A field guide to bacterial swarming motility

DB Kearns - Nature reviews microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
How bacteria regulate, assemble and rotate flagella to swim in liquid media is reasonably
well understood. Much less is known about how some bacteria use flagella to move over the …

Rhamnolipids: diversity of structures, microbial origins and roles

AM Abdel-Mawgoud, F Lépine, E Déziel - Applied microbiology and …, 2010 - Springer
Rhamnolipids are glycolipidic biosurfactants produced by various bacterial species. They
were initially found as exoproducts of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Biosurfactants: a sustainable replacement for chemical surfactants?

R Marchant, IM Banat - Biotechnology letters, 2012 - Springer
Glycolipid biosurfactants produced by bacteria and yeasts provide significant opportunities
to replace chemical surfactants with sustainable biologically produced alternatives in bulk …

Quinolones: from antibiotics to autoinducers

S Heeb, MP Fletcher, SR Chhabra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Since quinine was first isolated, animals, plants and microorganisms producing a wide
variety of quinolone compounds have been discovered, several of which possess …

Degradation of alkanes by bacteria

F Rojo - Environmental microbiology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Pollution of soil and water environments by crude oil has been, and is still today, an
important problem. Crude oil is a complex mixture of thousands of compounds. Among them …

Rhamnolipids produced by Pseudomonas: from molecular genetics to the market

G Soberón‐Chávez, A González‐Valdez… - Microbial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rhamnolipids are biosurfactants with a wide range of industrial applications that entered
into the market a decade ago. They are naturally produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Inhibition of biofilm development of uropathogens by curcumin–an anti-quorum sensing agent from Curcuma longa

IASV Packiavathy, S Priya, SK Pandian, AV Ravi - Food chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Urinary tract infection is caused primarily by the quorum sensing (QS)-dependent biofilm
forming ability of uropathogens. In the present investigation, an anti-quorum sensing (anti …

An In Vivo Polymicrobial Biofilm Wound Infection Model to Study Interspecies Interactions

T Dalton, SE Dowd, RD Wolcott, Y Sun, C Watters… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Chronic wound infections are typically polymicrobial; however, most in vivo studies have
focused on monospecies infections. This project was designed to develop an in vivo …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthesis of pyocyanin pigment by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

MZ El-Fouly, AM Sharaf, AAM Shahin… - Journal of Radiation …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sixty-three isolates belonging to the genus Pseudomonas were isolated from different
environmental sources including; soil, water and clinical specimens. Twenty out of them …

The impact of quorum sensing and swarming motility on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation is nutritionally conditional

JD Shrout, DL Chopp, CL Just, M Hentzer… - Molecular …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The role of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation is unclear. Some
researchers have shown that quorum sensing is important for biofilm development, while …