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J Nanobiotechnology ; 22(1): 171, 2024 Apr 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38610017

RESUMO

Salivary extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as key tools for non-invasive diagnostics, playing a crucial role in the early detection and monitoring of diseases. These EVs surpass whole saliva in biomarker detection due to their enhanced stability, which minimizes contamination and enzymatic degradation. The review comprehensively discusses methods for isolating, enriching, quantifying, and characterizing salivary EVs. It highlights their importance as biomarkers in oral diseases like periodontitis and oral cancer, and underscores their potential in monitoring systemic conditions. Furthermore, the review explores the therapeutic possibilities of salivary EVs, particularly in personalized medicine through engineered EVs for targeted drug delivery. The discussion also covers the current challenges and future prospects in the field, emphasizing the potential of salivary EVs in advancing clinical practice and disease management.


Assuntos
Vesículas Extracelulares , Neoplasias Bucais , Humanos , Medicina de Precisão , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos , Saliva
2.
J Transl Med ; 21(1): 211, 2023 03 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36949458

RESUMO

The human body is colonized by abundant and diverse microorganisms, collectively known as the microbiome. The oral cavity has more than 700 species of bacteria and consists of unique microbiome niches on mucosal surfaces, on tooth hard tissue, and in saliva. The homeostatic balance between the oral microbiota and the immune system plays an indispensable role in maintaining the well-being and health status of the human host. Growing evidence has demonstrated that oral microbiota dysbiosis is actively involved in regulating the initiation and progression of an array of autoimmune diseases.Oral microbiota dysbiosis is driven by multiple factors, such as host genetic factors, dietary habits, stress, smoking, administration of antibiotics, tissue injury and infection. The dysregulation in the oral microbiome plays a crucial role in triggering and promoting autoimmune diseases via several mechanisms, including microbial translocation, molecular mimicry, autoantigen overproduction, and amplification of autoimmune responses by cytokines. Good oral hygiene behaviors, low carbohydrate diets, healthy lifestyles, usage of prebiotics, probiotics or synbiotics, oral microbiota transplantation and nanomedicine-based therapeutics are promising avenues for maintaining a balanced oral microbiome and treating oral microbiota-mediated autoimmune diseases. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between oral microbiota dysbiosis and autoimmune diseases is critical for providing novel insights into the development of oral microbiota-based therapeutic approaches for combating these refractory diseases.


Assuntos
Doenças Autoimunes , Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Microbiota , Probióticos , Humanos , Disbiose/microbiologia , Boca/microbiologia
3.
Environ Sci Technol ; 55(8): 4658-4668, 2021 04 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33754703

RESUMO

Microplastics (MPs) pollution has caused a threat to soil ecosystem diversity and functioning globally. Recently, an increasing number of studies have reported effects of MPs on soil ecosystems. However, these studies mainly focused on soil bacterial communities and a few limited functional genes, which is why MPs effects on soil ecosystems are still not fully understood. Fertilization treatment often coinsides with MPs exposure in practice. Here, we studied effects of an environmentally relevant concentration of polyethylene on soil properties, microbial communities, and functions under different soil types and fertilization history. Our results showed that 0.2% PE MPs exposure could affect soil pH, but this effect varied according to soil type and fertilization history. Long-term fertilization history could alter effects of MPs on soil bacterial and fungal communities in diverse farmland ecosystems (P < 0.05). Soil fungal communities are more sensitive to MPs than bacterial communities under 0.2% PE MPs exposure. MPs exposure has a greater impact on the soil ecosystem with a lower microbial diversity and functional genes abundance and increases the abundance of pathogenic microorganisms. These findings provided an integrated picture to aid our understanding of the impact of MPs on diverse farmland ecosystems with different fertilization histories.


