Targeted cancer immunotherapy offers increased efficacy concomitantly with reduced side effects. One antibody with promising clinical potential is 14F7, which specifically recognises the NeuGc GM3 ganglioside. This antigen ...

Fungi and plants do not have an adaptive immune system. Innate immunity serves as their sole defense, often based on carbohydrate recognition by lectins. In a twist of nature, as revealed by Sommer et al. (2018) in this ...

Corynebacterium glutamicum is widely used for the industrial production of amino acids, nucleotides, and vitamins. The shikimate pathway enzymes DAHP synthase (CgDS, Cg2391) and chorismate mutase (CgCM, Cgl0853) play a key ...