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Adhesion and motility of gliding bacteria on substrata with different surface free energies
R P Burchard1, D Rittschof, J Bonaventura
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County 21228.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
The adhesion and motility of several aquatic and terrestrial gliding bacteria on slides differing in their critical surface energies have been examined. In general, adhesion was tenacious on low-critical surface energy (hydrophobic) surfaces and tenuous on hydrophilic surfaces. Gliding was inhibited on very hydrophobic substrata and skittish on very hydrophilic surfaces.