Role of flagella in adhesion of Pseudomonas fluorescens to tendon slices.
AUTOR(ES)
Piette, J P
RESUMO
Tendon slices were used as model surfaces to investigate the role of flagella in the adhesion of Pseudomonas fluorescens to meat. The slices were introduced into a specially designed flow chamber, which was then filled with a suspension of the organism, and the tendon surface was observed at a x640 magnification. The same events that occur during the colonization of glass surfaces (apical adhesion of cells with rotation around the contact point, longitudinal adhesion, detachment of apically and longitudinally adherent cells) were also observed on tendon. Mechanical removal of the flagella resulted in no change in the contact angles with 0.1 M saline or alpha-bromonaphthalene, in the electrophoretic mobility, or in the adhesion of the organism to hydrophobic and ion-exchange resins. In addition, cells from which flagella had been mechanically removed still adhered extensively to tendon. Nevertheless, under comparable conditions (bacterial concentration, contact time), flagellated cells adhered to tendon in larger numbers than did deflagellated cells. This was entirely due to the ability of the motile flagellated cells to reach tendon in greater numbers than deflagellated cells.
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