Bacterial adhesion at the single-cell level

C Berne, CK Ellison, A Ducret, YV Brun - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
… established biofilms or the modulation of single-cell attachment, the step that initiates biofilm
bacterial adhesion and how single cells switch from planktonic growth to surface attachment

Measuring bacterial adhesion at environmental interfaces with single-cell and single-molecule techniques

TA Camesano, Y Liu, M Datta - Advances in Water Resources, 2007 - Elsevier
bacteria and surfaces of relevance for environmental science and engineering. We focus on
bacterial adhesion … measure forces on individual bacterial cells or cellular macromolecules, …

Microbial adhesion and ultrastructure from the single-molecule to the single-cell levels by Atomic Force Microscopy

A Beaussart, S El-Kirat-Chatel - The Cell Surface, 2019 - Elsevier
… signatures obtained presented single large adhesion force peaks … bacterial adhesion. This
was further confirmed with tip decorated with milk proteins, the target of LGG pili for adhesion

Quantifying the forces guiding microbial cell adhesion using single-cell force spectroscopy

A Beaussart, S El-Kirat-Chatel, RMA Sullan… - Nature protocols, 2014 - nature.com
… controlling the adhesion of microbial cells to other cells and to … of looking at adhesion forces
at the single-cell level. In recent … the forces driving microbial adhesion on a single-cell basis. …

Factors influencing initial bacterial adhesion to antifouling surfaces studied by single-cell force spectroscopy

T Duanis-Assaf, M Reches - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
… variability of bacterial cultures affects biofilm formation. Our results emphasize how additional
study at the single-cell level can enhance our understanding of bacterial adhesion, thus …

The anti-adhesive effect of glycoclusters on Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria adhesion to epithelial cells studied by AFM single cell force spectroscopy

F Zuttion, C Ligeour, O Vidal, M Wälte, F Morvan… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
… outer membrane and plays an important role in the cellbacteria adhesion, therefore LecA
is an adhesin. (ii) The anti-adhesive effect of G glycocluster at the single cell level strongly …

A review of single-cell adhesion force kinetics and applications

A Shinde, K Illath, P Gupta, P Shinde, KT Lim, M Nagai… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
single-cell level has made visible the tractions that cells exert when they divide, migrate, or
interact with their environment. At the tissue level… understanding of bacterial attachment and …

A synthetic bacterial cell-cell adhesion toolbox for programming multicellular morphologies and patterns

DS Glass, IH Riedel-Kruse - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
… Here, we report a 100% genetically encoded synthetic platform for modular cell-cell
adhesion in Escherichia coli, which provides control over multicellular self-assembly. Adhesive

Bacterial-nanostructure interactions: The role of cell elasticity and adhesion forces

A Elbourne, J Chapman, A Gelmi, D Cozzolino… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… between single cells, or … , bacterial attachment is thought to occur via an interplay of weak
long-range forces, including electrostatic and van der Waals forces, and hydrophobic cell-…

Adhesion of single bacterial cells in the micronewton range

PH Tsang, G Li, YV Brun… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
… , bacteria are typically attached to surfaces as individual cells or as part of a biofilm. Bacterial
… provide clear advantages for the investigation of the mechanisms of bacterial adhesion. …