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            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.14.4.28</article-id>
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                <article-title>Green Synthesis and Antimicrobial Potential of Silver/Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with Debregeasia salicifolia D. Don</article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Bawazeer</surname>
                        <given-names>Sami</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Rauf</surname>
                        <given-names>Abdur</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ur Rahman</surname>
                        <given-names>Khaliq</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ali</surname>
                        <given-names>Jawad</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Uddin</surname>
                        <given-names>Ghias</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Begum</surname>
                        <given-names>Fatima</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>S. Mubarak</surname>
                        <given-names>Mohammad</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Fawzy Ramadan</surname>
                        <given-names>Mohamed</given-names>
                    </name>
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          <aff id="aff-1">Pharmacognosy Department, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudia Arabia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Department of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Anbar-23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan</aff>
			<aff id="aff-3">Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, K.P.K Peshawar - 25120, Pakistan</aff>
			<aff id="aff-4">Department of Chemistry, The University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan</aff>
			<aff id="aff-5">Deanship of Scientific Research, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, P.O.Box 715, Saudi Arabia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-6">Agricultural Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig - 44519, Egypt.</aff>
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-11-09">
                <day>09</day>
				<month>11</month>
				<year>2020</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>14</volume>
            <issue>4</issue>
            <fpage>2513</fpage>
            <lpage>2523</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2020 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://microbiologyjournal.org/green-synthesis-and-antimicrobial-potential-of-silver-gold-nanoparticles-functionalized-with-debregeasia-salicifolia-d-don"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>The aim of the current study was to detect various secondary metabolites in the extract of Debregeasia salicifolia, and to synthesize stable silver/gold nanoparticles (Ag/AuNPs) from D. salicifolia methanol crude extract. The antioxidant, antibacterial, and antifungal activities of the methanol crude extract, various isolated fractions, and the synthesized nanoparticles were evaluated. Phytochemical analyses of the methanol extract/fractions indicated the presence of tannins, saponins, flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, coumarins, emodins, and soluble starch. Gold and silver nanoparticles have been subsequently synthesized from the methanol crude extract by green synthesis, and characterized by UV and IR spectroscopic techniques. Size of the particles was determined with the aid of an atomic force microscope (AFM). The results revealed that the size of AuNPs was 5-100 nm, and that of AgNPs was in the range 5-100 nm. Bioactivity screening revealed that chloroform and n-hexane fractions exhibited significant 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH·) radical scavenging potential against quercetin. Additionally, the extract/fractions and AuNPs were also subjected to antimicrobial activity screening against a number of strains of microbes. Among extracts, n-hexane fraction showed good antifungal activity as compared to other fractions, whereas in the case of anti-bacterial activity, extract and fractions were active against Gram positive and Gram negative bacterial strain. AuNPs were exhibited moderate activity against all tested bacterial strains. 
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Green synthesis</kwd>
        <kwd>Atomic force microscope</kwd>
		<kwd>antiradical</kwd>
		<kwd>antioxidant</kwd>
			<kwd>antimicrobial</kwd>
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