Role of lipid membrane on way of accion of green silver nanoparticles as unconventional antibiotics?.

FERREYRA MAILLARD AP; BEATRIZ A. LOPEZ; DALMASSO PR; DISALVO A, ; HOLLMANN A.

Buenos Aires

Congreso; Sociedad Argentina de Biofísica IIILAFeBS, IX IberoAmerican Congress of Biophysics, XLV SAB Annual Meeting. SAB; 2016

Sociedad Argentina de Biofísica

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are clusters of zero-valentsilver with a size between 1 nm and 100 nm, which are intriguing for showingtheir great ability in terms of numerous functionalities. In this sense,thereis arisingdemandtodevelop?green?syntheticstrategiesforAgNPs that providebiocompatible nanomaterials for pharmaceutical applications.Even,nowadaysAgNPsarebeingconsideredaspotentialnovelnanoan? tibiotics becauseof their outstanding antimicrobial activity, however the exact mechanism ofaction remains to be elucidated.3 In a previ- ouswork,wedemonstratedthatgreenAgNPswereabletointeractwith