Bacteria as workers in the living factory: metal-accumulating bacteria and their potential for materials science.

By T. Klaus-Joerger, Ralph Joerger, E. Olsson, Claes-Goran Granqvist. Trends in Biotechnology, 2001

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Environmental Engineering

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• Extracellular synthesis of silver nanoparticles by a silver-tolerant yeast strain MKY3 (2002, background): “Owing to the reported particle size uniformity in such ‘biosynthetic’ processes and their inherent environmentfriendly nature, there is a renewed interest in biological routes of nanoparticle synthesis (Klaus et al 1999, Klaus-Joerger et al 2001, Schuler et al 1999, Wong and Mann 1998, 1996).”
• Toxicity and Bioremediation of Heavy Metals Contaminated Ecosystem from Tannery Wastewater: A Review (2018, background): “The application of microorganisms as a green approach for the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) has been reported [19].”
• Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Application for Nanomedicine (2019, background): “It is known that microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, play a vital role in remediation of toxic materials by reducing metal ions [40,41].”
• Mechanistic aspects of biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles by several Fusarium oxysporum strains (2005, background): “Conclusion Even though gold/silver nanoparticles have been synthesized using prokaryotes such as bacteria [24,25] and eukaryotes such as fungi [13,14], the nanoparticles grow intracellularly, except in the case of a recent report in which F.”
• The use of microorganisms for the formation of metal nanoparticles and their application (2005, background): “Biocomposites of nanocrystalline silver and the bacteria may be thermally treated to yield a carboneous (cermet) nanomaterial with interesting optical properties for potential application in functional thin-film coating (Joerger et al. 2000; Klaus-Joerger et al. 2001 ).”
• EXTRACELLULAR BIOSYNTHESIS OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES USING ESCHERICHIA COLI ATCC 8739, BACILLUS SUBTILIS ATCC 6633, AND STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS ESH1 AND THEIR ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES (2011, background): “Some microorganisms interact with metal ions reducing them into metallic nanoparticles [6, 9].”
• Green Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles: Applications and Limitations (2021, background): “The interaction between metals and microorganisms have been exploited in the past for various biological applications such as biomineralization, bioremediation, bioleaching, and biocorrosion [91].”