Social motility of biofilm-like microcolonies in a gliding bacterium

Social motility of biofilm-like microcolonies in a gliding bacterium

Bacterial biofilms are aggregates of surface-associated cells embedded in an extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) matrix. Here, the authors describe a unique mode of collective movement by self-propelled, surface-associated spherical microcolonies with EPS cores in the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium...

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Main Authors: Chao Li, Amanda Hurley, Wei Hu, Jay W. Warrick, Gabriel L. Lozano, Jose M. Ayuso, Wenxiao Pan, Jo Handelsman, David J. Beebe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25408-7
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Summary:Bacterial biofilms are aggregates of surface-associated cells embedded in an extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) matrix. Here, the authors describe a unique mode of collective movement by self-propelled, surface-associated spherical microcolonies with EPS cores in the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae.
ISSN:2041-1723

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