The biofilm matrix--an immobilized but dynamic microbial environment.

By I. Sutherland. Trends in Microbiology, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Periodontics

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In Ecology

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2. H. Flemming
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4. E. Karatan
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6. D. Wozniak
7. J. Schimel
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In Molecular Biology

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2. E. Karatan
3. D. Wozniak
4. P. Nannipieri
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In Periodontics

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2. C. Dupraz
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4. M. Simões
5. Michael Chapwanya
6. Robert Kolter
7. H. Winstanley
8. Xiao-yan Li

Citations in the corpus

• Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides in Biofilm Formation and Function (2015, background): “The ability to construct and maintain a structured multicellular bacterial community depends critically on the production of extracellular matrix components (1, 2).”
• The biofilm matrix (2010, background): “The formation and maintenance of structured multicellular microbial communities crucially depend on the production and quantity of EP”
• The Biofilm Matrix (2003, methodology): “The water may be bound within the capsules of the bacterial cells or can exist as a solvent whose physical properties are determined by the solutes dissolved in it (Sutherland, 2001).”
• A review of current and emergent biofilm control strategies (2010, background): “EPS are responsible for binding cells and other particulate materials together (cohesion) and to the surface (adhesion) (Allison, 2003; Characklis & Wilderer, 1989; Sutherland, 2001).”
• Burn Wound Infections (2006, background): “Bacteria within a biofilm typically undergo a phenotypic change whereby microbial virulence factor production is altered and metabolic rate and motility are reduced (118, 419, 421).”
• Biofilms: the matrix revisited. (2005, background): “It is now appreciated that the formation and maintenance of structured multicellular communities critically depends upon the production of extracellular substances that, in conglomerate, constitute an extracellular matrix [ 4 ].”
• Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats (2009, background): “DGGE is a polyacrylamide-based electrophoretic method for separation of DNA or RNA that relies on a gradient of chemical denaturants to partially denature nucleic acids based on their sequence composition, resulting in typical banding patterns that can be used to estimate the microbial community spe”
• Contributions of microbial biofilms to ecosystem processes in stream mesocosms (2003, neutral): “jpg" NDATA ITEM> ]> In many aquatic ecosystems, most microbes live in matrix-enclosed biofilm”
• Assembly and Development of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Matrix (2009, positive): “microbial biofilms [14].”
• Cyanobacteria as Biocatalysts for Carbonate Mineralization (2012, background): “Thus EPS, possessing both the highly hydrated nature facilitating ion accumulation and concentration [131] and the negatively charged residues [121], is frequently found to be linked to the mineralization processes [8,84,116,132].”