...Piyali Saha; Samir Kumar Mukherjee; Sk Tofajjen Hossain The survival and increasing antimicrobial resistance of various bacteria, including clinically relevant opportunistic pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa , largely depends on their biofilm architectural strength that makes a challenge...

...Keane J. Dye; Zhaomin Yang PilB is the assembly ATPase for the bacterial type IV pilus (T4P), and as a consequence, it is essential for T4P-mediated bacterial motility. In some cases, PilB has been demonstrated to regulate the production of exopolysaccharide (EPS) during bacterial biofilm...

... been linked to bacterial biofilm formation. Unusual 2′,3′-cyclic nucleotide monophosphates (2′,3′-cNMPs) recently were quantified in mammalian systems, and previous reports have linked these nucleotides to cellular stress and damage in eukaryotes, suggesting an intriguing connection with nucleotide...

...Catherine L. Shelton; Deborah G. Conrady; Andrew B. Herr Staphylococcus epidermidis is an opportunistic pathogen that can form robust biofilms that render the bacteria resistant to antibiotic action and immune responses. Intercellular adhesion in S. epidermidis biofilms is mediated by the cell wall...

...L. Segev-Zarko; Ron Saar-Dover; Vlad Brumfeld; Maria Luisa Mangoni; Yechiel Shai Many bacteria live as biofilms to cope with unfavourable surroundings. Biofilms start from (i) a planktonic stage, (ii) initial adhesion to surfaces and (iii) formation of sessile micro-colonies that secrete...

..., Δ glgS cells accumulated high colanic acid content and displayed increased ability to form biofilms on polystyrene surfaces. F-driven conjugation based on large-scale interaction studies of glgS with all the non-essential genes of E. coli showed that deletion of purine biosynthesis genes complement...