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Activities of Microorganisms Attached to Living Surfaces

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Microbial Adhesion and Aggregation

Part of the book series: Life Sciences Research Reports ((DAHLEM LIFE,volume 31))

Abstract

Bacteria associated with living surfaces may or may not multiply while attached to the living substratum. Whether or not they multiply, such bacteria must utilize nutrients present in the environment often in competition with the living host cells in the substratum and other microorganisms in an attached community. If they multiply while attached to a surface, then bacteria must conform in their reproductive strategies to conditions imposed on the habitat by the living tissue sharing it. Bacteria attached to living surfaces may penetrate into and through the surface into underlying host tissues, synthesize macromolecules that alter the function of the living substratum, or produce end products of metabolism that can be utilized as carbon and energy sources by the living cells in the substratum. Such products of metabolism may also function, along with nutritional competition, to regulate the population levels and localization of other microorganisms in attached communities. These processes are understood poorly at the molecular level.

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Savage, D.C. (1984). Activities of Microorganisms Attached to Living Surfaces. In: Marshall, K.C. (eds) Microbial Adhesion and Aggregation. Life Sciences Research Reports, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70137-5_17

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