This study extracted the soluble microbial products and loosely bound and tightly bound extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from suspended sludge from a membrane bioreactor, original and… (More)
Laspidou and Rittmann (Water Research 36:2711–2720, 2002) proposed that the soluble extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are identical to soluble microbial products (SMP) in sludge liquor. In… (More)
Recombinant Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) was used as a model system to investigate the antimicrobial activities of Ag nanoparticles (NPs). A… (More)
In this paper, we report the generation of Au nanoparticles (NPs), using a pure enzyme for the reduction of AuCl4(-), with the retention of enzymatic activity in the complex. As a model system,… (More)
Annihilation of bacterial biofilms is challenging owing to their formidable resistance to therapeutic antibiotics and thus there is a constant demand for development of potent antibiofilm agents that… (More)
The use of nanoscale materials as bactericidal agents represents a novel paradigm in the development of therapeutics against drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. In this paper the antimicrobial… (More)
Biocompatible organic acids and citrate-stabilized gold nanoparticles were interacted with nisin to generate robust antimicrobial agents, which display archetypical nisin activity even at elevated pH.
In the present study, the adhesion of bacteriocin-producing probiotic strains of Lactobacillus plantarum onto extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as collagen and mucin and their potential to… (More)
An aggregation-induced emission (AIE) active probe (L) displayed TURN-ON fluorescence response toward Al(3+) under physiological conditions and in HeLa cells. The L-Al(3+) ensemble could subsequently… (More)
We have synthesized a new indole functionalized rhodamine derivative L(1) which specifically binds to Cu(2+) in the presence of large excess of other competing ions with visually observable changes… (More)