Mycofabrication of Silver Oxide Nanoparticles Derived from Aspergillus Terreus FC36AY1 and its Potent Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Anti-Angiogenesis Activities

The present study focused to synthesize the silver oxide nanoparticles (AgONPs) from endophytic fungus, as the strain eventually possess the medicinal property acquired from the medicinal tree, Aegle marmelos. About 35 pigmented endophytic fungi were isolated, screened for antagonistic activity against 12 clinical human pathogens and antioxidant activity through DPPH radical scavenging assay; among the isolates, FC36AY1 explored the highest activity. The endophytic fungus was identied as Aspergillus terreus FC36AY1 through microscopic and Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) 1, ITS 4 and 18S rRNA amplication. The AgONPs were synthesized from the strain FC36AY1 and characterized for its conrmation, functional groups, nanostructures with unit cell dimensions, size and shape, presence of elements through UV-Vis spectrophotometry, FT-IR, X-Ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopic with EDX analysis. The myco-generated AgONPs manifested their antimicrobial and antioxidant properties with maximum activity at minimum concentration. Moreover, the inhibition of angiogenesis by the AgONPs in Hen’s Egg Test on the Chorio-Allantoic Membrane analysis evinced signicant bioactivity at least concentration. Thus the results of this investigation revealed that this bioactive fungal mediated AgONPs can be exploited as potential in biomedical applications.


Introduction
Nanotechnology is a growing eld mainly in the development of nanomedicines with various sizes, morphology, chemical compositions and those are the escalating ones in treating various diseases in the medicinal elds. The nanoparticles could be synthesized by physical/substantial, chemical/synthetic or hybrid ones with two or more methods. The physical and chemical synthesis were popular methods but the usage of chemicals in the synthesis limits the nanoparticle applications in the medicinal eld. The chemicals hydrazine hydrate [1], sodium borohydride [2], potassium borohydride [3], and methoxy polyethylene glycol [4] are used in the chemical reduction methods and these create toxic on the surface of the nanoparticles and thus brings out larger issues in the clinical trials. To prevent the toxicity of nanoparticles, an alternate method is the green synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) which is an eco-friendly and relevant with the pragmatic choice of medical applications [5]. This green protocol yields the stable NPs in an inexpensive method and carried out using plants, algae, yeasts, fungi, actinomycetes and bacteria. The green synthesis is a signi cant method involved in the synthesis of natural NPs which does not cause any adverse effects in clinical trials. The process of NPs biosynthesis is signi cantly a reduction process where the bacteria or fungi which are found to be electrochemically active are e cient in a metal reduction under a wide extensions of natural conditions [6]. Moreover, the microbes can also produce NPs as a by-product of their respiration or metabolic reactions. The microbes produce the NPs intracellular and extracellular mechanism where maximum NPs are retrieved from the extracellular production [5].
The silver oxide nanoparticles (AgONPs) have distinctive physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties that are being integrated into products or by-products ranging from photovoltaic systems to biological materials and chemical applications for their in ated solidity, low dregging temperatures, and electrical conductivity. The production of the AgONPs from microbial explores the great interest towards the precipitation by the reduction process due to its metabolic activity. There are some bacterial genera, like Arthrobacter, Pseudomonas, Bacillus and Escherichia synthesis of AgONPs by their metabolic activity induction by the stimulation of commercial precursors [7]. On comparison with bacteria, fungi were found to produce the maximum of NPs quantitatively in extracellular metabolic mechanism because fungi mycelial structures could withstand the agitation and ow pressure in bioreactors or other culture chambers. Moreover, fungi are having rapid growth with maximal bioactive products, uncomplicated handling and easy in synthesizing NPs [8,9]. The synthesis of AgNPs by various fungi through extracellular mechanism was reported by many researchers. Ahmad et al [10] reported production of Ag + ions has materialized by reduction process through the liberation of reductases in Fusarium oxysporum. Penicillium fellutanum (marine fungal isolate) which was isolated from mangrove sedimental area of South India near coastal regions and this fungus synthesized AgNPs [11] also Trichoderma viride, a fungus that is non-pathogenic synthesized the AgNPs [12]. A report of Ishida et al [13] explored the synthesis of AgNPs from a phytopathogenic fungus, Fusarium oxysporum by the extracellular process. Further, the investigation of Ishida et al. [13] manifested reduction of metal ions are due to the reductases released by the working fungus and thus makes an in-vitro generation of AgNPs using cell extract-based process possible. Recently, Neethu et al [5] synthesized AgNPs by the reduction process occurred through enzymatic reaction of silver nitrate, a commercial source in the marine algicolous endophytic fungus Penicillium polonicum and applied as antimicrobial coatings on medical devices for the prevention of microbial growth. The potentiality of anti-cancer nanoparticles exhibited its activity on a varied type of human cancer cells. Few researchers myco synthesized the AgNPs and explored its anti-cancer activity in opposition to HeLa cells lines and MCF-7 cell lines [14][15][16].
With the increasing demands on the antimicrobials (antibiotics), antioxidants (anti-ageing), anti-cancer agents and the expensive cost in the development of these products has pushed the researchers to develop the effective and novel bioactive products from advanced technology [17]. The AgONPs produced from the endophytic fungi would eventually possess the medicinal property because the endophyte resides inside the medicinal tree mimic the same metabolism as the tree does without causing any diseases. The endophytic fungal strain is an exceptionally fascinating origin of producing the bioactive novel secondary metabolites possessing the biological properties with greater impact [16,18].
According to the myco-research, only limited endophytic fungal strains isolated have been reported to synthesize AgNPs [16, [19][20][21][22]. Till date, the exploration on the extracellular synthesis of AgONPs by the fungal endophytes has not yet completed mainly in the Western Ghats clusters. Hence, the current study aimed to isolate the endophytic fungi from Aegle marmelos (Vilva) around the Western Ghats and to assess the antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-angiogenic properties of AgONPs synthesized from Aspergillus terreus.

Materials And Methods:
2.1. Isolation and screening of endophytic fungi The tree samples were collected from A. marmelos collected near the foothills of Marudhamalai [Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India (11.0183° N, 76.9725° E)] by the authorization of the local tribal people. Three different sections were selected from each tree such as stem, branch and leaf. Each section was taken for 3 different segmentation and therefore the samples were placed in Sabouraud's Dextrose Agar (SDA), Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) and Malt Extract Agar (MEA) media. The samples were collected and surface sterilized by following the method of Mani et al. [23]. The endophytic fungi isolated were taken for antagonism screening by cross-streak method [24]. The pathogens (Obtained from MTCC, Chandigarh and PSG Hospitals, Coimbatore, TN, India as stated in previous studies [25]

Identi cation and characterization of endophytic fungus
The antagonistic and antioxidant potential endophytic fungus was identi ed by microscopic and molecular analysis. The strains were viewed through lactophenol cotton blue staining [27] and examined at 400x and 1000x light microscopy. The morphology of prospective endophytic fungal spores (aerial and substrate mycelia, and arrangement of spores either in chain form or interlinked) were assessed by inoculating on SDA, PDA, and MEA media poured onto coverslips and viewed at 1000x magni cation after incubation period at 28 ± 2°C of 4-7 days. The molecular identi cation was analyzed by the ITS1, 5.8s and ITS4 ampli cation of rDNA. The speci c PCR primers were used for the ampli cation of determining 18S rRNA sequence analysis. Endophytic rDNA fragments were speci c and specialized primers that was operated to vindicate the morphospecies of divergent kind of mycelia [28,29]. The ITS sequences were deposited with NCBI gene bank and the accession number was retrieved. Phylogenetic tree were constructed from the aligned sequences using neighbor-joining (NJ) method with 100 bootstrap replications were performed using CLC Main workbench 8.

Synthesis of AgONPs
The endophytic fungus was allowed to dwell in a Minimal media consisting of preferred carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) source and incubated for 36 hours at 27 ± 2 C. The FC36AY1 was screened for growth and production of AgONPs in wide range of pH (5,6,7,8,9) and silver nitrate (precursor) (0.1 M, 0.01 M, 0.001 M). The strain was taken for synthesis on the basis of resistance exhibited through pH and varied concentration of silver nitrate. The optimized pH and the AgNO 3 concentration for the microbial synthesis of nanoparticles were 7.2 and 0.1 M respectively. After incubation, a known quantity of 0.1M silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ) was added to the culture ltrate of the media. After 12-48 h, the culture media were observed for change of brown colour in the ask which indicated the formation of AgONPs. The brown coloured solution was separated by ltration, centrifuged at 10000 rpm for 30 mins, washed, dried at 300°C in a mu e furnace and used for further studies.

