ArticleNPJ biofilms and microbiomes2024
Secreted nucleases reclaim extracellular DNA during biofilm development.
Article in NPJ biofilms and microbiomes, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The role of extracellular DNA inJournal of bacteriology · 2026Review
- A metabolite morphogen coordinates multicellular development inScience advances · 2026Article
- CApEsid biOfilm: a suggested pipeline for clinical phage microbiology for biofilm infections based on comparative method study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Transcriptional and cellular reprogramming inCurrent research in microbial sciences · 2026Article
- Translating microbial knowledge into clinical biofilm therapies.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2026Review
- Modern therapeutic strategies to mitigate biofilm-associated infection in livestock organisms.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2025Review
- Targeting Bacterial Biofilms on Medical Implants: Current and Emerging Approaches.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Towards EffectiveInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- A promiscuous Bcd amino acid dehydrogenase promotes biofilm development in Bacillus subtilis.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Article
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Abstract
DNA is the genetic code found inside all living cells and its molecular stability can also be utilized outside the cell. While extracellular DNA (eDNA) has been identified as a structural polymer in bacterial biofilms, whether it persists stably throughout development remains unclear. Here, we report that eDNA is temporarily invested in the biofilm matrix before being reclaimed later in development. Specifically, by imaging eDNA dynamics within undomesticated Bacillus subtilis biofilms, we found eDNA is produced during biofilm establishment before being globally degraded in a spatiotemporally coordinated pulse. We identified YhcR, a secreted Ca
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