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Bacterial motility on a surface: many ways to a common goal.
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This review focuses mainly on surface motility and makes comparisons to features shared by other surface phenomenon.Abstract:
When free-living bacteria colonize biotic or abiotic surfaces, the resultant changes in physiology and morphology have important consequences on their growth, development, and survival. Surface motility, biofilm formation, fruiting body development, and host invasion are some of the manifestations of functional responses to surface colonization. Bacteria may sense the growth surface either directly through physical contact or indirectly by sensing the proximity of fellow bacteria. Extracellular signals that elicit new gene expression include autoinducers, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and carbohydrates. This review focuses mainly on surface motility and makes comparisons to features shared by other surface phenomenon.read more
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Proteus mirabilis surface sensing signal transduction pathway
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Predation capacity of Bradymonabacteria, a recently discovered group in the order Bradymonadales, isolated from marine sediments
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Viruses are Part of the Holobiont’s Fitness and Evolution
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Responses of KT2440 Pseudomonas putida to mild water stress
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Quorum Sensing in Bacteria
TL;DR: The evolution of quorum sensing systems in bacteria could, therefore, have been one of the early steps in the development of multicellularity.
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TL;DR: The results reviewed in this article indicate that the formation of biofilms serves as a new model system for the study of microbial development.
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Biofilms as complex differentiated communities.
TL;DR: It is submitted that complex cell-cell interactions within prokaryotic communities are an ancient characteristic, the development of which was facilitated by the localization of cells at surfaces, which may have provided the protective niche in which attached cells could create a localized homeostatic environment.
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Flagellar and twitching motility are necessary for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development
George A. O'Toole,Roberto Kolter +1 more
TL;DR: The isolation and characterization of mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 defective in the initiation of biofilm formation on an abiotic surface, polyvinylchloride (PVC) plastic are reported and evidence that microcolonies form by aggregation of cells present in the monolayer is presented.