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Jansen CA, Zanzarin DM, Março PH, Porto C, do Prado RM, Carvalhaes F, Pilau EJ. Metabolomic kinetics investigation of Camellia sinensis kombucha using mass spectrometry and bioinformatics approaches. Heliyon 2024; 10:e28937. [PMID: 38601539 PMCID: PMC11004822 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024] Open
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Kombucha is created through the fermentation of Camellia sinensis tea leaves, along with sucrose, utilizing a symbiotic consortium of bacteria and yeast cultures. Nonetheless, there exists a dearth of comprehensive information regarding the spectrum of metabolites that constitute this beverage. To explore this intricate system, metabolomics was used to investigate fermentation kinetics of Kombucha. For that, an experimental framework was devised to assess the impact of varying sucrose concentrations and fermentation temperatures over a ten-day period of kombucha fermentation. Following fermentation, samples were analyzed using an LC-QTOF-MS system and a distinctive metabolomic profile was observed. Principal component analysis was used to discriminate between metabolite profiles. Moreover, the identified compounds were subjected to classification using the GNPS platform. The findings underscore notable differences in compound class concentrations attributable to distinct fermentation conditions. Furthermore, distinct metabolic pathways were identified, specially some related to the biotransformation of flavonoids. This comprehensive investigation offers valuable insights into the pivotal role of SCOBY in driving metabolite production and underscores the potential bioactivity harbored within Kombucha.
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- Cler Antônia Jansen
- Laboratory of Biomolecules and Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Biomolecules and Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Federal University of Technology of the Paraná State (UTFPR), Campo Mourão, PR, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Biomolecules and Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
- MS Bioscience, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Biomolecules and Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
- Département des Sciences Animales, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Laboratory of Biomolecules and Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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Paniagua-López M, Jiménez-Pelayo C, Gómez-Fernández GO, Herrera-Cervera JA, López-Gómez M. Reduction in the Use of Some Herbicides Favors Nitrogen Fixation Efficiency in Phaseolus vulgaris and Medicago sativa. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:1608. [PMID: 37111831 PMCID: PMC10144682 DOI: 10.3390/plants12081608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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In recent decades, the quality of agricultural soils has been seriously affected by the excessive application of pesticides, with herbicides being one of the most abundant. Continuous use of herbicides alters the soil microbial community and beneficial interactions between plants and bacteria such as legume-rhizobia spp. symbiosis, causing a decrease in the biological nitrogen fixation, which is essential for soil fertility. Therefore, the aim of this work was to study the effect of two commonly used herbicides (pendimethalin and clethodim) on the legume-rhizobia spp. symbiosis to improve the effectiveness of this process. Phaseolus vulgaris plants grown in pots with a mixture of soil:perlite (3:1 v/v), showed a 44% inhibition of nitrogen fixation rate with pendimethalin. However, clethodim, specifically used against monocots, did not induce significant differences. Additionally, we analyzed the effect of herbicides on root exudate composition, detecting alterations that might be interfering with the symbiosis establishment. In order to assess the effect of the herbicides at the early nodulation steps, nodulation kinetics in Medicago sativa plants inoculated with Sinorhizobium meliloti were performed. Clethodim caused a 30% reduction in nodulation while pendimethalin totally inhibited nodulation, producing a reduction in bacterial growth and motility as well. In conclusion, pendimethalin and clethodim application reduced the capacity of Phaseolus vulgaris and Medicago sativa to fix nitrogen by inhibiting root growth and modifying root exudate composition as well as bacterial fitness. Thus, a reduction in the use of these herbicides in these crops should be addressed to favor a state of natural fertilization of the soil through greater efficiency of leguminous crops.
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Shahid M, Khan MS. Ecotoxicological implications of residual pesticides to beneficial soil bacteria: A review. PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 188:105272. [PMID: 36464377 DOI: 10.1016/j.pestbp.2022.105272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 10/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Optimization of crop production in recent times has become essential to fulfil food demands of constantly increasing human populations worldwide. To address this formidable challenge, application of agro-chemicals including synthetic pesticides in intensive farm practices has increased alarmingly. The excessive and indiscriminate application of pesticides to foster food production however, leads to its exorbitant deposition in soils. After accumulation in soils beyond threshold limits, pesticides harmfully affect the abundance, diversity and composition and functions of rhizosphere microbiome. Also, the cost of pesticides and emergence of resistance among insect-pests against pesticides are other reasons that require attention. Due to this, loss in soil nutrient pool cause a substantive reduction in agricultural production which warrant the search for newer environmentally friendly technology for sustainable crop production. Rhizosphere microbes, in this context, play vital roles in detoxifying the polluted environment making soil amenable for cultivation through detoxification of pollutants, rhizoremediation, bioremediation, pesticide degradation, and stress alleviation, leading to yield optimization. The response of soil microorganisms to range of chemical pesticides is variable ranging from unfavourable to the death of beneficial microbes. At cellular and biochemical levels, pesticides destruct the morphology, ultrastructure, viability/cellular permeability, and many biochemical reactions including protein profiles of soil bacteria. Several classes of pesticides also disturb the molecular interaction between crops and their symbionts impeding the overall useful biological processes. The harmful impact of pesticides on soil microbes, however, is poorly researched. In this review, the recent findings related with potential effects of synthetic pesticides on a range of soil microbiota is highlighted. Emphasis is given to find and suggest strategies to minimize the chemical pesticides usage in the real field conditions to preserve the viability of soil beneficial bacteria and soil quality for safe and sustainable crop production even in pesticide contaminated soils.
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- Mohammad Shahid
- Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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- Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Gupta A, Singh UB, Sahu PK, Paul S, Kumar A, Malviya D, Singh S, Kuppusamy P, Singh P, Paul D, Rai JP, Singh HV, Manna MC, Crusberg TC, Kumar A, Saxena AK. Linking Soil Microbial Diversity to Modern Agriculture Practices: A Review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19053141. [PMID: 35270832 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph190531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2022] [Revised: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Agriculture is a multifarious interface between plants and associated microorganisms. In contemporary agriculture, emphasis is being given to environmentally friendly approaches, particularly in developing countries, to enhance sustainability of the system with the least negative effects on produce quality and quantity. Modern agricultural practices such as extensive tillage, the use of harmful agrochemicals, mono-cropping, etc. have been found to influence soil microbial community structure and soil sustainability. On the other hand, the question of feeding the ever-growing global population while ensuring system sustainability largely remains unanswered. Agriculturally important microorganisms are envisaged to play important roles in various measures to raise a healthy and remunerative crop, including integrated nutrient management, as well as disease and pest management to cut down agrochemicals without compromising the agricultural production. These beneficial microorganisms seem to have every potential to provide an alternative opportunity to overcome the ill effects of various components of traditional agriculture being practiced by and large. Despite an increased awareness of the importance of organically produced food, farmers in developing countries still tend to apply inorganic chemical fertilizers and toxic chemical pesticides beyond the recommended doses. Nutrient uptake enhancement, biocontrol of pests and diseases using microbial inoculants may replace/reduce agrochemicals in agricultural production system. The present review aims to examine and discuss the shift in microbial population structure due to current agricultural practices and focuses on the development of a sustainable agricultural system employing the tremendous untapped potential of the microbial world.
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- Amrita Gupta
- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Ginning Training Centre, Nagpur 440023, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Veer Kunwar Singh College of Agriculture, Bihar Agricultural University, Dumraon 802136, India
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- Pilgram Marpeck School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Truett McConnel University, 100 Alumni Dr., Cleveland, GA 30528, USA
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- Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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- Soil Biology Division, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Nabibagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal 462038, India
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur 813210, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India
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Gupta A, Singh UB, Sahu PK, Paul S, Kumar A, Malviya D, Singh S, Kuppusamy P, Singh P, Paul D, Rai JP, Singh HV, Manna MC, Crusberg TC, Kumar A, Saxena AK. Linking Soil Microbial Diversity to Modern Agriculture Practices: A Review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:3141. [PMID: 35270832 PMCID: PMC8910389 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19053141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2022] [Revised: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Agriculture is a multifarious interface between plants and associated microorganisms. In contemporary agriculture, emphasis is being given to environmentally friendly approaches, particularly in developing countries, to enhance sustainability of the system with the least negative effects on produce quality and quantity. Modern agricultural practices such as extensive tillage, the use of harmful agrochemicals, mono-cropping, etc. have been found to influence soil microbial community structure and soil sustainability. On the other hand, the question of feeding the ever-growing global population while ensuring system sustainability largely remains unanswered. Agriculturally important microorganisms are envisaged to play important roles in various measures to raise a healthy and remunerative crop, including integrated nutrient management, as well as disease and pest management to cut down agrochemicals without compromising the agricultural production. These beneficial microorganisms seem to have every potential to provide an alternative opportunity to overcome the ill effects of various components of traditional agriculture being practiced by and large. Despite an increased awareness of the importance of organically produced food, farmers in developing countries still tend to apply inorganic chemical fertilizers and toxic chemical pesticides beyond the recommended doses. Nutrient uptake enhancement, biocontrol of pests and diseases using microbial inoculants may replace/reduce agrochemicals in agricultural production system. The present review aims to examine and discuss the shift in microbial population structure due to current agricultural practices and focuses on the development of a sustainable agricultural system employing the tremendous untapped potential of the microbial world.
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- Amrita Gupta
- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Ginning Training Centre, Nagpur 440023, India;
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Veer Kunwar Singh College of Agriculture, Bihar Agricultural University, Dumraon 802136, India;
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- Pilgram Marpeck School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Truett McConnel University, 100 Alumni Dr., Cleveland, GA 30528, USA;
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- Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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- Soil Biology Division, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Nabibagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal 462038, India;
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01605, USA;
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- Department of Agronomy, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur 813210, India;
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- Plant-Microbe Interaction and Rhizosphere Biology Lab, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan 275103, India; (A.G.); (U.B.S.); (P.K.S.); (S.P.); (A.K.); (D.M.); (S.S.); (H.V.S.); (A.K.S.)
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Aloo BN, Mbega ER, Makumba BA, Tumuhairwe JB. Effects of agrochemicals on the beneficial plant rhizobacteria in agricultural systems. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 28:60406-60424. [PMID: 34535866 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-16191-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Conventional agriculture relies heavily on chemical pesticides and fertilizers to control plant pests and diseases and improve production. Nevertheless, the intensive and prolonged use of agrochemicals may have undesirable consequences on the structure, diversity, and activities of soil microbiomes, including the beneficial plant rhizobacteria in agricultural systems. Although literature continues to mount regarding the effects of these chemicals on the beneficial plant rhizobacteria in agricultural systems, our understanding of them is still limited, and a proper account is required. With the renewed efforts and focus on agricultural and environmental sustainability, understanding the effects of different agrochemicals on the beneficial plant rhizobacteria in agricultural systems is both urgent and important to deduce practical solutions towards agricultural sustainability. This review critically evaluates the effects of various agrochemicals on the structure, diversity, and functions of the beneficial plant rhizobacteria in agricultural systems and propounds on the prospects and general solutions that can be considered to realize sustainable agricultural systems. This can be useful in understanding the anthropogenic effects of common and constantly applied agrochemicals on symbiotic systems in agricultural soils and shed light on the need for more environmentally friendly and sustainable agricultural practices.
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- Becky Nancy Aloo
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Eldoret, P.O. Box 1125-30100, Eldoret, Kenya.
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- Department of Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 447, Arusha, Tanzania
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Moi University, P.O. Box 3900-30100, Eldoret, Kenya
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- Department of Agricultural Production, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box, 7062, Kampala, Uganda
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Xu Y, Hu A, Li Y, He Y, Xu J, Lu Z. Determination and occurrence of bisphenol A and thirteen structural analogs in soil. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 277:130232. [PMID: 33774255 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Bisphenol A is a phenolic plasticizer used in the production of various plastic products. Its endocrine-disrupting effects on ecological and human health lead to replacement with its structural analogs. The occurrence of these analogs in the soil environment, which is an important sink for bisphenols, has been rarely reported. In this study, a robust method was developed to determine bisphenol A and 13 analogs in soil using accelerated solvent extraction combined with in-line purification for fast and efficient extraction and ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for simultaneous and accurate quantification. The method detection limits of 14 bisphenols were between 0.01 and 0.39 ng g-1, and the recoveries were in the range of 80%-120%. The developed method was applied to 29 agricultural and urban soil samples from 21 provinces in China, and 12 bisphenols were detected. Among them, the contents of bisphenol A, F, and P were up to 166.0, 212.9, and 78.2 ng g-1 dry weight, respectively. The maximum concentration of bisphenol P was at least ten times higher than literature values in food and other environmental matrices. The results of this study showed that "hot spots" existed for bisphenol pollution in soil and that further investigations were necessary to avoid regrettable substitutions.
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- Yiwen Xu
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
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Balázs HE, Schmid CAO, Cruzeiro C, Podar D, Szatmari PM, Buegger F, Hufnagel G, Radl V, Schröder P. Post-reclamation microbial diversity and functions in hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) contaminated soil in relation to spontaneous HCH tolerant vegetation. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 767:144653. [PMID: 33550064 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The toxicity, volatility and persistence of the obsolete organochlorine pesticide hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), makes reclamation of contaminated areas a priority for the health and welfare of neighboring human communities. Microbial diversity and functions and their relation to spontaneous vegetation in post-excavation situations, are essential indicators to consider in bioaugmentation or microbe-assisted phytoremediation strategies at field scale. Our study aimed to evaluate the effects of long-term HCH contamination on soil and plant-associated microbial communities, and whether contaminated soil has the potential to act as a bacterial inoculum in post-excavation bioremediation strategies. To scrutinize the role of vegetation, the potential nitrogen fixation of free-living and symbiotic diazotrophs of the legume Lotus tenuis was assessed as a measure of nutrient cycling functions in soil under HCH contamination. Potential nitrogen fixation was generally not affected by HCH, with the exception of lower nifH gene counts in excavated contaminated rhizospheres, most probably a short-term HCH effect on early bacterial succession in this compartment. HCH shaped microbial communities in long-term contaminated bulk soil, where we identified possible HCH tolerants such as Sphingomonas and Altererythrobacter. In L. tenuis rhizosphere, microbial community composition was additionally influenced by plant growth stage. Sphingobium and Massilia were the bacterial genera characteristic for HCH contaminated rhizospheres. Long-term HCH contamination negatively affected L. tenuis growth and development. However, root-associated bacterial community composition was driven solely by plant age, with negligible HCH effect. Results showed that L. tenuis acquired possible HCH tolerant bacteria such as the Allorhizobium-Neorhizobium-Pararhizobium-Rhizobium clade, Sphingomonas, Massilia or Pantoea which could simultaneously offer plant growth promoting (PGP) benefits for the host. Finally, we identified an inoculum with possibly HCH tolerant, PGP bacteria transferred from the contaminated bulk soil to L. tenuis roots through the rhizosphere compartment, consisting of Mesorhizobium loti, Neorhizobium galegae, Novosphingobium lindaniclasticum, Pantoea agglomerans and Lysobacter bugurensis.
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- Helga E Balázs
- Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, 1 Kogălniceanu St., 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, 1 Kogălniceanu St., 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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- Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, 1 Kogălniceanu St., 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Biological Research Center, Botanical Garden "Vasile Fati", 16 Wesselényi Miklós St., 455200 Jibou, Romania
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Research Unit for Biochemical Plant Pathology, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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Sheng H, Sun X, Yan Y, Yuan Q, Wang J, Shen X. Metabolic Engineering of Microorganisms for the Production of Flavonoids. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 8:589069. [PMID: 33117787 PMCID: PMC7576676 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.589069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Flavonoids are a class of secondary metabolites found in plant and fungus. They have been widely used in food, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical industries owing to their significant biological activities, such as antiaging, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer. However, the traditional approaches for the production of flavonoids including chemical synthesis and plant extraction involved hazardous materials and complicated processes and also suffered from low product titer and yield. Microbial synthesis of flavonoids from renewable biomass such as glucose and xylose has been considered as a sustainable and environmentally friendly method for large-scale production of flavonoids. Recently, construction of microbial cell factories for efficient biosynthesis of flavonoids has gained much attention. In this article, we summarize the recent advances in microbial synthesis of flavonoids including flavanones, flavones, isoflavones, flavonols, flavanols, and anthocyanins. We put emphasis on developing pathway construction and optimization strategies to biosynthesize flavonoids and to improve their titer and yield. Then, we discuss the current challenges and future perspectives on successful strain development for large-scale production of flavonoids in an industrial level.
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- Huakang Sheng
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Raesource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Raesource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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- College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Raesource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Raesource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Raesource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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The World Health Organization (WHO) states that in developing nations, there are three million cases of agrochemical poisoning. The prolonged intensive and indiscriminate use of agrochemicals adversely affected the soil biodiversity, agricultural sustainability, and food safety, bringing in long-term harmful effects on nutritional security, human and animal health. Most of the agrochemicals negatively affect soil microbial functions and biochemical processes. The alteration in diversity and composition of the beneficial microbial community can be unfavorable to plant growth and development either by reducing nutrient availability or by increasing disease incidence. Currently, there is a need for qualitative, innovative, and demand-driven research in soil science, especially in developing countries for facilitating of high-quality eco-friendly research by creating a conducive and trustworthy work atmosphere, thereby rewarding productivity and merits. Hence, we reviewed (1) the impact of various agrochemicals on the soil microbial diversity and environment; (2) the importance of smallholder farmers for sustainable crop protection and enhancement solutions, and (3) management strategies that serve the scientific community, policymakers, and land managers in integrating soil enhancement and sustainability practices in smallholder farming households. The current review provides an improved understanding of agricultural soil management for food and nutritional security.
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Mattana S, Chelinho S, Sousa JP, Alcañiz JM, Domene X. Nonylphenol causes shifts in microbial communities and nitrogen mineralization in soil microcosms. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2019; 181:395-403. [PMID: 31212188 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The aims of this work was to investigate, in soil microcosms, the effects on soil microbial community structure and function of increasing concentrations of 4-Nonylphenol (NP). The lasts is a product of degradation of NPEOs (Nonylphenol polyethoxylates) with a known toxic and estrogenic capacity able to disrupt animal's hormonal systems. The effect of increasing concentrations of NP (0, 10, 30, 90, and 270 mg NP kg-1 of dry soil) in soil microcosms in three sampling dates (28, 56, and 112 days) over soil microbial activity and function were assessed. Soil microbial activity was estimated by microbial ATP content, and both bacterial and fungal communities composition were estimated using the terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism technique (T-RFLP). Abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) was estimated by qPCR of gene encoding for the bacterial ammonia-monoxygenase (amoA). Changes in biologically mediated soil properties were also assessed, namely water-soluble NH+4, NO-2 and NO-3 content, the two last allowing the assessment of mineralization rates. NP-spiking had some unexpected impacts on microbial community structure and functions, since (i) impacted both bacterial and fungal communities structure at the highest NP concentration tested, bacterial communities were resistant to lower concentrations, while fungal communities were increasingly impacted until the end of the incubation at day 112; (ii) no community structure resilience was observed in bacteria at the highest NP concentration nor for fungi at any concentration; (iii) microbial activity decreased with NP after 28 and 56 d, but increased in the last sampling at the highest concentrations tests, coupled to an enrichment in AOB taxa after 56 and 112 days, that at least partly explain also explain the observed speed up of nitrification rates.
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- Stefania Mattana
- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal, 3004-517, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal, 3004-517, Coimbra, Portugal
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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McLachlan JA. Environmental signaling: from environmental estrogens to endocrine‐disrupting chemicals and beyond. Andrology 2016; 4:684-94. [DOI: 10.1111/andr.12206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2015] [Revised: 03/19/2016] [Accepted: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- J. A. McLachlan
- Department of Pharmacology Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans LA USA
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Lira MA, Nascimento LRS, Fracetto GGM. Legume-rhizobia signal exchange: promiscuity and environmental effects. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:945. [PMID: 26441880 PMCID: PMC4561803 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Although signal exchange between legumes and their rhizobia is among the best-known examples of this biological process, most of the more characterized data comes from just a few legume species and environmental stresses. Although a relative wealth of information is available for some model legumes and some of the major pulses such as soybean, little is known about tropical legumes. This relative disparity in current knowledge is also apparent in the research on the effects of environmental stress on signal exchange; cool-climate stresses, such as low-soil temperature, comprise a relatively large body of research, whereas high-temperature stresses and drought are not nearly as well understood. Both tropical legumes and their environmental stress-induced effects are increasingly important due to global population growth (the demand for protein), climate change (increasing temperatures and more extreme climate behavior), and urbanization (and thus heavy metals). This knowledge gap for both legumes and their environmental stresses is compounded because whereas most temperate legume-rhizobia symbioses are relatively specific and cultivated under relatively stable environments, the converse is true for tropical legumes, which tend to be promiscuous, and grow in highly variable conditions. This review will clarify some of this missing information and highlight fields in which further research would benefit our current knowledge.
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- Mario A. Lira
- Agronomy Department, Federal Rural University of PernambucoRecife, Brazil
- National Council for Research and Scientific and Technological DevelopmentBrasília, Brazil
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- Agronomy Department, Federal Rural University of PernambucoRecife, Brazil
- National Council for Research and Scientific and Technological DevelopmentBrasília, Brazil
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Experimental and mesoscale computational dynamics studies of the relationship between solubility and release of quercetin from PEG solid dispersions. Int J Pharm 2013; 456:282-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2013.08.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2013] [Revised: 08/23/2013] [Accepted: 08/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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McLachlan JA, Tilghman SL, Burow ME, Bratton MR. Environmental signaling and reproduction: a comparative biological and chemical perspective. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2012; 354:60-2. [PMID: 22178089 PMCID: PMC3641892 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2011] [Accepted: 11/28/2011] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Reproduction is a critical element of life. Self-propagation in all living organisms ranging from bacteria to humans involves numerous common strategies. Underlying all reproductive strategies is the essential need for signaling molecules to initiate and maintain the process. In this paper we use comparative biological and chemical approaches to explore the origins and distribution of estrogen signaling as a pathway common to many life forms. In the process we illuminate the mechanisms whereby environmental agents alter reproduction and development. These mechanisms involve altered signaling pathways within cells and shifts in the targets of the signaling pathways to include regulators of gene transcription normally associated with other pathways. We also stress the role of signal cross talk in mediating hormone action.
