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Akbari A, Nemati M, Lighvan ZM, Khanamiri FN, Rezaie J, Rasmi Y. Synthesis of metformin-derived fluorescent quantum dots: uptake, cytotoxicity, and inhibition in human breast cancer cells through autophagy pathway. J Biol Eng 2024; 18:38. [PMID: 38915025 PMCID: PMC11197241 DOI: 10.1186/s13036-024-00433-4] [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: 04/14/2024] [Accepted: 06/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer remains a challenge for physicians. Metformin, an antidiabetic drug, show promising anticancer properties against cancers. An emerging quantum dot (QD) material improves therapeutic agents' anticancer and imaging properties. QD are nano-sized particles with extreme application in nanotechnology captured by cells and accumulated inside cells, suggesting bioimaging and effective anticancer outcomes. In this study, a simple one-pot hydrothermal method was used to synthesize fluorescent metformin-derived carbon dots (M-CDs) and then investigated the cytotoxic effects and imaging features on two human breast cancer cell lines including, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells. RESULTS Results showed that M-CDs profoundly decreased the viability of both cancer cells. IC50 values showed that M-CDs were more cytotoxic than metformin either 24-48 h post-treatment. Cancer cells uptake M-CDs successfully, which causes morphological changes in cells and increased levels of intracellular ROS. The number of Oil Red O-positive cells and the expression of caspase-3 protein were increased in M-CDs treated cells. Authophagic factors including, AMPK, mTOR, and P62 were down-regulated, while p-AMPK, Becline-1, LC3 I, and LC3 II were up-regulated in M-CDs treated cells. Finally, M-CDs caused a decrease in the wound healing rate of cells. CONCLUSIONS For the first, M-CDs were synthesized by simple one-pot hydrothermal treatment without further purification. M-CDs inhibited both breast cancer cells through modulating autophagy signalling.
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- Ali Akbari
- Solid Tumor Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Research Medicine Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, P.O. BoX: 1138, Shafa St, Ershad Blvd, Urmia, 57147, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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- Department of Polymer Processing, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, P.O. Box 14965-115, Tehran, Iran
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- Solid Tumor Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Research Medicine Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, P.O. BoX: 1138, Shafa St, Ershad Blvd, Urmia, 57147, Iran
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- Solid Tumor Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Research Medicine Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, P.O. BoX: 1138, Shafa St, Ershad Blvd, Urmia, 57147, Iran.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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Shen S, Fu J, Wang H. A Facile, Effective Synthesis of Excellent Fluorescent Carbon Dots with Optical Properties. ChemistrySelect 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201902445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Shen Shen
- Jiangsu Engineering Technology Research Center for Functional TextilesJiangnan University No.1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Eco-textilesMinistry of EducationJiangnan University No.1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi P.R. China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Technology Research Center for Functional TextilesJiangnan University No.1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Eco-textilesMinistry of EducationJiangnan University No.1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi P.R. China
- National Engineering Laboratory for Modern SilkCollege of Textile and Clothing EngineeringSoochow University 199 Ren-Ai Road, Suzhou China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Technology Research Center for Functional TextilesJiangnan University No.1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Eco-textilesMinistry of EducationJiangnan University No.1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi P.R. China
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Algarra M, Bartolić D, Radotić K, Mutavdžić D, Pino-González MS, Rodríguez-Castellón E, Lázaro-Martínez JM, Guerrero-González JJ, Esteves da Silva JC, Jiménez-Jiménez J. P-doped carbon nano-powders for fingerprint imaging. Talanta 2018; 194:150-157. [PMID: 30609515 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2018.10.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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A simple, fast, and laboratory efficient doped P carbon nanoparticles synthesis is developed for fingerprint imaging, using 1,3-dihydroxyacetone and di-phosphorous pentoxide. Fluorescence nanoparticles, with an average size of 230 nm were obtained, without additional energy input or external heating. ATR, solid NMR, XPS and fluorescence spectroscopy revealed their surface functionalization; a reaction mechanism is proposed. Fluorescence measurements exhibited a maximum emission band at ca. 495 nm, when excited at 385 nm. The images obtained, on different surfaces such as mobile telephone screen, magnetic band and metallic surface of a credit card and a Euro banknote treated with the obtained nano-powders allows us to record positive matches, confirming that the experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of proposed method.
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- Manuel Algarra
- CQM-Centro de Química da Madeira Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada, 9020-105 Funchal. Portugal; Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
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- Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, Kneza Višeslava 1, 11000 Beograd, Serbia
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- Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, Kneza Višeslava 1, 11000 Beograd, Serbia
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- Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, Kneza Višeslava 1, 11000 Beograd, Serbia
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Málaga, Spain
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- Universidad de Buenos Aires, IQUIMEFA-CONICET, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Junín 956 (1113), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- CIQ-Centro de Investigação em Quimica. Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CQM-Centro de Química da Madeira Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada, 9020-105 Funchal. Portugal
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Campos BB, Mutavdžić D, Stanković M, Radotić K, Lázaro-Martínez JM, Esteves da Silva JCG, Contreras-Cáceres R, Pino-González MS, Rodriguez-Castellón E, Algarra M. Thermo-responsive microgels based on encapsulated carbon quantum dots. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6nj03893j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this work carbon quantum dots (CQDs) nanoparticles are synthesized from d-lactose using a hydrothermal method and then they are coated with polyethylene glycol (CQDs@PEG).
