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The perfect slime : microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) /
The Perfect Slime presents the latest state of knowledge and all aspects of the Extracellular Polymeric Substances, (EPS) matrix - from the ecological and health to the antifouling perspectives. The book brings together all the current material in order to expand our understanding of the functions,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
IWA Publishing,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The perfect slime
- and the "dark matter of biofilms" / Hans-Curt Flemming
- EPS
- a complex mixture / Ian W. Sutherland
- The extracellular matrix
- an intractable part of biofilm systems / Neu T.R. and Lawrence J.R.
- The transition from bacterial adhesion to the production of EPS and biofilm formation / Vera Carniello, Jiapeng Hou, Henny C. van der Mei and Henk J. Busscher
- Genetics and regulation of EPS formation in pseudomonas aeruginosa / Matthew J. Pestrak, Heather C. Eggleston and Daniel J. Wozniak
- Amyloids
- a neglected child of the slime / Morten S. Dueholm and Per Halkjær Nielsen
- Bacterial exopolysaccharides from unusual environments and their applications / Jean Guezennec
- Mechanical properties of biofilms / Stefania Fabbri and Paul Stoodley
- Travelling through slime
- bacterial movements in the EPS matrix / J.-C. Piard, S.-Y. Kim, J. Deschamps, Y. Li, C. Dorel, A. Gruss, A. Trubuil and R. Briandet
- Why and how biofilms cause biofouling
- the "hair-in-sink"-effect / J.S. Vrouwenvelder, C. Dreszer, R. Valladares Linares, J.C. Kruithof, C. Mayer and H.-C. Flemming
- Unique and baffling aspects of the matrix: EPS syneresis and glass formation during desiccation / Decho, Alan W.
- Extracellular factors involved in biofilm matrix formation by Rhizobia / Patricia L. Abdian and Angeles Zorreguieta
- Transparent exopolymeric particles: an important EPS component in seawater / Oliver Wurl and Michael Cunliffe
- Snapshots of fungal extracellular matrices / Romy Breitenbach, Jörg Toepel, Polina Dementyeva, Nicole Knabe and Anna A. Gorbushina
- Biofilms X-treme: composition of extracellular polymeric substances in Archaea / Jens C. Benninghoff, Jost Wingender, Hans-Curt Flemming and Bettina Siebers.