Their weight-loss capabilities open doors to treating obesity and its associated diseases, a market predicted to reach $77 billion by 2028
A body mass index (BMI) greater than 35 kg/m 2 is associated with an increased risk of diabetes of more than 40-fold in men and more than 70-fold in women
Protein Sci 19(6):11371161
These types of inhibitors, with respect of their mode of actions, can be divided into two categories: those blocking a single virulence factor and those blocking global bacterial processes involved in pathogen virulence, such as the two-component system, the quorum sensing system, secretion systems, or post-translational protein modifications (Duncan et al
Vaishnava S, Yamamoto M, Severson KM et al (2011) The antibacterial lectin RegIII- promotes the spatial segregation of microbiota and host in the intestine