Synthesis and application of exopolysaccharide-selenium nanocomposite produced by Pseudoduganella armeniaca ZMN-3
Xintong Duan, Xiuwei Hou, Ying Zhai, Ming Ying, Meitong Li, Lei Huang · 2026
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Xintong Duan and five colleagues dress selenium nanoparticles in a bacterial sugar coat and test the composite against free radicals and cancer cells. Selenium protects cells in trace amounts but turns harsh at higher doses, and bare nanoparticles clump. The coating, an exopolysaccharide brewed by the bacterium Pseudoduganella armeniaca ZMN-3, steadied particles at an average 145 nanometres. Their 2026 study characterised the composite, then ran three antioxidant assays and growth tests on breast and liver cancer cell lines.
At the top test dose the composite quenched 86.49 percent of one radical type and 82.96 percent of another, beating its parts taken separately. Cancer growth slowed with dose and time, reaching 53 to 54 percent inhibition at the highest dose after forty-eight hours. Treated cells released more of the immune alarm TNF-α than a positive control provoked. The authors call the pairing an enhancement, worth deeper study as an antioxidant and anti-tumour candidate.
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| CREATOR | Xintong Duan, Xiuwei Hou, Ying Zhai, Ming Ying, Meitong Li, Lei Huang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59121 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |