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BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 111, Issue 5, Pages 858-865Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25147
Keywords
tellurium; nanomaterial; Shewanella oneidensis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; pyoverdine; antivirulence
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- National Research Foundation
- Ministry of Education Singapore
- Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) [M4330005.C70]
- Sustainable Earth Office, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [M4081178.030.500000]
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While antibiotic resistance in bacteria is rapidly increasing, the development of new antibiotics has decreased in recent years. Antivirulence drugs disarming rather than killing pathogens have been proposed to alleviate the problem of resistance inherent to existing biocidal antibiotics. Here, we report a nontoxic biogenic nanomaterial as a novel antivirulence agent to combat bacterial infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We synthesized, in an environmentally benign fashion, tellurium nanorods (TeNRs) using the metal-reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, and found that the biogenic TeNRs could effectively inhibit the production of pyoverdine, one of the most important virulence factors in P. aeruginosa. Our results suggest that amyloids and extracellular polysaccharides Pel and Psl are not involved in the interactions between P. aeruginosa and the biogenic TeNRs, while flagellar movement plays an important role in the cell-TeNRs interaction. We further showed that the TeNRs (up to 100 mu g/mL) did not exhibit cytotoxicity to human bronchial epithelial cells and murine macrophages. Thus, biogenic TeNRs hold promise as a novel antivirulence agent against P. aeruginosa. Biotechnol. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2014;111: 858-865. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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