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Qiao XX, Xu YH, Liu XJ, Chen SL, Zhong Z, Li YF, Lü J. Nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide/schwertmannite nanocomposites as heterogeneous photo-Fenton catalysts with enhanced efficiency for the degradation of bisphenol A. J Environ Sci (China) 2024; 143:1-11. [PMID: 38644008 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2023.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/23/2024]
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Potential health risks related to environmental endocrine disruptors (EEDs) have aroused research hotspots at the forefront of water treatment technologies. Herein, nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide/schwertmannite nanocomposites (N-TiO2/SCH) have been successfully developed as heterogeneous catalysts for the degradation of typical EEDs via photo-Fenton processes. Due to the sustainable Fe(III)/Fe(II) conversion induced by photoelectrons, as-prepared N-TiO2/SCH nanocomposites exhibit much enhanced efficiency for the degradation of bisphenol A (BPA; ca. 100% within 60 min under visible irradiation) in a wide pH range of 3.0-7.8, which is significantly higher than that of the pristine schwertmannite (ca. 74.5%) or N-TiO2 (ca. 10.8%). In this photo-Fenton system, the efficient degradation of BPA is mainly attributed to the oxidation by hydroxyl radical (•OH) and singlet oxygen (1O2). Moreover, the possible catalytic mechanisms and reaction pathway of BPA degradation are systematically investigated based on analytical and photoelectrochemical analyses. This work not only provides a feasible means for the development of novel heterogeneous photo-Fenton catalysts, but also lays a theoretical foundation for the potential application of mineral-based materials in wastewater treatment.
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- Xing-Xing Qiao
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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Matesun J, Petrik L, Musvoto E, Ayinde W, Ikumi D. Limitations of wastewater treatment plants in removing trace anthropogenic biomarkers and future directions: A review. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2024; 281:116610. [PMID: 38909392 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 03/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/25/2024]
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This review highlights the limitations faced by conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in effectively removing contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), heavy metals (HMs), and Escherichia coli (E. coli). This emphasises the limitations of current treatment methods and advocates for innovative approaches to enhance the removal efficiency. By following the PRISMA guidelines, the study systematically reviewed relevant literature on detecting and remedying these pollutants in wastewater treatment facilities. Conventional wastewater treatment plants struggle to eliminate CECs, HMs, and E. coli owing to their small size, persistence, and complex nature. The review suggests upgrading WWTPs with advanced tertiary processes to significantly improve contaminant removal. This calls for cost-effective treatment parameters and standardised assessment techniques to enhance the fate of MPs in WWTPs and WRRFs. It recommends integrating insights from mass-balance model studies on MPs in WWTP to overcome modelling challenges and ensure model reliability. In conclusion, this review underscores the urgent need for advancements in wastewater treatment processes to mitigate the environmental impact of trace anthropogenic biomarkers. Future efforts should focus on conducting comprehensive studies, implementing advanced treatment methods, and optimising management practices in WWTPs and WRRFs.
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- Joshua Matesun
- Water Research Group, New Engineering Building, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7701, South Africa.
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- Environmental and NanoScience Research Group, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town 7535, South Africa
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- TruSense Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd, 191 Hartley Street Pretoria, South Africa
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- Water Research Group, New Engineering Building, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7701, South Africa
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- Water Research Group, New Engineering Building, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7701, South Africa.
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Focaccetti C, Nardozi D, Benvenuto M, Lucarini V, Angiolini V, Carrano R, Scimeca M, Servadei F, Mauriello A, Mancini P, Besharat ZM, Milella M, Migliaccio S, Ferretti E, Cifaldi L, Masuelli L, Palumbo C, Bei R. Bisphenol-A in Drinking Water Accelerates Mammary Cancerogenesis and Favors an Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment in BALB- neuT Mice. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:6259. [PMID: 38892447 PMCID: PMC11172679 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25116259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2024] [Revised: 05/27/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024] Open
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Bisphenol-A (BPA), a synthetic compound ubiquitously present in the environment, can act as an endocrine disruptor by binding to both canonical and non-canonical estrogen receptors (ERs). Exposure to BPA has been linked to various cancers, in particular, those arising in hormone-targeted tissues such as the breast. In this study, we evaluated the effect of BPA intake through drinking water on ErbB2/neu-driven cancerogenesis in BALB-neuT mice, transgenic for a mutated ErbB2/neu receptor gene, which reproducibly develop carcinomas in all mammary glands. In this model, BPA accelerated mammary cancerogenesis with an increase in the number of tumors per mouse and a concurrent decrease in tumor-free and overall survival. As assessed by immunohistochemistry, BALB-neuT tumors were ER-negative but expressed high levels of the alternative estrogen receptor GPR30, regardless of BPA exposure. On the other hand, BPA exposure resulted in a marked upregulation of progesterone receptors in preinvasive tumors and of Ki67, CD31, and phosphorylated Akt in invasive tumors. Moreover, based on several infiltration markers of immune cells, BPA favored an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Finally, in vitro cell survival studies performed on a cell line established from a BALB-neuT breast carcinoma confirmed that BPA's impact on cancer progression can be particularly relevant after chronic, low-dose exposure.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Benzhydryl Compounds
- Phenols
- Tumor Microenvironment/drug effects
- Female
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Receptors, Estrogen/metabolism
- Receptors, Estrogen/genetics
- Drinking Water
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/chemically induced
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptor, ErbB-2/metabolism
- Receptor, ErbB-2/genetics
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/metabolism
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/genetics
- Receptors, Progesterone/metabolism
- Receptors, Progesterone/genetics
- Carcinogenesis/chemically induced
- Carcinogenesis/drug effects
- Endocrine Disruptors/toxicity
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- Chiara Focaccetti
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (C.F.); (M.B.); (R.C.); (L.C.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (C.F.); (M.B.); (R.C.); (L.C.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (C.F.); (M.B.); (R.C.); (L.C.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (M.S.); (F.S.); (A.M.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (M.S.); (F.S.); (A.M.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (M.S.); (F.S.); (A.M.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Oncology, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy;
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (C.F.); (M.B.); (R.C.); (L.C.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy; (D.N.); (V.L.); (V.A.); (P.M.); (Z.M.B.); (S.M.); (E.F.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (C.F.); (M.B.); (R.C.); (L.C.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy; (C.F.); (M.B.); (R.C.); (L.C.); (C.P.)
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Wu JH, Yang TH, Sun YJ, Min Y, Hu Y, Chen F, Chen JJ, Yu HQ. Tailoring the selective generation of oxidative organic radicals for toxic-by-product-free water decontamination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2403544121. [PMID: 38805289 PMCID: PMC11161747 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2403544121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024] Open
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Peracetic acid (PAA) is emerging as a versatile agent for generating long-lived and selectively oxidative organic radicals (R-O•). Currently, the conventional transition metal-based activation strategies still suffer from metal ion leaching, undesirable by-products formation, and uncontrolled reactive species production. To address these challenges, we present a method employing BiOI with a unique electron structure as a PAA activator, thereby predominantly generating CH3C(O)O• radicals. The specificity of CH3C(O)O• generation ensured the superior performance of the BiOI/PAA system across a wide pH range (2.0 to 11.0), even in the presence of complex interfering substances such as humic acids, chloride ions, bicarbonate ions, and real-world water matrices. Unlike conventional catalytic oxidative methods, the BiOI/PAA system degrades sulfonamides without producing any toxic by-products. Our findings demonstrate the advantages of CH3C(O)O• in water decontamination and pave the way for the development of eco-friendly water decontaminations based on organic peroxides.
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- Jing-Hang Wu
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region’s Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing400045, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
- Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region’s Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing400045, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
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Gao S, Wang X, Wang X, Chen X, Liang S, Zhou Z, Xu S, Fang Y, Gao J, Gu C. Role of low-molecular-weight organic compounds on photochemical formation of Mn(III)-ligands in aqueous systems: Implications for BPA removal. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 927:172468. [PMID: 38615762 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Revised: 03/23/2024] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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Aqueous trivalent manganese [Mn(III)], an important reactive intermediate, is ubiquitous in natural surface water containing humic acid (HA). However, the effect of low-molecular-weight organic acids (LMWOAs) on the formation, stability and reactivity of Mn(III) intermediate is still unknown. In this study, six LMWOAs, including oxalic acid (Oxa), salicylic acid (Sal), catechol (Cat), caffeic acid (Caf), gallic acid (Gal) and ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), were selected to investigate the effects of LMWOAs on the degradation of BPA induced by in situ formed Mn(III)-L in the HA/Mn(II) system under light irradiation. The chromophoric constituents of HA could absorb light radiation and generate superoxide radical to promote the oxidation of Mn(II) to form Mn(III), which was further involved in transformation of BPA. Our results implied that different LMWOAs did significantly impact on Mn(III) production and its degradation of BPA due to their different functional group. EDTA, Oxa and Sal extensively increased the Mn(III) concentration from 50 to 100 μM compared to the system without LMWOAs, following the order of EDTA > Oxa > Sal, and also enhanced the degradation of BPA with the similar patterns. In contrast, Cat, Caf and Gal had an inhibitory effect on the formation of Mn(III), which is likely because they consumed the superoxide radicals generated from irradiated HA, resulting in the inhibition of Mn(II) oxidation and further BPA removal. The product identification and theoretical calculation indicated that a single electron transfer process occurred between Mn(III)-L and BPA, forming BPA radicals and subsequent self-coupling products. Our results demonstrated that the LMWOAs with different structures could alter the cycling process of Mn via complexation and redox reactions, which would provide new implications for the removal of organic pollutants in surface water.
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- Song Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
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Ajithkumar V, Arunkumar M, Philomina A, Sakthi Vignesh N, Vimali E, Dey D, Ganesh Moorthy IM, Ashokkumar B, Varalakshmi P. Deciphering Bisphenol A degradation by Coelastrella sp. M60: unravelling metabolic insights through metabolomics analysis. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2024; 401:130701. [PMID: 38621609 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.130701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2024] [Revised: 04/10/2024] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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Microalgae, owing to their efficacy and eco-friendliness, have emerged as a promising solution for mitigating the toxicity of Bisphenol A (BPA), a hazardous environmental pollutant. This current study was focused on the degradation of BPA by Coelastrella sp. M60 at various concentrations (10-50 mg/L). Further, the metabolic profiling of Coelastrella sp. M60 was performed using GC-MS analysis, and the results were revealed that BPA exposure modulated the metabolites profile with the presence of intermediates of BPA. In addition, highest lipid (43%) and pigment content (40%) at 20 and 10 mg/L of BPA respectively exposed to Coelastrella sp. M60 was achieved and enhanced fatty acid methyl esters recovery was facilitated by Cuprous oxide nanoparticles synthesised using Spatoglossum asperum. Thus, this study persuades thepotential of Coelastrella sp. M60 for BPA degradation and suggesting new avenues to remove the emerging contaminants in polluted water bodies and targeted metabolite expression in microalgae.
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- Velmurugan Ajithkumar
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Transcription Regulation Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Zhou J, Wang X, Sun Z, Gu C, Gao J. The mechanisms of ·OH formation in MnO 2 and oxalate system: Implication for ATZ removal. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2024; 470:134213. [PMID: 38613958 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/15/2024]
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Manganese oxides (MnO2) are commonly prevalent in groundwater, sediment and soil. In this study, we found that oxalate (H2C2O4) dissolved MnO2, leading to the formation of Mn(II)/(III), CO2(aq) and reactive oxygen species (·CO2-/O2·-/H2O2/·OH). Notably, CO2(aq) played a crucial role in ·OH formation, contributing to the degradation of atrazine (ATZ). To elucidate underneath mechanisms, a series of reactions with different gas-liquid ratios (GLR) were conducted. At the GLR of 0.3, 3.76, and + ∞ 79.4 %, 5.32 %, and 5.28 % of ATZ were eliminated, in which the cumulative ·OH concentration was 39.6 μM, 8.11 μM, and 7.39 μM and the cumulative CO2(aq) concentration was 11.2 mM, 4.7 mM, and 2.8 mM, respectively. The proposed reaction pathway was that CO2(aq) participated in the formation of a ternary complex [C2O4-Mn(II)-HCO4·3 H2O]-, which converted to a transition state (TS) as [C2O4-Mn(II)-CO3-OH·3 H2O]-, then decomposed to a complex radical [C2O4-Mn(II)-CO3·3 H2O]·- and ·OH after electron transfer within TS. It was novel to discover the role of CO2(aq) for ·OH yielding during MnO2 dissolution by H2C2O4. This finding helps revealing the overlooked processes that CO2(aq) influenced the fate of ATZ or other organic compounds in environment and providing us ideas for new technique development in contaminant remediation. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATION: Manganese oxides and oxalate are common in soil, sediment and water. Their interactions could induce the formation of Mn(II)/(III), CO2(aq) and ·CO2-/O2·-/H2O2. This study found that atrazine could be effectively removed due to ·OH radicals under condition of high CO2(aq) concentration. The concentrations of Mn (0.0002-8.34 mg·L-1) and CO2(aq) (15-40 mg·L-1) were high in groundwater, and the surface water or rainfall seeps into groundwater and bring organic acids, which might promote the ·OH formation. The results might explain the missing steps of herbicides transformation in these environments and be helpful in developing new techniques in remediation in future.
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- Jinjin Zhou
- Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, No.188, Tianquan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 211135, China
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- Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, No.188, Tianquan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 211135, China.
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Xu F, Zhang W, Wang X, Dai H, Yu C, Liu X, Li Z, Zhang M, Yan D, Chen F, Tang Y. Multi-level FeCo/N-doped carbon nanosheet for peroxymonosulfate oxidation and sterilization inactivation. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 661:840-852. [PMID: 38330656 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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Magnetic carbon-based catalysts with environmental friendliness have exhibited prominent effects on advanced oxidation processes. Herein, a multi-level FeCo/N-doped carbon nanosheet (FeCo/CNS) was synthesized by facile impregnation iron-cobalt salt onto cotton and followed by confined pyrolysis. We identified excellent advantages of the modified FeCo/CNS materials: (i) The convenience of the synthesis method and (ii) The dual effect of sterilization and contaminant degradation achieved through the FeCo/CNS-activated Peroxymonosulfate (PMS). The comparative experimental showed that FeCo/CNS could provide favorable catalytic performance, completely removing bisphenol A (BPA) and tetracycline (TC) within 5 min. Moreover, the potent sterilization properties against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli were also verified. Analysis of the degradation pathway confirmed the existence of intermediates, and toxicological research demonstrated that the toxicity of the degradation intermediates of BPA gradually decreased over time. Our research provided an excellent application of FeCo/CNS in PMS oxidation and sterilization inactivation.
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- Fang Xu
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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- Laboratory for Chemical Technology, Ghent University, Technologiepark 125, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu, China.
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He X, Xiang Y, Xu R, Gao H, Guo Z, Sun W. Bisphenol A affects microbial interactions and metabolic responses in sludge anaerobic digestion. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024; 31:19635-19648. [PMID: 38363507 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-32422-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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The widespread use of bisphenol A (BPA) has resulted in the emergence of new pollutants in various environments, particularly concentrated in sewage sludge. This study investigated the effects of BPA on sludge anaerobic digestion, focusing specifically on the interaction of microbial communities and their metabolic responses. While the influence of BPA on methane accumulation is not significant, BPA still enhanced the conversion of soluble COD, protein, and polysaccharides. BPA also positively influenced the hydrolysis-acidogenesis process, leading to 17% higher concentrations of volatile fatty acids (VFAs). Lower BPA levels (0.2-0.5 mg/kg dw) led to decreased hydrolysis and acidogenesis gene abundance, indicating metabolic inhibition; conversely, higher concentrations (1-5 mg/kg dw) increased gene abundance, signifying metabolic enhancement. Diverse methane metabolism was observed and exhibited alterations under BPA exposure. The presence of BPA impacted both the diversity and composition of microbial populations. Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Chloroflexi dominated in BPA-treated groups and varied in abundance among different treatments. Changes of specific genera Sedimentibacter, Fervikobacterium, Blvii28, and Coprothermobacter in response to BPA, affecting hydrolysis and acetogenesis. Archaeal diversity declined while the hydrogenotrophic methanogen Methanospirillum thrived under BPA exposure. BPA exposure enabled microorganisms to form structured community interaction networks and boost their metabolic activities during anaerobic digestion. The study also observed the enrichment of BPA biodegradation pathways at high BPA concentrations, which could interact and overlap to ensure efficient BPA degradation. The study provides insights into the digestion performance and interactions of microbial communities to BPA stress and sheds light on the potential effect of BPA during anaerobic digestion.
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- Xiao He
- Institute of Environmental Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, No. 932 Lushan South Road, Changsha, 410083, People's Republic of China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Ministry of Education), Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, No. 932 Lushan South Road, Changsha, 410083, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, No. 932 Lushan South Road, Changsha, 410083, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, No. 932 Lushan South Road, Changsha, 410083, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-Environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-Environmental and Soil Sciences, National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China
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Yu Y, Kumar M, Bolan S, Padhye LP, Bolan N, Li S, Wang L, Hou D, Li Y. Various additive release from microplastics and their toxicity in aquatic environments. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 343:123219. [PMID: 38154772 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
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Additives may be present in amounts higher than 50% within plastic objects. Additives in plastics can be gradually released from microplastics (MPs) into the aquatic environment during their aging and fragmentation because most of them do not chemically react with the polymers. Some are known to be hazardous substances, which can cause toxicity effects on organisms and pose ecological risks. In this paper, the application of functional additives in MPs and their leaching in the environment are first summarized followed by their release mechanisms including photooxidation, chemical oxidation, biochemical degradation, and physical abrasion. Important factors affecting the additive release from MPs are also reviewed. Generally, smaller particle size, light irradiation, high temperature, dissolved organic matter (DOM) existence and alkaline conditions can promote the release of chemicals from MPs. In addition, the release of additives is also influenced by the polymer's structure, electrolyte types, as well as salinity. These additives may transfer into the organisms after ingestion and disrupt various biological processes, leading to developmental malformations and toxicity in offspring. Nonetheless, challenges on the toxicity of chemicals in MPs remain hindering the risk assessment on human health from MPs in the environment. Future research is suggested to strengthen research on the leaching experiment in the actual environment, develop more techniques and analysis methods to identify leaching products, and evaluate the toxicity effects of additives from MPs based on more model organisms. The work gives a comprehensive overview of current process for MP additive release in natural waters, summarizes their toxicity effects on organisms, and provides recommendations for future research.
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- Ying Yu
- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India
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- UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia; The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia; Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) National Research Network, Australia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
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- UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia; The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia; Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) National Research Network, Australia
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- Beijing No.4 High School International Campus, Beijing, China
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
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Mofijur M, Hasan MM, Ahmed SF, Djavanroodi F, Fattah IMR, Silitonga AS, Kalam MA, Zhou JL, Khan TMY. Advances in identifying and managing emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems: Analytical approaches, toxicity assessment, transformation pathways, environmental fate, and remediation strategies. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 341:122889. [PMID: 37972679 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Emerging contaminants (ECs) are increasingly recognized as threats to human health and ecosystems. This review evaluates advanced analytical methods, particularly mass spectrometry, for detecting ECs and understanding their toxicity, transformation pathways, and environmental distribution. Our findings underscore the reliability of current techniques and the potential of upcoming methods. The adverse effects of ECs on aquatic life necessitate both in vitro and in vivo toxicity assessments. Evaluating the distribution and degradation of ECs reveals that they undergo physical, chemical, and biological transformations. Remediation strategies such as advanced oxidation, adsorption, and membrane bioreactors effectively treat EC-contaminated waters, with combinations of these techniques showing the highest efficacy. To minimize the impact of ECs, a proactive approach involving monitoring, regulations, and public education is vital. Future research should prioritize the refining of detection methods and formulation of robust policies for EC management.
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- M Mofijur
- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia.
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia; School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, QLD, 4701, Australia
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- Science and Math Program, Asian University for Women, Chattogram, 4000, Bangladesh
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, 31952, Saudi Arabia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia; Centre for Green Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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Sun W, Guo Y, Sun X, Liu Z, Luo D, Huang N, Xu Z, Wu J, Wu Y. Alternatives Exert Higher Health Risks than Bisphenol A on Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2024; 58:63-74. [PMID: 38112512 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c02977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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The detrimental effects of bisphenol (BP) exposure are a concern for vulnerable species, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis). To investigate the characteristics of BP profiles and their adverse impact on humpback dolphins, we assessed the concentrations of six BPs, including bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), bisphenol F (BPF), bisphenol AF (BPAF), bisphenol B (BPB), and bisphenol P (BPP) in blubber (n = 26) and kidney (n = 12) of humpback dolphins stranded in the Pearl River Estuary, China. BPS accounted for the largest proportion of the total bisphenols (∑BPs) in blubber (55%) and kidney (69%). The concentration of ∑BP in blubber was significantly higher than that in the kidney and liver. The EC50 values of five BPA alternatives were lower than those of BPA in humpback dolphin skin fibroblasts (ScSF) and human skin fibroblasts (HSF). ScSF was more sensitive to BPS, BPAF, BPB, and BPP than HSF. The enrichment pathway of BPA was found to be associated with inflammation and immune dysregulation, while BPP and BPS demonstrated a preference for genotoxicity. BPA, BPP, and BPS, which had risk quotients (RQs) > 1, were found to contribute to subhealth and chronic disease in humpback dolphins. According to the EC50-based risk assessment, BPS poses a higher health risk than BPA for humpback dolphins. This study successfully evaluated the risks of bisphenols in rare and endangered cetacean cell lines using a noninvasive method. More in vivo and in field observations are necessary to know whether the BPA alternatives are likely to be regrettable substitutions.
