Interestingly, the CDs exhibited no toxicity in most cases, and in fact facilitated bacteria growth.
Since the early 1970s, water quality and treatment issues related to NOM have been reported, where these substances in natural water facilitated bacteria reproduction during drinking water distribution and produced harmful disinfection by-products (DBP), such as trihalomethanes (THMs), during chlorination process.
They might also be involved in bacterial-fungal interactions, facilitating bacteria migration along fungal hyphae [ 20].
Earlier studies have suggested that the topography of bacterial contact surface plays an important role in facilitating bacteria adhesion and biofilm formation [ 28– 328.
The rationale was that if the bacteria-α-HL collisions were controlled, among others, by the repulsive electrostatic interactions manifested at the negatively charged lumen entrance of the nanopore, a partial neutralization of these charges would facilitate bacteria-α-HL association.
The high hydrophobicity of most strains isolated in this prospecting study could facilitate bacteria-host cells interactions and improve antigen delivering to the immune cells present in the gastrointestinal associated lymphoid tissue (GALT).
For bacteria, it is known that the properties of chemotaxis towards the substrate facilitate the bacteria's access to the surface of solid particles that have elevated chemical concentrations (Van Loosdrecht et al. 1990; Leglize et al. 2008), and a positive relationship between atrazine concentrations and access to the pool of sorbed atrazine was previously observed in Park et al. (2003).
H. influenzae, another common respiratory pathogen, has been shown to produce ciliotoxic substances that facilitate the bacteria's colonization of respiratory epithelium.
To facilitate the bacteria toxin identifications, which are traditionally achieved by costly and time-consuming experimental methods, developing a high throughput method to rapidly and accurately identify bacterial toxins is an urgent need.
The capacity to agglutinate bacteria may facilitate shedding of bacteria in vaginal secretions and thus may be another important effector function of antibodies.
