Shweta Malik

TL;DR: The widely documented beneficial role of vaginal Lactobacillus species demonstrates the potential of data on the composition and activity of lactobacilli as biomarkers for vaginal health, and the substantiation and further validation of such biomarkers will allow the design of better targeted probiotic strategies.

TL;DR: The active components responsible for anti-HIV activity were gallic acid and ellagic acid, through inhibition of reverse transcriptase and HIV protease, respectively and hence could be regarded as promising candidates for the development of topical anti-hIV-1 agents.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the housekeeping sortase SrtA of CMPG5300 is a key determinant of the peculiar surface properties of this vaginal Lactobacillus strain.

TL;DR: Using a combination of molecular lectin characterization and functional assays, it is shown that lectin-sugar interactions play a key role in host and pathogen interactions of a prototype isolate of the vaginal Lactobacillus microbiota.

TL;DR: The draft genome of a highly auto-aggregating Lactobacillus plantarum strain isolated from a human vagina provides an adhesive and co-aggRegative potential with various pathogens, which could be of significance in the vaginal niche.