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- Weifang Sun
- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, Pearl River Estuary Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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Yang S, Shobnam N, Sun Y, Löffler FE, Im J. The relative contributions of Mn(III) and Mn(IV) in manganese dioxide polymorphs to bisphenol A degradation. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2024; 461:132596. [PMID: 37757556 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 09/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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Polymorphs of MnO2 comprise Mn(III) and Mn(IV), which are both strong oxidants capable of BPA degradation, but their relative contributions are unclear. To advance process understanding, the reactivities of biogenic MnO2 prepared using Roseobacter sp. AzwK-3b and synthetic MnO2 (i.e., hexagonal and triclinic birnessite) toward BPA were compared. Both colloidal and particulate biogenic MnO2, as well as triclinic birnessite, showed insignificant reactivity towards BPA, but degradation did occur when pyrophosphate (PP), a ligand for Mn(III), was present. Despite higher Mn(III) content of triclinic birnessite (38.6 %), only hexagonal birnessite with an Mn(III) content of 30.4 % degraded BPA without PP, and no rate increases were observed following the addition of PP. Similarly, colloidal MnO2 degraded BPA with nearly double the rate measured with particulate MnO2 (i.e., 1.24 ± 0.10 versus 0.73 ± 0.08 h-1), even though the Mn(III) contents were only 10 % different. The Mn(III) release rates from each MnO2 polymorph in the presence of PP correlated more strongly with the observed BPA degradation rates than with Mn(III) content, suggesting that both Mn(III) release rate and Mn(III) content govern MnO2-mediated BPA degradation. In natural settings, Mn(III) generally occurs in complexed form suggesting that laboratory testing should include ligands to derive environmentally relevant information about MnO2-mediated degradation of BPA and other compounds of concern.
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- Seongmin Yang
- Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA; Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
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Wang Y, Zhang X, Guo F, Li A, Fan J. Estimating the temporal and spatial distribution and threats of bisphenol A in temperate lakes using machine learning models. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2024; 269:115750. [PMID: 38043415 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.115750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2023] [Revised: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is easily enriched in many human-disturbed watersheds, particularly lakes with poor water mobility, which is posing a threat to aquatic biota. While previous studies have focused on the concentration of BPA in water and its toxicity to aquatic organisms, a small amount of measured data is not enough to reveal the temporal and spatial distribution and threats of BPA, and estimate the ecological risk in watersheds. Therefore, we collected 164 measured BPA data points from Taihu Lake to develop machine learning models using random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM) and least square regression (LSR) and created month-by-month watershed prediction maps in temperate lakes to estimate the spatiotemporal distribution and threats of BPA. Due to RF's superior robustness to noisy data, the RF model exhibits the best performance among the three algorithms. The RF model showed acceptable predictive performance on the modeling dataset (coefficients of determination and root-mean-square error for the training set were 0.927 and 17.499, respectively, and 0.607, 39.645 for the validation set, respectively). The maps indicated that areas susceptible to anthropogenic activities were more severely polluted by BPA, and rainy climate may favor the migration of BPA to aquatic ecosystems. The model was also applied to predict 42 data points of BPA collected from Dianchi Lake, and the results showed that most predicted data were within a factor of 10 of the measured data, but the prediction accuracy of the model has declined. The ecological risks in the two lakes were evaluated and attention should be paid to the regions with higher risks. Our study provided a novel idea for comprehensive monitoring of an unconventional trace pollutant with endocrine disrupting effects in aquatic ecosystems and analyzing their spatiotemporal distribution, which will contribute to the scientific assessment of the ecological risk of BPA.
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- Yilin Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- Chongqing Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center, Chongqing 401147, China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Quality Improvement and Ecological Restoration for Watersheds, Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 511458, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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Yu Y, Chen T, Guan X, Dong H, Qiao J. Green polyaspartic acid as a novel permanganate activator for enhanced degradation of organic contaminants: Role of reactive Mn(III) species. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 460:132433. [PMID: 37659238 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/04/2023]
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Attention has been long focused on enhancing permanganate (Mn(VII)) oxidation capacity for eliminating organic contaminants via generating active manganese intermediates (AMnIs). Nevertheless, limited consideration has been given to the unnecessary consumption of Mn(VII) due to the spontaneous disproportionation of AMnIs during their formation. In this work, we innovatively introduced green polyaspartic acid (PASP) as both reducing and chelating agents to activate Mn(VII) to enhance the oxidation capacity and utilization efficiency of Mn(VII). Multiple lines of evidence suggest that Mn(III), existing as Mn(III)-PASP complex, was generated and dominated the degradation of bisphenol A (BPA) in the Mn(VII)/PASP system. The stabilized Mn(III) species enabled Mn(VII) utilization efficiency in the Mn(VII)/PASP system to be higher than that in Mn(VII) alone. Moreover, the electrophilic Mn(III) species was verified to mainly attack the inclusive benzene ring and isopropyl group to realize BPA oxidation and its toxicity reduction in the Mn(VII)/PASP system. In addition, the Mn(VII)/PASP system showed the potential for selectively oxidizing organic contaminants bearing phenol and aniline moieties in real waters without interference from most of coexisting water matrices. This work brightens an overlooked route to both high oxidation capacity and efficient Mn(VII) utilization in the Mn(VII)-based oxidation processes.
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- Yanghai Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- Department of Environmental Science, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China.
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Wang S, Su Y, Cheng M, Wang Q, Wu X, Wang Y, Sun F, Wang R, Ji R. Fate of bisphenol A (BPA) in a flooded soil-rice system. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 459:132177. [PMID: 37531761 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023]
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In this study, 14C-tracers were used to investigate the fate of BPA in flooded soil with or without rice plants during a complete growing period. In flooded soil, the dissipation of BPA (half-life 14.8 d) was accompanied by its mineralization (8.4% of the initially applied radioactivity) and the formation of non-extractable residues (NERs) in amounts (79.5%) similar to that formed under oxic conditions. The growth of rice significantly accelerated the dissipation of BPA in flooded soil, resulting in a reduction in both the half-life (5.6 d) and the amount of NERs (35.8%). Two non-polar metabolites were detected both in unplanted and in rice-planted soil. At rice harvest, 57.1% of the radioactivity had accumulated in rice plants, mainly as NERs (54.2%) rather than as extractable radioactivity (2.7%), and mainly in roots (34.5 ± 1.4%), stems (9.4 ± 1.1%), and leaves (8.8 ± 0.6%), with trace amounts in seeds (3.6 ± 0.3%) and seed shells (0.7 ± 0.05%). Our study thus demonstrates that the oxic-anoxic interface stimulates the dissipation of BPA in flooded soil. The link between the releasing of NERs in flooded soil and the uptake of BPA metabolites by rice should be considered in environmental risk assessments of agroecosystems.
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- Songfeng Wang
- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Nanjing 210014, China
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- School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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- Center for Sustainable Farming System, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Xianlin Avenue 163, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Xianlin Avenue 163, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Xianlin Avenue 163, Nanjing 210023, China
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- School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Xianlin Avenue 163, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Nanjing 210014, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Xianlin Avenue 163, Nanjing 210023, China
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Zaborowska M, Wyszkowska J, Borowik A, Kucharski J. Bisphenols-A Threat to the Natural Environment. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 16:6500. [PMID: 37834637 PMCID: PMC10573430 DOI: 10.3390/ma16196500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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Negative public sentiment built up around bisphenol A (BPA) follows growing awareness of the frequency of this chemical compound in the environment. The increase in air, water, and soil contamination by BPA has also generated the need to replace it with less toxic analogs, such as Bisphenol F (BPF) and Bisphenol S (BPS). However, due to the structural similarity of BPF and BPS to BPA, questions arise about the safety of their usage. The toxicity of BPA, BPF, and BPS towards humans and animals has been fairly well understood. The biodegradability potential of microorganisms towards each of these bisphenols is also widely recognized. However, the scale of their inhibitory pressure on soil microbiomes and soil enzyme activity has not been estimated. These parameters are extremely important in determining soil health, which in turn also influences plant growth and development. Therefore, in this manuscript, knowledge has been expanded and systematized regarding the differences in toxicity between BPA and its two analogs. In the context of the synthetic characterization of the effects of bisphenol permeation into the environment, the toxic impact of BPA, BPF, and BPS on the microbiological and biochemical parameters of soils was traced. The response of cultivated plants to their influence was also analyzed.
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- Magdalena Zaborowska
- Department of Soil Science and Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Soil Science and Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Soil Science and Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Soil Science and Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-727 Olsztyn, Poland
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Xie Y, Du G, Pang J, Kong L, Lu L. One-step preparation of magnetic N-doped sodium alginate-based porous carbon and efficient adsorption of bisphenol A. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:99842-99854. [PMID: 37615913 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29346-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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To resourcefully utilize algal biomass and effectively remove bisphenol A (BPA) from water, sodium alginate (SA) was prepared as the nitrogen-doped magnetic porous carbon material (SAC/N/Fe) with well-developed pore structure according to a one-step method using K2CO3, melamine, Fe(NO3)3·9H2O as the activator, nitrogen dopant, and magnetic precursor, respectively, in this study. The best product, SAC/N/Fe-0.2, was obtained by adjusting the mass ratio of raw materials, and its specific surface area and pore volume were 2240.65 m2 g-1 and 1.44 cm3 g-1, respectively, with a maximum adsorption capacity of 1248.23 mg g-1 for BPA at 308 K. SEM, XRD, XPS, VSM, and FT-IR characterization confirmed that the iron was successfully doped, giving the porous carbon a magnetic separation function. The adsorption process of BPA was more consistent with the Langmuir model and the proposed secondary kinetics, and the adsorption effect was stable and efficient in a wide pH range and under the interference of different metal ions. At the same time, the porous carbon was easy to separate and recover with good regeneration performance.
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- Yaping Xie
- Shandong Transportation Research Institute, Jinan, 25100, China
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- Shandong Road and Bridge Engineering Design Consulting Co., Ltd., Jinan, 250014, China
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- Shandong High Speed Engineering Construction Group Co., Ltd., Jinan, 250014, China
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- Shandong Transportation Research Institute, Jinan, 25100, China
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- Shandong Transportation Research Institute, Jinan, 25100, China.
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Yang Q, Shen X, Jiang H, Luan T, Yang Q, Yang L. Key factors influencing pollution of heavy metals and phenolic compounds in mangrove sediments, South China. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2023; 194:115283. [PMID: 37451044 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Concentrations of heavy metals (HMs) and phenolic compounds with factors which potentially affected their spatial distribution were investigated in mangrove sediments, South China. Compared to Qi'ao, Futian sediments exhibited higher levels of Pb and nonylphenol (NP), but lower levels of Co and Ni. Seasonal variation showed higher concentrations of Pb, Cr, Co, NP and bisphenol A (BPA), while lower concentration of methylparaben (MP) in wet than dry season. Contaminant levels in sediments collected at different tidal heights showed insignificant variations, except for Zn and NP. MP was found negatively correlated with nearly all HMs and BPA, whereas the latter exhibited positive correlations with each other. Sedimentary total carbon, total nitrogen, C/N and N/P ratios were screened as the most influential factors affecting the distribution of these contaminants. Additionally, both salinity and total phosphate exhibited positive, while both pH and sedimentary particle size registered negative correlation, with one or more contaminants.
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- Qian Yang
- South China Sea Bio-Resource Exploitation and Utilization Collaborative Innovation Center, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Mathematics & Statistics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Neilingding-Futian National Nature Reserve of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, China
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- South China Sea Bio-Resource Exploitation and Utilization Collaborative Innovation Center, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
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Putman LI, Schaerer LG, Wu R, Kulas DG, Zolghadr A, Ong RG, Shonnard DR, Techtmann SM. Deconstructed Plastic Substrate Preferences of Microbial Populations from the Natural Environment. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0036223. [PMID: 37260392 PMCID: PMC10433879 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00362-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
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Over half of the world's plastic waste is landfilled, where it is estimated to take hundreds of years to degrade. Given the continued use and disposal of plastic products, it is vital that we develop fast and effective ways to utilize plastic waste. Here, we explore the potential of tandem chemical and biological processing to process various plastics quickly and effectively. Four samples of compost or sediment were used to set up enrichment cultures grown on mixtures of compounds, including disodium terephthalate and terephthalic acid (monomers of polyethylene terephthalate), compounds derived from the chemical deconstruction of polycarbonate, and pyrolysis oil derived from high-density polyethylene plastics. Established enrichment communities were also grown on individual substrates to investigate the substrate preferences of different taxa. Biomass harvested from the cultures was characterized using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomic sequencing. These data reveal low-diversity microbial communities structured by differences in culture inoculum, culture substrate source plastic type, and time. Microbial populations from the classes Alphaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Acidobacteriae were significantly enriched when grown on substrates derived from high-density polyethylene and polycarbonate. The metagenomic data contain abundant aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbon degradation genes relevant to the biodegradation of deconstructed plastic substrates used here. We show that microbial populations from diverse environments are capable of growth on substrates derived from the chemical deconstruction or pyrolysis of multiple plastic types and that paired chemical and biological processing of plastics should be further developed for industrial applications to manage plastic waste. IMPORTANCE The durability and impermeable nature of plastics have made them a popular material for numerous applications, but these same qualities make plastics difficult to dispose of, resulting in massive amounts of accumulated plastic waste in landfills and the natural environment. Since plastic use and disposal are projected to increase in the future, novel methods to effectively break down and dispose of current and future plastic waste are desperately needed. We show that the products of chemical deconstruction or pyrolysis of plastic can successfully sustain the growth of low-diversity microbial communities. These communities were enriched from multiple environmental sources and are capable of degrading complex xenobiotic carbon compounds. This study demonstrates that tandem chemical and biological processing can be used to degrade multiple types of plastics over a relatively short period of time and may be a future avenue for the mitigation of rapidly accumulating plastic waste.
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- Lindsay I. Putman
- Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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Dekanovsky L, Huang H, Akir S, Ying Y, Sofer Z, Khezri B. Light-Driven MXene-Based Microrobots: Mineralization of Bisphenol A to CO 2 and H 2 O. SMALL METHODS 2023; 7:e2201547. [PMID: 37075736 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202201547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Light-driven magnetic MXene-based microrobots (MXeBOTs) have been developed as an active motile platform for efficiently removing and degrading bisphenol A (BPA). Light-driven MXeBOTs are facilitated with the second control engine, i.e., embedded Fe2 O3 nanoparticles (NPs) for magnetic propulsion. The grafted bismuth NPs act as cocatalysts. The effect of the BPA concentration and the chemical composition of the swimming environment on the stability and reusability of the MXeBOTs are studied. The MAXBOTs, a developed motile water remediation platform, demonstrate the ability to remove/degrade approximately 60% of BPA within just 10 min and achieve near-complete removal/degradation (≈100%) within 1 h. Above 86% of BPA is mineralized within 1 h. The photocatalytic degradation of BPA using Bi/Fe/MXeBOTs demonstrates a significant advantage in the mineralization of BPA to CO2 and H2 O.
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- Lukas Dekanovsky
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, Praha 6, 16822, Prague, Czech Republic
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, P. R. China
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, Praha 6, 16822, Prague, Czech Republic
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, P. R. China
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, Praha 6, 16822, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, Praha 6, 16822, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Av. Països Catalans, 16, Tarragona, E-43007, Spain
- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C/Marcel·lí Domingo 1, Tarragona, 43007, Spain
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Noszczyńska M, Pacwa-Płociniczak M, Bondarczuk K, Piotrowska-Seget Z. The microbial removal of bisphenols in aquatic microcosms and associated alteration in bacterial community. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:85292-85304. [PMID: 37386218 PMCID: PMC10404205 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-28305-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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The concept of the study resulted from numerous concerns around bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS) in aquatic environments. In this study, river water and sediment microcosms highly polluted with bisphenols and bioaugmented with two BPs-removing bacterial strains were constructed. The study aimed to determine the rate of high-concentrated BPA and BPS (BPs) removal from river water and sediment microniches, and the effect of water bioaugmentation with bacterial consortium on the removal rates of these pollutants. Moreover, the impact of introduced strains and exposure to BPs on the structural and functional composition of the autochthonous bacterial communities was elucidated. Our findings indicate that the removal activity of autochthonous bacteria was sufficient for effectively BPA elimination and reducing BPS content in the microcosms. The number of introduced bacterial cells decreased continuously until day 40, and on consecutive sampling days, no bioaugmented cells were detected. Sequencing analysis of the total 16S rRNA genes revealed that the community composition in bioaugmented microcosms amended with BPs differed significantly from those treated either with bacteria or BPs. A metagenomic analysis found an increase in the abundance of proteins responsible for xenobiotics removal in BPs-amended microcosms. This study provides new insights into the effects of bioaugmentation with a bacterial consortium on bacterial diversity and BPs removal in aquatic environments.
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- Magdalena Noszczyńska
- Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032, Katowice, Poland.
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- Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032, Katowice, Poland
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- Centre for Bioinformatics and Data Analysis, Medical University of Bialystok, Białystok, Poland
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- Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032, Katowice, Poland
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Akash MSH, Rasheed S, Rehman K, Imran M, Assiri MA. Toxicological evaluation of bisphenol analogues: preventive measures and therapeutic interventions. RSC Adv 2023; 13:21613-21628. [PMID: 37476040 PMCID: PMC10354593 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra04285e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is a prominent endocrine-disrupting compound that shares structural similarities with estrogen. It is widely used, particularly in the production of food packaging, canned goods, and dental sealants. Of the eight bisphenol analogues, BPA is the most frequently utilized chemical in packaging food items, canned foods and dental sealants. However, chronic exposure to BPA can pose severe health risks, particularly in children. To ensure public safety, it is crucial to adopt proper precautionary measures to minimize BPA exposure. This article explores the toxic effects of bisphenols on various body systems and mechanisms, shedding light on their impact on the reproductive and endocrine system, obesity, albuminuria, and the generation of reactive oxygen species. Understanding the detrimental effects of bisphenols on these systems and mechanisms is vital for developing strategies to mitigate their harmful consequences. Furthermore, the article delves into the biotransformation processes of bisphenols, focusing on their occurrence in vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and microorganisms. Investigating the biotransformation pathways provides valuable insights into the fate of bisphenols in various organisms and ecosystems. Lastly, the article emphasizes preventive measures to avoid bisphenol exposure and highlights the potential use of plant-based bioactive compounds for treatment strategies. By implementing effective preventive measures, such as utilizing BPA-free products and adopting safer alternatives, individuals can reduce their exposure to bisphenols. Additionally, exploring the potential of plant-based bioactive compounds as therapeutic agents offers promising avenues for addressing the adverse effects of bisphenols. The findings presented herein contribute to a better understanding of the novelty, significance, and potential implications of bisphenol research in the field, aiding in the development of safer practices and interventions to safeguard public health.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Women University Multan Pakistan
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- Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University Abha Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University Abha Saudi Arabia
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- Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University Abha Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University Abha Saudi Arabia
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Li R, Hu Y, Sun X, Huang S, Zhang Z, Chen K, Cheng Y, Liu Q, Chen M, Chen X. Machine learning-driven 3D plasmonic cellulose sensor for in situ rapid SERS detection of bisphenol compounds in water sample. Talanta 2023; 265:124917. [PMID: 37429253 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/12/2023]
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Rapid component separation and accurate identification of bisphenols compounds (BPs) in real water sample remain an attractive challenge due to the trace amounts and structural similarities of BPs, and complexity of real samples. Here, we designed and synthesized chemically modified cellulose p-toluenesulfonate (CTSA) to encapsulate octadecylamine-modified gold nanoparticles (Au-ODA), obtaining 3D plasmonic cellulose (Au@CTSA). Simultaneously, by virtue of the high surface area in the 3D network of CTSA and the solvent volatile deposition, BPs in water were in situ extracted and concentrated in Au@CTSA microspheres. Since the 3D network of Au@CTSA supports the formation of "hotspots", the number of "hotspots" available is greatly improved, enabling excellent SERS detection of BPs. Based on the collected SERS spectra, machine learning was utilized to analyze the overall profile of BPs, which eliminated the subjective judgment of the concentration by the Au@CTSA sensor using a single characteristic peak. In this way, the accuracy of identification of BPs was significantly improved. The machine learning-driven Au@CTSA sensor realized the detection of traces bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), and bisphenol F (BPF) in water sample, pushing quantitative detection of different concentrations of BPs and contributing facile indicators for water quality monitoring.
