Programming Surface Motility and Modulating Physiological Behaviors of Bacteria via Biosurfactant-Mimetic Polyurethanes
Zixi Chen, Apoorva Vishwakarma, Abraham Joy · 2024
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Description
Bacteria crawl and twitch across surfaces, and that motion steers how much useful slime they make. Zixi Chen, Apoorva Vishwakarma, and Abraham Joy steer that motion with soap-like plastics in a 2024 study. Their plastics mimic the soaps bacteria make for themselves, in water-friendly chains.
One plastic, bearing acid groups, boosted swarming seventeenfold and twitching eightyfold in a key species. A sister plastic with amine groups cut swarming by more than half. The acid type also wet the growth gel fully, so cells spread and made more slime and soap. Mixed use of the two let the team print migration patterns. The platform could shape living materials grown to order.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zixi Chen, Apoorva Vishwakarma, Abraham Joy |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |