Host defenses12 sources
Antimicrobial Metals
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Microorganisms13 sources
Candida albicans
An opportunistic fungal pathogen whose relationship with metals is multifaceted: C. albicans can biosorb heavy metals from its environment, heavy metal exposure promotes its virulence in immunocompromised hosts, and metal nanoparticles are being developed as antifungal …
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Metals8 sources
Gallium
A group 13 post-transition metal (atomic number 31) with no known biological function in any organism — yet one of the most promising antimicrobial metals precisely because of what it cannot do. Ga3+ is nearly identical to Fe3+ in ionic radius (0.62 Å vs 0.645 Å) and co…
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Host defenses12 sources
Inter-Kingdom Metal Shielding
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Metals8 sources
Silver
A non-essential metal with a 5,000-year history of antimicrobial use, silver has re-emerged as a critical tool in the post-antibiotic era. What makes silver particularly interesting from a metallomics perspective is not that it kills bacteria -- many metals do -- but ho…