Biofilms are complex, three-dimensional structures of living bacteria embedded in a slimy matrix. "In Vibrio cholerae, the cholera-causing pathogen, even a brief exposure to cell wall fragments ...

That’s another reason antibiotics weren’t working on certain endometritis cases – if there was a biofilm present, it was probably protecting the bacteria’s cell walls from being destroyed ...

The individual cell averages just one ... Schrenk and colleagues (2003) reported that biofilms with a density of >10 8 cells/g were present within the porous walls of active deep-sea sulfide ...

In addition, students will examine transposon mutants and transformed bacterial strains to determine which gene products interact with host cell mediators. This work will contribute to a better ...

We are interested in what these algal extracellular matrices can tell us about: 1) the evolution of the land plant cell wall, 2) the unique characteristics that allow for life in aquatic habitats, 3) ...

Biofilms are three-dimensional communities of microbes attached to a surface or to each other. Most researchers are very aware of biofilms' spatial heterogeneity; however, their heterogeneity in time ...

In contrast, gram-positive bacteria typically use processed oligopeptides, which must be actively secreted through their cell wall. 1,2 What Is Interspecies ... and form symbiotic relationships to ...

measure cell-matrix interaction forces, the strength of binding of bacteria to surfaces, and many-body interactions between bacteria during the so-called "quorum sensing" and at later stages of the ...