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- Title
- Bacterial cell surface structure and adhesion to surfaces
- Author(s)
- Tomlinson, Steven; Palombo, Enzo A.; Harding, Ian H.
- Abstract
- This chapter examines how researchers from a diverse range of scientific disciplines have investigated bacterial adhesion, and how their findings contribute to the current understanding of this complex phenomenon. It also provides the background material necessary to give these studies context. Firstly, the bacterial surface is reviewed, with an emphasis given to structures reported to influence adhesion. This is followed by a description of bacterial surface charge and the foreces operative between bacteria and surfaces. Classical theories used to describe bacterial adhesion are then presented, as are those that have emerged more recently. Finally, biological aspects of bacterial adhesion are discussed, including the effects of growth environment and gene expression.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Environment and Biotechnology Centre
- Source
- Nanoscale structure and properties of microbial cell surfaces / Elena P. Ivanova (ed.), Chapter 7, pp. 199-240
- Publication year
- 2006
- Keyword(s)
- Bacterial adhesion; Bacterial surfaces; Gene expression; Growth environment
- Publisher
- Nova Science
- ISBN
- 9781600212420, 1600212425
- Publisher URL
- https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4517
- Publisher URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=Nq4oAAAAYAAJ
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2007 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Peer reviewed