Characterization of AgONPs
The AgONPs were characterized through UV-Vis spectrometry, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope), FTIR (Fourier transform Infra-Red) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Energy Dispersive Analysis (EDX). The UV-visible spectrum was recorded from 300 to 700 nm wavelength at room temperature with Double beam spectrophotometer (Hitachi, Japan). The reaction blank was double sterile distilled water. The FT-IR spectroscopic analysis was carried out in the instrument FT-IR spectrometer (Nicolet Avathar spectrometer -320; Nicolet Instruments, Madison) at a scan range and scanning speed of 4000-400 cm -1 and 2 mm s -1 respectively. Dried sample was treated with KBr, a special grade for pelleting in the ratio 1:50 and were used for the FT-IR analysis. An X-ray diffraction study of AgONPs was performed using an X-ray diffractometer (X'Pert-PRO) with a horizontal goniometer. The elevated resolution on XRD patterns was measured with Cu target at 3 KW and a scintillation counter (k = 1.5406 at 40 kV and recorded at 30 mA in the range of 2 Theta = 10° to 90°. The size and shape of the synthesized AgONPs were analyzed (SEM-Quanta-250-FEG, USA). EDX analysis was performed to detect the presence of elements through EDX -Coupled with SEM-Quanta-250-FEG, USA.

Assessment of antimicrobial activity
The antimicrobial activity was assessed by well diffusion method [30] using Muller Hinton Agar medium. A total of 12 different clinical pathogens such as K. pneumoniae, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, S. epidermidis, E. faecalis, E. coli, P. mirabilis, B. subtilis, S. typhi, Shigella sp, C. albicans and A. niger were taken for the inhibition of pathogenic growth by the synthesized AgONPs (500 µg/ml). The plates with bacterial and fungal pathogenic strains were incubated at 37°C for 18 h and 28°C for 36 h respectively. After incubation, the plates were measured for the inhibition zones around each well indicating the antibacterial and antifungal activity.
2.6. Determination of antioxidant properties 2.6.1. DPPH radical scavenging assay The antioxidants contained in AgONPs were prepared into sequential concentrations (20-100 µg/ml) to determine AgONPs potentiality for scavenging activity of commercial oxidant: 2, 2-diphenyl-1picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radicals using the method of Yildrim et al [26] in triplicates. Different concentrations of the sample AgONPs were dispensed into separate test tubes and made up to 1 mL.
About 3 mL of DPPH mixture (1 mM DPPH commercial radical solution in 95% methanol) were put into the AgONPs added respective tubes, vortexed, and subsequently incubated for 25-30 min in the dark at room temperature. After incubation time, the samples measured for absorbance at λ = 517 nm and 1 mL of 95% methanol was used as a control. The antioxidant activity is given as a percentage (%) and was evaluated using the standard formula: [(ctrl absorbance − ext absorbance) / (ctrl absorbance) × 100]-(ctrl: control; ext: extract).

Metal chelation assay
The estimation of chelation effect on ferrous ions were carried out with the method of Dinis et al. [31].
The tubes were vortexed and kept still at room temperature (RT) for 10 mins. The absorbance was read at 562 nm after 10 mins in UV-Vis Spectrophotometer. The ability of the sample where it bind or chelate ferrous (Fe + ) ion(s) was estimated using the control components through the formula: Ferrous ionchelating ability (%) = [(ctrl absorbance − ext absorbance) / (ctrl absorbance) × 100]-(ctrl: control; ext: extract).

Superoxide Anion Radical Scavenging assay
The superoxide anion radical-(O 2− ) scavenging capacity of the AgONPs was measured according to the method described by Liu et al. [32] using a minor modi cation [33]. The radicals of superoxide are initiated with the combination of PMS (phenazine methosulphate) -NADH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) systems by the creation of oxidation due to NADH and reduction by NBT (nitroblue tetrazolium). In this assessment, the superoxide free radicals were produced in 1.0 mL of 50 µM NBT present in three mL of (16 mM) Tris-HCl buffer with pH 8.0 after then addition of one mL 78 µM NADH solution which creates the oxidation. Then the samples AgONPs in different concentrations (20 to 100 µg/mL) were put on to the above prepared mixture in separate test tubes and the samples were dissolved in methanol. The control tube was kept with methanol. Then, the reaction was instigated by the addition of one mL of 10 µM phenazine methosulphate (PMS) solution to the mixture, mixed well and kept still at RT for 2 mins. The absorbance were read at 560 nm. The standard component was ascorbic acid. The scavenging activity of AgONPs was determined by: [(ctrl absorbance − ext absorbance) / (ctrl absorbance) × 100]-(ctrl: control; ext: extract).

Nitric oxide scavenging assay
The scavenging activity of nitric oxide (NO 2− ) radicals were assessed by the method of Sreejayan et al. [34]. The stable products of nitric oxide are nitrite and nitrate in which the free nitric oxide radicals joins with oxygen atom to produce stable products. The reduced form of nitrite was due to the competition of oxygen in nitric oxide molecule by the scavengers, and thus the nitrite concentration in aqueous matter was determined with the addition of Griess reagent through spectrophotometrically (546 nm), where the nitrite reforms into a stable product. The generation of nitric oxide radicals were acheivedby the addition of one ml of 10 mM sodium nitroprusside. Then, the samples prepared at various concentrations (as in Sect. 2.6.1) were added in phosphate buffer with pH 7.4. The mixture was vortexed and kept at 25°C for 2 hours 30 mins. After incubation time, about 1 ml of Greiss reagent (mixture of 1% sulphanilamide, 2% orthophosphoric acid and 0.1% NEDD-naphthyl ethylene diamine dihydrochloride) was put on to the respective test tubes, mixed well and immediately the absorbance was estimated at 546 nm. The percentage inhibition of free radicals by AgONPs was calculated using the formula: Chelating ability (%) = [(ctrl absorbance − ext absorbance) / (ctrl absorbance) × 100]-(ctrl: control; ext: extract).

Determination of anti-angiogenesis through HET-CAM (Hen's Egg Test on the Chorio-Allantoic Membrane)
This determination is executed to understand the in ammatory tissue reactions of bioactive compounds or synthesized bio-nanoparticles on the growing tissues and blood vessels and this was determined by direct evaluation method [24]. The embryonated eggs of 9th day incubation were taken for this assessment; each egg were mounted on the working table/ for further process and the eggs of Chittagong breed were purchased from K. A. Poultry Farm (Tiruppur, TN, India). The air space area of the egg was kept facing upwards and using sterile blade a small incision was made on the shell. The shell and capsular membrane was then removed, and the prepared AgONPs (200 µL) on small discs in triplicates was carefully inserted into the CAM space. Before placing the sample(s) the number of blood vessels were counted and after the stipulated 2 and 18 hours the angiogenic process was evaluated in each egg. 0.1 N NaOH (positive control) and 0.9 % NaCl (negative control). Each control and sample were added to embryonated eggs in triplicates and assessed.

Statistical analysis
The results of antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-angiogenic activity are given as mean ± SD (standard deviation) and assessed using one-way ANOVA, exhibiting p-value of 0.05 being signi cant, by the (Graph Pad Prism 8.0) statistical software.

Isolation and screening of endophytic fungi from Vilva tree
Several bioactive metabolites had been produced by endophytic fungi were reported as antibiotic compounds exhibiting a wide range of antagonistic spectrum against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Mostly the pigmented fungi contain more bioactivity than non-pigmented ones [35] and this eventually led this research to isolate the pigmented strains. The pigmented endophytic fungal isolates were preliminarily investigated for their antagonistic activity (Table S1 and S2) and among 35 strains, 5 endophytic fungi FC25BYI, FC36AY1, FC39BBr, FC3ABr and FC32AGr exhibited highest inhibitory activity against maximum pathogens tested and the most prominent potential fungus which ranked rst in maximum activity (FC36AY1). Further, the results of antioxidant activity explored the highest activity in the crude extract of several isolated endophytes and among the isolates, FC36AY1 explored the maximum activity in a dosage-dependent approach. The crude extract has been extracted using six different polar and non-polar solvents in a gradient. The initiation or spawning of free radicals in human body may be due to normal or pathological metabolism in cell. Oxidation was more vital to the organisms like plants, animals, human beings and microorganisms for energy production which acts as fuel in several biological processes during metabolism. Nevertheless, the uncurbed production of oxygen-derived free radicals mainly implicates at the beginning of several diseases such as onco-related disease: cancer, ageing, etc [36,37]. The microbe FC36AY1 can scavenge the free radicals at least concentration.

