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Carbohydrate Mediated Bacterial Adhesion
2011In the process of adhesion, bacteria often carry proteins on their surface, adhesins, that bind to specific components of tissue cells or the extracellular matrix. In many cases these components are carbohydrate structures. The carbohydrate binding specificities of many bacteria have been uncovered over the years. The design and synthesis of inhibitors
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Bacterial Adhesion, Cell Adhesion and Biocompatibility of Nafion Films
Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, 2009We investigated bioadhesion (bacterial and cell adhesion) and biocompatibility of poly(tetrafluoroethylene-co-perfluoro-3,6-dioxa-4-methyl-7-octenesulfonic acid) (Nafion) and compared the results with those obtained with poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVFHFP).
Kim, G +5 more
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Physical Chemical Description of Bacterial Adhesion
Journal of Biomaterials Applications, 1990For the description of general bacterial adhesion phenomena two different physicochemical approaches are available. The first one, based on a surface Gibbs energy balance, assumes intimate contact between the interacting surfaces. According to this approach adhesion is solely related to the Gibbs energies of the surfaces involved. The second approach,
van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. +2 more
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Structural polymorphism of bacterial adhesion pili
Nature, 1995Bacterial adhesion pili are designed to bind specifically and maintain attachment of bacteria to target cells. Uropathogenic P-pili are sufficiently mechanically resilient to resist the cleansing action of urine flow that removes most other bacteria. P-pili are 68 A in diameter and approximately 1 micron long, and are composed of approximately 1,000 ...
E, Bullitt, L, Makowski
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Factors Influencing Bacterial Adhesion
2000Bacterial adhesion is a very complicated process which is affected by many factors, including some characteristics of the bacteria, the chemical and physical nature of the target material surface, and factors in the bacterial suspension medium including the physical conditions of the medium and the presence of carbohydrates, proteins, serum proteins ...
Katharine Merritt, Yuehuei H. An
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Bacterial adhesion to orthopedic implant polymers
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 1996The degradable polymers poly(orthoester) (POE), poly(L-lactic acid) (PLA), and the nondegradable polymers polysulfone (PSF), polyethylene (PE), and poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK) were exposed to cultures of Staphylococcus epidermidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or Escherichia coli.
A J, Barton, R D, Sagers, W G, Pitt
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Principles of Bacterial Adhesion
1994Certain fundamental aspects of bacterial adhesion have been known for years (reviewed in Marshall, 1976; Ellwood et al., 1979; Beachey, 1980a, b; Berkeley et al., 1980; Bitton and Marshall, 1980; Beachey et al., 1982; Schlessinger, 1982; Jones and Isaacson, 1984; Marshall, 1984; Mergenhagen and Rosan, 1985; Savage and Fletcher, 1985; Lark et al., 1986).
Itzhak Ofek, Ronald J. Doyle
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Bacterial adhesion onto nanopatterned polymer surfaces
Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2006Abstract Two-dimensional nanopore arrays, consisting of hydrophilic SiO2-like holes within hydrophobic poly(hydroxymethylsiloxane) (PHMS) surfaces, were fabricated by using a colloidal template-assisted method. The pores typically were deep 2–3 nm and wide ∼100 nm, as measured by tapping mode AFM. The adhesion behaviour of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, i.e.
SATRIANO, Cristina +4 more
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Bacterial Adhesion to Protein-Coated Hydrogels
Journal of Biomaterials Applications, 1993Extended wear soft contact lenses have been implicated in the increased occurrence of corneal bacterial infections. This research investigated the effects of polymer chemistry, water content, and pre-sorbed proteins upon the adherence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to model hydrogels with chemistries similar to those of extended wear soft contact lenses ...
A D, Cook, R D, Sagers, W G, Pitt
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Phenomena of Bacterial Adhesion
1985When we use direct microscopic techniques to examine bacteria growing in natural and pathogenic ecosystems, we are forcibly struck by the profound differences between these organisms and cells within derived in vitro laboratory cultures. The development of a series of new techniques for the stabilization and visualization of bacterial surface ...
J. William Costerton +2 more
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