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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Lipoic Acid Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with Organic Compounds as Bioactive Materials.

Ioana Turcu, Irina Zarafu, Marcela Popa, Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc, Coralia Bleotu, Daniela Culita, Corneliu Ghica, Petre Ionita

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ioana TurcuDepartment of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, University of Bucharest, 90-92 Panduri, 050663 Bucharest, Romania. oana_turcu@yahoo.com.
Irina ZarafuDepartment of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, University of Bucharest, 90-92 Panduri, 050663 Bucharest, Romania. zarafuirina@yahoo.fr.
Marcela PopaMicrobiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 1-3 Portocalelor Way, 060101 Bucharest, Romania. bmarcelica@yahoo.com.
Mariana Carmen ChifiriucMicrobiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 1-3 Portocalelor Way, 060101 Bucharest, Romania. carmen_balotescu@yahoo.com.
Coralia BleotuMicrobiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 1-3 Portocalelor Way, 060101 Bucharest, Romania. cbleotu@yahoo.com.
Daniela CulitaInstitute of Physical Chemistry, 202 Spl. Independentei, 060021 Bucharest, Romania. danaculita@yahoo.co.uk.
Corneliu GhicaNational Institute of Materials Physics, Laboratory of Atomic Structures and Defects in Advanced Materials, Atomistilor 105 bis, 077125 Magurele, Romania. cghica@infim.ro.
Petre IonitaDepartment of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, University of Bucharest, 90-92 Panduri, 050663 Bucharest, Romania. p_ionita@yahoo.co.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water soluble gold nanoparticles protected by lipoic acid were obtained and further functionalized by standard coupling reaction with 1-naphtylamine, 4-aminoantipyrine, and 4'-aminobenzo-15-crown-5 ether. Derivatives of lipoic acid with 1-naphtylamine, 4-aminoantipyrine, and 4'-aminobenzo-15-crown-5 ether were also obtained and characterized. All these were tested for their antimicrobial activity, as well as for their influence on mammalian cell viability and cellular cycle. In all cases a decreased antimicrobial activity of the obtained bioactive nanoparticles was observed as compared with the organic compounds, proving that a possible inactivation of the bioactive groups could occur during functionalization. However, both the gold nanoparticles as well as the functionalized bioactive nanosystems proved to be biocompatible at concentrations lower than 50 µg/mL, as revealed by the cellular viability and cell cycle assay, demonstrating their potential for the development of novel antimicrobial agents.

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antimicrobialcellular cyclecytotoxicitygold nanoparticleslipoic acidthioctic acid

Identifiers

PMID28336877
PMCPMC5333028

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