Impacts of silver nanoparticles on cellular and transcriptional activity of nitrogen-cycling bacteria

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1488-1494

  Yang, Yu ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Xiu, Zongming ^a   Alvarez, Pedro J J ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Dissolution; Gene expression; Nitrogen cycle; Silver nanoparticle

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN CYCLES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES (AGNPS); TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AGGLOMERATION; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NANOPARTICLES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; TOXICITY;

SILVER;

AMMONIA; SILVER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

AGGREGATION; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITOR; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITROGEN CYCLE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SILVER; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; LETHALITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

DENITRIFICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SILVER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 84878684779     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2230     Document Type: Article

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