<p> 1Supplemental materials for Environmental Science and Pollution Research</p><p>2 Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles using fungus Mariannaea sp. HJ and their</p><p>3 catalysis in reduction of 4-nitrophenol</p><p>4 Xiaofang Pei 1, Yuanyuan Qu 1,*, Wenli Shen 1, Huijie Li 3, Xuwang Zhang 1, Shuzhen Li 1,2, Zhaojing</p><p>5 Zhang 1,2, Xuanying Li1</p><p>61 State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental</p><p>7Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian</p><p>8University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China</p><p>92 Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,</p><p>10Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China</p><p>113 Hebei Morlans Environmental Technology Co., Ltd., Shijiazhuang 050035, China</p><p>12</p><p>13*Corresponding author. Tel.: +86-411-84706250; Fax: +86-411-84706252.</p><p>14 E-mail address: [email protected] (Y. Qu).</p><p>1 1 2 15</p><p>16 (a)</p><p>17</p><p>18 (b)</p><p>19Fig. S1 UV-vis spectra of AuNPs synthesized by cells of strain HJ under different conditions.</p><p>20(a) Initial gold ion concentration; (b) pH.</p><p>3 2 4 21</p><p>22 (a)</p><p>23</p><p>24 (b)</p><p>25Fig. S2 UV-vis spectra of AuNPs synthesized by cell-free extracts of strain HJ under different</p><p>26conditions. (a) Initial gold ion concentration; (b) pH.</p><p>5 3 6 27</p><p>28 (a)</p><p>29</p><p>30 (b)</p><p>31Fig. S3 Time-dependent UV-vis spectra for the reduction of 4-NP catalyzed by cell-AuNPs (a)</p><p>32and extracts-AuNPs (b).</p><p>7 4 8</p><p>33</p><p>34(a) (b)</p><p>35Fig. S4 The antimicrobial activities of biosynthesized AuNPs to (a) Escherichia coli BL21</p><p>36(DE3) and (b) Arthrobacter sp. W1 using paper disc diffusion method.</p><p>9 5 10</p>