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 ...

BioAFM instruments are designed to measure soft, fragile, and complex samples, including single molecules, nucleic acids, ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...