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Growth Suppression of a Robust Bacterium Methylobacterium extorquens by Porous Materials with Oxygen Functional Groups

Suppressing the growth of Methylobacterium species without the use of toxic chemicals has been a challenging task owing to their robustness against previous antimicrobial techniques. In this work, we prepared porous materials with various numbers and types of oxygen functional groups and investigate...

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Autores principales: Mori, Takeshi, Ogawa, Yuta, Endo, Izuki, Matsushima, Keiichiro, Noda, Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10672207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38004325
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life13112185
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Sumario:Suppressing the growth of Methylobacterium species without the use of toxic chemicals has been a challenging task owing to their robustness against previous antimicrobial techniques. In this work, we prepared porous materials with various numbers and types of oxygen functional groups and investigated their ability to suppress the growth of Methylobacterium extorquens. It turned out that the number and type of oxygen functional groups in the porous materials greatly affected the growth of the bacterium. Three porous materials (resorcinol–formaldehyde gel (RF), hydrothermally treated RF (RFH), and Wakkanai siliceous shale (WS)) were tested, and RF exhibited the best performance in suppressing the growth of the bacterium. This performance is possibly due to abundant phenolic groups in the porous material.