Molecular Mechanisms of Nanomaterial-Bacterial Interactions Revealed by Omics-The Role of Nanomaterial Effect Level.

ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology is employed across a wide range of antibacterial applications in clinical settings, food, pharmaceutical and textile industries, water treatment and consumer goods. Depending on type and concentration, engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) can also benefit bacteria in myriad contexts including within the human body, in biotechnology, environmental bioremediation, wastewater treatment, and agriculture. However, to realize the full potential of nanotechnology across broad applications, it is necessary to understand conditions and mechanisms of detrimental or beneficial effects of ENMs to bacteria. To study ENM effects, bacterial population growth or viability are commonly assessed. However, such endpoints alone may be insufficiently sensitive to fully probe ENM effects on bacterial

SUBMITTER: Mortimer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8236600 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature