title: Switching first contact: photocontrol of E. coli adhesion to human cells.
abstract: We have shown previously that carbohydrate-specific bacterial adhesion to a non-physiological surface can be photocontrolled by reversible E/Z isomerisation using azobenzene-functionalised sugars. Here, this approach is applied to the surface of human cells. We show not only that bacterial adhesion to the azobenzene glycoside-modified cell surface is higher in the E than in the Z state, but add data about the specific modulation of the effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Chemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Butenandtstr. 11, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Möckl
authors.affiliation: Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry, Christiana Albertina University of Kiel, Otto-Hahn-Platz 3/4, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. tklind@oc.uni-kiel.de.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Chemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Butenandtstr. 11, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bräuchle
authors.affiliation: Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry, Christiana Albertina University of Kiel, Otto-Hahn-Platz 3/4, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. tklind@oc.uni-kiel.de.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Lindhorst
mesh_terms: D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007536:Isomerism