ArticleNature communications2022
Unraveling function and diversity of bacterial lectins in the human microbiome.
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- Fucose-tobramycin sponge-like microparticles to treat pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in a lectin-competitive approach.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- Recombinant Production of a TRAF-Domain Lectin from Cauliflower: A Soluble Expression Strategy for Functional Protein Recovery inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Chemical tools to study and modulate glycan-mediated host-bacteria interactions.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2025Review
- Dietary Nitrogen and Its Role in the Gut Microbiome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Phenylboronic Acid-Modified Polyethyleneimine: A Glycan-Targeting Anti-Biofilm Polymer for Inhibiting Bacterial Adhesion to Mucin and Enhancing Antibiotic Efficacy.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Article
- A lectin produced by a Streptomyces species targets mammalian pancreatic acinar cells in mice and humans.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Binding of Akkermansia muciniphila to mucin is O-glycan specific.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The gut microbiome of Baka forager-horticulturalists from Cameroon is optimized for wild plant foods.iScience · 2024Article
- Seminars in immunology special issue: Nutrition, microbiota and immunity The unexplored microbes in health and disease.Seminars in immunology · 2023Review
- Intestinal mucin-typeGut microbesReview
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Abstract
The mechanisms by which commensal organisms affect human physiology remain poorly understood. Lectins are non-enzymatic carbohydrate binding proteins that all organisms employ as part of establishing a niche, evading host-defenses and protecting against pathogens. Although lectins have been extensively studied in plants, bacterial pathogens and human immune cells for their role in disease pathophysiology and as therapeutics, the role of bacterial lectins in the human microbiome is largely unexplored. Here we report on the characterization of a lectin produced by a common human associated bacterium that interacts with myeloid cells in the blood and intestine. In mouse and cell-based models, we demonstrate that this lectin induces distinct immunologic responses in peripheral and intestinal leukocytes and that these responses are specific to monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells. Our analysis of human microbiota sequencing data reveal thousands of unique sequences that are predicted to encode lectins, many of which are highly prevalent in the human microbiome yet completely uncharacterized. Based on the varied domain architectures of these lectins we predict they will have diverse effects on the human host. The systematic investigation of lectins in the human microbiome should improve our understanding of human health and provide new therapeutic opportunities.
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