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Rai M, Ingle AP, Törős G, Prokisch J. Assessing the efficacy of carbon nanodots derived from curcumin on infectious diseases. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2024. [PMID: 39317385 DOI: 10.1080/14787210.2024.2409401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2024] [Revised: 09/19/2024] [Accepted: 09/23/2024] [Indexed: 09/26/2024]
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INTRODUCTION The threat of new, emerging, and multidrug-resistant microbes is increasing which has created the necessity for new antimicrobials. In this regard, nanotechnology can be an alternative for the treatment of infectious microbes. Curcumin has been used since ancient times as antimicrobials; however, it has limitations due to its less aqueous solubility, bioavailability, and biocompatibility. This problem can be solved by curcumin-derived carbon nanodots which are emerging antimicrobials of <10 nm size, water-soluble, biocompatible, less toxic, and fluorescent. AREA COVERED The review discusses the application of curcumin-derived carbon nanodots against various pathogenic microbes including bacteria and dreaded viruses like SARS-CoV-2. In addition, the role of curcumin carbon nanodots in biolabelling of pathogenic microbes, mechanism of action, bioimaging, and therapy has been critically examined. EXPERT OPINION Carbon nanodots play an important role in combating pathogenic microbes by early diagnosis, bioimaging, nanocarrier for antimicrobial drugs, and therapy of infectious diseases. Curcumin carbon nanodots have already demonstrated their benefits of being water soluble, bioavailable, and biocompatible. However, more thorough research is needed to understand the efficacy and safety of curcumin carbon nanodots. In the future, curcumin-derived carbon nanodots can be used as alternative antimicrobial agents to fight microbial infections including multidrug-resistant microbes.
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- Mahendra Rai
- Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India
- Institute of Animal Science, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Biotechnology Centre, Department of Agricultural Botany, Dr. PDKV, Akola, Maharashtra, India
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- Institute of Animal Science, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
- Doctoral School of Animal Husbandry, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Animal Science, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Guo T, Wang X, Zhao C, Shu Y, Wang J. Precise regulation of the properties of hydrophobic carbon dots by manipulating the structural features of precursor ionic liquids. Biomater Sci 2021; 9:3127-3135. [PMID: 33710222 DOI: 10.1039/d1bm00090j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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To prepare carbon dots (CDs), there are numerous protocols that use a wide variety of carbon sources, which results in properties of CDs that are unpredictable and highly variable. Therefore, the development of reliable approaches for precisely regulating the nature of CDs is urgently required. Herein, a series of organophilic/hydrophobic CDs (OCDs) were prepared under microwave agitation with ionic liquid 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide as the precursor, by varying the alkyl chain linked in the cationic imidazolium moiety. The physicochemical, optical and biological properties, and imaging performance of OCDs were exploited to elucidate the structure-activity relationship, and it was discovered that the alkyl chain plays key roles in governing the properties of OCDs. The increase in the alkyl chain length, from ethyl, butyl, hexyl, and octyl to decyl, led to a remarkable variation in the properties of the OCDs, i.e., a reduction in nitrogen doping from 40.71 to 20.75%, a decrease in binding affinity with bovine serum albumin (BSA), and an increase in cytotoxicity. The interaction of OCDs with BSA and the formation of a 'protein corona' substantially increased the biocompatibility of the OCDs. The OCDs penetrated into MCF-7 human breast cancer cells in 10 min and demonstrated bright fluorescence imaging.
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- Tingting Guo
- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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The structure-activity relationship of hydrophilic carbon dots regulated by the nature of precursor ionic liquids. J Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 554:722-730. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.07.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2019] [Revised: 07/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Revisiting fluorescent carbon nanodots for environmental, biomedical applications and puzzle about fluorophore impurities. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoso.2019.100391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ryplida B, Lee G, In I, Park SY. Zwitterionic carbon dot-encapsulating pH-responsive mesoporous silica nanoparticles for NIR light-triggered photothermal therapy through pH-controllable release. Biomater Sci 2019; 7:2600-2610. [DOI: 10.1039/c9bm00160c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Here, we designed a pH-responsive Indocyanine Green (ICG)-loaded zwitterionic fluorescent carbon dot (CD)-encapsulating mesoporous silica nanoparticle (MSN) for pH-tunable image-guided photothermal therapy.
