{"id":232247,"date":"2026-02-27T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/micro-and-nanoplastics-facilitate-the-propagation-of-antimicrobial-resistance-in-mixed-microbial-consortia"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:10:23","slug":"micro-and-nanoplastics-facilitate-the-propagation-of-antimicrobial-resistance-in-mixed-microbial-consortia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/micro-and-nanoplastics-facilitate-the-propagation-of-antimicrobial-resistance-in-mixed-microbial-consortia","title":{"rendered":"Micro- and nanoplastics facilitate the propagation of antimicrobial resistance in mixed microbial consortia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micro-and-nanoplastics-facilitate-the-propagation-of-antimicrobial-resistance-in-mixed-microbial-consortia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zhen et al. show that micro-\/nanoplastics increase antimicrobial resistance gene abundance and mobilization in mixed microbial consortia. Nanoplastics intensify oxidative stress and SOS responses and strengthen ARG-MGE co-localization, promoting dense horizontal gene transfer networks and turning plastisphere biofilms into resistance hotspots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhen et al. show that micro-\/nanoplastics increase antimicrobial resistance gene abundance and mobilization in mixed microbial consortia. Nanoplastics intensify oxidative stress and SOS responses and strengthen ARG-MGE co-localization, promoting dense horizontal gene transfer networks and turning plastisphere biofilms into resistance hotspots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}