Pdf the perfect slime and the dark matter of biofilms. Carbohydrates and proteins are usually found to be the major components of eps. The book brings together all the current material in order. Frontiers microbial extracellular polymeric substances. Bacterial exopolysaccharides from unusual environments and their applications. Microbial biofilms show properties not predictable from those of single cells, e. Bacterial biofilms are formed by communities that are embedded in a selfproduced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances eps. The perfect slime presents the latest state of knowledge and a wide range of aspects of the extracellular polymeric substances eps matrix from the ecological and health to the antifouling perspectives. Extracellular polymeric substances eps and extracellular enzymes in aerobic granules guanghui yu,1 pinjing he,1 liming shao,1 duujong lee,2 and arun s. The properties of the eps molecules are crucial for the living conditions of these organisms. Targeted disruption of the extracellular polymeric network. It allows for development of microconsortia it facilitates horizontal gene transfer, cellcell communication, nutrient recycling the matrix represents an external digestion system of biofilm organisms. Microbial extracellular polymeric substances eps in biofilms, the extracellular polymeric substances eps provide the matrix in which the biofilm organisms are retained and develop their interactions. Extracellular polymeric substances eps of microbial.
Analysis of biofilms involves more than counting numbers of bacteria. Genetics and regulation of eps formation in pseudomonas aeruginosa. The extracellular matrix an intractable part of biofilm systems. Characterization of extracellular polymeric substances. Acquisition of a mucoid phenotype by pseudomonas sp.