TY - JOUR
T1 - Biocompatible Alginate Film Crosslinked with Ca 2+ and Zn 2+ Possesses Antibacterial, Antiviral, and Anticancer Activities
AU - Cano-Vicent, Alba
AU - Tuñón-Molina, Alberto
AU - Bakshi, Hamid
AU - Sabater i Serra, Roser
AU - Alfagih, Iman M.
AU - Tambuwala, Murtaza M.
AU - Serrano-Aroca, Ángel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society
PY - 2023/7/11
Y1 - 2023/7/11
N2 - Alginate is a highly promising biopolymer due to its non-toxic and biodegradable properties. Alginate hydrogels are often fabricated by cross-linking sodium alginate with calcium cations and can be engineered with highly desirable enhanced physical and biological properties for biomedical applications. This study reports on the anticancer, antiviral, antibacterial, in vitro, and in vivo toxicity, water absorption, and compound release properties of an alginate hydrogel crosslinked with calcium and different amounts of zinc cations. The results showed that the calcium alginate hydrogel film crosslinked with the highest amount of zinc showed similar water sorption properties to those of calcium alginate and released a suitable amount of zinc to provide anticancer activity against melanoma and colon cancer cells and has antibacterial properties against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis and antiviral activity against enveloped and non-enveloped viruses. This film is non-toxic in both in vitro in keratinocyte HaCaT cells and in vivo in the Caenorhabditis elegans model, which renders it especially promising for biomedical applications.
AB - Alginate is a highly promising biopolymer due to its non-toxic and biodegradable properties. Alginate hydrogels are often fabricated by cross-linking sodium alginate with calcium cations and can be engineered with highly desirable enhanced physical and biological properties for biomedical applications. This study reports on the anticancer, antiviral, antibacterial, in vitro, and in vivo toxicity, water absorption, and compound release properties of an alginate hydrogel crosslinked with calcium and different amounts of zinc cations. The results showed that the calcium alginate hydrogel film crosslinked with the highest amount of zinc showed similar water sorption properties to those of calcium alginate and released a suitable amount of zinc to provide anticancer activity against melanoma and colon cancer cells and has antibacterial properties against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis and antiviral activity against enveloped and non-enveloped viruses. This film is non-toxic in both in vitro in keratinocyte HaCaT cells and in vivo in the Caenorhabditis elegans model, which renders it especially promising for biomedical applications.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/d0668070-2178-3fbb-b8e4-27e1fd985ea4/
U2 - 10.1021/acsomega.3c01935
DO - 10.1021/acsomega.3c01935
M3 - Article
C2 - 37457479
SN - 2470-1343
VL - 8
SP - 24396
EP - 24405
JO - ACS Omega
JF - ACS Omega
IS - 27
ER -
