A chronic intestinal disease is preventing children in low-income countries from growing and developing as they should. With support from the Gates Foundation, researchers at the University of Gothenb...

Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

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A dense glycocalyx, composed of the megaDalton-sized membrane mucin MUC17, coats the microvilli in the apical brush border of transporting intestinal epithelial cells, called enterocytes. The formatio...

The bacterial protein flagellin is the sole ligand of the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). Flagellins with strong agonism bind TLR5 at their D1 and D0 domains, while poor agonist si...

Kazachstania pintolopesii is a highly prevalent fungal symbiont that can trigger type 2 immunity and influence the composition of the gut mycobiome, as well as immune and disease phenotypes.

Crohn’s disease (CD) is the chronic inflammation of the ileum and colon triggered by bacteria, but insights into molecular perturbations at the bacteria-epithelium interface are limited. We report tha...

Human tissue surfaces are coated with mucins, a family of macromolecular sugar-laden proteins serving diverse functions from lubrication to the formation of selective biochemical barriers against harm...