Table 1.

List of microorganisms known to produced different nanoparticles modified from [13,16].

Microorganisms	Type of Nanoparticles
Bacteria
Bacillus subtilis	Ag
Pseudomonas stutzeri	Ag, Au
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Au
Shewanella algae	Au
Shewanella oneidensis	Uranium (IV)
Lactobacillus strains	Au, Ag, Au-Ag alloy, TiO2
Clostridium thermoaceticum	CdS
Klebsiella aerogenes	CdS, Ag
Escherichia coli	CdS, Au
Rhodopseudomonas capsulata	Au
Desulfobacteriaceae	ZnS
Rhodococcus strains	Au
Yeast
Candida glabrata	CdS
Torulopsis sp.	PbS
Schizosaccharomyces pombe	CdS
S. cerevisiae	Sb2O3, TiO2
Fungi
Verticillium sp.	Ag, Au
Fusarium oxysporum	Ag, Au, Au-Ag alloy, CdS
Colletotrichum sp.	Au
Aspergillus fumigatus	Ag
Trichoderma asperellum	Ag
Phaenerochaete chrysosporium	Ag
Schizosaccharomyces cerevisiae	Au
Yarrowia lipolytica	Au
Torulopsis sp.	PbS
Candida glubrata	CdS
Actinomycetes
Rhodococcus sp.	Au
Thermomonospora sp.	Au
Algae
Chlorella vulgaris	Au
Phaeodactylum tricornutum	CdS
Sargassum wightii	Au