Though the majority of bacteria can form structured communities known as biofilms, mutations can cause bacterial strains to vary in their ability to form a biofilm. In this study, the apparent diffusion coefficient of...
Rapid and reliable diagnostics and identification of pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria are at the top of the agenda. In the first case, they are important to control and prevent crop damages, and thus reduce economic ...
This work was supported by grants from the National Key Program for Basic Research (2010CB126501), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (09ZR1436500) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009KIP206) to L.L., and the Excellent Ph.D. Graduate Education Fund of East China Normal University (2009039) to ~.W.
A new bacterial secondary messenger, bis-(3',5')-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP), is usually synthesized or decomposed by proteins containing GGDEF or glutamate-alanine-leucine (EAL) domain. ...