Mechanisms of gold bioaccumulation by filamentous cyanobacteria from gold(III)-chloride complex

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 6304-6309

  Lengke, Maggy F ^a   Ravel, Bruce ^b   Fleet, Michael E ^a   Wanger, Gregory ^a   Gordon, Robert A ^c   Southam, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COMPLEXATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLUTIONS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

BIOACCUMULATION; CELL SURFACES; CYANOBACTERIA;

GOLD;

CHLORIDE; GOLD; GOLD CHLORIDE COMPLEX; GOLD COMPLEX; GOLD SULFIDE COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGAE; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COMPLEXATION; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLUTIONS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOACCUMULATION; CHLORIDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GOLD; LABORATORY METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REAL TIME;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METAL BINDING; NANOPARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PLECTONEMA; PLECTONEMA BORYANUM UTEX485; PRECIPITATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

CYANOBACTERIA; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; TIME FACTORS;

CYANOBACTERIA; LEPTOLYNGBYA BORYANA;

EID: 33750323346     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061040r     Document Type: Article

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