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Enhanced Antiviral Activity of Isolated Streptomyces Avermitilis Extract in Conjugation with Gold Nanoparticles

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Nanotechnology

Abstract

Emerging and reemerging of viral outbreaks represent an ever-growing challenge to worldwide health. Nanoparticles have been attracting much interest due to their likely antiviral activity through interaction with viruses and are proposed to be one of the most promising solutions for detection, treatment, and prevention of viral diseases. Here, we report a gold nanoparticle conjugated extract from Streptomyces avermitilis shown to effectively inhibit hepatitis A [HAV], Adenovirus and Vesicular stomatitis virus [VSV]in cultured cells with half-maximal inhibitory concentrations of less than 4 nM and a selectivity index of greater than 550. A total of 20 strains of actinomycetes were isolated from agricultural soil for antiviral activity evaluation. Among which, [H1] exhibited a promising antiviral activity towards the three viruses. In an attempt to enhance the antiviral activity, Streptomyces extract was conjugated to 2.0 nm diameter gold nanoparticles. Although gold nanoparticles had low inhibitory effect on viral titer; the extract-gold nanoparticle conjugate displayed higher activity comparable to that of Streptomyces crude extract. This result support the hypothesis that multivalent molecules on the surface of gold nanoparticle can enhance potent therapeutics of active biological extracts due to interaction. We here introduce Streptomyces avermitilis H1 strain as a putative high antiviral producer with gold nanoparticle enhanced activity. More experimental effort on animal models needs to be performed to test for applicability of this developed conjugate in treatment of viral diseases.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.132264.5820

Keywords

antiviral activity, Streptomyces avermitilis, Viral assay, Gold nanoparticles, HAV, Adenovirus, VSV

Authors

First Name

Hala

Last Name

Mohamed

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F

Affiliation

University of Al-Azhar, Faculty of Science [Girls Branch], Department of Botany and Microbiology, Cairo., Egypt, 2. Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China

Email

hahmed@azhar.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0002-1267-5246

First Name

Xiaohui

Last Name

Sun

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University.

Email

steven_sun_cn@hotmail.com

City

Xiamen

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Volume

66

Article Issue

6

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41553

Issue Date

2023-06-01

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2022-04-08

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2023-06-01

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1

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11

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_257954.html

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Enhanced Antiviral Activity of Isolated Streptomyces Avermitilis Extract in Conjugation with Gold Nanoparticles

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30 Dec 2024