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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2021

Microbial Fabrication of Nanomaterial and Its Role in Disintegration of Exopolymeric Matrices of Biofilm.

Moupriya Nag, Dibyajit Lahiri, Tanmay Sarkar, Sujay Ghosh, Ankita Dey, Hisham Atan Edinur, Siddhartha Pati, Rina Rani Ray

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Moupriya NagDepartment of Biotechnology, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India.
Dibyajit LahiriDepartment of Biotechnology, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India.
Tanmay SarkarDepartment of Food Technology and Bio-Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Sujay GhoshAMH Energy Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India.
Ankita DeyDepartment of Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Haringhata, India.
Hisham Atan EdinurSchool of Health Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Siddhartha PatiCentre of Excellence, Khallikote University, Berhampur, India.
Rina Rani RayDepartment of Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Haringhata, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial biofilms are responsible for the development of various chronic wound-related and implant-mediated infections and confer protection to the pathogenic bacteria against antimicrobial drugs and host immune responses. Hence, biofilm-mediated chronic infections have created a tremendous burden upon healthcare systems worldwide. The development of biofilms upon the surface of medical implants has resulted in the failure of various implant-based surgeries and therapies. Although different conventional chemical and physical agents are used as antimicrobials, they fail to kill the sessile forms of bacterial pathogens due to the resistance exerted by the exopolysaccharide (EPS) matrices of the biofilm. One of the major techniques used in addressing such a problem is to directly check the biofilm formation by the use of novel antibiofilm materials, local drug delivery, and device-associated surface modifications, but the success of these techniques is still limited. The immense expansion in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology has resulted in the development of novel nanomaterials as biocidal agents that can be either easily integrated within biomaterials to prevent the colonization of microbial cells or directly approach the pathogen overcoming the biofilm matrix. The antibiofilm efficacies of these nanomaterials are accomplished by the generation of oxidative stresses and through alterations of the genetic expressions. Microorganism-assisted synthesis of nanomaterials paved the path to success in such therapeutic approaches and is found to be more acceptable for its "greener" approach. Metallic nanoparticles functionalized with microbial enzymes, silver-platinum nanohybrids (AgPtNHs), bacterial nanowires, superparamagnetic iron oxide (Fe

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antibiofilmbioprospectingexopolysaccharidemedical devicesmicrobial nanomaterialsnanotechnology

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PMID34109159
PMCPMC8181132

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