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Utilization of waste tea leaves as bio-surfactant in CdS quantum dots synthesis and their cytotoxicity effect in breast cancer cells
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Vijayshankar Asokan,
Catherine Suenne De Castro,
Matthew Davies ,
Ponnusammy Ponmurugan,
Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu
Applied Surface Science
Swansea University Authors:
Anitha Devadoss , Matthew Davies , Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.05.050
Abstract
Green technology for nanoparticles synthesis is considered to be of great significance in biomedical applications. Recently, low dimensional semiconductor cadmium sulfide (CdS) quantum dots (QDs) have raised great attention due to their optical properties and wide usage in biomedical studies. In our...
| Published in: | Applied Surface Science |
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| ISSN: | 0169-4332 |
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2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50285 |
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Green technology for nanoparticles synthesis is considered to be of great significance in biomedical applications. Recently, low dimensional semiconductor cadmium sulfide (CdS) quantum dots (QDs) have raised great attention due to their optical properties and wide usage in biomedical studies. In our present work, we demonstrate a simple green synthesis route for CdS QDs production using waste matured tea leaves (mother leaf) as bio-surfactant that are a waste product of the tea leaf industry and not suitable for drinking. The structural and morphological analysis showed waste tea leaf derived CdS QDs range from 2.5 to 4 nm in particle size with a cubic crystalline structure. Interestingly, these CdS QDs exhibit strong florescence emission with maximum around 670 nm. We explored the cytotoxic effect of waste tea leaf mediated CdS QDs (MT-CdS QDs) in breast cancer cell lines and compared their viability with standard drug - cisplatin. Our experimental studies strongly suggest that MT-CdS QDs exhibits cytotoxic effect on breast cancer cells and their performance was compared with standard drug cisplatin. To further understand the role of MT-CdS QDs towards cytotoxicity, the fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry analysis were carried out. The flow cytometry results reveal that MT-CdS QDs induces cell death as it arrests the cell cycle at S phase as well as G2/M phase. Further the apoptosis mechanism was confirmed with the expression of anti-apoptotic and apoptotic proteins. These studies explored that waste tea leaves have dual advantage – both in controlling the particle size of CdS QDs as well as facilitates their cytotoxicity effect in breast cancer cell death. Therefore, it is anticipated that the utilization of MT-CdS QDs produced from waste tea leaves as bi-functional drug and delivery vehicle in cancer treatment will be a promising approach. Also, this is a simple and circular economic route for producing biocompatible QDs at low-cost, which could simultaneously benefit tea and biomedical industries. |
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| Keywords: |
Quantum dots, CdS, Waste tea leaves, Green synthesis, Breast cancer, Apoptosis, Cytotoxicity |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |