Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 exopolysaccharides are important for mixed species biofilm community development and stress tolerance

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 produces three polysaccharides, alginate, Psl and Pel that play distinct roles in attachment and biofilm formation for monospecies biofilms. Considerably less is known about their role in the development of mixed species biofilm communities. This study has investigated th...

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Main Authors: Saravanan ePeriasamy, Harikrishnan A.S. Nair, Kai Wei Kelvin Lee, Jolene eOng, Jie Quan Joee Goh, Staffan eKjelleberg, Scott A. Rice
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00851/full