Enhanced Glutathione Content Allows the In Vivo Synthesis of Fluorescent CdTe Nanoparticles by Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Monrás, Juan P ^a,b,e   Díaz, Víctor ^a,b   Bravo, Denisse ^a   Montes, Rebecca A ^c   Chasteen, Thomas G ^c   Osorio Román, Igor O ^d   Vásquez, Claudio C ^b   Pérez Donoso, José M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CITRATES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TELLURIUM; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84869800759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048657     Document Type: Article

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