Marco Tilotta

TL;DR: The described ability of cold-adapted bacteria to produce effective anti-biofilm molecules paves the way to further characterization of the most promising molecules and to test their use in combination with conventional antibiotics.

TL;DR: An efficient activity-guided purification protocol was described which allowed us to purify this anti-biofilm molecule and structurally characterize it by NMR and mass spectrometry analyses, demonstrating that it is pentadecanal, a long-chain fatty aldehyde, whose anti-S.

TL;DR: The self-assembled amphiphilic layers formed by two fungal hydrophobins have proven to be able to reduce the biofilm formed by different strains of S. epidermidis on polystyrene surfaces.

TL;DR: This protein could be developed as a potential “antipathogenic agent” capable to impair the ability of S. aureus to form biofilm on prostheses, catheters and medical devices, exploiting a mechanism different from the proteolytic activity.