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Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma
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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Carbon dots (CQDs) have been widely investigated as prime candidates for developing a tumor theranostic platform due to their tunable fluorescence emission and excitation, high water solubility, good photostability, and biocompatibility. Among the CQDs, natural CQDs are an emerging class of nanomaterials in the carbon family. Herein, highly fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) were synthesized from orange juice using a one-step hydrothermal method and characterized by different techniques. After that, CQD/Ag heterostructures were synthesized by the reduction of silver salt, in particular silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ) solution using sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 ) in different ratios. The photostability and characterization of CQD/Ag heterostructures were investigated. At last, a comparative cellular toxicity measurement was done to select the superior CQD/Ag heterostructure in the human colorectal carcinoma (HCT 116) cell line along with the imaging property. The detailed cell death signaling was also observed in the HCT 116 cell line via the ROS-dependent mitochondrial-mediated pathway, where Akt (RAC-α serine/threonine-protein kinase) played a important role.
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Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) were synthesized from orange juice by a one-step hydrothermal method and converted into CQD/Ag heterostructures. Sample 5 at 6 μg/mL induced >60% death in HCT 116 colorectal carcinoma cells via ROS-dependent mitochondrial apoptosis and also showed fluorescence imaging potential.
Key findings
- CQDs showed UV absorption at 271 nm and photoluminescence emission at 467 nm with excitation at 415.8 nm; TEM gave an average diameter of ~12 nm and amorphous character, while CQD/Ag heterostructures had an average diameter of ~10 nm and crystalline HRTEM features.
- CQD/Ag heterostructures (samples 1–5) showed surface plasmon resonance around 450 nm; TCSPC lifetimes decreased across samples 1–5, with T1 = 2.24, 2.17, 2.08, 1.99, and 1.96 ns and T2 = 8.96, 8.69, 8.34, 7.96, and 7.86 ns, respectively.
- Under 4 h UV exposure, samples degraded by a maximum of 37% and a minimum of 29%, which the authors describe as promising for cellular imaging.
- MTT assays showed sample 5 at 6 μg/mL induced >60% HCT 116 cell death (p < 0.01), whereas samples 1–4 required 20, 18, 14, and 12 μg/mL, respectively; Annexin-V/PI flow cytometry showed 24.3% apoptotic cells after 12 h (14.8% early, 9.5% late) and 46.4% after 24 h (22.8% early, 23.6% late), with only 2.2% necrotic cells at 12 h. Caspase 3 and 9 activity increased significantly (p < 0.01), and cytochrome c increased while Bcl2 and Akt decreased.
Methods
- CQDs were synthesized by mixing orange juice with 2-propanol and heating at 120 °C for 2.5 h; CQD/Ag heterostructures were made by reducing AgNO3 with NaBH4 in different ratios at 120 °C for 2.5 h, yielding samples 1–5.
- Characterization included UV–vis, photoluminescence, FTIR, TEM/HRTEM/SAED, FESEM-EDX elemental mapping, TCSPC, and photostability measurements.
- In vitro studies used HCT 116, HEK 293, and BJ-5ta cells with MTT assay, Annexin-V FITC/PI flow cytometry, confocal live-cell imaging, H2DCFDA ROS detection, caspase 3/9 activity assays, and immunofluorescence for BCL2, AKT, and cytochrome c; statistical significance was assessed by ANOVA with p < 0.05.
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- Evident from the text: all anticancer and imaging findings are in vitro only, using HCT 116, HEK 293, and BJ-5ta cell lines, with no in vivo animal or clinical data.
- The text contains minor inconsistencies, such as referring to “lemon juice” in the synthesis section despite using orange juice, and stating that 6 μg/mL of sample 4 was tested in HEK 293 cells while the selected optimal sample was sample 5.
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“8.96, 8.69, 8.34, 7.96, and 7.86 ns are the corresponding lifetimes associated with samples 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively.”
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“The photoluminescence spectra (Figure 1B) of CQDs reflected a prominent emission peak at 467 nm with an excitation wavelength of 415.8 nm.”
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“The results further portrayed a gradual increase in both caspases’ activity with increasing drug concentration.”
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“In the present study, the data depicted a significant amount of reduction in Bcl2 level in the treated groups in comparison with untreated HCT 116 cells (p < 0.05).”
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“administration of a lower concentration of sample 5 (0, 2, and 4 μg/mL) was not able to induce a significant amount of cell death within a 24 h experimental tenure.”
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“Herein, highly fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) were synthesized from orange juice using a one-step hydrothermal method and characterized by different techniques.”
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“In the current analysis, the data clearly showed a significant amount of reduction of the Akt level in the treated group of cells, especially in the 12 and 24 h sample 5-administered groups.”
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“A similar analysis with noncancerous HEK 293 cells evidently demonstrated that 6 μg/mL of sample 4 administration induces a very negligible [>10%] (p < 0.01) amount of cell death (Figure 6C).”
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“but above 12 μg/mL the heterostructure exhibits cell death.”
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“The high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) images of single particles are amorphous in nature.”
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“while samples 1, 2, 3, and 4 displayed similar effects at notably higher concentrations of 20, 18, 14, and 12 μg/mL, respectively (p < 0.01).”
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“The intensity of the greenish-blue emission decreased for the CQD/Ag heterostructure with no change in peak position.”
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“The data displayed a surface plasmon resonance peak at 450 nm, which is consistent with the results obtained by Hyosung Choi et al.52”
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“No other elements were observed in the results of elemental analysis; hence, it proves that the sample was prepared in pure.”
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“In the case of the CQD/Ag heterostructure (Figure 1F), a sharp peak centered at 1650 cm–1 was also obtained. The appearance of a broad peak centered at 3300–3500 cm–1 (O–H vibrational stretch), a sharp peak at 1708 cm–1 (C=O vibrational stretch), and peaks at 1081 and 1043 cm–1 (C–O–C/C–O vibrational stretch) suggested the existence of carboxylate and hydroxyl groups on the surfaces.”
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“MTT analysis suggested that administration of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 μg/mL concentrations of samples 1–5 for 24 h can induce more than 50% of cell death”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
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“Meanwhile, in the morphological investigation as shown in Figure 3A, the TEM images of CQDs prepared from the orange juice extract reveal that they had uniform dispersion without apparent aggregation and all of them are spherical in shape.”
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“Confocal microscopical analysis portrayed a significant increase in cytochrome c level and its cytoplasmic localization after 12 h of sample 5 treatment, while the increase was extremely high after 24 h of treatment schedule.”
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“Annexin-V/PI staining followed by flow-cytometric study demonstrated 24.3% (14.8% early apoptotic and 9.5% late apoptotic) cells after 12 h of drug administration, whereas only 2.2% of the cell population were in the necrotic quadrate.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Exploration of Cell Death at the Lowest Effective Dose of Sample 5 in Colon Cancer Cells
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“The absorbance plots of all of the samples in Figure 5 A–E showed that the absorbance center wavelength and the absorbance peak remained unaffected, whereas the absorbance intensity reduced to less than 40% after 4 h of exposure compared to the native intensity.”
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“In addition, CQDs showed a broad band in between 3300 and 3500 cm–1 due to the O–H stretching vibration and three sharp peaks at 1708, 1081, and 1043 cm–1 assigned to C=O, C–O–-C, and C–O stretching vibrations, which confirmed the existence of carboxylate and hydroxyl groups on the surfaces.”
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“Here the “O” atom assigned to the surface-adsorbed oxygen arose from the experimental sample preparation condition.”
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“In our study, the results depicted that administration of our drug suppresses cell survivability in a significant manner.”
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“In Figure 3C, the TEM images of the CQD/Ag heterostructure prepared from the orange juice extract reveal that they have uniform dispersion without apparent aggregation and all of them are spherical in shape.”
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“Additionally, it had been observed that the intensity of the Ag atom in the images gradually increases with increasing Ag concentration, which further confirmed the enhancement of Ag from sample 2 to sample 5.”
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“its colocalization with Mitotracker Orange, a fluorescence marker specialized for denoting mitochondria, and sample 5 indicated a significant level of mitochondrial penetrance of the said CQD (Figure 9) as compared with the control HEK 293 cells (Figure 6C).”
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“Surprisingly, our results also showed an unaltered control cell population and did not show any significant effect on the HEK 293 cell line.”
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“From the figure, it is found that the SPR peak was at around 450 nm for all of the samples, which confirmed the proposed CQD/Ag heterostructure formation.”
