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Experiments included attachment studies in liquid medium but also directly onto agar plates; the latter was aimed at mimicking a chronic wound environment. Fiber diameter was shown to affect the ability of bacteria to proliferate within the fibrous networks, depending on cell size and shape. Colanic acid polymer occurred when fiber diameter was close to the bacterial size. Nanofibers were found to induce conformational changes of rod shaped bacteria, limiting the colonization process and inducing cell death. The data suggest that simply tuning the morphological properties of electrospun fibers may be one strategy used to control biofilm formation within wound dressings. Bacillus subtilis Biofilms: a Matter of Individual Choice.

Bacillus subtilis has the capacity to choose between two mutually exclusive lifestyles: biofilm formation and flagellum-mediated swimming motility. Interestingly, this choice is made at the individual cell level, with bacterial cells in a population expressing genes required for biofilm formation or genes required for swimming motility but not both. A bistable switch controls the biofilm-versus-swimming decision, resulting in an evolutionarily favorable strategy known as "bet hedging" that ensures that subpopulations of bacteria continue to grow as conditions change and/or become unfavorable. In a recent https://doi.org/10128/mBio1464-18) reported the use of a combination of genetics and microfluidics to reveal that the interplay that occurs between the SinR and YmdB proteins underlies the B. subtilis choice between biofilm formation and swimming motility. Their report suggests that B.

subtilis experiences selective pressure to form biofilms while maintaining reserve cell subpopulations with the capacity to swim away. Lectin-biotin assay for slime present in in situ biofilm produced by Staphylococcus epidermidis using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). A lectin-biotin assay was developed for use in the specific detection of slime produced by Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A and M187sp11 grown in a chemically defined medium. Mature biofilm was formed on polyvinylchloride (PVC) disks using a combined chemostat-modified Robbins device (MRD) model system. Specimens fixed in situ were: 1) stained with ruthenium red; 2) reacted overnight with with gold-labeled extravidin; or 3) reacted with antibodies against S. epidermidis RP62A capsular polysaccharide/adhesin (PS/A) using an immunogold procedure. WGA and succinyl-WGA (S-WGA), which specifically bind N-acetylglucosamine, were shown by TEM to react only with slime, both with the bacterial cell surface but did not react with slime.

These results indicate the usefulness of WGA lectin as a specific marker for detection of the presence and distribution of slime matrix material in S. epidermidis biofilm. Functional Amyloid and Other Protein Fibers in the Biofilm Matrix. Biofilms are ubiquitous in the natural and man-made environment. They are defined as microbes that are encapsulated in an extracellular, self-produced, biofilm matrix. Growing evidence from the genetic and biochemical analysis of single species biofilms has linked the presence of fibrous proteins to a functional biofilm matrix. Some of these fibers have been described as functional amyloid or amyloid-like fibers.

Here we provide an overview of the biophysical and biological data for a wide range of protein fibers found in the biofilm matrix of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Colanic acid compound and biofilm inhibitors of Biofilm formation and virulence factor secretion in opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa are essential for establishment of chronic and recurrent set of cajaninstilbene acid analogues were designed and synthesized, and their abilities to inhibit QS and biofilm formation were investigated. Among all the especially 3o exhibited promising biofilm inhibitory activity with biofilm inhibition ratio of 490 ± 15% at 50 μM. Three lacZ reporter strains were constructed to identify the effects of compound 3o on different QS systems. Compound 3o showed the suppression on the expression of lasB-lacZ and pqsA-lacZ as well as on the production of their corresponding virulence factors. Therefore, compound 3o is expected to be generated as a lead compound with inhibition of biofilm formation and QS of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nitric oxide-mediated dispersal in single- and multi-species biofilms of clinically and industrially relevant microorganisms.

Strategies to induce biofilm dispersal are of interest due to their potential to prevent biofilm formation and biofilm-related infections.
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