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Natural Products: Alternate Therapeutic as Quorum Sensing (QS) Inhibitors

Natural Products: Alternate Therapeutic as Quorum Sensing (QS) Inhibitors

Hardcover

Series: Confluence of Research in Biotechnology for Human Welfare

Biology

ISBN10: 1032292385
ISBN13: 9781032292380
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: Dec 1 2023
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Microbial biofilm plays an important role in the life cycle of microorganisms surviving in diverse and harsh environments such as extremes of temperatures, pH, salinity, nutrient scarcity etc. Biofilm formation is a survival strategy adopted by microorganisms allowing colonization in new niches by dispersal of microbes from the microbial clusters embedded within an outer polymer layer produced by the microorganism itself. This layer comprises of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that helps the indwelling microbes to grow and divide in a protected environment against invaders like antimicrobial agents, surfactant, biocides and phagocytic cells of host organisms. Thus, EPS matrix prevents the penetration of antimicrobials thereby allowing the indwelling microbes to survive and give rise to antimicrobial resistance posing threat to human health.

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