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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 223, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112559
Keywords
PAEs; SOD; Biotransformation; Activity inhibition; Binding interactions
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC1801005]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2020YFC1808602]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41977356, 21377138]
- Frontier Project of Knowledge Innovation Engineering Field
- 135 plans of CAS [ISSASIP1618]
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Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are widely distributed organic pollutants in the environment, with harmful effects such as inhibiting superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity. Earthworms exposed to different PAE congeners showed varying responses in SOD activity. In vitro experiments demonstrated that PAEs like DBP, MBP, and PA could inhibit SOD activity, with inhibition levels correlating with concentration. The interaction between PAEs and SOD was found to be thermodynamically exothermic, primarily driven by van der Waals force and hydrogen bonds, leading to changes in protein conformation and fluorescence.
Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are a group of widespread persistent organic pollutants in the environment. Though the harmful effect of PAEs including activity inhibition of superoxide dismutase (SOD) to arouse oxidative stress were well documented, the deep insights into mechanisms that are relevant with SOD activity are still lacking. By 7d-cultivation of Eisenia fetida in artificially-polluted soil, the different active responses of SOD in earthworm were shown to PAE congeners. Despite the less bioaccumulation and bioavailability, the di-butyl phthalate (DBP) etc. structurally coupled with longer ester-chains appeared more effective to trigger the up-regulation and then the slight decline of SOD activity. Given the remarkable biotransformation especially for short-chain PAEs, the SOD activity response in earthworm should be regarded as joint effect with their metabolites, e.g. mono-phthalates (MAEs) and phthalic acid (PA). The in vitro SOD activity was shown with the obvious inhibition of 21.31% by DBP, 88.93% by MBP, and 58.57% by PA respectively when the concentrations were elevated up to 0.03 mM. The SOD activity inhibition confirmed the molecular binding with pollutants as an essential event besides the biological regulation for activity. The binding interaction was thermodynamically exothermic, spontaneous and strengthened primarily by Van der Waals force and hydrogen bonds, and was spectrally diagnosed with the conformational changes including diminution of alpha-helix content and spatial reorientation of fluorophore tryptophan. As coherently illustrated with the larger fluorescence quenching constants (3.65*104-4.47*104/mol) than DBP, the metabolites should be the priority concern due to stronger activity inhibition and toxicological risks.
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