Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using aqueous fruit and tuber extracts of Momordica cymbalaria
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Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using aqueous fruit and tuber extracts of Momordica cymbalaria Hemalatha KPJ1
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Srinivasulu Shantakani1 • Satyanarayana Botcha1
Received: 17 February 2019 / Accepted: 28 October 2019 Ó Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2019
Abstract Plant extracts have been extensively used for the green synthesis of nanoparticles as they are rich in eco-friendly bioactive compounds possessing high metal-ion reducing potential. The present study is aimed at investigating the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by using aqueous fruit and tuber extracts of Momordica cymbalaria, also to test their antibacterial and cytotoxic potential. AgNP’s formation was noticed initially by the colour change in the reaction mixture i.e., green to red, which was confirmed further through a characteristic SPR peak at 446 nm and 432 nm respectively. The AgNP’s size, elemental property, phase purity and crystallite size was assessed through SEM, EDS and X-ray diffraction spectroscopy. The AgNPs exhibited prolonged stability infer to the layering of phenolic and protein moieties, identified by FTIR spectrophotometry. Tuber and fruit extracts prepared AgNPs were tested for anti-bacterial activity against pathogenic organisms and they have shown higher bactericidal effect against Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli in comparison to Streptococcus pyogenes and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In vitro cytotoxicity of tuber extract AgNPs against prostate (PC-3) and breast adenocarcinoma (MDA-MB 231) cells has given lower IC50 values (72.39 and 64.03 lg/ml, respectively, than the fruit extract prepared AgNPs (85.42 and 111.74 lg/ml, respectively). The study concludes that the fruit and tuber extracts of Momordica cymbalaria can be successfully used for the synthesis of AgNPs that exhibit effective anti-bacterial as well as cytotoxic potential. Keywords Momordica cymbalaria Green synthesis Silver nanoparticles Antibacterial activity Anticancer activity
Nanotechnology, an emerging field in the scientific world, able to create numerous novel materials with size ranges from 1 to 100 nm and wide range of applications in pharmaceutical, nanomedicine and nanoelectronics etc.(Walker and Mouton 2006). Besides nanotechnology faces many of the same issues as any new technology the suspicion of unintended effects of nanomaterials over human health and environment (Ray et al. 2009). Nanomaterials are made of different compositions, sizes and shapes, which possess controllable dispersity (Mani and Lakshmi
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13562-019-00542-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. & Hemalatha KPJ [email protected] 1
Department of Biochemistry, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India
2012; Priyaragini et al. 2013). In them, inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have been paid much attention due to their higher surface area to volume ratio, sustainable release and safety (
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