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Diazotrophic cyanobacteria Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, four Nostoc strains, and two Azotobacter species (A. vinelandii and A. chroococcum) were found to produce gold nanoparticles (GNP) under nitrogen fixation conditions. GNP biogenesis occurred at AuHCl4 concentrations from 0.1 to 1 mM. In the cultures of unicellular cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 and Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 incapable of nitrogen fixation, no GNP were formed at the same concentrations of gold salts. The plasmon resonance band peak was located at 552 nm. This position is characteristic of spherical GNP 10 to 30 nm in size. Small amounts of GNP were also formed in the culture liquid supernatants of the tested nitrogen-fixing bacteria at AuHCl4 concentrations from 0.25 to 0.5 mM.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Radtsig, O.A. Koksharova, V.A. Nadtochenko, I.A. Khmel’, 2016, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2016, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 42–49.
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Radtsig, M.A., Koksharova, O.A., Nadtochenko, V.A. et al. Production of gold nanoparticles by biogenesis using bacteria. Microbiology 85, 63–70 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261716010094
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