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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 79, Issue 1, Pages 86-92Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.12.051
Keywords
Butyrylcholinesterase; Carbon nanotubes; Dissolved metal ions; Enzyme; Neurotoxicity; Biomarker
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30570340]
- Education Ministry of China
- USDA [MAS 00978]
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Butyrylcholinesterase (BOE), an important enzyme present in brain, serum and nervous system, is sensitive to neurotoxin. Engineered nanoparticles (NPs) may enter the mammalian body and be toxic. To investigate the potential neurotoxicity of different NI's and the interaction between NPs and BChE, three metal NPs (Cu-C, Cu and Al), three oxides NPs (SiO(2), TiO(2) and Al(2)O(3)), two carbon nanotubes (MWCNT and SWCNT) and two micro-scaled particles (Cu and activated carbon) were used to test their adsorption and inhibition on human serum BChE. At 800 mg L(-1), adsorption and inhibition of BChE by MWCNT were the highest, 97% and 96%, respectively, while Al NPs showed the lowest adsorption (6.8%) and inhibition rates (3.3%). Ions could be dissolved in all metal and oxide NPs suspensions except TiO(2) NPs. In comparison to other ions, Cu(2+) released in Cu and Cu-C suspensions had the highest BChE activity reduction, 39.1% and 42.6%, respectively. The contribution of dissolved ions to the total inhibition by NPs suspension followed a decreasing sequence of Al (66%) > Cu (46%) > Cu-C (45%) > Al(2)O(3) (44%) > SS1[SiO(2)] (25%) > SP1[SiO(2)] (0), suggesting that the inhibition of BChE may partly result from ion dissolution from NPs. The inhibition of BChE by micro-scaled activated carbon and Cu particles was significantly lower than that of their nano-scaled particles. The inhibition of BChE by MWCNT, SWCNT, TiO(2) (HR3) and Cu NI's showed concentration-response relationships. Their median inhibitory concentrations (IC(50)) were 97, 49, 206 and 1.54 mg L(-1), respectively. These results indicate that these four NPs may have neurotoxicity and BChE may be potentially used as a biomarker of NPs in the environment. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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