The extracellular DNA lattice of bacterial biofilms is structurally related to Holliday junction recombination intermediates

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Dec 10;116(50):25068-25077.

Devaraj A¹, Buzzo JR¹, Mashburn-Warren L¹, Gloag ES², Novotny LA¹, Stoodley P^{2, 3, 4}, Bakaletz LO^{1, 5}, Goodman SD^{5, 6}.

1. Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205.
2. Department of Orthopedics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.
3. Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.
4. National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
5. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210.
6. Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205; steven.goodman@nationwidechildrens.org.

Presented by Aishwarya Devaraj