Silver nanoparticle enhanced silver ion stress response in Escherichia coli K12

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 857-866

  McQuillan, Jonathan S ^a   Groenaga Infante, Heidi ^b   Stokes, Emma ^b   Shaw, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b LGC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive stress response; Escherichia coli; Real time PCR; Silver nanoparticles; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

COPPER ION; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILVER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84869025796     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2011.626532     Document Type: Article

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