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- John A. McLachlan
- Environmental Signaling Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70122, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, USA
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- Environmental Signaling Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70122, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA
- Division of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA
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- Environmental Signaling Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70122, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA
- Corresponding author at: Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University,
School of Medicine, USA. Tel.: +1 504 988 6623. (M.R. Bratton)
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Vajda AM, Barber LB, Gray JL, Lopez EM, Bolden AM, Schoenfuss HL, Norris DO. Demasculinization of male fish by wastewater treatment plant effluent. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2011; 103:213-21. [PMID: 21473848 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2010] [Revised: 01/31/2011] [Accepted: 02/12/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Adult male fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) were exposed to effluent from the City of Boulder, Colorado wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) under controlled conditions in the field to determine if the effluent induced reproductive disruption in fish. Gonadal intersex and other evidence of reproductive disruption were previously identified in white suckers (Catostomus commersoni) in Boulder Creek downstream from this WWTP effluent outfall. Fish were exposed within a mobile flow-through exposure laboratory in July 2005 and August 2006 to WWTP effluent (EFF), Boulder Creek water (REF), or mixtures of EFF and REF for up to 28 days. Primary (sperm abundance) and secondary (nuptial tubercles and dorsal fat pads) sex characteristics were demasculinized within 14 days of exposure to 50% and 100% EFF. Vitellogenin was maximally elevated in both 50% and 100% EFF treatments within 7 days and significantly elevated by 25% EFF within 14 days. The steroidal estrogens 17β-estradiol, estrone, estriol, and 17α-ethynylestradiol, as well as estrogenic alkylphenols and bisphenol A were identified within the EFF treatments and not in the REF treatment. These results support the hypothesis that the reproductive disruption observed in this watershed is due to endocrine-active chemicals in the WWTP effluent.
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- Alan M Vajda
- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, UCB 354, Boulder, CO 80309, United States.
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Jones OAH, Voulvoulis N, Lester JN. Potential Ecological and Human Health Risks Associated With the Presence of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in the Aquatic Environment. Crit Rev Toxicol 2010; 34:335-50. [PMID: 15328767 DOI: 10.1080/10408440490464697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Recently, considerable interest has developed regarding the presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment, but as yet the potential ecological effects associated with the presence of these compounds have been largely ignored. In this review, laboratory-based acute and chronic toxicity data, as well as studies concerned with the effects of pharmaceuticals on a variety of different organisms, are examined, along with the reported environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems. The possible sources and pathways of these compounds to the environment and the effects of a variety of medicines on a range of organisms are also highlighted, and recommendations are made for further research.
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- O A H Jones
- Environmental Processes and Water Technology Group, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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Mandal SM, Chakraborty D, Dey S. Phenolic acids act as signaling molecules in plant-microbe symbioses. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2010; 5:359-68. [PMID: 20400851 PMCID: PMC2958585 DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.4.10871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 274] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2009] [Accepted: 12/07/2009] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Phenolic acids are the main polyphenols made by plants. These compounds have diverse functions and are immensely important in plant-microbe interactions/symbiosis. Phenolic compounds act as signaling molecules in the initiation of legumerhizobia symbioses, establishment of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses and can act as agents in plant defense. Flavonoids are a diverse class of polyphenolic compounds that have received considerable attention as signaling molecules involved in plant-microbe interactions compared to the more widely distributed, simple phenolic acids; hydroxybenzoic and hydroxycinnamic acids, which are both derived from the general phenylpropanoid pathway. This review describes the well-known roles attributed to phenolic compounds as nod gene inducers of legume-rhizobia symbioses, their roles in induction of the GmGin1 gene in fungus for establishment of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, their roles in inducing vir gene expression in Agrobacterium, and their roles as defense molecules operating against soil borne pathogens that could have great implications for rhizospheric microbial ecology. Amongst plant phenolics we have a lack of knowledge concerning the roles of phenolic acids as signaling molecules beyond the relatively well-defined roles of flavonoids. This may be addressed through the use of plant mutants defective in phenolic acids biosynthesis or knock down target genes in future investigations.
