Natural conjugative plasmids induce bacterial biofilm development

By J. Ghigo. Nature, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology

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Biofilm formation and the food industry, a focus on the bacterial outer surface (2010, background): “This conjugation process can stimulate biofilm development, because the conjugative pilus can act as an adhesion factor allowing nonspecific cell-solid surface or cell–cell contacts (Ghigo 2001; Reisner et al. 2003).”
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS (2009, background): “Por otro lado, a consecuencia de la alta densidad celular y el contacto estrecho entre las bacterias, está facilitada la transferencia horizontal de genes mediante conjugación (Hausner y Wuertz, 1999; Ghigo, 2001; Espinosa-Urgel, 2004; Sørensen et al., 2005).”
The versatile bacterial type IV secretion systems (2003, background): “Recent work has also shown that plasmid-encoded conjugative pili of Gram-negative bacteria, or surface glycoproteins of Gram-positive bacteria, contribute to biofilm formation and colonization of various human tissue”
Biofilm-Related Infections: Bridging the Gap between Clinical Management and Fundamental Aspects of Recalcitrance toward Antibiotics (2014, background): “Furthermore, while the presence of conjugative plasmids promotes biofilm formation, the biofilm lifestyle also increases plasmid stability and the range of mobile genetic elements (163).”
Enhanced Biofilm Formation and Increased Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents and Bacterial Invasion Are Caused by Synergistic Interactions in Multispecies Biofilms (2006, background): “Such mechanisms could be caused by coaggregation of the cells (37, 42, 47, 59) or by pili encoded by conjugative plasmids (17).”
Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism (2009, background): “…often encode and express genes of a variety of functions apart from those for their own mobility and replication, such as antibiotic resistance, virulence, environmental protection (including biofilm formation), DNA repair and supplementary metabolic pathways (Barton et al. 1995; Ghigo 2001).”
Biofilms: Microbial Cities of Scientific Significance (2014, background): “In fact, flagellum is not required for the formation of biofilm in strains comprising of a conjugative plasmid which regarded as strong adhesion factor [51,52].”
Biofilms: Microbial Life on Surfaces (2002, background): “Ghigo (54) has suggested that medically relevant strains of bacteria that contain conjugative plasmids more readily develop biofilms.”
What drives bacteria to produce a biofilm? (2004, background): “coli [41] by gest on A uust 2, 2016 ht://fem sle.”
Mechanisms of, and Barriers to, Horizontal Gene Transfer between Bacteria (2005, background): “This is consistent with the discovery that many plasmids promote biofilm formation, even in pure plasmid-positive cultures, by a mechanism that is dependent on their possession of a transfer apparatu”
Signals, Regulatory Networks, and Materials That Build and Break Bacterial Biofilms (2009, background): “Conditions such as the nutritional status of the environment and even the presence of conjugative plasmids can lead to quorum-sensing cues being bypassed or overridden (56, 105, 113, 264, 267).”
Horizontal Gene Exchange in Environmental Microbiota (2011, background): “Indeed, HGT occurs with enhanced efficiency in biofilms, and conjugative plasmids themselves contribute to the development, stabilization, and expansion of biofilms (Hausner and Wuertz, 1999; Ghigo, 2001; Molin and Tolker-Nielsen, 2003; Reisner et al., 2006; Burmølle et al., 2008).”
Studying plasmid horizontal transfer in situ: a critical review (2005, background): “The products of conjugational genes seem to have further ecological significance, as they promote cell-to-cell contact, which can facilitate biofilm formatio”
Biological individuality: the case of biofilms (2012, background): “Then there is the sharing of DNA through LGT, and the sharing of conjugation plasmids that induces some bacteria to form biofilms (Ghigo 2001).”