A unified theory for extracellular polymeric substances, soluble microbial products, and active and inert biomass.

By C. Laspidou, B. Rittmann. Water Research, 2002

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology

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A comparison of five extraction methods for extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from biofilm by using three-dimensional excitation-emission matrix (3DEEM) fluorescence spectroscopy (2010, background): “In the past several decades EPS has been extensively studied with regard to its physicochemical properties, interaction with contaminants and role in biofilm formation (Laspidou and Rittmann, 2002; Bhaskar and Bhosle, 2006; Meisen et al., 2008).”
A combined extended finite element and level set method for biofilm growth (2008, methodology): “Examples of this class of method can be found in [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11,12].”
Critical review on biofilm methods (2017, background): “SMP are released inside and outside the biofilm while EPS reinforce the biofilm structure with interconnected polymeric structures between the biofilm embedded cells or micro-colonies (Laspidou & Rittmann, 2002).”
Factors influencing the production of extracellular polymeric substances by Rhodopseudomonas acidophila (2006, background): “Bacterial flocculation is strongly related to EPS, and EPS can allow microorganisms to live at high-cell densities in stable mixed-population communities (Laspidou and Rittmann, 2002; Wingender et al., 1999).”
Membrane Biological Reactors (2011, background): “SMPs are defined as soluble cel- lular components that are released during cell lysis, diffuse through the cell membrane, and are lost during synthesis or are excreted for some purpose (Laspidou and Rittmann, 2002; Li et al., 2005a).”
Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of microbial aggregates in biological wastewater treatment systems: a review. (2010, background): “However, Laspidou and Rittmann (2002) argued that certain parts of EPS cannot be degraded by microorganisms.”
Evaluation of soluble microbial products (SMP) on membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors (MBRs) at the fractional and overall level: a review (2018, background): “Electron-donor substrate can be used for the biomass synthesis to directly produce active cells, bound EPS and UAP, and BAP can be produced through bound EPS hydrolysis and cell lysis (Laspidou and Rittmann 2002b) (Fig.”