Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Eugenio Espejo, Universidad UTE, Quito 170527, Ecuador.
Biomolecules. 2021 Jun 9;11(6):859. doi: 10.3390/biom11060859.
Environmental plastic wastes are continuously degraded to their micro and nanoforms. Since in the environment they coexist with other pollutants, it has been suggested that they could act as vectors transporting different toxic trace elements, such as metals. To confirm this, we have assessed the potential interactions between nanopolystyrene, as a model of nanoplastic debris, and silver compounds (silver nanoparticles and silver nitrate), as models of metal contaminant. Using TEM-EDX methodological approaches, we have been able to demonstrate metal sorption by nanopolystyrene. Furthermore, using Caco-2 cells and confocal microscopy, we have observed the co-localization of nanopolystyrene/nanosilver in different cellular compartments, including the cell nucleus. Although the internalization of these complexes showed no exacerbated cytotoxic effects, compared to the effects of each compound alone, the silver/nanopolystyrene complexes modulate the cell's uptake of silver and slightly modify some harmful cellular effects of silver, such as the ability to induce genotoxic and oxidative DNA damage.
环境中的塑料废物不断降解为微塑料和纳米塑料。由于它们与其他污染物在环境中共存,因此有人认为它们可能充当载体,携带不同的有毒痕量元素,如金属。为了证实这一点,我们评估了纳米聚苯乙烯(作为纳米塑料碎片的模型)与银化合物(纳米银颗粒和硝酸银)(作为金属污染物的模型)之间的潜在相互作用。使用 TEM-EDX 方法学方法,我们能够证明纳米聚苯乙烯对金属的吸附作用。此外,使用 Caco-2 细胞和共聚焦显微镜,我们观察到纳米聚苯乙烯/纳米银在不同细胞区室中的共定位,包括细胞核。尽管与每种化合物单独作用相比,这些复合物的内化没有表现出加剧的细胞毒性作用,但银/纳米聚苯乙烯复合物调节了细胞对银的摄取,并略微改变了银的一些有害细胞作用,例如诱导遗传毒性和氧化 DNA 损伤的能力。
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