Swimming cells promote a dynamic environment within biofilms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 12848-12849

  Boles, Blaise R ^a   Horswill, Alexander R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; DNA; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LYSOSTAPHIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN; TRACER;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DEBRIDEMENT; DIFFUSION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIFESTYLE; LIQUID CULTURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROMOLECULE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SESSILE SPECIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOFILMS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; LOCOMOTION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84864645656     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210297109     Document Type: Note

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