Nanoalumina promotes the horizontal transfer of multiresistance genes mediated by plasmids across genera

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4944-4949

  Qiu, Zhigang ^a   Yu, Yunmei ^a,b   Chen, Zhaoli ^a   Jin, Min ^a   Yang, Dong ^a   Zhao, Zuguo ^a   Wang, Jingfeng ^a   Shen, Zhiqiang ^a   Wang, Xinwei ^a   Qian, Di ^c   Huang, Aihua ^a   Zhang, Buchang ^c   Li, Jun Wen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (China)

^b 422nd Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army   (China)

^c ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Conjugative transfer frequency; Ecological safety; Mating system; Oxidative stress response

Indexed keywords

NANOALUMINA; NANOMATERIAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMONELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84859467107     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107254109     Document Type: Article

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