ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015
Electrical spiking in bacterial biofilms.
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- Activity-dependent compensation of cell size is vulnerable to targeted deletion of ion channels.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Testing Anti-Biofilm Polymeric Surfaces: Where to Start?International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
- Cell-gel interactions of in-gel propagating bacteria.BMC research notes · 2018Article
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- The Integration of Electrical Signals Originating in the Root of Vascular Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Article
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Abstract
In nature, biofilms are the most common form of bacterial growth. In biofilms, bacteria display coordinated behaviour to perform specific functions. Here, we investigated electrical signalling as a possible driver in biofilm sociobiology. Using a multi-electrode array system that enables high spatio-temporal resolution, we studied the electrical activity in two biofilm-forming strains and one non-biofilm-forming strain. The action potential rates monitored during biofilm-forming bacterial growth exhibited a one-peak maximum with a long tail, corresponding to the highest biofilm development. This peak was not observed for the non-biofilm-forming strain, demonstrating that the intensity of the electrical activity was not linearly related to the bacterial density, but was instead correlated with biofilm formation. Results obtained indicate that the analysis of the spatio-temporal electrical activity of bacteria during biofilm formation can open a new frontier in the study of the emergence of collective microbial behaviour.
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