JB Kaplan - Journal of dental research, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Like all sessile organisms, surface-attached communities of bacteria known as biofilms must release and disperse cells into the environment to colonize new sites. For many pathogenic …
CL Giltner, Y Nguyen, LL Burrows - Microbiology and molecular …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY Type IV pili (T4P) are multifunctional protein fibers produced on the surfaces of a wide variety of bacteria and archaea. The major subunit of T4P is the type IV pilin, and …
JL Ebersole, D Dawson III, P Emecen‐Huja… - Periodontology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Maintenance of periodontal health or transition to a periodontal lesion reflects the continuous and ongoing battle between the vast microbial ecology in the oral cavity and the …
Abstract Background The Anaerolineae lineage of Chloroflexi had been identified as one of the core microbial populations in anaerobic digesters; however, the ecological role of the …
M Salanoubat, S Genin, F Artiguenave, J Gouzy… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Ralstonia solanacearum is a devastating, soil-borne plant pathogen with a global distribution and an unusually wide host range. It is a model system for the dissection of …
Prokaryotes have engineered sophisticated surface nanomachines that have allowed them to colonize Earth and thrive even in extreme environments. Filamentous machineries …
Pasteurella multocida was first shown to be the causative agent of fowl cholera by Louis Pasteur in 1881. Since then, this Gram-negative bacterium has been identified as the …
IW Wilkie, M Harper, JD Boyce, B Adler - Pasteurella multocida: Molecular …, 2012 - Springer
Pasteurella multocida is an enigmatic pathogen. It is remarkable both for the number and range of specific disease syndromes with which it is associated, and the wide range of host …
When cultured in broth, fresh clinical isolates of the gram-negative periodontal pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans form tenaciously adherent biofilm colonies on …