Titanium dioxide-assisted photocatalytic induction of prophages to lytic cycle.
Photochem Photobiol Sci
; 10(12): 1974-8, 2011 Dec.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22057553
The investigations on the kinetics of photocatalytic inactivation of bacteriophages, lactic bacteria and lysogenic lactic bacteria have shown that the rate of bacterial inactivation is ca. 10 times less than the inactivation of bacteriophages. Titania-assisted photorelease of bacteriophages from lysogenic bacteria proves that photogenerated reactive oxygen species affect the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of bacteria before their deactivation. On this basis a novel photocatalytic method of a prophage induction to the lytic cycle and detection of lysogenic bacteria is proposed.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Titanio
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Profagos
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Photochem Photobiol Sci
Asunto de la revista:
BIOLOGIA
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QUIMICA
Año:
2011
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido