Modification of fatty acids in membranes of bacteria: Implication for an adaptive mechanism to the toxicity of carbon nanotubes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4086-4095

  Zhu, Baotong ^a   Xia, Xinghui ^a   Xia, Na ^a   Zhang, Shangwei ^b   Guo, Xuejun ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CHAINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUIDITY; INDUSTRIAL POISONS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SATURATED FATTY ACIDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TOXICITY; UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; LONG SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); STAPHYLOCCOCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA;

ALIGNED MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; CARBON NANOTUBE; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; LONG SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SHORT CARBOXYL SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; SHORT SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BACTERIUM; CARBON; CYTOPLASM; FATTY ACID; MEMBRANE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OCHROBACTRUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84897508064     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es404359v     Document Type: Article

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