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Bioengineered gold nanoparticles from marine seaweed Acanthophora spicifera for pharmaceutical uses: antioxidant,
Baskaran Babu1, Subramanian Palanisamy2,3, Manoharan Vinosha1
1Disease Control and Prevention Lab, Department of Animal Health and Management, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, 630 003, India.
Abstract:
In this study, we report a green synthesis of pharmaceutically active gold nanoparticles from marine red alga Acanthophora spicifera by the reduction of chloroauric acid. The formation of A. spicifera-mediated gold nanoparticles (As-AuNPs) was characterized by several analytical techniques. The crystalline and face-centered cubic (fcc) structure were confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Electron microscopy results confirmed that As-AuNPs were spherical and the average size of particles was < 20 nm. As-AuNPs hold a significant level of antioxidant activities than A. spicifera extract. As-AuNPs exhibited the highest antibacterial activity against Vibrio harveyi than Staphylococcus aureus at 100 µg/ml. Furthermore, As-AuNPs exhibited the utmost cytotoxicity against human colon adenocarcinoma (HT-29) cells and registered the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) at 21.86 µg/ml. These findings authenticated that the synthesized As-AuNPs possess a broad spectrum of biological activities, and it can be effectively applied in the field of aquaculture and biomedical application.
