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Bacterial biofilm removal using fungal enzymes
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Three fungal strains of Aspergillus niger, Trichoderma viride and Penicillium spp.About:
This article is published in Enzyme and Microbial Technology.The article was published on 2006-12-06. It has received 82 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biofilm matrix & Biofilm.read more
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Microbial cellulases: Engineering, production and applications
Veeresh Juturu,Jin Chuan Wu +1 more
TL;DR: The lack of a better understanding of the mechanisms of individual cellulases, their synergistic actions and their high prices are the major bottlenecks yet to be overcome for large scale commercial applications of cellulases in lignocellulose-based biorefinery.
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Multi‐species biofilms: how to avoid unfriendly neighbors
Olaya Rendueles,Jean-Marc Ghigo +1 more
TL;DR: This review presents available data on nonbiocidal molecules and provides a new perspective on competitive interactions within biofilms that could lead to antibiofilm strategies of potential biomedical interest.
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Antimicrobial enzymes: an emerging strategy to fight microbes and microbial biofilms.
Barbara Thallinger,Endry Nugroho Prasetyo,Gibson S. Nyanhongo,Georg M. Guebitz,Georg M. Guebitz +4 more
TL;DR: Advances in synthetic biology, enzyme engineering and whole DNA‐Sequencing technologies show great potential to facilitate the development of more effective antimicrobial and anti‐biofilm enzymes.
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New Weapons to Fight Old Enemies: Novel Strategies for the (Bio)control of Bacterial Biofilms in the Food Industry.
TL;DR: The problems associated with bacterial biofilms in the food industry are discussed and the recent strategies explored to inhibit biofilm formation are summarized, with special focus on those targeting quorum sensing.
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Therapeutic potential of biofilm-dispersing enzymes.
TL;DR: This review discusses the potential use of biofilm matrix-degrading enzymes as anti-biofilm agents for the treatment and prevention of device infections and the therapeutic potential and possible drawbacks of using these enzymes as clinical agents are discussed.
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Initiation of biofilm formation in Pseudomonas fluorescens WCS365 proceeds via multiple, convergent signalling pathways: a genetic analysis
George A. O'Toole,Roberto Kolter +1 more
TL;DR: The genetic analyses suggest that biofilm formation can proceed via multiple, convergent signalling pathways, which are regulated by various environmental signals, and that of the 24 sad mutants analysed in this study, only three had defects in genes of known function.
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The Genetics of Aspergillus nidulans
TL;DR: The biochemical genetics of Aspergillus nidulans, though similar to that of Neurospora and Ophiostoma, has revealed interesting differences in detail, e.g., the inability of citrulline to replace ornithine for strains responding to Ornithine or arginine; the unable of tryptophan to replace anthranilic acid for certain strain responding to anthranic acid or nicotinic acid.
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Biofilm exopolysaccharides: a strong and sticky framework.
TL;DR: Wimpenny & Colasanti (1997) have suggested that biofilm structure is largely determined by the concentration of substrate, and postulated that such differences also validate at least three conceptual models of biofilms – heterogeneous mosaics, structures penetrated by water channels, and dense confluent bioFilms.
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Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Wood and Wood Components
TL;DR: The oil crisis during the 1970s turned interest towards the utilization of renewable resources and towards lignocellulosics in particular, and the commercial utilization of this technology has not progressed as rapidly as one would have desired.
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[12] Colorimetric analysis of sugars
TL;DR: In this article, a procedure for the calorimetric analysis of sugars for the identification and determination of small quantities of carbohydrates obtained from biological materials is presented, which is based on the Ihl-Pechmann reaction for fructose and is not to be confused with the diphenylamine test for DNA.