in the conformation of the charged polysaccharide head groups (O-side chains).

TL;DR: Complementation of the C. jejuni waaC gene into a chromosomal locus resulted in LOS and capsular structures identical to those expressed in the parent strain, and the presence of O-methyl phosphoramidate in wild-type strain 81-176 capsular polysaccharide is reported.