Eco-friendly Biosynthesis of Ag-NPs by Streptomyces griseus With Anti- Candida albicans and Antitumor Activity.

BACKGROUND

The most significant sexually transmissible fungal disease, semen candidiasis, is caused by Candida albicans and impacts male reproductive potential. Actinomycetes are a group of microorganisms that could be isolated from various habitats and used for the biosynthesis of various nanoparticles with biomedical applications.

OBJECTIVE

Testing antifungal activity of biosynthesized Ag nanoparticles versus isolated C. albicans from semen as well as its anticancer activity versus the Caco-2 cell line.

METHODS

Screening 17 isolated actinomycetes for the biosynthesis of Ag nanoparticle biosynthesis. Characterization of biosynthesized nanoparticles, testing its anti-Candida albicans, and antitumor activity.

RESULTS

Streptomyces griseus was the isolate that identified silver nanoparticles using UV, FTIR, XRD and TEM. Biosynthesized nanoparticles have promising anti-Candida albicans with MIC (125 ± 0.8) µg/ml and accelerate apoptotic rate versus Caco-2 cells (IC50 = 7.30 ± 0.54 µg/ml) with minimal toxicity (CC50 = 142.74 ± 4.71 µg/ml) versus Vero cells.

CONCLUSION

Certain actinomycetes could be used for the biosynthesis of nanoparticles with successive antifungal and anticancer activity to be verified by in vivo studies.