Assuntos
Microbiota , Poluentes do Solo , Ecossistema , Fazendas , Fertilização , Microplásticos , Plásticos , Solo , Microbiologia do Solo , Poluentes do Solo/análise
4.
Environ Sci Technol ; 55(13): 8760-8770, 2021 07 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34132095

RESUMO

Microplastics (MPs) are becoming ubiquitous in environments and viewed as carriers of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Rivers connecting differently urbanized areas contribute a significant input of MPs and ARGs to the environment. However, a systematic study assessing the role of urbanization in shaping antibiotic resistome and mobilome in riverine MPs is lacking. Here, we conducted a large-scale study by placing five types of MPs (polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene-fiber, and polyethylene-fiber-polyethylene) into Beilun River with an urbanization gradient. A total of 314 ARGs and 57 mobile genetic elements (MGEs) were detected in MPs by high-throughput quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The ARGs in MPs showed a clear spatial distribution with the abundance increased by 2 orders of magnitude from rural to urban regions. A holistic analysis of 13 socioeconomic and environmental factors identified that urbanization predominantly contributed to both the abundance and potential MGE-mediated dissemination of ARGs in riverine MPs. Notably, MPs types were found to significantly affect the resistome and dissemination risk of ARGs, with polypropylene being the preferred substrates to acquire and spread ARGs. This work highlights the necessity of controlling MPs and ARGs pollution in urban areas and provides an important guide for the future usage and disposal of plastics.


Assuntos
Microplásticos , Rios , Antibacterianos , Genes Bacterianos , Plásticos , Urbanização
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J Fluoresc ; 30(5): 1225-1232, 2020 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32749565

RESUMO

A novel coordination polymer (CP) based on Zn(II) of [Zn(tptc)0.5(bpy)(H2O)]n (1) was synthesized through utilizing the 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy) chelating N donors and p-terphenyl-2,2'',5'',5'''-tetracarboxylate acid (H4tptc) as the co-ligands. The measurements of the fluorescence were implemented for the complex 1 in solution and solid state, and the result reveals that 1 has a strong fluorescence and it is a sensory material with great development space to determine the trace Cr2O72- (with the detection limit of 36 ppb) in the water solutions via applying the fluorescence quenching effect. As the common disease in the orthopedic nursing, the deep vein thrombosis was the objective in this research. The weigh and length of the thrombus in the animals were measured and analyzed. In addition to this, the inflammatory response in the deep vein thrombosis animal was evaluated by RT-PCR. Molecular docking results indicate that only the carboxyl group could provide polar oxygen atoms for the formed hydrogen bonds to the protein.


Assuntos
Complexos de Coordenação/farmacologia , Corantes Fluorescentes/farmacologia , Enfermagem Ortopédica , Polímeros/farmacologia , Trombose Venosa/prevenção & controle , Zinco/farmacologia , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Complexos de Coordenação/síntese química , Complexos de Coordenação/química , Corantes Fluorescentes/síntese química , Corantes Fluorescentes/química , Inflamação/prevenção & controle , Simulação de Acoplamento Molecular , Polímeros/química , Dicromato de Potássio/análise , Ratos , Poluentes Químicos da Água/análise , Zinco/química
6.
Inorg Chem ; 58(21): 14617-14625, 2019 Nov 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31626549

RESUMO

Titanium-oxo clusters (TOCs) are attractive as a rapidly growing class of molecular materials due to their use as molecular models and precursors of nano-titanium-oxide. However, most TOCs can only be dissolved in nonaqueous solvents, which largely limits their potential applications in biological or environmental situations. Very few water-soluble TOCs were reported, which can be used directly in aqueous biomedical systems. However, until now, no research studies of such TOCs involved in biomedical fields have been documented. We report here a series of lanthanide-titanium-oxo clusters (LnTOCs) formulated as {H2@[Ln2Ti8(µ3-O)8(µ2-O)4(Ac)16]}3·24CH3CN·23H2O (Ln = Eu(III) 1, Tb(III) 2, and Yb(III) 3). The compounds are easily soluble in water and form a stable solution of the cluster aggregates (LnTOC-a). Therefore, nano-biocompatible TiO materals can be prepared from these LnTOCs just by dissolving them in water. The nanoscale aggregates in water solutions were characterized by SEI-MS, 1H NMR, XPS, IR, and EDS mapping. Using the EuTOC-a solution, excellent fluorescence sensor properties for biomolecule ascorbic acid were found. Furthermore, biocompatibility and fluorescent labeling properties of the EuTOC-a for HeLa cells were evaluated. The results indicated that water-soluble LnTOCs can be used to prepare biocompatible fluorescent Ln-Ti-O nanomaterials.


Assuntos
Materiais Biocompatíveis/química , Elementos da Série dos Lantanídeos/química , Nanoestruturas/química , Oxigênio/química , Titânio/química , Água/química , Células HeLa , Humanos , Tamanho da Partícula , Solubilidade
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Appl Microbiol Biotechnol ; 102(21): 9159-9170, 2018 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30083801

RESUMO

Proteases can cause unacceptable fiber damage when they are singly applied to wool anti-felting treatment which can make wool textiles machine-washable. Even if protease is attached by synthetic polymers, the modified protease plays a limited role in the degradation of keratin with dense structure consisting of disulfide bonds in the scales. Here, to obtain "machine-washable" wool textiles, a novel "trifunctional protease" with reducibility, hydrolysis, and localization is developed by means of covalent bonding of protease molecules with poly (ethylene glycol) bis (carboxymethyl) ether (HOOC-PEG-COOH) and L-cysteine using carbodiimide/N-hydroxysuccinimide (EDC/NHS) coupling, aiming at selectively degrading the scales on the surface of wool. The formation of polymer is confirmed with size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Ellman's test and fluorescence microscopy reveal that the modified protease can reduce disulfide bonds and restrict hydrolysis of peptide bonds on the wool scales. Furthermore, when applied to wool fabrics, the modified protease reach better treatment effects considering dimensional stability to felting (6.12%), strength loss (11.7%) and scale dislodgement proved by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), alkali solubility, wettability, and dyeability. This multifunctional enzyme is well-designed according to the requirement of the modification of wool surface, showing great potential for eco-friendly functionalization of keratin fibers rich in disulfide linkage.


Assuntos
Peptídeo Hidrolases/química , Lã/química , Animais , Corantes/química , Hidrólise , Queratinas/química , Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura/métodos , Polietilenoglicóis/química , Polímeros/química , Espectroscopia de Infravermelho com Transformada de Fourier/métodos , Propriedades de Superfície , Resistência à Tração , Têxteis
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Biotechnol Appl Biochem ; 65(3): 372-380, 2018 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28881487

RESUMO

Silk sericin has excellent features of antioxidant ability and good cytocompatibility; however, high water solubility and poor mechanical properties have restricted its application in biomedical fields. In this study, aimed at improving the mechanical properties of a regenerated silk sericin, the primary hydroxy groups in silk sericin were enzymatically oxidized by using laccase and 2,2',6,6'-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl (TEMPO), and the generated reactive groups then reacted further with the amino groups in the sericin chains. The efficacy of the enzymatic cross-linking was evaluated by means of determination of amino groups, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and size exclusion chromatography. The results indicated that either laccase/TEMPO incubation or laccase treatment alone incurred a noticeable increase in the molecular weight of the sericin. FTIR analysis revealed that there was small change in the structure of the silk sericin after laccase/TEMPO treatment, and the obtained air-dried sericin membrane exhibited remarkably improved mechanical properties relative to those of the uncross-linked sericin membrane. In addition, the biocompatibility of the sericin membrane was at an acceptable level according to the cell viability of NIH/3T3 cells. The present work provides a novel method for the preparation of sericin-based biomaterials.


Assuntos
Materiais Biocompatíveis/metabolismo , Óxidos N-Cíclicos/metabolismo , Lacase/metabolismo , Sericinas/metabolismo , Animais , Materiais Biocompatíveis/farmacologia , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Óxidos N-Cíclicos/química , Lacase/química , Camundongos , Células NIH 3T3 , Oxirredução , Seda
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J Sep Sci ; 41(13): 2759-2766, 2018 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29676851

RESUMO

Five iridoid glycosides were prepared using molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction combined with preparative high-performance liquid chromatography. Hydrophilic molecularly imprinted polymers were synthesized using α-1-allyl-2-N-acetyl glucosamine, which introduced an abundance of hydrophilic groups into the polymers. Using molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction as the sample pretreatment procedure, five iridoid glycosides, gardenoside, geniposide, shanzhiside, geniposidic acid, and genipin-1-O-gentiobioside, were selectively enriched from Gardenia fructus extracts. Preparative high-performance liquid chromatography then provided iridoid glycosides with a purity >98%. The structures were elucidated by using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, optical rotation and melting point measurements, and mass spectrometry. The results demonstrate that molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction combined with preparative high-performance liquid chromatography was an efficient, rapid, and economical method for the preparation of bioactive compounds from natural products.


Assuntos
Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Pressão/métodos , Medicamentos de Ervas Chinesas/isolamento & purificação , Gardenia/química , Glicosídeos Iridoides/isolamento & purificação , Polímeros/química , Extração em Fase Sólida/métodos , Medicamentos de Ervas Chinesas/química , Interações Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas , Glicosídeos Iridoides/química , Impressão Molecular , Polímeros/síntese química , Extração em Fase Sólida/instrumentação
10.
Anal Chem ; 89(21): 11737-11743, 2017 11 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28972752

RESUMO

Gout is a common form of inflammatory arthritis, and the detailed pathogenic mechanisms for this metabolic disorder remain largely unknown. In this study, we first profiled the salivary metabolites in 8 patients with gout, 15 patients with hyperuricaemia (HUA), and 15 healthy individuals using capillary ion chromatography (CIC) with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Forty-nine salivary metabolites were found to be significantly changed between gout patient and healthy control groups, and 26 salivary metabolites were significantly different between gout and HUA patient groups. Three metabolite biomarkers, uric acid, oxalic acid, and l-homocysteic acid (HCA), were selected for validation in the saliva samples of 30 patients with gout, 30 patients with HUA, and 30 healthy control subjects. By using commercial assay kits for the measurements, salivary uric acid and oxalic acid levels were found to be significantly higher in gout patients than healthy controls, whereas salivary HCA level was significantly higher in gout patients than both HUA patients and healthy controls. These assay measurements were in line with those obtained by CIC-MS/MS. In conclusion, we have demonstrated a new application of CIC-MS/MS for the discovery of novel metabolite biomarkers of gout. Validated biomarkers may be used for noninvasive, diagnostic and prognostic applications in gout. Future studies are warranted to investigate the clinical utility of these identified biomarkers for monitoring gout flare and/or treatment efficacy.


Assuntos
Cromatografia/métodos , Gota/metabolismo , Espectrometria de Massas em Tandem/métodos , Biomarcadores/metabolismo , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Feminino , Humanos , Hiperuricemia/metabolismo , Masculino , Saliva/metabolismo
11.
Biotechnol Appl Biochem ; 62(4): 494-501, 2015.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25196508

RESUMO

The hydrolytic reaction of cellulases can occur in the interior of cellulosic fibers, causing tensile strength loss of the fabrics. Cellulase immobilization is an approach to solve this problem, because enlarging the molecule size of cellulases will limit the hydrolysis to the surfaces of the fibers. In this study, commercial cellulases were noncovalently immobilized onto the reversibly soluble polymers (Eudragit S-100 and Eudragit L-100). The characteristics of cellulase-Eudragit S-100 (CES) and cellulase-Eudragit L-100 (CEL) were evaluated using Fourier transform infrared spectra, circular dichroism spectra, and fluorescence spectra. The CES showed higher stability than CEL and free cellulase, especially at higher pH and temperature. CES and CEL retained 51% and 42% of their original activities after three cycles of repeated uses, respectively. In addition, the effects of cellulase treatment on the cotton yarn and fabric have been investigated. The bending stiffness results showed that the cotton fabric samples treated with the free and immobilized cellulases were softer than untreated samples. However, less fiber damage in terms of weight loss and tensile strength of treated cotton was observed.


Assuntos
Celulase/química , Fibra de Algodão , Enzimas Imobilizadas/química , Ácidos Polimetacrílicos/química
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Hepatogastroenterology ; 62(137): 133-9, 2015.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25911883

RESUMO

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Tyrosine-methionine-aspartate-aspartate (YMDD) mutations were the main limitation of lamivudine (LAM) for treating chronic hepatitis B (CHB). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether LAM combined with IFN-α offer advantage over lamivudine monotherapy for the occurrence of YMDD mutations in CHB using a meta-analysis. METHODOLOGY: We searched electronic databases and calculated the odds ratios (OR) with their 95% confidence intervals (CI) and pooled the results. RESULTS: Our meta-analysis indicated that the difference of YMDD mutation rates between the combination therapy of IFN-α2b, IFN-α2a and Peg-IFN-α2a respectively plus LAM and LAM monotherapy (95% CI, 3.25-9.70, 95% CI, 5.77-17.51, 95% CI, 6.79-26.13, respectively). The rate of YMDD mutations in LAM monotherapy was increased when compared with combination and sequential combination group (95% CI, 6.79-22.16, and 95% CI, 2.69-7.75, respectively). The YMDD mutation rate in combination therapy was lower than that of LAM monotherapy in HBeAg positive patients (95% CI, 4.98-13.23). CONCLUSIONS: Our present meta-analysis suggests that different types of IFN-a in combination with LAM can significantly reduce the rate of YMDD mutation compared to LAM monotherapy.


Assuntos
Antimutagênicos/uso terapêutico , Antivirais/uso terapêutico , Farmacorresistência Viral/efeitos dos fármacos , Produtos do Gene pol/genética , Vírus da Hepatite B/efeitos dos fármacos , Hepatite B Crônica/tratamento farmacológico , Interferon-alfa/uso terapêutico , Lamivudina/uso terapêutico , Mutação/efeitos dos fármacos , Polietilenoglicóis/uso terapêutico , Ensaios Clínicos Controlados Aleatórios como Assunto , Antimutagênicos/efeitos adversos , Antivirais/efeitos adversos , Distribuição de Qui-Quadrado , Farmacorresistência Viral/genética , Quimioterapia Combinada , Medicina Baseada em Evidências , Genótipo , Vírus da Hepatite B/enzimologia , Vírus da Hepatite B/genética , Hepatite B Crônica/diagnóstico , Hepatite B Crônica/virologia , Humanos , Interferon alfa-2 , Interferon-alfa/efeitos adversos , Lamivudina/efeitos adversos , Razão de Chances , Fenótipo , Polietilenoglicóis/efeitos adversos , Proteínas Recombinantes/efeitos adversos , Proteínas Recombinantes/uso terapêutico , Fatores de Tempo , Resultado do Tratamento
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Water Environ Res ; 87(8): 697-706, 2015 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26237685

RESUMO

Insoluble organic matter released to the water body through accidental spillage imposes serious damage on the environment. Polypropylene (PP) fiber and methacrylate resin, however, end up in certain morphology or low sorption capacity after a single use. In this study, a novel sorbent was prepared by radiation-induced graft polymerization of butyl methacrylate (BMA) onto PP fiber matrix to retain the advantages of both PP fibers and methacrylate resins to overcome the shortcomings of each used alone. The different parameters including irradiation power, irradiation time and monomer concentration that effect the grafting degree of grafted fiber were studied. The resulting grafted fibers (PP-g-BMA) were evaluated in this study in terms of sorption capacity, retention behaviors and reusability properties. The investigation revealed that the homopolymerization rate, organic matter temperature and pH values of organic-over-water aqueous solution are the most important factors in the sorption performance of polypropylene grafted fiber sorbent.


