- An
exopolymer is a
biopolymer that is
secreted by an
organism into the
environment (i.e.
external to the organism).
These exopolymers include the biofilms...
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Transparent exopolymer particles (TEPs) are
extracellular acidic polysaccharides produced by
phytoplankton and
bacteria in sal****er, freshwater, and wastewater...
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phylum Lentisphaerota. They are able to
produce viscous transparent exopolymers and grow
attached to each
other by the
polymer in a three-dimensional...
- AL, P****ow U,
Haddock SH (1998). "The
characteristics and
transparent exopolymer particle (TEP)
content of
marine snow
formed from
thecate dinoflagellates"...
- PMID 17506679.
Joubert LM,
Wolfaardt GM,
Botha A (August 2006). "Microbial
exopolymers link
predator and prey in a
model yeast biofilm system". Microb. Ecol...
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Enterococcus faecalis.
Pathogenic bacteria can also form biofilms,
whose sticky exopolymer matrix could impede C.
elegans motility and
cloaks bacterial quorum sensing...
- M.A.; Schmidt, J.M. (1996). "The
examination of
Seliberia stellata exopolymers using lectin ****ays".
Microbial Ecology. 31 (3): 281–90. doi:10.1007/BF00171572...
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around 100 000 Da)[citation needed]
Marine bacteria use
carbohydrate exopolymers to
achieve bond
strengths to gl**** of up to 500 000 N/m2[citation needed]...
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leakage or
exudation of
fixed carbon from
phytoplankton (e.g.,
mucilaginous exopolymer from diatoms),
sudden cell senescence,
sloppy feeding by zooplankton,...
- the ocean. She
developed a
means to use dyes to
quantify transparent exopolymer particles and went on to
define the
processes forming these particles...
