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80% confidenceMES research in bacteria, materials. Abstract Microbes actively release myriad chemicals into the environ...
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Abstract
Abstract Microbes actively release myriad chemicals into the environment. The compounds impact the chemical environment, biological community, and biogeochemical processes in the immediate vicinity of the cell. This entry describes five operationally defined classes of compounds (e.g. extracellular polymeric substances, metallophores, enzymes, signaling compounds, and antibiotics) that are produced and exuded by microbes. These exudates play diverse roles in adhesion, nutrient uptake, intra‐organism interactions, and microbial ecology. In turn, they have macroscale impacts on ecosystem compositions, water resources, biogeochemical processes, and human health.
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- Encyclopedia of Water
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- 2019