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- Santi M Mandal
- Department of Biotechnology; Indian Institute of Technology; Kharagpur, WB India
- The University of Texas Medical Branch; Galveston, TX USA
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- Plant Molecular & Cellular Genetics; Bose Institute; Kolkata, WB India
- Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology; Banasthali University; Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Biotechnology; Indian Institute of Technology; Kharagpur, WB India
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Bhandari D, Walworth MJ, Sepaniak MJ. Dual function surface-enhanced Raman active extractor for the detection of environmental contaminants. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2009; 63:571-578. [PMID: 19470216 DOI: 10.1366/000370209788347002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has lagged behind other analytical techniques utilized in routine chemical analyses despite the information-rich spectra produced. This can be attributed in part to the difficulties in finding effective substrates that provide high sensitivity and highly reproducible SERS responses. Herein, we have developed a silver-coated polypropylene filter (AgPPF) as a highly sensitive and promising SERS substrate for the detection of environmentally significant chemicals, including selected pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and possible endocrine disruptors. The present approach involves preconcentration studies of selected environmental compounds with 3M's High Performance Extraction Disc Cartridges (HPEDCs) and characterization of the same HPEDC filters as a SERS substrate. The polypropylene microfiber prefilter that encloses the empore extraction medium is modified by physical vapor deposition with silver and used as the SERS substrate. The HPEDC itself is used to concentrate analytes into a desired concentration range, achieving maximum sensitivity. Surface roughness and nanoscale structure of silver films on the microfiber were characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The mass thickness of the silver and volume were optimized for the highest SERS signal using rhodamine 6G as a model compound. A novel component of our HPEDC studies involves the hyphenation of the concentration protocol and SERS. The hyphenation of sample concentration and SERS allows more sensitive surface-enhanced detection. Mitoxanthrone dihydrochloride, crystal violet dye, 4-aminobenzoic acid, and rhodamine 6G were employed to study the sensitive SERS detection and were observed as low as 5 x 10(-8) M to 1 x 10(-10) M without any preconcentration step. Additionally, SERS signatures of some flavonoids, targeted as possible Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals by the US Environmental Protection Agency, such as Apigenin and Daidzein, are reported along with their sensitive detection down to ng/mL for the first time with preconcentration.
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- Deepak Bhandari
- The University of Tennessee, Department of Chemistry, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Fox JE, Gulledge J, Engelhaupt E, Burow ME, McLachlan JA. Pesticides reduce symbiotic efficiency of nitrogen-fixing rhizobia and host plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:10282-7. [PMID: 17548832 PMCID: PMC1885820 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611710104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Unprecedented agricultural intensification and increased crop yield will be necessary to feed the burgeoning world population, whose global food demand is projected to double in the next 50 years. Although grain production has doubled in the past four decades, largely because of the widespread use of synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation promoted by the "Green Revolution," this rate of increased agricultural output is unsustainable because of declining crop yields and environmental impacts of modern agricultural practices. The last 20 years have seen diminishing returns in crop yield in response to increased application of fertilizers, which cannot be completely explained by current ecological models. A common strategy to reduce dependence on nitrogenous fertilizers is the production of leguminous crops, which fix atmospheric nitrogen via symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria, in rotation with nonleguminous crops. Here we show previously undescribed in vivo evidence that a subset of organochlorine pesticides, agrichemicals, and environmental contaminants induces a symbiotic phenotype of inhibited or delayed recruitment of rhizobia bacteria to host plant roots, fewer root nodules produced, lower rates of nitrogenase activity, and a reduction in overall plant yield at time of harvest. The environmental consequences of synthetic chemicals compromising symbiotic nitrogen fixation are increased dependence on synthetic nitrogenous fertilizer, reduced soil fertility, and unsustainable long-term crop yields.
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- Jennifer E. Fox
- *Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, 335 Pacific Hall, Eugene, OR 97403
- Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
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- Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, Hematology and Medical Oncology Section, Tulane University Medical School, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
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- Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
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Peck MC, Fisher RF, Long SR. Diverse flavonoids stimulate NodD1 binding to nod gene promoters in Sinorhizobium meliloti. J Bacteriol 2006; 188:5417-27. [PMID: 16855231 PMCID: PMC1540014 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00376-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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NodD1 is a member of the NodD family of LysR-type transcriptional regulators that mediates the expression of nodulation (nod) genes in the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. Each species of rhizobia establishes a symbiosis with a limited set of leguminous plants. This host specificity results in part from a NodD-dependent upregulation of nod genes in response to a cocktail of flavonoids in the host plant's root exudates. To demonstrate that NodD is a key determinant of host specificity, we expressed nodD genes from different species of rhizobia in a strain of S. meliloti lacking endogenous NodD activity. We observed that nod gene expression was initiated in response to distinct sets of flavonoid inducers depending on the source of NodD. To better understand the effects of flavonoids on NodD, we assayed the DNA binding activity of S. meliloti NodD1 treated with the flavonoid inducer luteolin. In the presence of luteolin, NodD1 exhibited increased binding to nod gene promoters compared to binding in the absence of luteolin. Surprisingly, although they do not stimulate nod gene expression in S. meliloti, the flavonoids naringenin, eriodictyol, and daidzein also stimulated an increase in the DNA binding affinity of NodD1 to nod gene promoters. In vivo competition assays demonstrate that noninducing flavonoids act as competitive inhibitors of luteolin, suggesting that both inducing and noninducing flavonoids are able to directly bind to NodD1 and mediate conformational changes at nod gene promoters but that only luteolin is capable of promoting the downstream changes necessary for nod gene induction.
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- Melicent C Peck
- Department of Biological Sciences, Gilbert Lab, 371 Serra Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the environment have been linked to human health and disease. This is particularly evident in compounds that mimic the effects of estrogens. Exposure to EDCs early in life can increase risk levels of compromised physical and mental health. Epigenetic mechanisms have been implicated in this process. Transgenerational consequences of EDC exposure is also discussed in both a proximate (mechanism) and ultimate (evolution) context as well as recent work suggesting how such transmission might become incorporated into the genome and subject to selection. We suggest a perspective for exploring and ultimately coming to understand diseases that may have environmental or endocrine origins.
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- David Crews
- Section of Integrative Biology, 2400 Speedway, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
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Guillette LJ. Endocrine disrupting contaminants--beyond the dogma. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2006; 114 Suppl 1:9-12. [PMID: 16818240 PMCID: PMC1874172 DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Descriptions of endocrine disruption have largely been associated with wildlife and driven by observations documenting estrogenic, androgenic, antiandrogenic, and antithyroid actions. These actions, in response to exposure to ecologically relevant concentrations of various environmental contaminants, have now been established in numerous vertebrate species. However, many potential mechanisms and endocrine actions have not been studied. For example, the DDT [1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane] metabolite, p,p -DDE [1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene] is known to disrupt prostaglandin synthesis in the uterus of birds, providing part of the explanation for DDT-induced egg shell thinning. Few studies have examined prostaglandin synthesis as a target for endocrine disruption, yet these hormones are active in reproduction, immune responses, and cardiovascular physiology. Future studies must broaden the basic science approach to endocrine disruption, thereby expanding the mechanisms and endocrine end points examined. This goal should be accomplished even if the primary influence and funding continue to emphasize a narrower approach based on regulatory needs. Without this broader approach, research into endocrine disruption will become dominated by a narrow dogma, focusing on a few end points and mechanisms.
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- Louis J Guillette
- Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
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Oberdörster G, Oberdörster E, Oberdörster J. Nanotoxicology: an emerging discipline evolving from studies of ultrafine particles. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2005; 113:823-39. [PMID: 16002369 PMCID: PMC1257642 DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4020] [Impact Index Per Article: 211.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2004] [Accepted: 03/22/2005] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Although humans have been exposed to airborne nanosized particles (NSPs; < 100 nm) throughout their evolutionary stages, such exposure has increased dramatically over the last century due to anthropogenic sources. The rapidly developing field of nanotechnology is likely to become yet another source through inhalation, ingestion, skin uptake, and injection of engineered nanomaterials. Information about safety and potential hazards is urgently needed. Results of older biokinetic studies with NSPs and newer epidemiologic and toxicologic studies with airborne ultrafine particles can be viewed as the basis for the expanding field of nanotoxicology, which can be defined as safety evaluation of engineered nanostructures and nanodevices. Collectively, some emerging concepts of nanotoxicology can be identified from the results of these studies. When inhaled, specific sizes of NSPs are efficiently deposited by diffusional mechanisms in all regions of the respiratory tract. The small size facilitates uptake into cells and transcytosis across epithelial and endothelial cells into the blood and lymph circulation to reach potentially sensitive target sites such as bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and heart. Access to the central nervous system and ganglia via translocation along axons and dendrites of neurons has also been observed. NSPs penetrating the skin distribute via uptake into lymphatic channels. Endocytosis and biokinetics are largely dependent on NSP surface chemistry (coating) and in vivo surface modifications. The greater surface area per mass compared with larger-sized particles of the same chemistry renders NSPs more active biologically. This activity includes a potential for inflammatory and pro-oxidant, but also antioxidant, activity, which can explain early findings showing mixed results in terms of toxicity of NSPs to environmentally relevant species. Evidence of mitochondrial distribution and oxidative stress response after NSP endocytosis points to a need for basic research on their interactions with subcellular structures. Additional considerations for assessing safety of engineered NSPs include careful selections of appropriate and relevant doses/concentrations, the likelihood of increased effects in a compromised organism, and also the benefits of possible desirable effects. An interdisciplinary team approach (e.g., toxicology, materials science, medicine, molecular biology, and bioinformatics, to name a few) is mandatory for nanotoxicology research to arrive at an appropriate risk assessment.
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- Günter Oberdörster
- Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA.
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Scott K, Wu L. Functional properties of a recombinant bacterial DING protein: comparison with a homologous human protein. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2005; 1744:234-44. [PMID: 15950753 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2005.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2004] [Revised: 01/28/2005] [Accepted: 02/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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DING proteins are highly-conserved proteins with poorly-defined cell-signalling roles in mammals. Conserved homologues are also commonplace in plants, though not as yet functionally characterized. Poor availability of the proteins, and a lack of genetic structure, hamper progress in elucidating the roles of these eukaryotic DING proteins, but highly-homologous hypothetical DING proteins have recently been identified in Pseudomonas genomes. We have cloned and expressed a DING protein from P. fluorescens SWB25 in Escherichia coli. The recombinant protein, and its natural human homologue, act as phosphate-binding proteins, as predicted by structural homologies with other bacterial proteins. The recombinant protein also displays other functional similarities with mammalian DING proteins, in that, like the human version, it acts as a mitogen for cultured human cells, and can bind cotinine, known to be a binding ligand for a rat neuronal DING protein.
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- Ken Scott
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Xia K, Bhandari A, Das K, Pillar G. Occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in biosolids. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 2005; 34:91-104. [PMID: 15647538 DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Each year, large quantities of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are used worldwide. Once conveyed to wastewater treatment plants, PPCPs can remain unchanged or undergo partial or complete transformation during wastewater treatment processes before discharge into the environment via effluent and biosolids for land application. Biosolids can be a major sink for some PPCPs. Previous investigations have indicated that land application of biosolids may be a potential important route through which PPCPs enter the environment. However, no information is available on exactly how closely the concentrations of PPCPs in the environmental media are related to the land application of PPCP-containing biosolids. This paper reviews currently available information on the occurrence of PPCPs in biosolids, methods of analysis, the potential fate of PPCPs in biosolids-applied soils, and composting as a potential means for removal of PPCPs from biosolids.
