Communication

Chem. Commun., 2009, 1222 - 1224, DOI: 10.1039/b818652a

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Nanotubes connected to a micro-tank: hybrid micro-/nano-silica architectures transcribed from living bacteria as bioreactors

Fuke Wang and Chuanbin Mao

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Hybrid micro-/nano-silica architectures made of bacterial-body-templated silica shell attached with fimbriae-templated silica nanotubes were prepared by using living fimbriaed bacteria E. Coli TG1 as templates, which can function as individual bioreactors to catalyze the hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl--D-galactopyranoside to form p-nitrophenol due to the presence of an intracellular enzyme.

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