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Zhou Y, Zhao B, Wang L, Li T, Ye H, Li S, Huang M, Zhang X. Adsorption of Phthalate Acid Esters by Activated Carbon: The Overlooked Role of the Ethanol Content. Foods 2022; 11:2114. [PMID: 35885356 DOI: 10.3390/foods11142114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 07/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Ethanol has great effects on the adsorption of phthalate acid esters (PAEs) on activated carbon (AC), which are usually overlooked and hardly studied. This study investigated the overlooked effects of ethanol on the adsorption of PAEs in alcoholic solutions. The adsorption capacities of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) on AC in solutions with ethanol contents of 30, 50, 70, and 100 v% were only 59%, 43%, 19%, and 10% of that (16.39 mg/g) in water, respectively. The ethanol content increase from 50 v% to 100 v% worsened the adsorption performances significantly with the formation of water–ethanol–DBP clusters (decreasing from 13.99 mg/g to 2.34 mg/g). The molecular dynamics simulation showed that the DBP tended to be distributed farther away from the AC when the ethanol content increased from 0 v% to 100 v% (the average distribution distance increased from 5.25 Å to 15.3 Å). The PAEs with shorter chains were more affected by the presence of ethanol than those with longer chains. Taking DBP as an example, the adsorption capacity of AC in ethanol (0.41 mg/g) is only 2.2% of that in water (18.21 mg/g). The application results in actual Baijiu samples showed that the adsorption of PAEs on AC had important effects on the Baijiu flavors.
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CHEN X, LI Y. Toxicity remission of PAEs on multireceptors after molecular modification through a 3D-QSAR pharmacophore model coupled with a gray interconnect degree method. Turk J Chem 2021; 45:307-322. [PMID: 34104046 PMCID: PMC8164199 DOI: 10.3906/kim-2008-38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In the proposed model, the gray interconnect degree method was employed to process the acute toxicity values of phthalate acid esters (PAEs) to green algae, daphnia, mysid, and fish (predicted by EPI Suite software) and to obtain the comprehensive characterization value of the multireceptor toxicity effect (MTE) of PAEs. The 3D-QSAR pharmacophore model indicated that hydrophobic groups significantly affected the MTE of PAEs. Based on this, 16 PAEs derivative molecules with significantly decreased comprehensive characterization value (more than 10%) of the toxic effects of multireceptors were designed. Among them, 13 PAEs derivative molecules reduced the toxicity values (predicted by the EPI Suite software) of four receptor organisms to varying degrees. Finally, two derivative molecules from PAEs were screened and could exist stably in the environment. The derivative molecule's reduced toxicity to the receptor was obtained through molecular docking methods and simulated the PAEs' primary metabolic response pathways. The above research results break through the pharmacophore model's limitation of only being suitable for the single effect of pollutants. Its application provides a new theoretical verification basis for expanding the multieffect pharmacophore model.
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- Xinyi CHEN
- MOE Key Laboratory of Resource and Environmental System Optimization, Ministry of Education,North China Electric Power University, BeijingChina
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Resource and Environmental System Optimization, Ministry of Education,North China Electric Power University, BeijingChina
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Liu J, Li C, Yang F, Zhao N, Lv S, Liu J, Chen L, He Z, Zhang Y, Wang S. Assessment of migration regularity of phthalates from food packaging materials. Food Sci Nutr 2020; 8:5738-5747. [PMID: 33133575 PMCID: PMC7590312 DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Phthalate acid esters (PAEs) are one of the essential plastic additives which may lead to plenty of harmful effects, including reproductive toxicity, teratogenicity, and carcinogenicity. Increasing attention has been paid to the migration of plasticizer. In this article, the disposable plastic lunch boxes were taken as the research object. The result showed that dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP) have been mainly found, whose content was 1.5 mg/kg and 2.4 mg/kg, respectively. The LOD was 2 ng/g, and LOQ was 6.7 ng/g. We further investigated the migration of PAEs into the simulated liquid at different temperature conditions. Then, the linear fitting performing by first-order kinetic migration model revealed that the lower the polarity of the simulated liquid, the larger the rate constant K 1 and initial release rate V 0. The higher the temperature, the bigger the K 1 and V 0.
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- Jing‐Min Liu
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and HealthSchool of MedicineNankai UniversityTianjinChina
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and HealthSchool of MedicineNankai UniversityTianjinChina
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and HealthSchool of MedicineNankai UniversityTianjinChina
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and HealthSchool of MedicineNankai UniversityTianjinChina
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and HealthSchool of MedicineNankai UniversityTianjinChina
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- Beijing San Yuan foods co., LTD.BeijingChina
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- Beijing San Yuan foods co., LTD.BeijingChina
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- Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and SafetyMinistry of EducationTianjin University of Science and TechnologyTianjinChina
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and HealthSchool of MedicineNankai UniversityTianjinChina
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and HealthSchool of MedicineNankai UniversityTianjinChina
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Giuliani A, Zuccarini M, Cichelli A, Khan H, Reale M. Critical Review on the Presence of Phthalates in Food and Evidence of Their Biological Impact. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E5655. [PMID: 32764471 PMCID: PMC7460375 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17165655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Revised: 08/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Phthalates are a huge class of chemicals with a wide spectrum of industrial uses, from the manufacture of plastics to food contact applications, children's toys, and medical devices. People and animals can be exposed through different routes (i.e., ingestion, inhalation, dermal, or iatrogenic exposure), as these compounds can be easily released from plastics to water, food, soil, air, making them ubiquitous environmental contaminants. In the last decades, phthalates and their metabolites have proven to be of concern, particularly in products for pregnant women or children. Moreover, many authors reported high concentrations of phthalates in soft drinks, mineral waters, wine, oil, ready-to-eat meals, and other products, as a possible consequence of their accumulation along the food production chain and their accidental release from packaging materials. However, due to their different physical and chemical properties, phthalates do not have the same human and environmental impacts and their association to several human diseases is still under debate. In this review we provide an overview of phthalate toxicity, pointing out the health and legal issues related to their occurrence in several types of food and beverage.
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- Angela Giuliani
- "G.d'Annunzio" School of Advanced Studies, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
- Aging Research Center, Ce.S.I., "G. d'Annunzio" University Foundation, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
- Interuniversity Center on Interactions between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems, National Research Council-Institute for Electromagnetic Detection of The Environment, (ICEMB-CNR-IREA), 80124 Naples, Italy
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Liu JM, Li CY, Zhao N, Wang ZH, Lv SW, Liu JC, Chen LJ, Wang J, Zhang Y, Wang S. Migration regularity of phthalates in polyethylene wrap film of food packaging. J Food Sci 2020; 85:2105-2113. [PMID: 32506566 DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.15181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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As a kind of polymer material additive, phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are widely used in food industry. However, PAEs are environmental endocrine disruptors with reproductive toxicity and teratogenic carcinogenicity, which are difficult to be degraded in the natural environment. In this paper, gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) methods for PAEs in polyethylene wrap film were optimized. For diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP) and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that were mainly detected, the method had a good linearity in 1 to 500 ng/g. Then, we confirmed that the migration of DIBP and DBP from polyethylene wrap film increased with time and temperature. It is found that the migration law in different food simulations well followed the migration dynamics first-level model. The rate constant K1 and initial release rate V0 are inversely proportional to the polarity of the simulated liquid. We hope that this study can serve as a valuable reference for further research on the migration of food packing materials. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: In this paper, we present a simple example of applying migration model to evaluate the migration behaviors of PAEs in food packaging materials along with their hazardous properties. It can serve as a valuable reference for further research on the migration of food packing materials.
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- Jing-Min Liu
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Beijing San Yuan Foods Co., Ltd., No. 8, Yingchang Road, Yinghai, Daxing District, Beijing, 100076, China
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- Beijing San Yuan Foods Co., Ltd., No. 8, Yingchang Road, Yinghai, Daxing District, Beijing, 100076, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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Zhao ZY, Qin L, Dong M, Zhang YY, Huang XH, Du M, Zhou DY, Zhu BW. High-Throughput, Rapid Quantification of Phthalic Acid Esters and Alkylphenols in Fish Using a Coated Direct Inlet Probe Coupled with Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization. J Agric Food Chem 2019; 67:7174-7182. [PMID: 31240931 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b01335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Intake of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) by humans could disturb the metabolism of hormones, induce cancer, and damage the liver and other organs. Phthalate acid esters (PAEs) and alkylphenols (APs) are important EDCs and environmental contaminants. With the increasing use of plastics and nonionic surfactants worldwide, PAEs and APs have entered environmental water and accumulated in edible fish, which are finally consumed by humans. In this study, a coated direct inlet probe (CDIP) based on an atmospheric solid analysis probe, which can rapidly and simultaneously extract both PAEs and APs in fish, was developed. Twelve PAEs and APs were quantified by using a stable-isotope-labeled internal standard. Standard curves of the PAEs and APs having correlation coefficients of R2 ≥ 0.9837 were obtained. The limit of detection of the PAEs and APs was distributed from 0.01 to 40 ng g-1. The relative recovery of the method was 78-120% between low, medium, and high spiked levels. Combined with principal component analysis, PAE- and AP-contaminated Carassius auratus from different habitats could be identified. Multiple sample analysis mode allowed the extraction of up to 12 samples at once, and the total analysis time (including sample pretreatment, extraction, and analysis time) was less than 10 min per sample, which indicates that CDIP is useful for rapid quantitative analysis.
