Graeme J. Nicholson

TL;DR: A novel staphylococcal gene, mprF, which determines resistance to several host defense peptides such as defensins and protegrins constitutes a novel virulence factor, which may be of general relevance for bacterial pathogens and represents a new target for attacking multidrug resistant bacteria.

TL;DR: It is shown that wall teichoic acid (WTA), a surface-exposed staphylococcal polymer, is essential for nasal colonization and mediates interaction with human nasal epithelial cells.

TL;DR: The use of novel polysiloxanes as stationary phase carrying chiral groups enables the separation of most amino acid enantiomers in a much shorter time than ever reported previously.

TL;DR: In this review, the progress in hyphenation of capillary electrophoresis (CE) with electrospray ionization‐mass spectrometry (ESI‐MS) since the article of Banks (Banks, J. F., Electrophoresi 1997, 18, 2255–2266) is reported.

TL;DR: A detailed analysis proved iroB to be the sole gene with glycosyltransferase activity necessary for salmochelin production and comparison of partial structures of salmochelins with a C-glycosylated compound previously characterized by another group strongly suggest that salmOChelins represent the long sought compounds termed Salmonella resistance factors (SRF) or pacifarins.