Rhamnolipids are a class of biosurfactants which contain rhamnose as the sugar moiety
linked to β-hydroxylated fatty acid chains. Rhamnolipids can be widely applied in many …

Highlights•Biofilm development and quorum sensing are social bacterial
behaviours.•Quorum sensing regulates genes involved in biofilm development.•Quorum …

Probiotics, live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a
health benefit on the host, offer an alternative to antibiotics and have become popular …

Most natural environments harbour a stunningly diverse collection of microbial species. In
these communities, bacteria compete with their neighbours for space and resources …

Rhamnolipids are glycolipidic biosurfactants produced by various bacterial species. They
were initially found as exoproducts of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

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 …

The drive for industrial sustainability has pushed biosurfactants to the top of the agenda of
many companies. Biosurfactants offer the possibility of replacing chemical surfactants …

The understanding of the formation, structures, and properties of emulsions is essential to
the creation and stabilization of structures in food. The increasing use of surfactants, the …

In most environments, microorganisms evolve in a sessile mode of growth, designated as
biofilm, which is characterized by cells embedded in a self‐produced extracellular matrix …

The agr quorum-sensing system of Staphylococcus aureus modulates the expression of
virulence factors in response to autoinducing peptides (AIPs). Recent studies have …