Sun light mediated synthesis of gold nanoparticles as carrier for 6-mercaptopurine: Preparation, characterization and toxicity studies in zebrafish embryo model

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• 作者：Moorthy Ganeshkumar ; Thotapalli Parvathaleswara Sastry ; Muniram Sathish Kumar ; Murugan Girija Dinesh ; Sudaly ; i Kannappan ; Lonchin Suguna
• 关键词：A. Inorganic compounds ; A. Nanostructures ; A. Metals ; C. Electron microscopy ; C. Infrared spectroscopy
• 刊名：Materials Research Bulletin
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：September, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：47
• 期：9
• 页码：2113-2119
• 全文大小：1131 K

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The objective of this study is to synthesize green chemistry based gold nanoparticles by sun light irradiation method. The prepared gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were modified using folic acid and then coupled with 6-mercaptopurine. These modified nanoparticles were used as a tool for targeted drug delivery to treat laryngeal cancer. In the present study, novel bionanocomposites containing nutrient agar coated gold nano particles (N-AuNPs) coupled with 6-mercaptopurine (drug) (N-AuNPs-Mp), folic acid (ligand) (N-AuNPs-Mp-Fa) and rhodamine (dye) (N-AuNPs-Rd), a fluorescent agent, were prepared and characterized by IR, UV, TEM, Particle size analysis and in vitro stability. The toxicity and fluorescence of N-Au was studied using zebrafish embryo model. The in vitro cytotoxicity of free Mp, N-Au-Mp and N-Au-Mp-Fa against HEp-2 cells was compared and found that the amount of Mp required to achieve 50 % of growth of inhibition (IC₅₀) was much lower in N-Au-Mp-Fa than in free Mp and N-Au-Mp.