Elucidating Protein Involvement in the Stabilization of the Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles.

ABSTRACT: Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been broadly used as antibacterial and antiviral agents. Further, interests for green AgNP synthesis have increased in recent years and several results for AgNP biological synthesis have been reported using bacteria, fungi and plant extracts. The understanding of the role and nature of fungal proteins, their interaction with AgNPs and the subsequent stabilization of nanosilver is yet to be deeply investigated. Therefore, in an attempt to better understand biogenic AgNP stabilization with the extracellular fungal proteins and to describe these supramolecular interactions between proteins and silver nanoparticles, AgNPs, produced extracellularly by Aspergillus tubingensis-isolated as an endophytic fungus from Rizophora mangle-were characterized in order to s

SUBMITTER: Ballottin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4927534 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature