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Effect of Escherichia coli morphogene bolA on biofilms
Helena L A Vieira1, Patrick Freire, Cecília M Arraiano
1Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|September 4, 2004
Abstract:
Biofilm physiology is established under a low growth rate. The morphogene bolA is mostly expressed under stress conditions or in stationary phase, suggesting that bolA could be implicated in biofilm development. In order to verify this hypothesis, we tested the effect of bolA on biofilm formation. Overexpression of bolA induces biofilm development, while bolA deletion decreases biofilms.
