The role of bacterial cell wall hydrophobicity in adhesion
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In this study, the adhesion of bacteria differing in surface hydrophobicity was investigated. Cell wall hydrophobicity was measured as the contact angle of water on a bacterial layer collected on a microfilter. The contact angles ranged from 15 to 70 degrees. This method was compared with procedures based upon adhesion to hexadecane and with the partition of cells in a polyethylene glycol-dextran two-phase system. The results obtained with these three methods agreed reasonably well. The adhesion of 16 bacterial strains was measured on sulfated polystyrene as the solid phase. These experiments showed that hydrophobic cells adhered to a greater extent than hydrophilic cells. The extent of adhesion correlated well with the measured contact angles (linear regression coefficient, 0.8).
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Bioadhesion depends mainly on a combination of surface physico-chemical properties of both the cell and the solid substratum, including Lewis acid-base character, capacity to exchange attractive van der Waals interactions, and global surface charge.
“Various studies have demonstrated that bioadhesion depends mainly on combination of surface physico-chemical properties (such as Lewis acid-base character, capacity to exchange attractive van der Waals interactions, and global surface charge) of both the cell and the solid substratum [5,16,17].”
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- Authors
- van Loosdrecht, M. C., Lyklema, J., Norde, W., Schraa, G., & Zehnder, A. J.
- Affiliations
- Department of Microbiology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Venue
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 1987-08
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1893-1897
- ISSN
- 0099-2240 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-5336
- PMC
- PMC204020
- OpenAlex
- W2157478589
- Cited by
- 959
- References
- 24
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- FWCI
- 5.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
- Keywords
- bacterial adhesion, contact angle, surface hydrophobicity
- MeSH terms
- Alkanes, Bacterial Adhesion, Cell Wall, Dextrans, Polyethylene Glycols, Polystyrenes, Surface Tension, Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
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