鞭毛介导的运动性与细菌生物膜的相互关系

摘要:由于运动缺陷型细菌形成生物膜的能力会下降，长期以来细菌的运动性都被认为与生物膜的形成呈正相关，但这一理论现在证明还有待商榷，而且运动性不是影响膜形成的绝对因素。本文详细介绍了细菌的生物膜和运动性，并重新定义了两者的相互关系。

Relationship between flagella-dependent motility and biofilm in bacteria - A review

Abstract: Motility was considered to be closely related with biofilm formation positively for a long time because the ability of biofilm formation would be decreased in the motility-defective bacteria. Moreover, the results of defective mutants of flagella and some other regulated proteins suggested that the relationship between motility and biofilm was diverse in different bacteria. Factors other than motility could influence the development of biofilms as well. Namely, motility is not the only determining factor for biofilm formation. Here, we described bacterial biofilm and motility in detail and evaluated their correlation.