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“Several studies show augmented expression of antiapoptotic proteins like Akt, PKC, and Bcl2 in colorectal cancer tumors.67”
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“The data from Table 2 suggested that the lifetimes of radiative transitions and lifetimes of nonradiative transitions are both reduced subsequently, which indicates the electron transfer between the carbon dots and silver nanoparticles.”
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“The optical properties of the CQDs vary with size, which could also result in the variation in density and nature of sp2 sites available in the CQDs.”
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“While the main organic acids are malic, citric, and ascorbic, the most important sugars are glucose, sucrose, and fructose.”
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“Nowadays, naturally occurring phytochemicals and secondary metabolites are widely used in therapeutics due to their specificity and tissue-protective nature.21”
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“According to many researchers, caspases play a cardinal role in the apoptosis procedure.59”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Evaluation of the Status of Apoptosis-Modulatory Caspases after Sample 5 Administration
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“The cytochrome c–caspase 9 axis plays a guardian role in programmed cell death by inducing factors of the intrinsic apoptotic pathway.62”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“Caspase 3, which is an executioner caspase, can be activated by the initiator caspase, Caspase 9-appropriate intrinsic cues.60”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Evaluation of the Status of Apoptosis-Modulatory Caspases after Sample 5 Administration
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“Activated by intrinsic cues like elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) level, cytochrome c is released from the mitochondria to cytoplasm and induces apoptotic process by targeting initiator caspases.63”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“Therefore, it may be said that our drug induced apoptosis in the colon cancer cell line by attenuating the Akt-BCL2 axis and also turned on the Cytochrome c-mediated intrinsic apoptosis pathway.”
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“Recent studies have also suggested that berberine attenuates cancer cell proliferation by restricting the cell cycle and inducing the apoptotic process.39”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
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“According to Wang et al., berberine, a small isoquinoline alkaloid, shows its therapeutic efficacy on diarrhea, and bacterial and fungal diseases.56”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
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“Clinical studies have shown overexpression of Akt in various types of cancer, especially in colorectal cancer.65”
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“Additional factors influencing the absorbance of samples are pH and ionic strength of the solvent, leading to changes in the surface status of the CQDs.54”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Photostability Study
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“There are also some reports that have demonstrated that silver nanoparticles have anticancer potential.23”
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“This was also demonstrated in a repetition of the experiment.”
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“Increase in the caspase 9 level is mainly controlled by various apoptotic pathways.61”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“Bcl2 restricts the mitochondrial localization of cytochrome c and attenuates apoptosis (Figure 8A).”
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“The Ag nanoparticles attached over CQDs act as traps for the photogenerated electrons and quench the PL emission.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > UV–Visible Absorption and Photoluminescence Property
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“Among these, CQDs have become interesting because of their exceptional chemical and physical properties such as thermal and electrical conductivity, high mechanical strength, and their unique optical and fluorescence features.14,15”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Introduction
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“A recent analysis by Liu et al. suggested that heterostructures/hybrid metallic CQDs have more remedial as well as theranostics efficacy than the uni-structure of either metallic NPs or CQDs.57”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
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“In recent times, available reports have suggested that CQDs exhibit anticancer potential in various types of cancer.22”
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“The synthesized samples show excellent photostability, degraded up to a maximum of 37 and a minimum of 29%, which is very promising for use as a cellular imaging agent.”
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“24 h of sample 5 treatment was considered to specifically induce apoptosis, the prime reason for suppression of HCT 116 cell survivability, as evaluated by analyzing the externalization of phosphatidylserine.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Exploration of Cell Death at the Lowest Effective Dose of Sample 5 in Colon Cancer Cells
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“It is also expected that degrading absorbance is a consequence of changes in the structure of functional groups at the surface.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Photostability Study
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“Researchers have also demonstrated that berberine can induce autophagy and also stops the invasion process as well as metastasis in various types of cancer.57”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
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“The recombination rate of electrons and holes decreased, which resulted in low PL intensity.”
