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A process whereby microorganisms irreversibly attach to and grow on a surface and produce extracellular polymers that facilitate attachment and matrix formation, resulting in an alteration in the phenotype of the organisms with respect to growth rate and gene transcription. The attachment of a cell to a surface, via cell adhesion molecules, contributing to the formation of a biofilm. A process whereby microorganisms of different species attach to and grow on a surface and produce extracellular polymers that facilitate attachment and matrix formation, resulting in an alteration in the phenotype of the organisms with respect to growth rate and gene transcription. The attachment of a cell, either to another cell or to an underlying substrate such as the extracellular matrix, via cell adhesion molecules. The attachment of a cell to a surface, via cell adhesion molecules, contributing to the formation of a biofilm composed of microorganisms of different species. An interaction between two organisms living together in more or less intimate association. The term host is usually used for the larger (macro) of the two members of a symbiosis. The smaller (micro) member is called the symbiont organism. Microscopic symbionts are often referred to as endosymbionts. The various forms of symbiosis include parasitism, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms; mutualism, in which the association is advantageous, or often necessary to one or both and not harmful to either; and commensalism, in which one member of the association benefits while the other is not affected. However, mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism are often not discrete categories of interactions and should rather be perceived as a continuum of interaction ranging from parasitism to mutualism. In fact, the direction of a symbiotic interaction can change during the lifetime of the symbionts due to developmental changes as well as changes in the biotic/abiotic environment in which the interaction occurs.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: cell adhesion involved in multi-species biofilm formation
Acc: GO:0043710
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The attachment of a cell to a surface, via cell adhesion molecules, contributing to the formation of a biofilm composed of microorganisms of different species.
Synonyms:
  • cell adhesion during multi-species biofilm formation
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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   Term or descendants: 4 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0043710 - cell adhesion involved in multi-species biofilm formation (interactive image map)
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