Quorum quenching: role in nature and applied developments

C Grandclément, M Tannières, S Moréra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Quorum sensing (QS) refers to the capacity of bacteria to monitor their population density
and regulate gene expression accordingly: the QS-regulated processes deal with …

Quorum sensing inhibitors: an overview

VC Kalia - Biotechnology advances, 2013 - Elsevier
Excessive and indiscriminate use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections has lead to the
emergence of multiple drug resistant strains. Most infectious diseases are caused by …

Multi-species biofilms: how to avoid unfriendly neighbors

O Rendueles, JM Ghigo - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Multi-species biofilm communities are environments in which complex but ill understood
exchanges between bacteria occur. Although monospecies cultures are still widely used in …

Masquerading microbial pathogens: capsular polysaccharides mimic host-tissue molecules

BF Cress, JA Englaender, W He… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria portends an impending
postantibiotic age, characterized by diminishing efficacy of common antibiotics and routine …

[HTML][HTML] Role of quorum sensing in bacterial infections

I Castillo-Juárez, T Maeda… - World Journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Quorum sensing (QS) is cell communication that is widely used by bacterial pathogens to
coordinate the expression of several collective traits, including the production of multiple …

Antibiofilm polysaccharides

O Rendueles, JB Kaplan… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial extracellular polysaccharides have been shown to mediate many of the cell‐to‐cell
and cell‐to‐surface interactions that are required for the formation, cohesion and …

Antibiofilm Activity of α-Amylase from Bacillus subtilis and Prediction of the Optimized Conditions for Biofilm Removal by Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and …

D Lahiri, M Nag, T Sarkar, B Dutta, RR Ray - Applied Biochemistry and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract α-amylase is known to have antibiofilm activity against biofilms of both Gram
positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains. Partially purified α-amylase from Bacillus …

Extending the limits of Bacillus for novel biotechnological applications

P Kumar, SKS Patel, JK Lee, VC Kalia - Biotechnology advances, 2013 - Elsevier
Bacillus, generally regarded as safe, has emerged as a robust organism that can withstand
adverse environmental conditions and grows easily to very high densities. Bacillus has been …

In vitro analysis of green fabricated silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 biofilm formation, their application on urinary catheter

F LewisOscar, C Nithya, S Vismaya… - Progress in Organic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Methanolic (SME) extract of the biologically safe and edible cyanobacteria, Spirulina
platensis was used for the green fabrication of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) …

Photocatalytic properties and antimicrobial efficacy of Fe doped CuO nanoparticles against the pathogenic bacteria and fungi

A Pugazhendhi, SS Kumar, M Manikandan… - Microbial …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pathogenic microbes are becoming a potential threat to human beings and environment.
Owing to the biofilm forming ability, multidrug resistant pathogens have emerged, which has …