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- Kang Xia
- Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, 3111 Miller Plant Sciences Building, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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Fox JE, Starcevic M, Jones PE, Burow ME, McLachlan JA. Phytoestrogen signaling and symbiotic gene activation are disrupted by endocrine-disrupting chemicals. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2004; 112:672-7. [PMID: 15121509 PMCID: PMC1241960 DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Some organochlorine pesticides and other synthetic chemicals mimic hormones in representatives of each vertebrate class, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish. These compounds are called endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Similarly, hormonelike signaling has also been observed when vertebrates are exposed to plant chemicals called phytoestrogens. Previous research has shown the mechanism of action for EDCs and phytoestrogens is as unintended ligands for the estrogen receptor (ER). Although pesticides have been synthesized to deter insects and weeds, plants produce phytoestrogens to deter herbivores, as attractant cues for insects, and as recruitment signals for symbiotic soil bacteria. Our data present the first evidence that some of the same organochlorine pesticides and EDCs known to disrupt endocrine signaling through ERs in exposed wildlife and humans also disrupt the phytoestrogen signaling that leguminous plants use to recruit Sinorhizobium meliloti soil bacteria for symbiotic nitrogen fixation. Here we report that a variety of EDCs and pesticides commonly found in agricultural soils interfere with the symbiotic signaling necessary for nitrogen fixation, suggesting that the principles underlying endocrine disruption may have more widespread biological and ecological importance than had once been thought.
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- Jennifer E Fox
- Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory, Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
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Garai J, Adlercreutz H. Estrogen-inducible uterine flavonoid binding sites: is it time to reconsider? J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2004; 88:377-81. [PMID: 15145447 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2004.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2003] [Accepted: 01/13/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Epidemiological data support the beneficial effect of plant flavonoids on human health including anti-inflammatory and cancer preventing actions. The phytoestrogen flavonoids might interfere with estrogen action. The possible relations between the steroid- and the flavonoid-signalling in animal and plant cells have been addressed in numerous studies in the past decade. In search for possible sites of conjunction between these phenomena the post-receptor targets must not be disregarded. The estrogen-inducible type II estrogen binding sites of rat uteri have first been reported 25 years ago by Clark and coworkers [Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 81 (1978) 1]. These sites are known to bind catecholic flavonoids with considerable affinity. Behaviour of the tyrosinase-like enzymatic activity associated with these sites appeared reminiscent to the recently described dopachrome oxidase or tautomerase activity exhibited by the cytokine macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) inasmuch as it also accepts a broad range of catecholic melanogenic precursors. Therefore we assessed, whether the known type II ligand flavonoids interfere with the MIF tautomerase. We report here, that luteolin and quercetin have a biphasic effect on the enol-keto conversion of phenylpyruvate mediated by MIF tautomerase. We also demonstrate the presence of MIF immunoreactivity by Western blotting in rat uterine nuclear extracts prepared according to the method that yields high type II binding activity. These data support the possible participation of MIF in type II estrogen binding phenomena.
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- János Garai
- Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, University of Pécs, Szigeti u. 12., Pécs H-7624, Hungary.
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Hirsch AM, Bauer WD, Bird DM, Cullimore J, Tyler B, Yoder JI. MOLECULAR SIGNALS AND RECEPTORS: CONTROLLING RHIZOSPHERE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PLANTS AND OTHER ORGANISMS. Ecology 2003. [DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0858:msarcr]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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DING proteins have a characteristic DINGGG- or closely related N-terminal sequence. One is found in human synovial fluid, and may be associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Other examples have receptor or signalling roles in various human and animal cells, or are involved in biomineralisation, and several of them bind to phytochemicals. As plant DING proteins have recently been discovered, we hypothesise that the DING protein-phytochemical association may represent one aspect of a ubiquitous receptor-linked signalling system. Several microbial proteins related to DING proteins have phosphatase activity, which may relate to biomineralisation in eukaryotic systems. Plant DING proteins and their microbial relatives may elicit allergic responses leading to arthritic disease.
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- Anne Berna
- IBMP-Institut de Botanique, Strasbourg, France
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Therapeutic agents, active substances as well as metabolites, have been detected in the environment, notably in the aquatic compartment. Such contamination may induce adverse environmental effects, and the question is, whether respective hazards could be deduced from their pharmacodynamic properties and activities, and whether there could indeed be relevant risks at the (very low) environmental concentrations observed. While it would seem that, in many cases, the concentrations of drugs needed to elicit pharmacodynamic responses will exceed the environmental concentrations by factors in the range of 10(4)-10(6), and while, furthermore, pharmacodynamically-mediated influences by drug residues on eco-organisms are possible only if the pharmacodynamic target (enzyme, receptor) is expressed and functionally active in some way in the respective eco-organism, such considerations should not, however, deflect from the fact that the specificities of drug substances are defined in terms of the human target structures, and that other organisms may exhibit different specificity profiles. Examples of such species specificities are discussed in this paper and lead to the conclusion that, on the one hand, pharmacodynamic effects, classified as secondary and considered irrelevant for the therapeutic activity in humans, might potentially play a major role in other (non-mammalian) eco-organisms, and that, on the other hand, the--"anthropocentrically" defined--primary pharmacodynamic activities of drugs could induce effects in (non-mammalian) eco-organisms totally different from the therapeutic effects. It is further argued that even slight, non-significant influences on single components within regulatory cascades, like cellular division or signal transduction, that would not result in any acutely discernible effect, might ultimately, through sequential propagation or through interaction with additional, unrelated factors, affect a whole population by its negative consequences on fitness: disturbances in hormonal homeostasis ("endocrine disruption"), in immunological status, in signal transduction or gene activation may serve as examples. From these considerations it is concluded that a more "mechanism-based" approach to the experimental investigation of potential environmental hazards through the contamination of, especially, the aquatic compartment by drug residues should therefore yield more meaningful results and insights than the indiscriminate use of a standard battery of ecotoxicology assays.
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- Jürg P Seiler
- Swissmedic, Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, Erlachstrasse 8, CH-3000 Bern, Switzerland.
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