Journal
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 401, Issue 12, Pages 1365-1374Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2020-0213
Keywords
adaptation; microbial biofilms; multicellularity; stress response
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 987]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (TARGET-Biofilms)
- European Research Council [StG-716734]
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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.
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