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. 2012 Nov 13;109(46):18633-4.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1215227109. Epub 2012 Nov 1.

Turning death into creative force during biofilm engineering

Daniel Schultz  1 , José N Onuchic, Eshel Ben-Jacob
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Turning death into creative force during biofilm engineering

Daniel Schultz et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Image of 3D reconstruction of the bacterial biofilm made by Vibrio cholerae. Bacterial cells (blue) attach to surfaces with a gluelike protein (green) and cement themselves together with another protein (gray). The bacterial clusters then cover themselves with a protective shell (red) made of proteins and sugar molecules (8). (Image courtesy of Veysel Berk.) Reprinted with permission from AAAS (6).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Illustration showing how localized cell death (dark blue) can release lateral pressures and attract living cells (blue) to the vicinity of the dead cells. The resulting displacement generates the buckling and the wrinkle. As in Fig. 1, ECM is shown in green, red, and gray.
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