
%0 Journal Article
%A Wicken, AJ 
%A Knox, KW 
%T Variable Nature of the Bacterial Cell Surface
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1984/12/01
%V 37
%N 6
%P 315-322
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9840315
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9840315 
%X Bacterial cell surfaces bear sites involved in bacterial adhesion to and colonization on other surfaces, sites that are immunogenic and sites that act as receptors for DNA and bacteriophage. The chemical natures of bacterial cell surfaces are consequently of great importance in defining many of the interactions of bacterial cells with their environments, whether these interactions involve colonization in natural ecosystems or the aetiology of bacterial disease. 
