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The ever-increasing interest in microbial biofilm research stems primarily from high resistance of biofilm microorganisms to stresses and biocidal agents, which hampers disinfection of medical equipment and chemotherapy of infectious diseases. Many researchers concentrate therefore of the search for compounds with antibiofilm activity. At the same time, microbial biofilms may be of biotechnological importance, i.e., in wastewater treatment and in biosynthesis of biologically active compounds (Nozhevnikova et al., 2015). Search for probiofilm compounds stimulating growth of microbial biofilms and the biosynthetic processes occurring in them attracts, however, much less attention (Plakunov et al., 2017).