Table 1.

Bacterial adhesion to mucin components.

Bacteria		Adhesin	Mucin glycoprotein	Mucin component	References
COMMENSAL BACTERIA
Bacteroides fragilis					Huang et al., 2011
Bifidobacterium bifidum		Extracellular transaldolase			Marcobal et al., 2013
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis		Family 1 of solute binding proteins		Mucin oligosaccharides	Garrido et al., 2011
Escherichia coli Nissle 1917		Flagellum			Troge et al., 2012
Lactic acid bacteria		MUB			Boekhorst et al., 2006
		Pili			Kankainen et al., 2009; Le et al., 2013
PATHOGENS
Campylobacter jejuni		Carbohydrate-lectin, FlaA, MOMP	MUC2		Tu et al., 2008; Naughton et al., 2013; Mahdavi et al., 2014
Clostridium difficile		FliC		Cecal mucus	Tasteyre et al., 2001
		FliD
Escherichia coli	UPEC CFT073	F9 fimbriae		Galβ1-3GlcNAc structures	Wurpel et al., 2014
	EPEC E2348/69	H6 flagella	MUC2	Mucin-type core 2 O-glycan	Erdem et al., 2007; Ye et al., 2015
	EHEC EDL933	H7 flagella	MUC2	Mucin-type core 2 O-glycan	Erdem et al., 2007; Ye et al., 2015
Listeria monocytogenes		LPXTG-internalin proteins (MucBP) LmiA			Bierne et al., 2007; Mariscotti et al., 2014
Salmonellae enterica serotype Typhimurium		Fimbrial adhesin (std operon)		Alpha1-2 fucosylated receptor(s)	Chessa et al., 2009
Vibrio cholerae		Vibrio polysaccharide (VPS)			Liu et al., 2015
		Chitin-binding protein (GbpA)		N-acetyl D-glucosamine	Bhowmick et al., 2008