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Biofilms 2007: broadened horizons and new emphasesRobert J Palmer
Oral Biofilm Communication Unit, Oral Infections and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 30, Room 310, 30 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Bacteriol 189:7948-60. 2007
Pictures of microbiology -- the biofilm imaging facility under Dr. David C. WhiteRobert J Palmer
Oral Biofilm Communication Unit, Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health Bldg 30, Room 310 30 Convent Drive Bethesda MD 20892, United States
J Microbiol Methods 74:5-9. 2008....
Bacterial interactions and successions during plaque developmentPaul E Kolenbrander
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Periodontol 2000 42:47-79. 2006
Supragingival and subgingival plaque: paradigm of biofilmsRobert J Palmer
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Compend Contin Educ Dent 31:104-6, 108, 110 passim; quiz 124, 138. 2010..The wealth of information on these communities, coupled with their accessibility in their natural state, firmly establishes them as paradigm systems in biofilm research...
Oral multispecies biofilm development and the key role of cell-cell distancePaul E Kolenbrander
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 8:471-80. 2010..In all these aspects distance between cells of different species is integral for oral biofilm growth...
Shear-enhanced oral microbial adhesionAlbert M Ding
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:1294-7. 2010..was noted for Hsa-mediated adhesion of Streptococcus gordonii to sialic acid-containing receptors, an interaction implicated in the pathogenesis of infective endocarditis...
Autoinducer 2: a concentration-dependent signal for mutualistic bacterial biofilm growthAlexander H Rickard
National Institutes of Health, NIDCR, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Mol Microbiol 60:1446-56. 2006..Thus, AI-2 acts as an interspecies signal and its concentration is critical for mutualism between two species of oral bacteria grown under conditions that are representative of the human oral cavity...
Rapid succession within the Veillonella population of a developing human oral biofilm in situRobert J Palmer
Oral Biofilm Communication Unit, Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Building 30, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Bacteriol 188:4117-24. 2006..Changes in community structure can occur very rapidly in natural biofilm development, and we suggest that this process may influence evolution within this ecosystem...
Communication among oral bacteriaPaul E Kolenbrander
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4350, USA
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 66:486-505, table of contents. 2002..A successful search for genes critical for mixed-species community organization will be accomplished only when it is conducted with mixed-species communities...
Genome-genome interactions: bacterial communities in initial dental plaquePaul E Kolenbrander
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20902, USA
Trends Microbiol 13:11-5. 2005..The human oral cavity provides easy access to natural biofilms on a retrievable enamel chip, which is an excellent model for the study of genome-genome interactions...
Autoinducer 2 production by Streptococcus gordonii DL1 and the biofilm phenotype of a luxS mutant are influenced by nutritional conditionsDavid S Blehert
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Bacteriol 185:4851-60. 2003..Thus, the inability to produce AI-2 is associated with altered microcolony architecture within S. gordonii biofilms formed in saliva during a time frame consistent with initial colonization of freshly cleaned enamel surfaces...
Human oral cavity as a model for the study of genome-genome interactionsJamie S Foster
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Building 30, Room 310, 30 Convent Drive MSC 4350, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4350, USA
Biol Bull 204:200-4. 2003..Together, these approaches provide insight into the development of oral biofilms and expand our understanding of genome-genome interactions...
Molecular characterization of subject-specific oral microflora during initial colonization of enamelPatricia I Diaz
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Building 30, Room 310, 30 Convent Dr, Bethesda, MD 20892-4350, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:2837-48. 2006..Repetitive and distinctive community composition within subjects suggests that the spatiotemporal interactions and ecological shifts that accompany biofilm maturation also occur in a subject-dependent manner...
Coaggregation-mediated interactions of streptococci and actinomyces detected in initial human dental plaqueRobert J Palmer
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4350, USA
J Bacteriol 185:3400-9. 2003..Further, these results demonstrate the spatiotemporal development and prevalence of mixed-species communities in early dental plaque...
Interspecies communication in Streptococcus gordonii-Veillonella atypica biofilms: signaling in flow conditions requires juxtapositionPaul G Egland
Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:16917-22. 2004..We provide evidence that, in open systems like those that predominate in natural biofilms, diffusible signals between species are designed to function over short distances, on the order of 1 mum...
Use of quantum dot luminescent probes to achieve single-cell resolution of human oral bacteria in biofilmsNatalia I Chalmers
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:630-6. 2007....
Environmental influences on Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans biofilm formationElaine M Haase
Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, 109 Foster Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
Arch Oral Biol 51:299-314. 2006..In conclusion, strain, growth medium and conditioning film all affect biofilm formation. The RVs produce biofilms of unique architecture that may serve to protect the bacterium from environmental perturbations...
Role of polyphosphate kinase in biofilm formation by Porphyromonas gingivalisWen Chen
Department of Oral Biology, State University of New York, Buffalo 14214, USA
Infect Immun 70:4708-15. 2002..These results suggest that PPK may be important for incorporation of these organisms into subgingival plaque in the human oral cavity...
