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ArticleMicroorganisms2023

eDNA Provides a Scaffold for Autoaggregation of

Iztok Dogsa, Rok Kostanjšek, David Stopar

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Article in Microorganisms, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Iztok DogsaBiotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0002-3953-702X
Rok KostanjšekBiotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0001-8377-1182
David StoparBiotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Funding

Slovenian Research Agency I0-0022-0481-08Slovenian Research Agency J1-3021Slovenian Research Agency L7-3186Slovenian Research Agency P4-0116
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The self-binding of bacterial cells, or autoaggregation, is, together with surface colonization, one of the first steps in the formation of a mature biofilm. In this work, the autoaggregation of B. subtilis in dilute bacterial suspensions was studied. The dynamics of cell lysis, eDNA release, and bacterial autoaggregate assembly were determined and related to the spatial autocorrelation of bacterial cells in dilute planktonic bacterial suspensions. The non-random distribution of cells was associated with an eDNA network, which stabilized the initial bacterial cell-cell aggregates. Upon the addition of DNase I, the aggregates were dispersed. The release of eDNA during cell lysis allows for the entrapment of bacterial drifters at a radius several times the size of the dying bacteria. The size of bacterial aggregates increased from 2 to about 100 μm in diameter in dilute bacterial suspensions. The results suggest that B. subtilis cells form previously unnoticed continuum of autoaggregate structures during planktonic growth.

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autoaggregatesbiofilmB. subtiliseDNAplankton

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PMID36838297
PMCPMC9966259

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