ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
How bacteria actively use passive physics to make biofilms.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Formation of a swelling gel underlies a morphological transition inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Extracellular matrix chemistry tunes bacterial biofilm metabolism and optimizes fitness.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Protein Homeostasis Impairment Alters Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Biofilm Communities.Molecular microbiology · 2025Article
- Phenotypic and functional characterization of soilFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Modern molecular microbiology elucidates the organizational principles of bacterial biofilms via detailed examination of the interplay between signaling and gene regulation. A complementary biophysical approach studies the mesoscopic dependencies at the cellular and multicellular levels with a distinct focus on intercellular forces and mechanical properties of whole biofilms. Here, motivated by recent advances in biofilm research and in other, seemingly unrelated fields of biology and physics, we propose a perspective that links the biofilm, a dynamic multicellular organism, with the physical processes occurring in the extracellular milieu. Using
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