Relevance of microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs)--Part I: Structural and ecological aspects.

By H. Flemming, J. Wingender. Water Science and Technology, 2001

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Pollution, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Plant Growth‐Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) Reduce Evaporation and Increase Soil Water Retention (2017, background): “D network composed of polymeric strands, bonded by electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonds, and London dispersion forces (Flemming & Wingender, 2001, 2010; Or et al., 2007).”
• Synthetic Coprecipitates of Exopolysaccharides and Ferrihydrite. Part I: Characterization (2008, background): “Polysaccharides in microbial EPS may even exceed 90% ( Flemming and Wingender, 2001 ).”
• Membrane Biological Reactors (2011, background): “…concept for different classes of macromolecules such as polysaccharides, proteins, nucleic acids, (phosphor-)lipids, and other polymeric compounds which have been found at, or outside, the cell surface and in the intercellular space of microbial aggregates (Flemming and Wingender, 2001).”
• Predation on prokaryotes in the water column and its ecological implications (2005, background): “Aquatic bacteria produce a wide range of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that comprise polysaccharides, proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and other biological macromolecule”
• Extracellular polymeric substances of bacteria and their potential environmental applications. (2014, background): “EPS secretion is a general attribute of microorganisms in natural environments and occurs in prokaryotic as well as in eukaryotic microorganisms (Flemming and Wingender, 2001; Wingender et al., 1999).”
• Marine Biofilms: A Successful Microbial Strategy With Economic Implications (2018, background): “After adhesion, bacterial cells produce an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix, establishing the formation of a biofilm (Costerton et al., 1978, 1995; Flemming and Wingender, 2001, 2010; Steinberg and Kolodkin-Gal, 2015; Flemming, 2016).”
• Understanding the Mechanism of Bacterial Biofilms Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents (2017, background): “12280] [PMID: 26986529] [5] Flemming HC, Wingender J.”
• Microhydrological Niches in Soils: How Mucilage and EPS Alter the Biophysical Properties of the Rhizosphere and Other Biological Hotspots (2019, neutral): “The polymer networks of EPS and mucilage can absorb large quantities of water (Roberson and Firestone, 1992; McCully and Boyer, 1997; Read et al., 1999; Flemming and Wingender, 2001), but what forces are responsible to hold this water in soils remains unclear (Flemming, 2011).”
• Heavy Metal Resistance of Biofilm and Planktonic Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2003, background): “Biofilm bacteria are usually embedded in an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix composed of polysaccharides, proteins, and nucleic acids ( 11 , 34, 38, 44, 47).”