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Towards the identification of the common features of bacterial biofilm development

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dc.creator Lasa, Íñigo
dc.date 2007-11-12T13:09:25Z
dc.date 2007-11-12T13:09:25Z
dc.date 2006-03
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:58:17Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:58:17Z
dc.identifier Int. Microbiol. 2006, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 21-28.
dc.identifier 1139-6709 (versión impresa)
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1985
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1985
dc.description Microorganisms can live and proliferate as individual cells swimming freely in the environment, or they can grow as highly organized, multicellular communities encased in a self-produced polymeric matrix in close association with surfaces and interfaces. This microbial lifestyle is referred to as biofilms. The intense search over the last few years for factors involved in biofilm development has revealed that distantly related bacterial species recurrently make use of the same elements to produce biofilms. These common elements include a group of proteins containing GGDEF/EAL domains, surface proteins homologous to Bap of Staphylococcus aureus, and some types of exopolysaccharides, such as cellulose and the poly-β-1,6-N-acetylglucosamine. This review summarizes current knowledge about these three common elements and their role in biofilm development.
dc.description This work was supported by the BIO2002-04542-C02 and GEN2003-20234-C06-05 grants from the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (Madrid, Spain) and grant 17/2004 from the Departamento de Educación y Cultura del Gobierno de Navarra, Spain.
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Sociedad Española de Microbiología
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Biofilms
dc.subject PIA/PNAG
dc.subject Cellulose
dc.subject c-di-GMP
dc.subject GGDEF proteins
dc.subject Bap protein
dc.title Towards the identification of the common features of bacterial biofilm development
dc.title Hacia la identificación de las características comunes del desarrollo de biopelículas bacterianas
dc.type Artículo


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