Assuntos
Metacrilatos/química , Polipropilenos/química , Poluentes Químicos da Água/química , Poluentes Químicos da Água/isolamento & purificação , Adsorção , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Polimerização , Solubilidade , Temperatura , Raios Ultravioleta
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Pharmacology ; 94(5-6): 199-206, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25376160

RESUMO

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy, safety, and clinical benefit of prolonged-release trazodone (Trittico) in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS: In this study, 363 Chinese patients with MDD were randomized 1:1 to receive either prolonged-release trazodone (150-450 mg) or placebo treatment for 6 weeks. The primary efficacy measurement was the change of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) total score from baseline to the end of the study. The secondary efficacy measurements were the response and remission rates, the Clinical Global Impression - Improvement of Illness (CGI-I) score at the end of the study, and the change of the HAMD-14 total score and quality of sleep [evaluated by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scale] during the study period. RESULTS: The mean maximum daily dose was 273.11 mg for the trazodone group and 290.92 mg for the placebo group. At the end of the study, there was a significant difference between the two groups in the HAMD-17 change score (trazodone vs. placebo: -11.07 vs. -8.29, p < 0.001). Trazodone showed advantages at 1 week of treatment, and the effect lasted until the end of the study (week 6). The response and remission rates of the trazodone group were significantly higher than those in the placebo group (response rate: 59.6 vs. 37.2%, p < 0.001; remission rate: 35.5 vs. 22.2%, p = 0.005). The majority of the adverse reactions of trazodone were mild to moderate, and the most frequent adverse reactions (≥5%) were dizziness, dry mouth, somnolence, and nausea. CONCLUSIONS: Prolonged-release trazodone was more effective than placebo in MDD and was well tolerated.


Assuntos
Antidepressivos de Segunda Geração/uso terapêutico , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/tratamento farmacológico , Trazodona/uso terapêutico , Adulto , Antidepressivos de Segunda Geração/administração & dosagem , Antidepressivos de Segunda Geração/efeitos adversos , Preparações de Ação Retardada/administração & dosagem , Preparações de Ação Retardada/efeitos adversos , Preparações de Ação Retardada/uso terapêutico , Método Duplo-Cego , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Trazodona/administração & dosagem , Trazodona/efeitos adversos , Resultado do Tratamento
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Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi ; 39(13): 2509-12, 2014 Jul.
Artigo em Zh | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25276973

RESUMO

The macroporous resin separation technology has been mainly applied in the enrichment of saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids and other ingredients, and used in the removal of heavy metal impurities and pesticide residues in recent years. This paper focuses on the synthesis of the new-type macroporous adsorption resin LKS-11 according to the molecular structure characteristics of procymidone. Specifically, the selective absorptive property and other advantages of macroporous resin were utilized to analyze the procymidone removal efficiency in ginseng extracts from different sources. The type of macroporous resins, absorptive property and desorption conditions were observed respectively by static and dynamic adsorption methods to determined the optimum process conditions. According to the results, LKS-11 showed a good absorptive property to procymidone in ginseng extracts and provided a theoretical basis for studies on the removal of procymidone residues from ginseng extracts by using macroporous adsorption resin. Because of no secondary pollution on samples, low production and operation costs, high procymidone removal efficiency and high product recovery rate, this method is suitable to be applied in production.


Assuntos
Compostos Bicíclicos com Pontes/isolamento & purificação , Cromatografia/métodos , Contaminação de Medicamentos/prevenção & controle , Fungicidas Industriais/isolamento & purificação , Panax/química , Extratos Vegetais/química , Resinas Sintéticas/química , Adsorção , Compostos Bicíclicos com Pontes/química , Cromatografia/instrumentação , Resíduos de Drogas/química , Resíduos de Drogas/isolamento & purificação , Fungicidas Industriais/química , Porosidade
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Environ Pollut ; 346: 123572, 2024 Apr 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38369095

