The biofilm matrix

By H. Flemming, J. Wingender. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Periodontics

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In Ecology

1. Marc Redmile-Gordon
2. H. Flemming
3. P. A. Holden
4. R. Finlay
5. Noah Fierer

In Molecular Biology

1. Marc Redmile-Gordon
2. H. Flemming
3. H. Koo
4. P. A. Holden
5. B. Lian
6. R. Finlay
7. Chunhui Gao

In Periodontics

1. H. Flemming
2. H. Koo

Citations in the corpus

• Biology of Streptococcus mutans-Derived Glucosyltransferases: Role in Extracellular Matrix Formation of Cariogenic Biofilms (2011, background): “Copyright © 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel Put simply, there is no biofilm without an extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) matrix [Flemming and Wingender, 2010].”
• Biofilms: The Microbial “Protective Clothing” in Extreme Environments (2019, background): “[38,39]; (III) Development: the multilayered cells are accumulated by proliferation, and EPS are produced and secreted [32,40]; (IV) Maturation: stable formation of a three-dimensional community that contains channels to effectively distribute nutrients and signaling molecules within the biofilm [41”
• Reviews and syntheses: Biological weathering and its consequences at different spatial levels – from nanoscale to global scale (2020, background): “1a) (Flemming and Wingender, 2010).”
• A field comparison of multiple techniques to quantify groundwater–surface-water interactions (2015, background): “…from laboratory experiments or other sites may lead to systematic bias because these reactions are highly variable, and the decisive factors controlling the kinetics (including microorganisms) are not known decisively (Stewart and Franklin 2008, Flemming and Wingender 2010, Besemer et al. 2012).”
• Soil biofilms: microbial interactions, challenges, and advanced techniques for ex-situ characterization (2019, background): “Moreover, bacteria can cooperate in contaminant degradation, such as with the herbicide linuron and 2,4- dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (Aspray et al., 2005; Breugelmans et al., 2008; Flemming, 2010).”
• Microbial Biofouling: Unsolved Problems, Insufficient Approaches, and Possible Solutions (2011, background): “EPS components such as polysaccharides seem to play a crucial role in such processes (Braissant et al. 2003; Flemming and Wingender 2010).”
• Exopolysaccharides of the Biofilm Matrix: A Complex Biophysical World (2012, background): “These interactions correspond to various binding forces such as electrostatic attractive forces, repulsive forces (preventing collapsing), hydrogen bonds, van der Waals interactions and ionic attractive forces [13].”
• Extracellular polymeric substances of bacteria and their potential environmental applications. (2014, background): “The structural proteins or non-enzymatic proteins in the EPS matrix, such as the cell surface-associated and extracellular carbohydrates binding proteins (called as lectins), are involved in the formation of polysaccharides matrix network and constitute a link between bacterial surface and extracell”