Identi cation and characterization of endophytic fungi
The spore morphology of the isolate FC36AY1 exhibited distinctive colony morphology and the microscopic attributes like aerial and substrate mycelial interlinked hyphae and spore structure and their arrangements which were identi ed at the level of genus. The fungus produced yellow to brown coloured mycelial structures (aerial mycelium: yellow coloured; substrate mycelium: brown coloured) with yellow diffusible pigments in SDA (Fig. 1). The strain FC36AY1 was brightly visible under Lactophenol cotton blue staining. The hyphae are septate and hyaline (Fig. 1b); Conidiophores are smooth-walled and hyaline, long, terminating in mostly globose vesicles (Fig. 1c). The conidia of Aspergillus species are tiny of 2 mm in diameter, globose -shaped, sessile and hyaline (Fig. 1d)  The search of novel secondary metabolites hidden in the important genetic resource are endophytic fungi [23]. The endophytic fungus was identi ed at genus level and molecular characterization were determined based on sequencing the ITS1-5.8S-ITS4 region. The ampli cation of ITS rDNA region of the potential endophyte FC36AY1 were sequenced and compared with the other organisms' ITS sequences using BLAST explored in the NCBI database and the generation of phylogenetic tree (Fig. 2) was done by connecting this strain to their closely associated fungal strains by Neighborhood Joining (NJ) plot. The alignment and bootstrapping of the sequences were determined by CLUSTAL X; the sequences that revealed E = 0.0 and highest % similarity with the ampli ed sequences were taken for alignment process. The identi ed organism was Aspergillus terreus. The NCBI accession ID for isolated strain Aspergillus terreus FC36AY1 as KY807648.

