Genetic analysis of Escherichia coli biofilm formation: roles of flagella, motility, chemotaxis and type I pili.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01061.x

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Genetic analysis of Escherichia coli biofilm formation: roles of flagella, motility, chemotaxis and type I pili.

Molecular microbiology - 1 Oct 1998

Pratt L A, Kolter R

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We have used Escherichia coli as a model system to investigate the initiation of biofilm formation. Here, we demonstrate that E. coli forms biofilms on multiple abiotic surfaces in a nutrient-dependent fashion. In addition, we have isolated insertion mutations that render this organism defective...

Topics

Bacterial Adhesion
Biofilms
Chemotaxis
Escherichia coli
Fimbriae, Bacterial
Flagella
Methylmannosides
Mutation

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