The assembly of an inclusion complex in an aqueous medium
using
a metabolizer drug (dyphylline) as guest and β-cyclodextrin
as host has been established, which is extremely appropriate for a
variety of applications in modern biomedical sciences. The formation
of the inclusion complex is established by
1
H NMR, and
surface tension and conductivity measurements demonstrate that the
inclusion complex was produced with 1:1 stoichiometry. The thermodynamic
parameters based on density, viscosity, and refractive index measurements
were used to determine the nature of the complex. This research also
forecasts how dyphylline will release in the presence of CT-DNA without
any chemical modifications. The produced insertion complex (IC) has
a higher photostability due to the drug dyphylline being protected
by β-CD. The antibacterial activity of dyphylline greatly improved
after complexation and exhibited higher toxicity against Gram-negative
(highest against
Escherichia coli
)
in comparison to Gram-positive bacteria. The encapsulation mode of
the dyphylline molecule into the cavity of the β-CD was also
investigated using DFT to confirm preliminary results.
In recent decades, studies have focused on inorganic nanozymes to overcome the intrinsic drawbacks of bioenzymes due to the demands of improving the reaction conditions and lack of robustness to harsh environmental factors. Many biochemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes require light activation. Light-activated nanozymes have distinct advantages, including being regulated by light stimuli, activating the molecular oxygen to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) without interfering supplementary oxidants, and often showing a synergistic effect to catalyze some challenging reactions. Only a few studies have been done on this connection. Therefore, it is still a big challenge to develop a nanozyme regulated by light activation. Herein, we uncovered the light-activated oxidase mimicking activity of a conducting polymer polyaniline nanofibers (PANI-NFs). PANI-NFs exhibit intrinsic lightactivated brilliant oxidase-like activity, can catalyze the colorless tetramethyl benzidine (TMB) to produce a blue product TMBox, and have a distinct K m = 0.087 mM and a high V max = 2.32 μM min −1 value, measured by using Hanes−Woolf kinetics. We also report the light-activated oxidase activity of some other renowned carbocatalysts graphene oxide and graphitic carbon nitride and compare them with PANI-NFs. This type of property shown by the conductive polymer is amazing. The density functional theory is used to verify the stability and the mode of adsorption of the PANI NFs-TMB composite, which corroborates the experimental results. Furthermore, the current nanozyme demonstrated a significant ability to kill both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria as well as effectively destroy biofilms under physiological conditions. We believe that this work provides the motivation to create a link between optoelectronics and biological activity in the near future.
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