The pgaABCD Locus of Escherichia coli Promotes the Synthesis of a Polysaccharide Adhesin Required for Biofilm Formation

By Xin Wang, J. Preston, T. Romeo. Journal of Bacteriology, 2004

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Subfields: Food Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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• Bacterial Biofilms: Development, Dispersal, and Therapeutic Strategies in the Dawn of the Postantibiotic Era (2013, background): “…showed that polyglucosamine (PGA) and colanic acid contribute to biofilm architecture (Prigent-Combaret and Lejeune 1999; Danese et al. 2000b; Prigent-Combaret et al. 2001; Wang et al. 2004; Agladze et al. 2005), with PGA being prevalent among clinical isolates, including UPEC (Cerca et al. 2007).”
• Staphylococcal biofilms (2018, background): “More recently, PIA homologs have been detected in a variety of biofilm-forming pathogens, suggesting that this polymer has a widespread function in biofilms and biofilm-associated infections (Darby et al. 2002; Kaplan et al. 2004b; Wang et al. 2004).”
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• Complicated Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Due to Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis (2008, background): “These include fimbriae, curli, flagella, antigen 43, and extracellular matrix molecules including cellulose, colanic acid, and poly- -1,6-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (67, 68, 74, 81, 437, 469).”
• Biofilm in Implant Infections: Its Production and Regulation (2005, background): “coli), have been reported to play important roles for biofilm formation (30-35).”