Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 29(4), P. 133 - 133
Published: March 29, 2024
Biofilms, which consist of microorganisms enclosed in an extracellular polymeric material (EPS), hold immense importance the fields environmental research, industry, and medicine. They play a significant role ecosystem dynamics stability, but they also pose issues such as biofouling, corrosion, pollution. Biofilms medical environments are linked to persistent infections elevated healthcare expenses. The EPS matrix plays crucial maintaining structural integrity antibiotic resistance these structures. research primarily investigates facilitating horizontal gene transfer among biofilm communities, with particular emphasis on its impact this process. process is recognized pivotal mechanism emergence resistance, underscoring function biofilms. analysis highlights financial constraints caused by biofilms several industries. Biofilm-associated sector result escalated treatment expenses extended hospitalization periods. In industrial context, have increasing maintenance product contamination, emphasizing need for efficient management solutions. This review presents most recent progress utilization sophisticated imaging tools molecular methodologies. addition conventional techniques, explores tools, DNA RNA sequencing, conjunction proteomics. These approaches essential assessing genetic metabolic mechanisms that regulate development resistance. underscores significance employing interdisciplinary methodology study By incorporating range approaches, analysis, comprehensive understanding may be achieved. approach opens up possibilities developing novel solutions address negative impacts health, environment.
Language: Английский