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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"MULTICELLULAR BEHAVIORS"”.
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Controlling Microbial Multicellular Behaviors With Saccharide Derivatives
<p>Microbial multicellular behaviors like biofilm formation and swarming motility are known to increase their tolerance against antimicrobials. From microbial standpoint, nonmicrobicidal agents that do not impede growth are tolerable and therefore, there is a lower propensity to develop resistance …
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Discovering the Biological Activities of Maltose Derivatives for Controlling Bacterial Multicellular Behaviors
… become a part of a team to form surface attached multicellular communities known as biofilms. Bacteria residing within biofilms are protected by a layer of slime which renders the bacteria one thousand fold more resistant to the action of antibiotics. Nearly eighty percent of bacterial infections …
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Multiplexing cell-cell communication
The engineering of advanced multicellular behaviors, such as the programmed growth of biofilms or tissues, requires cells to communicate multiple aspects of physiological information. Unfortunately, few cell-cell communication systems have been developed for synthetic biology. In this work, I …
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Biosynthesis of Nucleotide Sugar Monomers for Exopolysaccharide Production in Myxococcus Xanthus
… a form of surface motility that is key to the multicellular behaviors of this organism. S motility requires two cellular structures: type IV pili (TFP) and exopolysaccharides (EPS). Previous studies have shown that M. xanthus does not use glucose or any other sugar as a primary carbon source. …