RESUMO

Plastic waste is a growing global pollutant. Plastic degradation by microorganisms has captured attention as an earth-friendly tactic. Although the mechanisms of plastic degradation by bacteria, fungi, and algae have been explored over the past decade, a large knowledge gap still exists regarding the identification, sorting, and cultivation of efficient plastic degraders, primarily because of their uncultivability. Advances in sequencing techniques and bioinformatics have enabled the identification of microbial degraders and related enzymes and genes involved in plastic biodegradation. In this review, we provide an outline of the situation of plastic degradation and summarize the methods for effective microbial identification using multidisciplinary techniques such as multiomics, meta-analysis, and spectroscopy. This review introduces new strategies for controlling plastic pollution in an environmentally friendly manner. Using this information, highly efficient and colonizing plastic degraders can be mined via targeted sorting and cultivation. In addition, based on the recognized rules and plastic degraders, we can perform an in-depth analysis of the associated degradation mechanism, metabolic features, and interactions.


Assuntos
Bactérias , Plásticos , Plásticos/metabolismo , Bactérias/genética , Bactérias/metabolismo , Biodegradação Ambiental , Fungos/genética , Fungos/metabolismo
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Sci Total Environ ; 919: 170716, 2024 Apr 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38325450

RESUMO

Microplastics (MPs) in aquatic environments provide a new ecological niche that facilitates the attachment of antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) and pathogens. However, the effect of particle size on the colonization of antibiotic resistomes and pathogens remains poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, this study explored the antibiotic resistome and core microbiome on three distinct types of MPs including polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene (PS), with varying sizes of 30, 200, and 3000 µm by metagenomic sequencing. Our finding showed that the ARG abundances of the PS type increased by 4-folds with increasing particle size from 30 to 3000 µm, and significant differences in ARG profiles were found across the three MP types. In addition, the concentrations of ARGs and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) were markedly higher in the MPs than in the surrounding water, indicating their enrichment at these artificial interfaces. Notably, several pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Legionella pneumophila were enriched in MP biofilms, and the co-occurrence of ARGs and virulence factor genes (VFGs)/MGEs suggested the presence of pathogenic antibiotic-resistant microbes with potential mobility. Both redundancy analysis (RDA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) demonstrated that physicochemical properties such as zeta potential, MP size, and contact angle were the most significant contributors to the antibiotic resistome. Strikingly, no significant differences were observed in the health risk scores of the ARG profiles among different sizes and types of MPs. This study expands our knowledge on the impact of MP size on microbial risks, thus enhancing our understanding of the potential health hazards they pose.


Assuntos
Microbiota , Microplásticos , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Genes Bacterianos , Plásticos , Rios , Poliestirenos/química , Polipropilenos/química
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Int J Biol Macromol ; 267(Pt 1): 131448, 2024 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38593901

RESUMO

Nowadays, various harmful indoor pollutants especially including bacteria and residual formaldehyde (HCHO) seriously threaten human health and reduce the quality of public life. Herein, a universal substrate-independence finishing approach for efficiently solving these hybrid indoor threats is demonstrated, in which amine-quinone network (AQN) was employed as reduction agent to guide in-situ growth of Ag@MnO2 particles, and also acted as an adhesion interlayer to firmly anchor nanoparticles onto diverse textiles, especially for cotton fabrics. In contrast with traditional hydrothermal or calcine methods, the highly reactive AQN ensures the efficient generation of functional nanoparticles under mild conditions without any additional catalysts. During the AQN-guided reduction, the doping of Ag atoms onto cellulose fiber surface optimized the crystallinity and oxygen vacancy of MnO2, providing cotton efficient antibacterial efficiency over 90 % after 30 min of contact, companying with encouraging UV-shielding and indoor HCHO purification properties. Besides, even after 30 cycles of standard washing, the Ag@MnO2-decorated textiles can effectively degrade HCHO while well-maintaining their inherent properties. In summary, the presented AQN-mediated strategy of efficiently guiding the deposition of functional particles on fibers has broad application prospects in the green and sustainable functionalization of textiles.


