The marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata produces target-specific inhibitory compounds against bacteria, algae, fungi and invertebrate larvae and is frequently found in association with living surfaces in the marine environment. This study examined the ability of P. tunicata to form biofilms under continuous culture conditions within the laboratory. P. tunicata biofilms exhibited a characteristic architecture consisting of differentiated microcolonies surrounded by water-channels. Interestingly, a repeatable pattern of cell death in the centre of microcolonies was observed. The antibacterial and autolytic protein, AlpP, produced by P. tunicata was found to be involved in this biofilm killing and a
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/215413 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Mai-Prochnow, Anne Gerda Erna, Biotechnology & Bio-molecular Sciences, UNSW |
| Publisher | Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Biotechnology and Bio-molecular Sciences |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Anne Gerda Erna Mai-Prochnow, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/copyright |
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