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- Ruili Li
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
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Yu F, Jin F, Cong Y, Lou Y, Li Z, Li R, Ding B, Wang Y, Chen J, Wang J. Bisphenol A decreases the developmental toxicity and histopathological alterations caused by polystyrene nanoplastics in developing marine medaka Oryzias melastigma. CHEMOSPHERE 2023:139174. [PMID: 37301517 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2023] [Revised: 05/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Nanoplastics (NPs) are emerging pollutants posing risks to marine biota and human health due to their small size and high bioavailability. However, there are still knowledge gaps regarding effects of co-existing pollutants on NPs toxicity to marine organisms at their respective environmentally relevant concentrations. Herein we investigated developmental toxicity and histopathological alterations caused by co-exposure of polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs) and bisphenol A (BPA) to marine medaka, Oryzias melastigma. Embryos at 6 h post-fertilization were exposed to 50-nm PS-NPs (55 μg/L) or BPA (100 μg/L) or co-exposed to a combination of both. Results showed that PS-NPs exhibited decreased embryonic heart rate, larval body length, and embryonic survival as well as larval deformities such as hemorrhaging and craniofacial abnormality. When co-exposed, BPA mitigated all the adverse developmental effects caused by PS-NPs. PS-NPs also led to an increase in histopathological condition index of liver with early inflammatory responses, while co-exposure of BPA with PS-NPs did not. Our data suggest that the toxicity reduction of PS-NPs in the presence of BPA might result from the decreased bioaccumulation of PS-NPs caused by the interaction between BPA and PS-NPs. This study unveiled the impact of BPA on the toxicity of nanoplastics in marine fish during early developmental stages and highlight the need of more research on the long-term effects of complex mixtures in the marine environment by applying omics approaches to better understand the toxicity mechanism.
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- Fuwei Yu
- School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China; Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China
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- Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas (Ministry of Ecology and Environment), Marine Debris and Microplastic Research Center, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, 116023, China
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Das R, Yao P, Yin H, Liang Z, Li G, An T. BPA degradation using biogenic manganese oxides produced by an engineered Escherichia coli with a non-blue laccase from Bacillus sp. GZB. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 326:138407. [PMID: 36925011 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor that is often found in a variety of environmental matrixes, poses a serious health risk. One of the most effective methods for completely degrading BPA is biological oxidation. This study used a non-blue laccase to develop an engineer Escherichia coli strain for the synthesis of biogenic manganese oxides (BMO). The recombinant strain LACREC3 was utilized for the efficient production of BMO. The LACREC3 strain developed the erratic clumps of BMO after prolonged growth with Mn2+, as shown by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDS) tests. After 12 days of incubation under liquid culture conditions, a total of 51.97 ± 0.56% Mn-oxides were detected. The Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface areas, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiments were further used to characterize the purified BMO. Data revealed that Mn(IV)-oxides predominated in the structure of BMO, which was amorphous and weakly crystalline. The BPA oxidation assay confirmed the high oxidation efficiency of BMO particle. BMO degraded 96.16 ± 0.31% of BPA in total over the course of 60 min. The gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) identified BPA-intermediates showed that BPA might break down into less hazardous substances that were tested by Photobacterium Phosphoreum in an acute toxicity experiment. Thus, employing BMO generated by a non-blue laccase, this study introduces a new biological technique of metal-oxidation and organic-pollutant degradation.
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- Ranjit Das
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Contaminants Exposure and Health, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China; College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Contaminants Exposure and Health, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Contaminants Exposure and Health, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Contaminants Exposure and Health, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, Key Laboratory of City Cluster Environmental Safety and Green Development, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Contaminants Exposure and Health, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, Key Laboratory of City Cluster Environmental Safety and Green Development, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
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- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Contaminants Exposure and Health, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, Key Laboratory of City Cluster Environmental Safety and Green Development, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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Li W, Zu B, Li J, Li L, Li J, Mei X. Microplaastics as potential bisphenol carriers: role of adsorbents, adsorbates, and environmental factors. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023:10.1007/s11356-023-27953-8. [PMID: 37249766 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-27953-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Microplastics (MPs) are widely found in the environment and can act as carriers for various toxic substances, promoting their diffusion and bioenrichment. Accordingly, it is necessary to investigate the transfer of MPs between the environment and organisms. This study investigated the adsorption potential of four types of MPs, namely polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP), polyamide (PA), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), for bisphenol (BP) A, B, F, and S (BPA, BPB, BPF, and BPS, respectively). The results showed that all four types of MP could act as environmental carriers of BP. PA had the highest BPA adsorption capability, with a value of 109.0 ± 39.93 μg·g-1, followed by PS (89.24 ± 26.12 μg·g-1), PVC (53.08 ± 15.32 μg·g-1), and PP (41.83 ± 11.51 μg·g-1).Thepolymer type, SSA, and surface functional groups were the main factors affecting the BP adsorption capacity of MPs. The concentration, hydrophobicity, and dissociation ability of BPs also substantially affected their adsorption behavior. The adsorption efficiency of different BPs on the same MPs ranged from 37.4 ± 3.7% to 59.1 ± 2.8%. The adsorption capacity of BPs on MPs decreased with increasing temperature. Salt ions in the solution significantly enhanced BP partitioning in the solid phase owing to the salting-out effect. Additionally, the adsorption of BPs on MPs was pH dependent. Higher pH values increased electrostatic repulsion, which decreased the adsorption capacity. These results demonstrate that MPs can serve as BP carriers in the environment and their potential BP loads might be considerably greater than that of BP additives used during plastic production.
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- Wang Li
- College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, China
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- College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, China.
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- College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, China
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- College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, China
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- Chongqing Research Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Chongqing, 401147, China
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- Chongqing Yi Da Environmental Protection Engineering Co., Ltd., Chongqing, 400060, China
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Sun Y, Wang C, May AL, Chen G, Yin Y, Xie Y, Lato AM, Im J, Löffler FE. Mn(III)-mediated bisphenol a degradation: Mechanisms and products. WATER RESEARCH 2023; 235:119787. [PMID: 36917870 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is a high production volume chemical with potential estrogenic effects susceptible to abiotic degradation by MnO2. BPA transformation products and reaction mechanisms with MnO2 have been investigated, but detailed process understanding of Mn(III)-mediated degradation has not been attained. Rapid consumption of BPA occurred in batch reaction vessels with 1 mM Mn(III) and 63.9 ± 0.7% of 1.76 ± 0.02 μmol BPA was degraded in 1 hour at circumneutral pH. BPA was consumed at 1.86 ± 0.09-fold higher rates in vessels with synthetic MnO2 comprising approximately 13 mol% surface-associated Mn(III) versus surface-Mn(III)-free MnO2, and 10-35% of BPA transformation could be attributed to Mn(III) during the initial 10-min reaction phase. High-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (HRMS/MS) analysis detected eight transformation intermediates in reactions with Mn(III), and quantum calculations proposed 14 BPA degradation products, nine of which had not been observed during MnO2-mediated BPA degradation, suggesting mechanistic differences between Mn(III)- versus MnO2-mediated BPA degradation. The findings demonstrate that both Mn(III) and Mn(IV) can effectively degrade BPA and indicate that surface-associated Mn(III) increases the reactivity of synthetic MnO2, offering opportunities for engineering more reactive oxidized Mn species for BPA removal.
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- Yanchen Sun
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States; Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.
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Liu J, Lin J, Chen J, Maimaitiyiming Y, Su K, Sun S, Zhan G, Hsu CH. Bisphenol C induces developmental defects in liver and intestine through mTOR signaling in zebrafish (Danio rerio). CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 322:138195. [PMID: 36822516 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) was widely used in the plastic products and banned in infant food containers in many countries due to the environmental and biological toxicity. As a common substitute of BPA to manufacture products, Bisphenol C (BPC) is frequently detected in human samples like infants and toddlers' urine, indicating infants and young children are at risk of BPC exposure. However, the understanding of effects of BPC exposure on early development is limited. Herein, we evaluated the early developmental toxicity of BPC and studied the underlying mechanism in a zebrafish model. We found BPC exposure leading to liver and intestinal developmental defects in zebrafish, which occurred via disruption of GPER-AKT-mTOR-RPS6 pathway. Specifically, BPC downregulated phosphorylated and total levels of mTOR, which synergistically reduced the phosphorylation of RPS6, suppressing the translation of genes essential for cell proliferation in liver and intestine such as yap1 and tcf4. Collectively, our results not only observed clear toxicity of BPC during liver and intestinal development but also demonstrated the underlying mechanism of BPC-mediated defects via disrupting the GPER-AKT-mTOR-RPS6 pathway.
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- Jinfeng Liu
- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China
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- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China
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- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China
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- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China; Department of Hematology of First Affiliated Hospital, and Department of Public Health, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China
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- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China
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- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China
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- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China
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- Women's Hospital, Institute of Genetics, and Department of Environmental Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China.
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Heredia-García G, Elizalde-Velázquez GA, Gómez-Oliván LM, Islas-Flores H, García-Medina S, Galar-Martínez M, Dublán-García O. Realistic concentrations of Bisphenol-A trigger a neurotoxic response in the brain of zebrafish: Oxidative stress, behavioral impairment, acetylcholinesterase inhibition, and gene expression disruption. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 330:138729. [PMID: 37080469 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 04/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is a micro-pollutant found in various environmental matrices at concentrations as low as ng/L. Recent studies have shown that this compound can cause oxidative damage and neurotoxic effects in aquatic organisms. However, there is a lack of research investigating the effects of BPA at environmentally relevant concentrations. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the neurotoxic effects of acute BPA exposure (96 h) at environmentally relevant concentrations (220, 1180, and 1500 ng/L) in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). The Novel Tank trial was used to evaluate fish swimming behavior, and our results indicate that exposure to 1500 ng/L of BPA reduced the total distance traveled and increased freezing time. Furthermore, the evaluation of biomarkers in the zebrafish brain revealed that BPA exposure led to the production of reactive oxygen species and increased acetylcholinesterase activity. Gene expression analysis also indicated the overexpression of mbp, α1-tubulin, and manf in the zebrafish brain. Based on our findings, we concluded that environmentally relevant concentrations of BPA can cause anxiety-like behavior and neurotoxic effects in adult zebrafish.
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- Gerardo Heredia-García
- Laboratorio de Toxicología Ambiental, Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de México. Paseo Colón Intersección Paseo Tollocan, Colonia Residencial Colón, CP, 50120, Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Toxicología Ambiental, Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de México. Paseo Colón Intersección Paseo Tollocan, Colonia Residencial Colón, CP, 50120, Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Toxicología Ambiental, Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de México. Paseo Colón Intersección Paseo Tollocan, Colonia Residencial Colón, CP, 50120, Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico.
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- Laboratorio de Toxicología Ambiental, Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de México. Paseo Colón Intersección Paseo Tollocan, Colonia Residencial Colón, CP, 50120, Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Toxicología Acuática, Departamento de Farmacia, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Adolfo López Mateos, Av. Wilfrido Massieu S/n y Cerrada Manuel Stampa, Col. Industrial Vallejo, Ciudad de México, CP, 07700, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Toxicología Acuática, Departamento de Farmacia, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Adolfo López Mateos, Av. Wilfrido Massieu S/n y Cerrada Manuel Stampa, Col. Industrial Vallejo, Ciudad de México, CP, 07700, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Toxicología Ambiental, Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de México. Paseo Colón Intersección Paseo Tollocan, Colonia Residencial Colón, CP, 50120, Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico
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Lai J, Xiao P, Li Y, Cui S, Yang J, Lian H. Visible light and iodate/iodide mediated degradation of bisphenol A by self-assembly 3D hierarchical BiOIO 3/Bi 5O 7I Z-scheme heterojunction: Intermediates identification, radical mechanism and DFT calculation. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 448:130908. [PMID: 36758431 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.130908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Broadening the light absorption and inhibiting carrier's recombination are vital to the improvement of photocatalytic performance. Herein, self-assembly 3D hierarchical microsphere BiOIO3/Bi5O7I Z-scheme heterojunction with carrier transfer channel was firstly fabricated by in-situ solvothermal method. The degradation efficiency for bisphenol A (BPA) reached 98.9 % within 60 min visible light irradiation. The enhanced photocatalytic activity was benefited from the Z-scheme system assisted by iodate/iodide (IO3-/I-) as carrier transfer channel that not only accelerated the interfacial charge separation, but also provided massive reactive centers for obtaining high redox capacity. The vulnerable sites and the degradation pathways of BPA were identified by density functional theory calculations and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses. The toxicity of BPA and its intermediates were predicted by ECOlogical Structure Activity Relationship (ECOSAR) and the results demonstrated that BPA was eventually mineralized to harmless products. The Z-scheme charge transfer mechanism was deeply elucidated based on the role of active species (·O2-, ·OH and h+), band structure and carrier separation efficiency. This study provides a promising strategy for the photoactivity enhancement of bismuth based heterojunction in environment purification.
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- Jiahao Lai
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China.
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Pan Z, Tang C, Cao Y, Xuan Y, Zhou Q. Distribution and source apportionment of phenolic EDCs in rivers in the Pearl River Delta, South China. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:48248-48259. [PMID: 36752923 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25268-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The sources and distribution characteristics of three phenolic endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs), e.g., alkylphenols (APs) (including nonylphenols (NPs) and 4-t-octylphenol (OP)) and Bisphenol A (BPA), were investigated in the rivers of the Pearl River Delta Region (PRDR) with complex land-use types. The mean concentrations of NPs, OP, and BPA in river water including wet and dry seasons were 87, 6, and 74 ng/L in the agricultural regions (n = 10), 135, 7, and 61 ng/L in the transitional regions (n = 8), and 249, 15, and 152 ng/L in the urban regions (n = 28). Contents of NPs and BPA were high in the river sediments (ranged from 7 to 3048 ng/g and 2 to 271 ng/g, respectively). Equilibrium analysis results suggested that sediment release was not the main source of the river EDCs. Principal component analysis (PCA) showed that sewage was the major source of EDCs in the dry season, while the leaching effect of rainfall on the agricultural soils, urban roads, and commercial products was an important source in the wet season. Furthermore, the ratio of APs and total concentration of phenolic EDCs (ΣEDCs) was used to characterize the agricultural regions and urban regions in the PRDR. The ratio was less than 0.6 in the agricultural regions while the ratio was large than 0.6 in the dry season and less than 0.6 in the wet season in urban regions. BPA and NPs in transitional region and urban region had small/medium potential risk to aquatic organisms.
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- Zewen Pan
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
- School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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Hu L, Mei H, Feng H, Huang Y, Cai X, Xiang F, Chen L, Xiao H. Exposure to bisphenols, parabens and phthalates during pregnancy and postpartum anxiety and depression symptoms: Evidence from women with twin pregnancies. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 221:115248. [PMID: 36623682 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Women are vulnerable to suffer from the common mental disorders like anxiety and depression during the postpartum period. Exposure to bisphenols, parabens, and phthalates has been linked to anxiety and depression symptoms in the general population. However, little is known about their impacts on postpartum women. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of individual and joint exposure to 11 nonpersistent chemicals during pregnancy on postpartum anxiety and depression. METHODS Among 278 mothers from the Wuhan Twin Birth Cohort (WTBC), bisphenols, parabens, and phthalate metabolites were measured in maternal urine samples from each trimester. Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) were administrated at early pregnancy and 1 month and 6 months postpartum to determine anxiety and depression symptoms, respectively. Associations between urinary chemical biomarkers (individual or mixtures) and anxiety and depression symptoms were estimated using multiple informant model and quantile-based g-computation. RESULTS With adjustment for confounders, one quartile increase in the overall chemical mixture (bisphenols, parabens and phthalate metabolites) during the second trimester was associated with 1.03-point (95% CI: 0.07, 1.99, P = 0.036) higher EPDS score at 1 month postpartum, in which bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol F (BPF) contributed the most to the positive association. Consistent effects were also observed in the multiple informant models. We found that second-trimester BPA and BPF exposure individually showed the strongest and significant associations with anxiety and depression symptoms, and some of associations differed across trimesters (Ptrimester-int < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Second-trimester nonpersistent chemical exposure was associated with increased postpartum anxiety and depression symptoms.
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- Liqin Hu
- Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- Department of Obstetrics, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- Department of Obstetrics, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- Maternal Health Care Department, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China.
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China.
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Liu J, Sun K, Zhu R, Wang X, Waigi MG, Li S. Biotransformation of bisphenol A in vivo and in vitro by laccase-producing Trametes hirsuta La-7: Kinetics, products, and mechanisms. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 321:121155. [PMID: 36709035 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is a ubiquitous endocrine disruptor that poses adverse human health risks. Herein, biotransformation kinetics, products, and mechanisms of BPA undergoing a laccase-producing Trametes hirsuta La-7 metabolism were for the first time reported. Strain La-7 could completely biotransform ≤0.5 mmol·L-1 BPA within 6 d in vivo. Notably, its extracellular crude laccase solution (ECLS) and intracellular homogenized mycelium (HM) only required 6 h to convert 85.71% and 84.24% of 0.5 mmol·L-1 BPA in vitro, respectively. The removal of BPA was noticeably hampered by adding a cytochrome P-450 inhibitor (piperonyl butoxide) in HM, disclosing that cytochrome P-450 monooxygenase participated in BPA oxidation and metabolism. BPA intermediates were elaborately identified by high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) combined with 13C stable isotope ratios (BPA: 13C12-BPA = 0.25: 0.25, molar concentration). Based on the accurate molecular mass, isotope labeling difference, and relative intensity ratio of product peaks, 6 versatile metabolic mechanisms of BPA, including polymerization, hydroxylation, dehydration, bond cleavage, dehydrogenation, and carboxylation in vivo and in vitro, were confirmed. Germination index values revealed that inoculating strain La-7 in a BPA-contaminated medium presented no phytotoxicity to the germinated radish (Raphanus sativus L.) seeds. In vivo, Mg2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, and Mn2+ were conducive to BPA removal, but Cd2+ and Hg2+ significantly obstructed BPA elimination. Additionally, strain La-7 also exhibited high-efficiency metabolic ability toward estrone (E1), 17β-estradiol (E2), and 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), with more than 96.13%, 96.65%, and 100% of E1, E2, and EE2 having been converted, respectively. Our findings provide an environmentally powerful laccase-producing fungus to decontaminate endocrine disruptor-contaminated water matrices by radical polymerization and oxidative decomposition.
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- Jie Liu
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Ecological Conservation and Pollution Prevention, College of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Ecological Conservation and Pollution Prevention, College of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, Anhui, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China.
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Ecological Conservation and Pollution Prevention, College of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Ecological Conservation and Pollution Prevention, College of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, Anhui, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- Laboratory of Wetland Protection and Ecological Restoration, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, China
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Fu W, Zheng X, Chen X, Wang W, Liu A, Ji J, Wang G, Guan C. The potential roles of carotenoids in enhancing phytoremediation of bisphenol A contaminated soil by promoting plant physiology and modulating rhizobacterial community of tobacco. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 316:137807. [PMID: 36634717 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.137807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Revised: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 01/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The widespread occurrence of bisphenol A (BPA), a typical endocrine-disrupting compound, poses potential threat to ecosystem and public health. Carotenoids are essential natural pigments, playing important roles in photosynthesis and antioxidant defense of plants. This study aimed to verify the value of carotenoids in enhancing plant tolerance to BPA stress and improving phytoremediation efficiency of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), through exogenous application of β-carotene (a typical carotenoid) and endogenous upregulation of carotenoids by overexpression of β-carotene hydroxylase (chyb) gene in tobacco. The results demonstrated that exogenous applied β-carotene alleviated the toxic effects of BPA exposure (100 mg kg-1) on wild-type (WT) tobacco plants after being cultivated for 40 d, reflecting by the increase of biomass (201.2%), chlorophyll content (27.5%) and the decrease of malondialdehyde (MDA) content (70.7%). Similar with the results of exogenous application of β-carotene, chyb gene overexpressing tobacco showed less phytotoxicity exposed to BPA, through enhancing photosynthetic efficiency (42.1%) and reducing reactive oxygen species (ROS) production (18%). Notably, about 94.8% BPA in contaminated soil was removed under the cultivation of transgenic tobacco for 40 d, however, only 82.7% was removed in that of WT tobacco. Moreover, transgenic tobacco is beneficial for the growth of plant roots, thus upregulating the abundance of bacteria contributing to BPA degradation or soil nutrient cycling (e.g., Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, Sphingomonas and MND1), which might further help to enhance plant growth and improve BPA removal efficiency in soil. This study extended our understanding of the possible mechanisms of carotenoids-involved alleviation of BPA stress in tobacco, providing a novel strategy to improve phytoremediation efficiency of plants in BPA contaminated soil.
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- Wenting Fu
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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Yang F, Zhao F. Mechanism of visible light enhances microbial degradation of Bisphenol A. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 443:130214. [PMID: 36327837 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is a toxic endocrine disruptor detected in various environments. Microbial metabolic/enzymatic degradation has been thought to be the main pathway for BPA attenuation in natural environments. In this study, we found that under visible light conditions, superoxide produced by bacteria was the main reason for the rapid removal of BPA, accounting for 57 % of the total removal rate. With visible light, the bacteria degraded BPA at a rate of 0.22 mg/L/d, and the total removal within 8 days reached 85 %, which is 4.7 times compared with that of dark culture. The intermediate product 4-iso-propenylphenol, which was considered as an end-product of microbial degradation of BPA in previous reports, was detected in large quantities at 24 h in culture but gradually decreased in our experiment. Community analysis suggested bacteria with aromatic hydrocarbon degradation ability were more enriched under light incubation. Moreover, the bacteria showed well degradation ability to various pharmaceutically active but nonbiodegradable compounds including diclofenac and fluoxetine, with a removal rate of 88 % and 20 %, respectively. Our study revealed the organic pollutant transformation pathway under the combined action of light and microorganisms, providing new insights into the microbial treatment of aromatic hydrocarbon pollutants.
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- Fan Yang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, PR China.
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Czarny-Krzymińska K, Krawczyk B, Szczukocki D. Bisphenol A and its substitutes in the aquatic environment: Occurrence and toxicity assessment. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 315:137763. [PMID: 36623601 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.137763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Bisphenol A is classified as a high production volume chemical commonly used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics, epoxy resins and thermal paper. The endocrine disrupting properties of this xenobiotic have led to the restriction and prohibition of its use in many consumer products. To date, many chemical compounds with a chemical structure similar to bisphenol A have been used in consumer products as its replacement. The ubiquitous occurrence of bisphenol A and its substitutes in the environment and their endocrine activity as well as adverse effects on aquatic organisms is a global concern, especially because many available literature reports show that many substitutes (e.g. bisphenol AF, bisphenol AP, bisphenol B, bisphenol C, bisphenol F, bisphenol G, bisphenol FL, tetrabromobisphenol A) exert adverse effects on aquatic organisms, similar to, or even stronger than bisphenol A. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the production, sources, occurrence and associated toxicity, as well as the endocrine activity of bisphenol A and its substitutes on aquatic species. The environmental levels and ecotoxicological data presented in this review allowed for a preliminary assessment and prediction of the risk of bisphenol A and its substitutes for aquatic organisms. Furthermore, the data collected in this paper highlight that several compounds applied in bisphenol A-free products are not safe alternatives and regulations regarding their use should be introduced.
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- Karolina Czarny-Krzymińska
- Laboratory of Environmental Threats, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz, 91-403, Lodz, Tamka 12, Poland.
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- Laboratory of Environmental Threats, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz, 91-403, Lodz, Tamka 12, Poland
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- Laboratory of Environmental Threats, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz, 91-403, Lodz, Tamka 12, Poland
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Gu C, Liang J, Liu M, Rui J, Shi J, Yu Y, Zhang X. Aerobic degradation of bisphenol A by Pseudomonas sp. LM-1: characteristic and pathway. Biodegradation 2023; 34:73-81. [PMID: 36401058 DOI: 10.1007/s10532-022-10003-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) has been widely used in the manufacture of polymeric materials. BPA is regarded as an endocrine disrupting chemical, posing a great threat to the public health. In this study, a bacterial strain LM-1, capable of utilizing BPA as the sole carbon and energy source under aerobic conditions, was originally isolated from an activated sludge sample. The isolate was identified as Pseudomonas sp. based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Strain LM-1 was able to completely degrade 25-100 mg/L BPA within 14-24 h, and it also exhibited high capacity for BPA degradation at a range of pH (6.0-8.0). (NH4)2SO4 and NH4NO3 were the suitable nitrogen sources for its growth and BPA biodegradation, and the BPA degradation could be accelerated when exogenous carbon sources were introduced as the co-substrates. Metal ions such as Zn2+, Cu2+, and Ni2+ could considerably suppress the growth of strain LM-1 and BPA degradation. According to the analysis of liquid chromatography coupled to Q-Exactive high resolution mass spectrometry, hydroquinone, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, and p-hydroxybenzoate were the predominate metabolites in the BPA biodegradation and the degradation pathways were proposed. This study is important for assessment of the fate of BPA in engineered and natural systems and possibly for designing bioremediation strategies.
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- Chen Gu
- Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou, 311122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou, 311122, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, and Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou, 311122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China.
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Fauconnier MB, Albert C, Tondreau A, Maumy L, Rouzier R, Bonneau C. [Bisphenol A and breast cancer: State of knowledge and meta-analysis]. Bull Cancer 2023; 110:151-159. [PMID: 36543681 DOI: 10.1016/j.bulcan.2022.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Bisphenol A is an endocrine disruptor used in the composition of food containers. It was partially banned in France in 2015 and classified as a "very high-risk substance" in 2017. Bisphenol A's carcinogenic effects have been demonstrated in animal testing. Bisphenol A acts through estrogen-dependent and estrogen-independent pathways. It induces epigenetic changes and impacts the microenvironment of the mammary gland. However, the role of bisphenol A exposure in the development of breast cancer in humans remains controversial. This study documents the current thinking on bisphenol A with an analysis of the mechanisms and a meta-analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A literature review and a statistical analysis of linear regression type, with the creation of a Forest plot, were used to perform the meta-analysis of 9 studies including 10,695 patients. RESULTS Nine case-control studies, published between 1990 and 2021, investigating the association between breast cancer and mean urinary, blood or tissue bisphenol A levels were selected. The meta-analysis did not find a significant association between bisphenol A exposure and the development of breast cancer with an OR=(1 IC95% [0.92-1.08]). DISCUSSION This meta-analysis does not show a link between breast cancer and bisphenol A exposure. Nevertheless, the analysis of a pathogenic link between bisphenol A and breast cancer requires additional cohort studies to conclude because of methods of available studies.
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- Institut Curie-Saint-Cloud, département de chirurgie, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 Saint-Cloud, France
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- Institut Curie-Saint-Cloud, département de chirurgie, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 Saint-Cloud, France
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- Institut Curie-Saint-Cloud, département de chirurgie, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 Saint-Cloud, France
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- Institut François-Baclesse, département de chirurgie, 3, avenue du Général Harris, 14000 Caen, France; Inserm U900, Institut Curie, Saint-Cloud, France
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- Institut Curie-Saint-Cloud, département de chirurgie, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 Saint-Cloud, France; Inserm U900, Institut Curie, Saint-Cloud, France.
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Hahladakis JN, Iacovidou E, Gerassimidou S. An overview of the occurrence, fate, and human risks of the bisphenol-A present in plastic materials, components, and products. INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT 2023; 19:45-62. [PMID: 35362236 DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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With over 95% of bisphenol-A (BPA) used in the production of polycarbonate (PC) and epoxy resins, termed here as BPA-based plastic materials, components, and products (MCPs), an investigation of human exposure to BPA over the whole lifecycle of BPA-based plastic MCPs is necessary. This mini-review unpacks the implications arising from the long-term human exposure to BPA and its potential accumulation across the lifecycle of BPA-based plastics (production, use, and management). This investigation is timely and necessary in promoting a sustainable circular economy model. Restrictions of BPA in the form of bans and safety standards are often specific to products, while safety limits rely on traditional toxicological and biomonitoring methods that may underestimate human health implications and therefore the "safety" of BPA exposure. Controversies in regards to the: (a) dose-response curves; (b) the complexity of sources, release mechanisms, and pathways of exposure; and/or (c) the quality and reliability of toxicological studies, appear to currently stifle progress toward the regulation of BPA-based plastic MCPs. Due to the abundance of BPA in our MCPs production, consumption, and management systems, there is partial and inadequate evidence on the contribution of BPA-based plastic MCPs to human exposure to BPA. Yet, the production, use, and end-of-life management of plastic MCPs constitute the most critical BPA source and potential exposure pathways that require further investigation. Active collaboration among risk assessors, government, policy-makers, and researchers is needed to explore the impacts of BPA in the long term and introduce restrictions to BPA-based MCPs. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2023;19:45-62. © 2022 SETAC.
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- John N Hahladakis
- Waste Management (FEWS) Program, Center for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Sustainable Plastics Research Group (SPlasH), Brunel University London, London, UK
- Division of Environmental Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
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Kataria N, Bhushan D, Gupta R, Rajendran S, Teo MYM, Khoo KS. Current progress in treatment technologies for plastic waste (bisphenol A) in aquatic environment: Occurrence, toxicity and remediation mechanisms. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 315:120319. [PMID: 36183872 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a type of endocrine disrupting compound (EDC) that is being widely used in the production of polycarbonate and epoxy resins. In the last few years, human exposure to BPA has been extensively high due to the continuous increment in the Annual Growth Rate (AGR) of the BPA global market. The presence and transportation of BPA in the environment could cause serious damage to aquatic life and human health. This paper reviewed the literature on the exposure and toxicity mechanisms of BPA and advanced analytical techniques for the detection of BPA in the environment and human beings. The study indicated that BPA can cause damaging effects on numerous tissues and organs, including the reproductive system, metabolic dysfunction, respiratory system, immune system and central nervous system. On the basis of reported studies on animals, it appears that the exposure of BPA can be carcinogenic and responsible for causing a variety of cancers like ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and liver cancer. This review paper focused mainly on the current progress in BPA removal technologies within last ten years (2012-2022). This paper presents a comprehensive overview of individual removal technologies, including adsorption, photocatalysis/photodegradation, ozonation/advance oxidation, photo-fenton, membranes/nanofilters, and biodegradation, along with removal mechanisms. The extensive literature study shows that each technology has its own removal mechanism and their respective limitations in BPA treatment. In adsorption and membrane separation process, most of BPA has been treated by electrostatic interaction, hydrogen boning and π-π interations mechanism. Whereas in the degradation mechanism, O* and OH* species have played a major role in BPA removal. Some factors could alter the removal potential and efficiency of BPA removal. This review paper will provide a useful guide in providing directions for future investigation to address the problem of BPA-containing wastewater treatment.