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- Zi-Yuan Zhao
- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology , Dalian Polytechnic University , Dalian 116034 , China
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Ji M, Li S, Zhang J, Di H, Li F, Feng T. The Human Health Assessment to Phthalate Acid Esters (PAEs) and Potential Probability Prediction by Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter EEM-FRI Fluorescence in Erlong Lake. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2018; 15:ijerph15061109. [PMID: 29844302 PMCID: PMC6025415 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15061109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Revised: 05/10/2018] [Accepted: 05/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Phthalate acid esters (PAEs) are suspected to cause wide environmental pollution and have adverse effects on human health. Three priority control phthalates, namely dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), and dibutyl phthalate (DBP), were determined in 45 water samples from the largest drinking water source in Jilin Province. Chromophoric-dissolved organic matter (CDOM), which are composed of complex compounds and are a proxy for water quality, can be monitored using a fluorometer. This study attempted to understand the correlations of the CDOM fluorescence regional integration (FRI) components with PAEs and CDOM characteristics under seasonal and spatial variations in the Erlong Lake. The characteristics of the CDOM absorption parameters in different water samples showed a higher aromatic content and molecular weight in October because of increased terrestrial inputs. The Σ3PAEs concentrations ranged from 0.231 mg L−1 to 0.435 mg L−1 in water, and DEP contributed to more than 90% of the Σ3PAEs. The FRI method identified five fluorescence components: one tyrosine-like (R1), one tryptophan-like (R2), one fulvic-like (R3), one microbial protein-like (R4), and one humic-like (R5) component. However, significant relationships exist between DEP and R3 (R2 = 0.78, p < 0.001), R4 (R2 = 0.77, p < 0.001), and R5 (R2 = 0.58, p < 0.001). Quantifying the relationship between CDOM and PAEs was highly significant, because the results will simplify the componential analysis of pollutants from a spatiotemporal perspective as compared to traditional chemical measurements. The human health risk assessment results revealed no human health risk (HQ < 1) in the Erlong Lake basin.
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- Meichen Ji
- School of Environment, Institute of Natural Disaster Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun 130024, China.
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
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- School of Environment, Institute of Natural Disaster Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun 130024, China.
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
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- School of Environment, Institute of Natural Disaster Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun 130024, China.
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
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- School of Environment, Institute of Natural Disaster Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun 130024, China.
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
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- School of Environment, Institute of Natural Disaster Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun 130024, China.
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
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- School of Environment, Institute of Natural Disaster Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun 130024, China.
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
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Phthalate acid esters (PAEs) are widely used in plastic products as a series of chemical softeners. However, PAEs, which now exist in many environmental media such as the atmosphere, water, and soil, have been shown to be environmental endocrine disruptors. Hemoglobin is a functional protein that carries oxygen in the red blood cells of animals. This study aims at revealing the interactions between bovine hemoglobin (BHb) and PAEs using spectroscopic and molecular modeling methods. The results indicate that the selected representative PAEs-dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), and dibutyl phthalate (DBP)-can interact with BHb to form BHb-PAE complexes with one binding site, mainly relying on hydrophobic forces, with the affinity order DMP > DEP > DBP, opposite to the order of side-chain length. The binding of PAEs can cause conformational and micro-environmental changes in BHb, which may affect the physiological functions of Hb. Furthermore, molecular docking was applied to define the specific binding sites, the results of which show that all the three PAEs can bind into the central cavity of BHb. The study contributes to expound the toxic mechanism of PAEs in vivo from the point of hematological toxicology.
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- Zhenxing Chi
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology , 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, P.R. China
- School of Marine Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai , 2 Wenhua West Road, Weihai 264209, P.R. China
- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Exposure and Health, School of Environment, Jinan University , Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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- School of Marine Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai , 2 Wenhua West Road, Weihai 264209, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology , 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, P.R. China
- School of Marine Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai , 2 Wenhua West Road, Weihai 264209, P.R. China
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- Weihai Blood Center , 28 Qingdao North Road, Weihai 264200, P.R. China
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