... in plants commonly used in Chinese medicine prevents biofilm formation on polystyrene and polycarbonate surfaces by Staphylococcus ... -beta-D-glucopyranose (PGG) is highly promising for clinical use in preventing biofilm formation by S. aureus ...
... help them cause disease in humans. Biofilm formation might also play an important role ... of Leptospirosis. We now need to study the mechanism of biofilm formation in both fresh water and renal ...
... in New York. Hatfull, Jacobs, and their colleagues found that the biofilm bacteria are physiologically and genetically different from TB ... . "While our data does not show conclusively that biofilm formation in people gives rise to a drug ...
... that construction of this substance was anything but random. To the contrary, biofilm formation is an extremely ordered process – a fact ... with that knowledge, Wood discovered a method for inhibiting biofilm formation by modifying the indole signal in a way ...
... . "We were trying to get at how the bacterium's ability to move and biofilm formation are balanced," Kearns said. "We were looking for the genes ... associated with infections by pathogenic bacteria. Understanding biofilm formation may eventually prove useful in combating bacterial ...
... . The most typical form of bacterial organization in nature is a biofilm: a dense quasi-two-dimensional colony ... the complex signaling mechanisms in the early stages of biofilm formation," Tsimring said, "the biomechanics of direct cellular ...
... detailed findings that the presence of zinc is crucial to the formation of infection-causing biofilms. Staphylococci can grow ... to one another. Zinc chelation, or removal, prevented biofilm formation by Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus ...
... in particular, surfactin, is produced by B. subtilis. Biofilm formation begins when surfactin, and other similar molecules ... form. The authors note that it's still unclear how biofilm formation benefits the bacteria, and they hypothesize that it might ...
... and iron chelators-- to potentiate the effect of tobramycin on biofilm formation," said lead author Dr. Sophie ... cells by 90 percent and it also prevented formation of damaging biofilms. In contrast, neither an iron chelator ...
... infections among children. In addition to finding that biofilm formation relies heavily on virus genes ... says. "We have found a regulator – this Hha – that controls the genes related to biofilm formation. Now we can begin to envision ways ...
... us insight into the metabolic processes that contribute to biofilm formation, and the role the network plays in infection ... the researchers to develop therapeutic small molecules that will block biofilm formation and diagnostic tools that can detect ...
... processes that would be inefficient in single cells, such as the formation of biofilms. Quorum sensing can also prevent too ... of small numbers of cells at the early stages of biofilm formation or the early stages of an infection." By using a microfluidic ...
... , surfactin, to trigger extracellular matrix production and biofilm formation at critical cell densities. Dr ... of stochastic differentiation takes place during biofilm formation leading to a subpopulation of cells that produces ...
... can be used to study the complex biological mechanisms in cells responsible for cancer metastasis, wound healing, biofilm formation and other fluid-related processes. The advantage ...
... . Treatment was also impaired by the bacterium's ability to form biofilms: highly-resistant communities of bacteria which serve ... develop effective therapeutic strategies to disrupt biofilm formation and diminish the risk of antimicrobial resistance ...
