Identification of gold nanoparticle-resistant mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae suggests a role for respiratory metabolism in mediating toxicity

  • Mark R. Smith
  • , Matthew G. Boenzli
  • , Vihangi Hindagolla
  • , Jun Ding
  • , John M. Miller
  • , James E. Hutchison
  • , Jeffrey A. Greenwood
  • , Hagai Abeliovich
  • , Alan T. Bakalinsky*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Positively charged gold nanoparticles (0.8-nm core diameter) reduced yeast survival, but not growth, at a concentration of 10 to 100 μg/ml. Among 17 resistant deletion mutants isolated in a genome-wide screen, highly significant enrichment was observed for respiration-deficient mutants lacking genes encoding proteins associated with the mitochondrion.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)728-733
Number of pages6
JournalApplied and Environmental Microbiology
Volume79
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2013

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