Periodic Reporting for period 2 - GLYCOSWITCH (Probing the mysteries of sweet “on-off” switches of the human immune system: toward the development of novel glycomimetics against bacterial infections)

GLYCOSWITCH project is aimed to the analysis of structural requisites for recognition and binding between eukaryotic host immune proteins and pathogen cell surface glycoconjugates. These latter represent the keywords of the molecular cross-talk between microbes and eukaryotic...