The Perfect Slime : Microbial Extracellular Polmeric 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, p...
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| description | 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, properties and characteristics of the matrix as well as the possibilities to strengthen or weaken it. The EPS matrix represents the immediate environment in which biofilm organisms live. From their point of view, this matrix has paramount advantages. It allows them to stay together for extended periods and form synergistic microconsortia, it retains extracellular enzymes and turns the matrix into an external digestion system and it is a universal recycling yard, it protects them against desiccation, it allows for intense communication and represents a huge genetic archive. They can remodel their matrix, break free and eventually, they can use it as a nutrient source. The EPS matrix can be considered as one of the emergent properties of biofilms and are a major reason for the success of this form of life. Nevertheless, they have been termed the black matter of biofilms for good reasons. First of all: the isolation methods define the results. In most cases, only water soluble EPS components are investigated; insoluble ones such as cellulose or amyloids are much less included. In particular in environmental biofilms with many species, it is difficult to impossible isolate, separate the various EPS molecules they are encased in and to define which species produced which EPS. The regulation and the factors which trigger or inhibit EPS production are still very poorly understood. Furthermore: bacteria are not the only microorganisms to produce EPS. Archaea, Fungi and algae can also form EPS. This book investigates the questions, What is their composition, function, dynamics and regulation? What do they all have in common? |
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5396632020-12-19T17:20:22ZThe Perfect Slime : Microbial Extracellular Polmeric Substances (EPS) / Flemming, Hans-Curt, editor Neu, Thomas R., editor Wingender, Jost, editor London : IWA Publishing, 2017engThe 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, properties and characteristics of the matrix as well as the possibilities to strengthen or weaken it. The EPS matrix represents the immediate environment in which biofilm organisms live. From their point of view, this matrix has paramount advantages. It allows them to stay together for extended periods and form synergistic microconsortia, it retains extracellular enzymes and turns the matrix into an external digestion system and it is a universal recycling yard, it protects them against desiccation, it allows for intense communication and represents a huge genetic archive. They can remodel their matrix, break free and eventually, they can use it as a nutrient source. The EPS matrix can be considered as one of the emergent properties of biofilms and are a major reason for the success of this form of life. Nevertheless, they have been termed the black matter of biofilms for good reasons. First of all: the isolation methods define the results. In most cases, only water soluble EPS components are investigated; insoluble ones such as cellulose or amyloids are much less included. In particular in environmental biofilms with many species, it is difficult to impossible isolate, separate the various EPS molecules they are encased in and to define which species produced which EPS. The regulation and the factors which trigger or inhibit EPS production are still very poorly understood. Furthermore: bacteria are not the only microorganisms to produce EPS. Archaea, Fungi and algae can also form EPS. This book investigates the questions, What is their composition, function, dynamics and regulation? What do they all have in common?Includes bibliographical references and indexThe 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 Halkjr̆ 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, Jr̲g 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.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, properties and characteristics of the matrix as well as the possibilities to strengthen or weaken it. The EPS matrix represents the immediate environment in which biofilm organisms live. From their point of view, this matrix has paramount advantages. It allows them to stay together for extended periods and form synergistic microconsortia, it retains extracellular enzymes and turns the matrix into an external digestion system and it is a universal recycling yard, it protects them against desiccation, it allows for intense communication and represents a huge genetic archive. They can remodel their matrix, break free and eventually, they can use it as a nutrient source. The EPS matrix can be considered as one of the emergent properties of biofilms and are a major reason for the success of this form of life. Nevertheless, they have been termed the black matter of biofilms for good reasons. First of all: the isolation methods define the results. In most cases, only water soluble EPS components are investigated; insoluble ones such as cellulose or amyloids are much less included. In particular in environmental biofilms with many species, it is difficult to impossible isolate, separate the various EPS molecules they are encased in and to define which species produced which EPS. The regulation and the factors which trigger or inhibit EPS production are still very poorly understood. Furthermore: bacteria are not the only microorganisms to produce EPS. Archaea, Fungi and algae can also form EPS. This book investigates the questions, What is their composition, function, dynamics and regulation? What do they all have in common?PSZJBLWaterSewageWater reuseURN:ISBN:9781780407418 |
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| title | The Perfect Slime : Microbial Extracellular Polmeric Substances (EPS) / |
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