The hydrophobicity of bacteria - An important factor in their initial adhesion at the air-water inteface

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 1981, Pages 267-270

  Dahlbäck, Björn ^a   Hermansson, Malte ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a   Norkrans, Birgitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterioneuston; Hydrophobic interaction; Initial adhesion; Surface microlayers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIUM; CELL ADHESION; HYDROPHOBIA; IN VITRO STUDY;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; SOLUBILITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0019174557     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00422527     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Influence of the initial surface condition of materials on bioadhesion
2. Adhesion: Mechanisms that assist or impede it
3. The freshwater to air transfer of microorganisms and organic matter
4. Seven problems in bubble and jet drop researches
5. Attachment of marine bacteria to solid surfaces
6. Influence of substrate wetiability on the attachment of marine bacteria to various surfaces
7. An electron-microscopic demonstration of an acidic polysaccharide involved in the adhesion of a marine bacterium to solid surfaces
8. Influence of substratum characteristics on the attachment of a marine pseudomonad to solid surfaces
9. Interaction of pigmented wildtype and pigmentless mutant of Serratia marcescens with lipid surface film
10. Hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The synthesis and the use of some alkyl and aryl derivatives of agarose
11. Lipid surface films: Interaction of bacteria with free fatty acids and phospholipids at the air-water interface
12. Comparative study of different hydrophobic devices for sampling lipid surface films and adherent microorganisms
13. Quantitative analysis of bacterial hydrophobicity studied by the binding of dodecanoic acid
14. Life in high salt and solute concentrations: Halophilic bacteria
15. On lipid surface films on the sea. I. A simple method for sampling and studies of composition
16. Probing the surface of Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella minesota SR and R bacteria by aqueous biphasic partitioning in systems containing hydrophobic and charged polymers
17. Cell surface hydrophobicity and the orientation of certain bacteria at interfaces
18. Surface microlayers in aquatic environments
19. On the marine lipid surface microlayer. —Bacterial accumulation in model systems
20. Biological and chemical aspects of the aquatic lipid surface microlayer
21. Surface ultrastructures of adsorbed microorganisms
22. Interfacial free energy and the hydrophobic effect
23. Contribution of M protein to the hydrophobic surface properties of Streptococcus pyogenes
24. Microbiological studies in coastal waters of the Northern Baltic Sea. I. Distribution and abundance of bacteria and yeasts in the Tvärminne area
25. Bacterioneuston examined with critical point drying and transmission electron microscopy