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The tip protein PAAR is required for the function of the type VI secretion system
Bacteria are constantly competing to colonize crowded ecological niches, such as the human gut. The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a critical bacterial weapon in this warfare. It resembles a crossbow with a poisoned arrow allowing bacteria to inject to ...
Washington2023The Effects of Spatial Organization and Fluid Flow on the Social Interactions in Microbial Communities
Bacteria often engage in social interactions with neighbouring bacteria. Ecosystems which are subjected to social interactions have been widely studied in well mixed settings such as test tubes, allowing us to identify the cellular components contributingt ...
EPFL2023Viral diversity is linked to bacterial community composition in alpine stream biofilms
Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Paraskevi Pramateftaki, Meriem Bekliz
Biofilms play pivotal roles in fluvial ecosystems, yet virtually nothing is known about viruses in these communities. Leveraging an optimized sample-to-sequence pipeline, we studied the spatiotemporal turnover of dsDNA viruses associated with stream biofil ...
Springer2022Light availability impacts structure and function of phototrophic stream biofilms across domains and trophic levels
Phototrophic biofilms are ubiquitous in freshwater and marine environments where they are critical for biogeochemical cycling, food webs and in industrial applications. In streams, phototrophic biofilms dominate benthic microbial life and harbour an immens ...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd2018Bacterial biofilm under flow: First a physical struggle to stay, then a matter of breathing
Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol, Josué Sznitman
Bacterial communities attached to surfaces under fluid flow represent a widespread lifestyle of the microbial world. Through shear stress generation and molecular transport regulation, hydrodynamics conveys effects that are very different by nature but str ...
2017Ultrafast laser ablation for targeted atherosclerotic plaque removal
Demetri Psaltis, Donald Benjaman Conkey, Thomas Jean Victor Marie Lanvin, Laurent Descloux
Coronary artery disease, the main cause of heart disease, develops as immune cells and lipids accumulate into plaques within the coronary arterial wall. As a plaque grows, the tissue layer (fibrous cap) separating it from the blood flow becomes thinner and ...
Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015Biophysical controls on cluster dynamics and architectural differentiation of microbial biofilms in contrasting flow environments
Andrea Rinaldo, Tom Ian Battin, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Samir Suweis
Ecology, with a traditional focus on plants and animals, seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying structure and dynamics of communities. In microbial ecology, the focus is changing from planktonic communities to attached biofilms that dominate microbi ...
Wiley-Blackwell2013Quorum Sensing Contributes to Natural Transformation of Vibrio cholerae in a Species-Specific Manner
Melanie Blokesch, Patrick Martin Seitz, Gaia Francesca Marianne Suckow
Although it is a human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae is a regular member of aquatic habitats, such as coastal regions and estuaries. Within these environments, V. cholerae often takes advantage of the abundance of zooplankton and their chitinous molts as a nut ...
American Society for Microbiology2011