Elucidating the genetic basis for Escherichia coli defense against silver toxicity using mutant arrays

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 993-997

  Xiu, Zongming ^a   Liu, Yuanyuan ^b   Mathieu, Jacques ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Zhu, Dongqiang ^c   Alvarez, Pedro J J ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Antimicrobial; Extracellular polymeric substances; Mutants; Silver

Indexed keywords

CLONE CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; REPAIR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ADAPTATION; ANTIMICROBIAL; BACTERIAL ADAPTATIONS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EXTRA-CELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; MUTANTS; PROTECTIVE BARRIER; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

SILVER;

SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ADAPTATION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARRAY; CELL ORGANELLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMOBILIZATION; MUTATION; NITRATE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMER; PROTEIN; SILVER; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADAPTATION; ANTIMICROBIAL; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; MUTANTS; SILVER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SILVER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 84898809004     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2514     Document Type: Article

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