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- Benny Ryplida
- Department of IT Convergence
- Korea National University of Transportation
- Chungju 380-702
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Korea National University of Transportation
- Chungju 380-702
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of IT Convergence
- Korea National University of Transportation
- Chungju 380-702
- Republic of Korea
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
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- Department of IT Convergence
- Korea National University of Transportation
- Chungju 380-702
- Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Zheng AQ, Wang N, Chen ML, Shu Y, Wang JH. Probing pH variation in living cells and assaying hemoglobin in blood with nitrogen enriched carbon dots. Talanta 2018; 188:788-794. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2018.06.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2018] [Revised: 06/13/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Wang JL, Teng JY, Jia T, Shu Y. Detection of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with ionic liquid mediated carbon dots. Talanta 2018; 178:818-824. [PMID: 29136900 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.10.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2017] [Revised: 10/16/2017] [Accepted: 10/18/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Hydrophobic nitrogen-doped carbon dots are prepared with energetic ionic liquid (1,3-dibutylimidazolium dicyandiamide, BbimDCN) as carbon source. A yield of as high as 58% is obtained for the carbon dots, shortly termed as BbimDCN-OCDs, due to the presence of thermal-instable N(CN)2- moiety. BbimDCN-OCDs exhibit favorable biocompability and excellent imaging capacity for fluorescence labelling of yeast cell Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In addition, chitosan-modified Dy3+-doped magnetic nanoparticles (shortly as Chitosan@Fe2.75Dy0.25O4) with superparamagnetism are prepared. The electrostatic attraction between positively charged magnetic nanoparticles and negatively charged yeast cells facilitates exclusive recognition/isolation of S. cerevisiae. In practice, S. cerevisiae is labelled by BbimDCN-OCDs and adhered onto the Chitosan@Fe2.75Dy0.25O4. The yeast/ BbimDCN-OCDs/Chitosan@Fe2.75Dy0.25O4 composite is then isolated with an external magnet and the fluorescence from BbimDCN-OCDs incorporated in S. cerevisiae is monitored. The fluorescence intensity is linearly correlated with the content of yeast cell, showing a calibration graph of F = 3.01log[C]+11.7, offering a detection limit of 5×102 CFU/mL. S. cerevisiae content in various real sample matrixes are quantified by using this protocol.
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- Jia-Li Wang
- College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
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- College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
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- College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Northeastern University, Box 332, Shenyang 110819, China; College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
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Chen J, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Wang W, Li S, Wang Y, Hu M, Liu L, Bi H. Understanding the Capsanthin Tails in Regulating the Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Balance of Carbon Dots for a Rapid Crossing Cell Membrane. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:10259-10270. [PMID: 28874049 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Here we use natural Chinese paprika to prepare a new kind of amphiphilic carbon dot (A-Dot) that exhibits bright, multicolored fluorescence and contains hydrophilic groups as well as lipophilic capsanthin tails on the surface. It is found that the capsanthin tails in a phospholipid-like structure can promote cell internalization of the A-Dots via crossing cell membranes rapidly in an energy-independent fashion. Compared to highly hydrophilic carbon dots (H-Dots), a control sample prepared from the microwave thermolysis of citric acid and ethylenediamine, our synthesized A-Dots can be taken up by CHO, HeLa, and HFF cells more easily. More importantly, we develop a method to calibrate the hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) values of various kinds of carbon dots (C-Dots). HLB values of A-Dots and H-Dots are determined to be 6.4 and 18.4, respectively. Moreover, we discover that the cellular uptake efficiency of C-Dots is closely related to their HLBs, and the C-Dots with an HLB value of around 6.4 cross the cell membrane easier and faster. As we regulate the HLB value of the A-Dots from 6.4 to 15.3 by removing the capsanthin tails from their surfaces via alkali refluxing, it is found that the refluxed A-Dots can hardly cross HeLa cell membranes. Our work is an essential step toward understanding the importance of regulating the HLB values as well as the surface polarity of the C-Dots for their practical use in bioimaging and also provides a simple but effective way to judge whether the C-Dots in hand are appropriate for cell imaging.
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- Jing Chen
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei 230601, China
- School of Life Sciences, Hefei Normal University , Hefei 230601, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei 230601, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei 230601, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Hefei Normal University , Hefei 230601, China
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- The Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Diseases, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230027, China
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- The Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Diseases, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230027, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei 230601, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei 230601, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei 230601, China
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Mao QX, E S, Xia JM, Song RS, Shu Y, Chen XW, Wang JH. Hydrophobic Carbon Nanodots with Rapid Cell Penetrability and Tunable Photoluminescence Behavior for in Vitro and in Vivo Imaging. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:12221-12229. [PMID: 27805819 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Tunable fluorescent emission and applications in both in vitro and in vivo imaging of hydrophobic carbon nanodots (CNDs) with rapid penetration capability are reported. The hydrophobic CNDs are prepared via hydrothermal treatment of ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide and exhibit excitation-dependent photoluminescence behavior along with a red-shift in the excitation/emission maxima with concentration. The quantum yields of the as-prepared CNDs are in the range of 2.5-4.8% at an excitation wavelength of 300-600 nm. The rapid penetration behavior (within 1 min) of CNDs into the cell membrane significantly reduces the sample treatment time and avoids potential fluorescence quenching induced by the interaction between CNDs and samples. A co-location study reveals that the hydrophobic CNDs are distributed mainly in the lysosome. The potentials of the hydrophobic CNDs as fluorescent probe in in vitro and in vivo imaging are well demonstrated by the labeling of HeLa cells, MCF-7 cells, A549 cells, and Kunming mice.
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- Quan-Xing Mao
- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University , Box 332, Shenyang 110819, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University , Box 332, Shenyang 110819, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University , Box 332, Shenyang 110819, China
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- Institute of Biotechnology, College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University , Shenyang 110169, China
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- Institute of Biotechnology, College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University , Shenyang 110169, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University , Box 332, Shenyang 110819, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University , Box 332, Shenyang 110819, China
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