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Synthesis and biological characterization of silver nanoparticles derived from the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica

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Hamouda, Ragaa A., Hussein, Mervat H., Abo-elmagd, Rasha A., Bawazir, Salwa S.·2019·Scientific Reports

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Using aqueous cyanobacterial extracts in the synthesis of silver nanoparticle is looked as green, ecofriendly, low priced biotechnology that gives advancement over both chemical and physical methods. In the current study, an aqueous extract of Oscillatoria limnetica fresh biomass was used for the green synthesis of Ag-NPs, since O. limnetica extract plays a dual part in both reducing and stabilizing Oscillatoria-silver nanoparticles (O-AgNPs). The UV-Visible absorption spectrum, Fourier transforms infrared (FT-IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) were achieved for confirming and characterizing the biosynthesized O-AgNPs. TEM images detected the quasi-spherical Ag-NPs shape with diverse size ranged within 3.30–17.97 nm. FT-IR analysis demonstrated the presence of free amino groups in addition to sulfur containing amino acid derivatives acting as stabilizing agents as well as the presence of either sulfur or phosphorus functional groups which possibly attaches silver. In this study, synthesized Ag-NPs exhibited strong antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria (Escherichia coli and Bacillus cereus) as well as cytotoxic effects against both human breast (MCF-7) cell line giving IC50 (6.147 µg/ml) and human colon cancer (HCT-116) cell line giving IC50 (5.369 µg/ml). Hemolytic activity of Ag-NPs was investigated and confirmed as being non- toxic to human RBCs in low concentrations.

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Authors
Hamouda, R. A., Hussein, M. H., Abo-elmagd, R. A., & Bawazir, S. S.
Venue
Scientific Reports
Published
2019-09-10
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
13071-13071
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
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W2972586133
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658
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88
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31.35
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journal article
Language
en
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Hamouda, R. A., Hussein, M. H., Abo-elmagd, R. A., & Bawazir, S. S. (2019). Synthesis and biological characterization of silver nanoparticles derived from the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49444-y

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