Multicellular and unicellular responses of microbial biofilms to stress.

Multicellular and unicellular responses of microbial biofilms to stress. Biol Chem. 2020 Sep 01;: Authors: Rode DKH, Singh PK, Drescher K Abstract Biofilms are a ubiquitous mode of microbial life and display an increased tolerance to different stresses. Inside biofilms, cells may experience both externally applied stresses and internal stresses that emerge as a result of growth in spatially structured communities. In this review, we discuss the spatial scales of different stresses in the context of biofilms, and if cells in biofilms respond to these stresses as a collection of individual cells, or if there are multicellular properties associated with the response. Understanding the organizational level of stress responses in microbial communities can help to clarify multicellular functions of biofilms. PMID: 32990640 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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