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“The increased cytochrome c expression along with its cytoplasmic localization in a dose-dependent manner indicated drug-induced modulation in pro- and antiapoptotic modulatory proteins as well as its causative inducing mechanism.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“Accumulation of sample 5-mediated mitochondrial ROS played a key therapeutic as well as theranostic role that not only induced apoptosis but also illuminated the fluorescence after entry into HCT 116 cells.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“Therefore, our drug after entering into mitochondria destabilized its membrane.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“Moreover, the flow-cytometric data and confocal microscopic images confirmed that the heterostructure showed a strong anticancer potential at 6 μg/mL via the ROS-dependent mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis pathway, where Akt plays an important role.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Conclusions
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“Several studies have pointed out that release of cytochrome c in the cytosol requires an ROS-mediated destabilized mitochondrial membrane.72−75”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“increase in stabilized p53 attenuates the antiapoptotic Bcl2 group of proteins and also restricts cell survival modulatory proteins like Akt.69”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“ROS-mediated DNA damage induces p53 phosphorylation, which in turn stabilizes p53, indispensable to counter tumorigenic growth and differentiation.68”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“The results also clearly suggested that the restriction of HCT 116 survivability by sample 5 was due to the turning on of apoptotic pathways, which was not seen in the control cell lines.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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“Studies have also noted that increase in stabilized p53 increases the expression of the pro-apoptotic Bax protein,70 which destabilizes the mitochondrial membrane potential and makes it porous in nature, which in turn augments release of the apoptotic inducer cytochrome C proteins in the cytoplasm.71”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Elevation in the Pro-apoptotic Regulatory Cytochrome c Triggers the Apoptotis Procedure in HCT 116 cells after Sample 5 Treatment
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The main constituents of orange juice (sucrose, glucose, fructose, citric acid, and ascorbic acid) carbonize under the hydrothermal synthesis conditions to form CQDs.
“This mechanism mainly involves the carbonization of sucrose, glucose, fructose, citric acid, and ascorbic acid, which are the leading constituents of orange juice.”
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Orange extract contains a high content of berberine.
“According to reports, the extract of orange contains a high content of berberine, an alkaloid with a high therapeutic application.”
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BJ-5ta and HEK 293 cells represent healthy noncancerous cells.
“The biocompatibility of sample 5 was also checked in the BJ-5ta cell line (Figure 6B)”
“A similar analysis with noncancerous HEK 293 cells”
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§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Experimental Section > Chemicals for Synthesis
“Pulp-free lemon juice was used as a carbon source for CD synthesis.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Experimental Section > Synthesis of Carbon Quantum Dots (CQDs) from Orange Juice (OJ)
“Freshly bought oranges from the local market were crushed and the juice was extracted.”
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§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Experimental Section > MTT Assay
“The HCT 116 and HEK 293 cells were plated in a 96-well plate and treated with or without different concentrations of samples 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and incubated for 12 h”
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“MTT analysis suggested that administration of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 μg/mL concentrations of samples 1–5 for 24 h can induce more than 50% of cell death”
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§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Conclusions
“The CQD/Ag heterostructure does not show any cytotoxicity to healthy cells”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
“up to 12 μg/mL sample 5 is biocompatible, but above 12 μg/mL the heterostructure exhibits cell death.”
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§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Photostability Study
“the absorbance intensity reduced to less than 40% after 4 h of exposure compared to the native intensity.”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Photostability Study
“The synthesized samples show excellent photostability, degraded up to a maximum of 37 and a minimum of 29%”
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§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
“administration of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 μg/mL concentrations of samples 1–5 for 24 h can induce more than 50% of cell death”
§ Facile and Green Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Their Silver Heterostructure: An In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Imaging on Colorectal Carcinoma > Results and Discussion > Estimation of Effective Remedial Dose of CQD/Ag against Colon Cancer Cells
“samples 1, 2, 3, and 4 displayed similar effects at notably higher concentrations of 20, 18, 14, and 12 μg/mL, respectively”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mishra, S., das, K., Chatterjee, S., Sahoo, P., Kundu, S., Pal, M., Bhaumik, A., & Ghosh, C. K.
- Affiliations
- Jadavpur University (IN)
- Vidyasagar College (IN)
- Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (IN)
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Ghosh, Chandan Kumar
- ORCID
- Venue
- ACS Omega
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2023-01-27
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 4566-4577
- ISSN
- 2470-1343 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9909815
- OpenAlex
- W4318220662
- Semantic Scholar
- 5d7fe9ed14d3bbdb74566ba1d6510356ea30aec5
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 6
- FWCI
- 4.38
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Funders
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
- Keywords
- carbon quantum dots, green synthesis, orange juice, silver nanoparticles, fluorescent nanomaterials, photostability, anticancer activity, colorectal cancer, HCT116 cells, in vitro imaging, reactive oxygen species, mitochondrial apoptosis, Akt signaling, theranostics
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