Synthesis and characterization of AgONPs from FC36AY1
The fungus was exposed to AgNO 3 and on incubation time, the fungus exhibited the formation of AgONPs on the exterior of the cell wall by the colour alteration from straw yellow to brown color at the pH 7.2. It indicated the development of the NPs might be due to the extracellular oxidase enzymes or biomolecules synthesis when the fungus was cultured in the silver nitrate solution. The AgONPs are separated by the centrifugation process and dried. The origination of nanoparticles and its stability is greatly in uenced in the medium by the pH and temperature [35,40,41]. About 124 mg/L (124 ppm) of AgONPs were synthesized from A. terreus in 100 mM concentration of silver nitrate. This was akin to the results of Balakumaran et al. [16] where about 214 ppm of AgONPs were synthesized from A. terreus 1 mM concentration. The NPs can be synthesized from both intracellular and extracellular synthesis but more quantity of NPs were retrieved from extracellular synthesis. This extracellular was found to be most signi cant and extensively used hence no strategies are necessary to untie the NPs from the cells [42][43][44][45]. The three key factors which are signi cant in the synthesis of AgNPs are reducing agent, reaction medium [46] and the synthesis is enhanced by enzyme-catalyzed reaction [47]. The morphology and size of the AgONPs may change due to the conformational derivation and revamp in the nitrate reduction enzymes in the fungal culture ltrate which is caused by various effects in proton concentration [48].
Deepak et al. [49] disclosed the condition of the AgNPs myco-fabrication was alkaline, the synthesis would be rapid than in acidic circumstances. Simply this can meant, synthesis boosts up when the pH escalates respecting the alkaline zone. Nevertheless, these nanoparticle dispersed in the culture medium must be ltered to annihilate fungal remnants and impurities, which could be done in various techniques employed for ltration processes such as simple ltration, gel ltration, membrane ltration, ultracentrifugation, and dialysis [50][51][52].
The UV-Vis spectral analysis con rmed the existence of AgONPs (Fig. 3a). The peak formed at 421 nm explored the speci city of AgONPs and there was no additional increase in intensity implicating the absolute reduction of silver ions [53]. The AgONPs ranged in between 400 to 450 nm indicated the presence of larger NPs [54]. According to a few types of research, the NADH-dependent nitrate reductase enzyme is more needed for the silver ions for the reduction process and this enzyme was produced by the fungus extracellularly. The reduction process succeeded on the surface of the cell wall where the enzymes were available by a nitrate-dependent reductase. Further few extracellular enzymes such as anthraquinones and acenaphthoquinone act as an electron shuttle in the reduction of silver [55]. The investigation report of Sunkar and Nachiyar [56] revealed that the AgNPs absorption peak at 400 and 423 nm synthesized by endophytic fungal strains Garcinia xanthochymus and Aravae lanata.
The XRD pattern of AgONPs synthesized using A. terreus FC36AY1 explicated the crystalline nature and displaying the structural information (Fig. 3b). The XRD spectrum of the sample indicated two diffraction peaks at 27.28 °and 31.75 °, which corresponds to (110) [35]. The peaks at 983.70, 948.98 and 709.80 denote the presence of C = C alkene groups. The peak 538.14 denotes the presence of AgONPs and this is approximately similar to the results of Singh et al. [22]. The protein molecules present in the extracellular enzyme ltrate act as reducing and stabilizing agent by the attachment of unchained amino groups/cysteine remnants or along the electrostatic attraction of carboxylate groups (negative charge) which aids in the binding of AgONPs [22,57].
The SEM analysis involves important decisions and choices that are unique where the AgONPs are found to be in an irregular spherical shape (Fig. 5a) [60]. The size varies from 60 nm to 100 nm in SEM analysis, which denotes the con rmation size of NPs. Moreover, the size of the AgONPs in this study was found to be at 60 nm which is due to the concentration of silver nitrate at 100 mM [35]. This was similar to the report of Phanjom and Ahmed  Figure 5b explains the presence of silver element and this was elucidated by EDX Analysis. The obtained results of EDX was similar to the investigation report of Balakumaran et al [35]. This was performed to determine the presence of elements in the synthesized particles.

Determination of antimicrobial activity
The antimicrobial assessment for the synthesized AgONPs against stated pathogens. The AgONPs explored antimicrobial activity for all 12 pathogens where the highest activity was recorded at odds of C. albicans, A. niger, B. subtilis, E. faecalis, E. coli and S. epidermidis and no activity was noticed against P. mirabilis ( Table 1). The silver ions from the AgONPs will be deposited as granules and vacuoles into the cell walls; moreover, the cell division would be inhibited with further damage in the cell layered envelope and few cellular components of the bacteria [61-63]. The results were approximately similar to the research of Balakumaran et al [35] where the AgONPs exhibited the antimicrobial activity in the highest manner. Moreover, the AgNPs evinced the maximum activity against most of the Gram-negative clinical pathogens and this correlates with the current investigation.  [44] stated the inhibition of bacterial growth is directed by the NPs, which causes progressive metabolic responses by contacting the cell wall, with the production of ROS. Therefore, the antimicrobial AgNPs disrupts the cell membrane enabling a higher degree of reciprocity with the bacterial cell membrane, emanating in the bacterial death [5,69]. Zone Mesurement of inhibition zone was computed in centimeter ± standard deviation (SD) of three independent experiments-triplicates; (-) no activity. ----