Assuntos
Aminas , Celulose , Compostos de Manganês , Óxidos , Compostos de Manganês/química , Óxidos/química , Celulose/química , Aminas/química , Quinonas/química , Prata/química , Formaldeído/química , Antibacterianos/química , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Têxteis , Poluição do Ar em Ambientes Fechados/prevenção & controle
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Environ Pollut ; 355: 124197, 2024 Aug 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38782163

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The presence and accumulation of both, plastics and antibiotics in soils may lead to the colonization, selection, and propagation of soil bacteria with certain metabolic traits, e.g., antibiotic resistance, in the plastisphere. However, the impact of plastic-antibiotic tandem on the soil ecosystem functioning, particularly on microbial function and metabolism remains currently unexplored. Herein, we investigated the competence of soil bacteria to colonize plastics and degrade 13C-labeled sulfamethoxazole (SMX). Using single-cell imaging, isotope tracers, soil respiration and SMX mineralization bulk measurements we show that microbial colonization of polyethylene (PE) and polystyrene (PS) surfaces takes place within the first 30 days of incubation. Morphologically diverse microorganisms were colonizing both plastic types, with a slight preference for PE substrate. CARD-FISH bacterial cell counts on PE and PS surfaces formed under SMX amendment ranged from 5.36 × 103 to 2.06 × 104, and 2.06 × 103 to 3.43 × 103 hybridized cells mm-2, respectively. Nano-scale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry measurements show that 13C enrichment was highest at 130 days with values up to 1.29 atom%, similar to those of the 13CO2 pool (up to 1.26 atom%, or 22.55 ‰). Independent Mann-Whitney U test showed a significant difference between the control plastisphere samples incubated without SMX and those in 13C-SMX incubations (P < 0.001). Our results provide direct evidence demonstrating, at single-cell level, the capacity of bacterial colonizers of plastics to assimilate 13C-SMX from contaminated soils. These findings expand our knowledge on the role of soil-seeded plastisphere microbiota in the ecological functioning of soils impacted by anthropogenic stressors.


Assuntos
Microbiologia do Solo , Poluentes do Solo , Solo , Sulfametoxazol , Sulfametoxazol/metabolismo , Poluentes do Solo/metabolismo , Solo/química , Análise de Célula Única , Bactérias/metabolismo , Isótopos de Carbono , Plásticos/metabolismo , Antibacterianos , Espectrometria de Massa de Íon Secundário
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Int J Biol Macromol ; 259(Pt 1): 129085, 2024 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38163508

RESUMO

Cotton textile is very comfortable to wear, and also provides an ideal environment for bacterial propagation, easily causing harm to human health. In order to address this issue, various antibacterial techniques are employed for cotton finishing. However, some processes are complex and involve the use of environmentally unfriendly chemicals. In this work, a durable and efficient antibacterial cotton fabric was prepared via grafting of an amino-compound containing dynamic disulfide bonds, and then in-situ deposition of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Briefly, the reactive α-lipoic acid-modified polyethyleneimine (mPEI) was introduced to the cotton fibers via thiol-ene click reaction. Subsequently, the amino groups and dynamically-generated sulfhydryl groups in the mPEI molecules were used to initiate the ultrafast reduction of silver ions without the participation of additional reductant, constructing a stable antibacterial layer on fiber surface. The results reveal that the amino and thiol groups of mPEI could form coordination bonds with the deposited silver nanoparticles, and the antibacterial ability of AgNP@cotton-g-mPEI fabric remains at a high level even after 20 washing cycles. After 30 min of contact with Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), the antibacterial rates against both bacteria reached 99.99 %. Meanwhile, the network matrix constructed by the recombination of the dynamic disulfide bonds in mPEI endows the cotton fabric with detectable wrinkle resistance and encouraging anti-ultraviolet effect. The present work provides a novel alternative for preparation of durable and efficient antibacterial textiles.


Assuntos
Nanopartículas Metálicas , Prata , Humanos , Prata/química , Celulose/farmacologia , Escherichia coli , Nanopartículas Metálicas/química , Staphylococcus aureus , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/química , Têxteis/microbiologia , Fibra de Algodão , Compostos de Sulfidrila/farmacologia
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