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- Bruno B. Campos
- Centro de Investigação em Química
- Departamento de Química e Bioquímica
- Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
- Porto
- Portugal
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- Institute for Multidisciplinary Research
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Beograd
- Serbia
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- Institute for Multidisciplinary Research
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Beograd
- Serbia
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- Institute for Multidisciplinary Research
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Beograd
- Serbia
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica & IQUIFIB-CONICET
- Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Junín 956 (1113) CABA
- Argentina
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- Centro de Investigação em Química
- Departamento de Química e Bioquímica
- Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
- Porto
- Portugal
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica
- Facultad de Ciencias
- Universidad de Málaga
- 29071 Málaga
- Spain
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Chandra S, Chowdhuri AR, Mahto TK, Samui A, Sahu SK. One-step synthesis of amikacin modified fluorescent carbon dots for the detection of Gram-negative bacteria like Escherichia coli. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra15778e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In this paper, we report a one-step strategy to synthesize amikacin modified fluorescent carbon dots (CDs@amikacin) for assaying pathogenic bacteria, Escherichia coli.
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- Soumen Chandra
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad 826004
- India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad 826004
- India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad 826004
- India
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Ray Chowdhuri A, Tripathy S, Haldar C, Roy S, Sahu SK. Single step synthesis of carbon dot embedded chitosan nanoparticles for cell imaging and hydrophobic drug delivery. J Mater Chem B 2015; 3:9122-9131. [DOI: 10.1039/c5tb01831e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The florescent carbon dot conjugated chitosan nanoparticles are developed for the cellular imaging and delivery of poorly water soluble drug telmisartan (TEL).
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- Immunology and Microbiology Laboratory
- Department of Human Physiology with Community Health
- Vidyasagar University
- Midnapore-721102
- India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad 826004
- India
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- Immunology and Microbiology Laboratory
- Department of Human Physiology with Community Health
- Vidyasagar University
- Midnapore-721102
- India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad 826004
- India
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Algarra M, Pérez-Martín M, Cifuentes-Rueda M, Jiménez-Jiménez J, Esteves da Silva JCG, Bandosz TJ, Rodríguez-Castellón E, López Navarrete JT, Casado J. Carbon dots obtained using hydrothermal treatment of formaldehyde. Cell imaging in vitro. NANOSCALE 2014; 6:9071-9077. [PMID: 24974800 DOI: 10.1039/c4nr01585a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Highly photoluminescent carbon dots have been prepared in a one step procedure by hydrothermal treatment of formaldehyde at 180 °C. They show green fluorescence under UV light exposure and emission spectra are centered at 440 nm. Fluorescence lifetimes comprise between 0.7 and 2.70 ns, when the synthesis process lasted for 1-7 days. TEM images of nanoparticles showed a homogeneous size/shape distribution. When the thermal treatment process was carried out for a long time (30 days) formation of aggregates occurred. Carbon dots were further analyzed using (1)H and (13)C-NMR, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy techniques and XPS. Cell imaging of nanoparticles was carried out by using mouse MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblasts as a model. The nanoparticles were selectively localized in the cytoplasm without further functionalization and could be realized by cellular phagocytosis, so that the fluorescence of these can be used for live cell imaging in vitro.
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- M Algarra
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain.
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Chandra S, Pradhan S, Mitra S, Patra P, Bhattacharya A, Pramanik P, Goswami A. High throughput electron transfer from carbon dots to chloroplast: a rationale of enhanced photosynthesis. NANOSCALE 2014; 6:3647-55. [PMID: 24562190 DOI: 10.1039/c3nr06079a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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A biocompatible amine functionalized fluorescent carbon dots were developed and isolated for gram scale applications. Such carbogenic quantum dots can strongly conjugate over the surface of the chloroplast and due to that strong interaction the former can easily transfer electrons towards the latter by assistance of absorbed light or photons. An exceptionally high electron transfer from carbon dots to the chloroplast can directly effect the whole chain electron transfer pathway in a light reaction of photosynthesis, where electron carriers play an important role in modulating the system. As a result, carbon dots can promote photosynthesis by modulating the electron transfer process as they are capable of fastening the conversion of light energy to the electrical energy and finally to the chemical energy as assimilatory power (ATP and NADPH).
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- Sourov Chandra
- AERU, Biological Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 700108, India.
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Chandra S, Patra P, Pathan SH, Roy S, Mitra S, Layek A, Bhar R, Pramanik P, Goswami A. Luminescent S-doped carbon dots: an emergent architecture for multimodal applications. J Mater Chem B 2013; 1:2375-2382. [DOI: 10.1039/c3tb00583f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Mitra S, Chandra S, Pathan SH, Sikdar N, Pramanik P, Goswami A. Room temperature and solvothermal green synthesis of self passivated carbon quantum dots. RSC Adv 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ra23085b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Zhu S, Tang S, Zhang J, Yang B. Control the size and surface chemistry of graphene for the rising fluorescent materials. Chem Commun (Camb) 2012; 48:4527-39. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cc31201h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 355] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Mitra S, Chandra S, Kundu T, Banerjee R, Pramanik P, Goswami A. Rapid microwave synthesis of fluorescent hydrophobic carbon dots. RSC Adv 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ra21048g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Chandra S, Pathan SH, Mitra S, Modha BH, Goswami A, Pramanik P. Tuning of photoluminescence on different surface functionalized carbon quantum dots. RSC Adv 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ra00030j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Mitra S, Chandra S, Patra P, Pramanik P, Goswami A. Novel fluorescent matrix embedded carbon quantum dots for the production of stable gold and silver hydrosols. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1039/c1jm13858h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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