Assessment of antioxidant activity
The antioxidant activity for the synthesized AgONPs was performed through DPPH, superoxide, nitric oxide radicals scavenging and metal chelation assays (Fig. 6). Free radicals present in the body are found to be detrimental mainly in targeting DNA, lipids and proteins. It is essential to counterbalance and scavenge these unbound radicals by the antioxidants [70]. The Inhibitory Concentration at 50% (IC 50 ) values for DPPH, SOD, nitric oxide and metal chelation were established to be 62 µg/mL, 46 µg/mL, 47 µg/mL and 52 µg/mL respectively. The maximum antioxidant property in a products will also have the anti-cancer property as the cancer cells have rapid growth which is triggered by the free radicals formed in the human body.
The scarcity of antioxidants preceeds to the formation of free radicals' chain(s) and leads to the damage in the cells or mutate the cells and thus the formation of tumours and thus cancer occurs. Recently, there is strong evidence of diseases like atherosclerosis and cancer associated with pathological conditions created by ROS in the cell system. Cirrhosis and rheumatoid arthritis are the degenerative diseases linked with ageing and due to the lack of antioxidants in the human body [37]. The free radicals are lipid alkyl (OO), lipid peroxide (LO 2 2− ), superoxide free radical anion (O 2 − ) are oxygen-derived radicals and nonradical derivatives are hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ); these are altogether known as ROS. Due to two vital determinants in the biological system these free radicals have been formed: 1) Cellular metabolism in ER (endoplasmic reticulum), oxidation, NADPH oxidase, electron transport chain in mitochondria, nitric oxide synthetase; 2) Environmental factors/ sources-transition metals, pesticides, drugs, alcohol, tobacco smoke, high temperature and radiations [71]. Thus the nanoparticles have the highest ability to scavenge the free radicals in minimum concentration. This antioxidant capacity of AgONPs leads to further studies such as the elucidation of anti-cancer property in AgONPs.

HET-CAM test on chick embryo
The CAM analysis is a sensitive, effortlessly viable, and inexpensive in vivo scrutiny of the antiangiogenic strategy of discrete bioactive compounds. In cancer or tumour formation the most important stage is the metastasis where the blood vessels are formed around the tumor in which the tumor cells are carried via the blood channel and it can easily locate in some other parts of the body or organ(s). This is the malignant stage of cancer where the tumor formation in various parts of the organs. In this current study aimed to inhibit or prevent the formation of blood vessels (angiogenesis) by the implementation of synthesized AgONPs and this property was elucidated in embryonated chick eggs through the test HET-CAM assay. The AgONPs inhibited most of the blood vessels and inhibited the newly formed blood vessels in a varied incubation period and dose-dependent manner.
The AgONPs inhibited the formation of blood vessels at an interval of 2 hours and 18 hours (Table. 2 and Fig. 7). Figure 7A denotes the 2nd hour of the AgONPs (200µl) inoculated and there is the normal angiogenesis process. After the exposure of AgONPs (18 h) has been explicated that the inhibition of blood vessels formation and diminished the early angiogenesis (Fig. 7b). The report of Patil et al [36] was similar to the current study where the AgNPs synthesized from fungal species exhibited the antiangiogenesis at 0.1 µg concentration. The NPs system have the ability to overcome the blood-brain barrier (BBB) which can be used as anti-cancer therapeutic agents. Further, these AgONPs responds to respective magnetic eld and also light which paves a way to therapeutic agents in cancer treatment [72].
These types of NPs can also be used as nanocarriers in drug delivery system in the respective medicinal elds. This manifests that the AgONPs has the signi cant anti-angiogenic property which could easily inhibit in the tumour cells and explored as anti-cancer agents.

Conclusion
This work demonstrates the antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-angiogenic properties in the synthesized AgONPs mediated from A. terreus FC36AY1. The AgONPs exhibited the highest antagonistic and antimicrobial properties in minimum concentration; this is due to the presence of medicinal properties elicited on the NPs in the extracellular enzyme matrix. The AgONPs were synthesized at 100 mM silver nitrate concentration and the con rmation was elucidated through UV-Vis spectrum where the peak appeared in the region between 425 nm to 470 nm. The SEM analysis explored the particle size ranged between 60 nm to 100 nm and the shape was in an irregular spherical shape. The functional groups present in the AgONPs are hydroxyl, alkene, alcohol and carboxyl groups with aromatic compounds, and EDX analysis con rms the residence of silver elements. Finally, the AgONPs evinced the anti-angiogenic property by the inhibition of blood vessels formation through HET-CAM analysis and this manifests that the AgONPs can be taken for further anti-cancer assessment. This is the rst report where the antiangiogenesis property was explored by the AgONPs synthesized from an endophytic fungus A. terreus.     Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX analysis of AgONPs derived from Aspergillus terreus FC36AY1.

Figure 6
Antioxidant analysis for synthesized AgONPs derived from Aspergillus terreus FC36AY1