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- Navish Kataria
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, 121006, Haryana, India
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, 121006, Haryana, India
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, 121006, Haryana, India
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Tarapacá, Avda. General Velásquez, 1775, Arica, Chile
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- Faculty of Applied Sciences, UCSI University, UCSI Heights, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, 56000, Malaysia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
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Cao G, Zhang J, Wang W, Wu P, Ru Y, Cai Z. Mass spectrometry analysis of a ubiquitous tire rubber-derived quinone in the environment. Trends Analyt Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2022.116756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Dueñas-Moreno J, Mora A, Cervantes-Avilés P, Mahlknecht J. Groundwater contamination pathways of phthalates and bisphenol A: origin, characteristics, transport, and fate - A review. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2022; 170:107550. [PMID: 36219908 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2022] [Revised: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) or phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) are emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) that may harm biota and human health. Humans can be exposed to these contaminants by drinking water consumption from water sources such as groundwater. Before their presence in aquifer systems, phthalates and BPA can be found in many matrices due to anthropogenic activities, which result in long-term transport to groundwater reservoirs by different mechanisms and reaction processes. The worldwide occurrence of phthalates and BPA concentrations in groundwater have ranged from 0.1 × 10-3 to 3 203.33 µg L-1 and from 0.09 × 10-3 to 228.04 µg L-1, respectively. Therefore, the aim of this review is to describe the groundwater contamination pathways of phthalates and BPA from the main environmental sources to groundwater. Overall, this article provides an overview that integrates phthalate and BPA environmental cycling, from their origin to human reception via groundwater consumption. Additionally, in this review, the readers can use the information provided as a principal basis for existing policy ratification and for governments to develop legislation that may incorporate these endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) as priority contaminants. Indeed, this may trigger the enactment of regulatory guidelines and public policies that help to reduce the exposure of these EDCs in humans by drinking water consumption.
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- Jaime Dueñas-Moreno
- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Puebla, Atlixcáyotl 5718, Reserva Territorial Atlixcáyotl, Puebla 72453, Mexico
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- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Puebla, Atlixcáyotl 5718, Reserva Territorial Atlixcáyotl, Puebla 72453, Mexico
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- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Puebla, Atlixcáyotl 5718, Reserva Territorial Atlixcáyotl, Puebla 72453, Mexico
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- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64149, Nuevo León, Mexico.
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Liu Z, Fei Y, Xia Z, Zhang R, Chang X, Ji Y, Kong D, Lu J, Chen J. Insights into the oxidation of bisphenol A by peracetic acid enhanced with bromide: The role of free bromine. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.122159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Zhang L, Cheng Y, Qian Y, Ding T, Li J. Phytotoxicity and accumulation of BPS to Pistia stratiotes under the influence of microplastics. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 307:135854. [PMID: 35952788 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Bisphenol S (BPS) is a contaminant of emerging concern, its exposure and phytotoxicity towards plants, however, is scarce. This study aimed at revealing the BPS translocation in plants and phytotoxicity in the presence of Polystyrene (PS) microplastics. Results found that BPS and PS showed no effect on plant growth, indicating the tolerance of plants towards BPS and PS co-contamination. In addition, plants enriched BPS from soil, and a major part of absorbed BPS was accumulated in roots, as supported by the higher BCF value in roots compared with leaves. Besides, the low TF (<1) suggested the capacity of plants to accumulate BPS in roots, and less translocation to leaves. PS negatively affected the translocation of BPS in plants. PS with large size (5 μm) also increased the distribution of BPS in organelles. Exposure risk assessment suggested low concern of BPS carried in plants to human health. This study underlines the bioaccumulation of BPS in plants, and the effects of PS in the translocation process.
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- Lili Zhang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecological Remediation, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecological Remediation, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecological Remediation, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecological Remediation, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecological Remediation, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
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de Morais Farias J, Krepsky N. Bacterial degradation of bisphenol analogues: an overview. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:76543-76564. [PMID: 36166118 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-23035-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most produced synthetic monomers in the world and is widespread in the environment. BPA was replaced by bisphenol analogues (BP) because of its adverse effects on life. Bacteria can degrade BPA and other bisphenol analogues (BP), diminishing their environmental concentrations. This study aimed to summarize the knowledge and contribute to future studies. In this review, we surveyed papers on bacterial degradation of twelve different bisphenol analogues published between 1987 and June 2022. A total of 102 original papers from PubMed and Google Scholar were selected for this review. Most of the studies (94.1%, n = 96) on bacterial degradation of bisphenol analogues focused on BPA, and then on bisphenol F (BPF), and bisphenol S (BPS). The number of studies on bacterial degradation of bisphenol analogues increased more than six times from 2000 (n = 2) to 2021 (n = 13). Indigenous microorganisms and the genera Sphingomonas, Sphingobium, and Cupriavidus could degrade several BP. However, few studies focussed on Cupriavidus. The acknowledgement of various aspects of BP bacterial biodegradation is vital for choosing the most suitable microorganisms for the bioremediation of a single BP or a mixture of BP.
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- Julia de Morais Farias
- Laboratory of Water Microbiology (LACQUA), Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Av. Pasteur, 458, CEP 22290‑240, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Water Microbiology (LACQUA), Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Av. Pasteur, 458, CEP 22290‑240, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
- Graduate Program in Neotropical Biodiversity (PPGBIO), Institute of Biosciences (IBIO), Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Av. Pasteur, 458. Urca, CEP: 22.290-255, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
- Institute of Biosciences (IBIO), Graduate Program in Ecotourism and Conservation, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Av. Pasteur, 458. Urca, CEP: 22.290-255, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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Zhang M, Li Y, Yang B, Su Y, Xu J, Deng J, Zhou T. Promoted BPA degradation in food waste leachate via alkali-fluffed CoFe2O4@CoSiOx activated PMS under the assistance of inherent acetate. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.122566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Yin H, Wang L, Zeng G, Wang L, Li Y. The Roles of Different Fractions in Freshwater Biofilms in the Photodegradation of Methyl Orange and Bisphenol A in Aqueous Solutions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:12995. [PMID: 36293579 PMCID: PMC9601981 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192012995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Freshwater biofilms play an important role in the migration and transformation of organic pollutants, especially under illumination conditions. Nonetheless, the roles of variable fractions in freshwater biofilms, e.g., extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), microbial cells and original biofilms, in promoting the photodegradation of trace organic pollutants remain largely unclear. In this study, two contaminants, i.e., methyl orange (MO) and bisphenol A (BPA), were selected, and the roles of different fractions in freshwater biofilms in their photodegradation performances were investigated. After dosing 696 mg/L SS biofilm harvested from an effluent-receiving river, the direct photodegradation rate of MO and BPA was increased 8.7 times and 5.6 times, respectively. River biofilm EPS contained more aromatic fractions, chromogenic groups and conjugated structures than biofilm harvested from a less eutrophic pond, which might be responsible for the enhanced photodegradation process. The quenching experiments suggested that when EPS fractions derived from river biofilm were dosed, 3EPS* was the major reactive oxygen species during the photodegradation of MO and BPA. Meanwhile, for EPS derived from the pond biofilm, ·OH/1O2 was predominantly responsible for the enhanced photodegradation. Batch experimental results suggested that the cells and EPS in river biofilms could collaboratively interact with each other to enhance the preservation of reactive species and protection of microbes, thus facilitating the photoactivity of biofilms. Our results might suggest that biofilms generated from eutrophic waterbodies, such as effluent-receiving rivers, could play a more important role in the photodegradation processes of contaminants.
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- Haojie Yin
- Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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Multi-residue determination of bisphenol analogues in organism tissues by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr A 2022; 1682:463489. [PMID: 36130425 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2022.463489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Revised: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A reliable and sensitive analyzing method was developed and validated for determination of 13 novel bisphenol analogues (BPs) along with bisphenol A (BPA) in organism tissues. The complex organism tissues were treated by ultrasonic-assisted extraction using acetonitrile/formic acid (99:1, v/v), followed by successive purification using enhanced matrix removal-lipid sorbents and primary secondary amine sorbents. The BPs were finally determined by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry after derivatization using pyridine-3-sulfonyl chloride. Satisfactory recoveries of 75 - 118% were obtained for the BPs, with good repeatability (RSD < 20%). Matrix interferences were efficiently diminished. The method quantification limits (MQLs) reached 0.003 - 0.1 ng g-1 dry weight (dw). The validated method was successfully applied to a preliminary investigation of the BPs in wild marine organisms collected from the nearshore waters along the coast of Guangdong, China. Besides BPA, novel BPs such as bisphenol F, bisphenol AF, and tetrabromobisphenol A were also detected at < MDL - 15.5 ng g-1 dw. This work laid a strong basis for further in-depth research on bioaccumulation of the novel BPs in the environment.
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Nie X, Wang L. Plant species compositions alleviate toxicological effects of bisphenol A by enhancing growth, antioxidant defense system, and detoxification. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:65755-65770. [PMID: 35501435 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-20402-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA), a broadly disseminated endocrine disturbing chemicals in environment, is harmful to creatures and plants. Plants can uptake and metabolize BPA, but a single plant species ability is limited. Undeniably, plant species compositions have a more vital ability to remove pollutants than a single plant species. However, the mechanisms of plant species compositions alleviating toxicological effects of bisphenol A are poorly understood. Here, we administered plant species compositions, which based on a full-factorial design of Phragmites australis (A), Typha latifolia (B), and Arundo donax (C), to unveil their role in BPA exposure. The results illustrated that the root activity, biomass, and photosynthetic pigment contents of the mixed hydroponic group (e.g., sp(ABC)) were significantly increased under concentration of BPA(1.5, 5, and 10 mg L-1), which showed that the root activity, fresh weight, dry weight, chlorophyll a, and total chlorophyll contents of shoots were increased. While mixed-hydroponic culture groups (e.g., sp(AB), sp(ABC)) significantly increased antioxidant enzyme activity and antioxidant substances under concentration of BPA(5 and 10 mg L-1), it astoundingly diminished responsive oxygen species (ROS) and malondialdehyde (MDA) substance, proposing that mixed-hydroponic culture groups calmed oxidative stress. Further analysis revealed that mixed-hydroponic culture groups (e.g., sp(AB), sp(AC), sp(ABC)) of 1.5, 5, and 10 mg L-1 BPA exposure significantly increased detoxification enzyme activity of NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR), glutathione S-transferase (GST), and glycosyltransferase (GT). Moreover, mixed-hydroponic culture groups (e.g., sp(AB), sp(AC), sp(ABC)) decreased the BPA substance in leaves, proposing that mixed-hydroponic culture groups advanced BPA metabolism by improving CPR, GST, and GT enzyme activities. These results demonstrated that a mixed-hydroponic culture strategy can alleviate BPA phytotoxicity and possibly offer natural and potential phytoremediation methods for BPA.
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- Xianguang Nie
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China.
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