Microbial surface colonization and biofilm development in marine environments

H Dang, CR Lovell - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2016‏ - Am Soc Microbiol
Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

Promising therapeutic strategies against microbial biofilm challenges

K Zhang, X Li, C Yu, Y Wang - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that are attached to a biological or abiotic
surface and are surrounded by a self-produced extracellular matrix. Cells within a biofilm …

Predatory Lifestyle of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

RE Sockett - Annual review of microbiology, 2009‏ - annualreviews.org
Bdellovibrio species are naturally predatory, small, motile, Deltaproteobacteria that invade
the periplasm of other larger gram-negative bacteria, killing and digesting them. Bdellovibrio …

The First Bite— Profiling the Predatosome in the Bacterial Pathogen Bdellovibrio

C Lambert, CY Chang, MJ Capeness, RE Sockett - PloS one, 2010‏ - journals.plos.org
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a Gram-negative bacterium that is a pathogen of other Gram-
negative bacteria, including many bacteria which are pathogens of humans, animals and …

Genomic insights into an obligate epibiotic bacterial predator: Micavibrio aeruginosavorus ARL-13

Z Wang, DE Kadouri, M Wu - BMC genomics, 2011‏ - Springer
Background Although bacterial predators play important roles in the dynamics of natural
microbial communities, little is known about the molecular mechanism of bacterial predation …

High-throughput analysis of gene function in the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

MC Duncan, RK Gillette, MA Maglasang, EA Corn… - MBio, 2019‏ - Am Soc Microbiol
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a bacterial predator capable of killing and replicating inside
most Gram-negative bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Despite growing …

Genome analysis of a simultaneously predatory and prey-independent, novel Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus from the River Tiber, supports in silico predictions of both …

L Hobley, TR Lerner, LE Williams, C Lambert, R Till… - BMC genomics, 2012‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Evolution equipped Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predatory bacteria to
invade other bacteria, digesting and replicating, sealed within them thus preventing nutrient …

Vibrio cholerae motility exerts drag force to impede attack by the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

MC Duncan, JC Forbes, Y Nguyen, LM Shull… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
The bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is evolved to attack and kill other bacteria,
including the human intestinal pathogen Vibrio cholerae. Although B. bacteriovorus exhibit a …

Identification and characterization of differentially-regulated type IVb pilin genes necessary for predation in obligate bacterial predators

O Avidan, M Petrenko, R Becker, S Beck… - Scientific Reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is an obligate predator of bacteria that grows and divides within
the periplasm of its prey. Functions involved in the early steps of predation have been …

Functional genomic analysis of an uncultured δ-proteobacterium in the sponge Cymbastela concentrica

MY Liu, S Kjelleberg, T Thomas - The ISME journal, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Marine sponges are ancient, sessile, filter-feeding metazoans, which represent a significant
component of the benthic communities throughout the world. Sponges harbor a remarkable …