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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
卷 465, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.133032
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Polystyrene nanoplastics; Eisenia fetida immune cells; Cytotoxic effects; Immunotoxicity; Conformational and functional changes; Toxic mechanisms
Nanoplastics have significant cytotoxic and immunotoxic effects on soil organisms, resulting from oxidative stress and impaired immune function. High-dose exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics causes oxidative stress-induced cytotoxicity, including reduced antioxidant defenses, DNA damage, and protein oxidation. Moreover, it inhibits immune function by activating the oxidative stress pathway.
Nanoplastics (NPs) are currently everywhere and environmental pollution by NPs is a pressing global problem. Nevertheless, until now, few studies have concentrated on the mechanisms and pathways of cytotoxic effects and immune dysfunction of NPs on soil organisms employing a multidimensional strategy. Hence, earthworm immune cells and immunity protein lysozyme (LZM) were selected as specific receptors to uncover the underlying mechanisms of cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, and immunotoxicity resulting from exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs), and the binding mechanisms of PS-NPs-LZM interaction. Results on cells indicated that when earthworm immune cells were exposed to high-dose PS-NPs, it caused a notable rise in the release of reactive oxygen species (ROS), resulting in oxidative stress. PS-NPs exposure significantly decreased the cell viability of earthworm immune cells, inducing cytotoxicity through ROS-mediated oxidative stress pathway, and oxidative injury effects, including reduced antioxidant defenses, lipid peroxidation, DNA damage, and protein oxidation. Moreover, PS-NPs stress inhibited the intracellular LZM activity in immune cells, resulting in impaired immune function and immunotoxicity by activating the oxidative stress pathway mediated by ROS. The results from molecular studies revealed that PS-NPs binding destroyed the LZM structure and conformation, including
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