%A Soniya Dhanjal
%A Swaranjit Singh Cameotra
%O OPEN ACCESS
%J Microbial cell factories
%T Aerobic biogenesis of selenium nanospheres by Bacillus cereus isolated from coalmine soil.
%X This bacterial isolate has the potential to be used as a bionanofactory for the synthesis of stable, nearly monodisperse Se 0 nanoparticles as well as for detoxification of the toxic selenite anions in the environment. A hypothetical mechanism for the biogenesis of selenium nanoparticles (SNs) involving membrane associated reductase enzyme(s) that reduces selenite (SeO3(2-)) to Se 0 through electron shuttle enzymatic metal reduction process has been proposed.
%P 52
%V 9
%D 2010
%I BIomedcentral
%L open507