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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014

Linking toxicity and adaptive responses across the transcriptome, proteome, and phenotype of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii exposed to silver.

Smitha Pillai, Renata Behra, Holger Nestler, Marc J-F Suter, Laura Sigg, Kristin Schirmer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 156 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Smitha PillaiDepartment of Environmental Toxicology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland.
Renata Behra
Holger Nestler
Marc J-F Suter
Laura Sigg
Kristin Schirmer
Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology · CHSwiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding mechanistic and cellular events underlying a toxicological outcome allows the prediction of impact of environmental stressors to organisms living in different habitats. A systems-based approach aids in characterizing molecular events, and thereby the cellular pathways that have been perturbed. However, mapping only adverse outcomes of a toxicant falls short of describing the stress or adaptive response that is mounted to maintain homeostasis on perturbations and may confer resistance to the toxic insult. Silver is a potential threat to aquatic organisms because of the increasing use of silver-based nanomaterials, which release free silver ions. The effects of silver were investigated at the transcriptome, proteome, and cellular levels of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The cells instigate a fast transcriptome and proteome response, including perturbations in copper transport system and detoxification mechanisms. Silver causes an initial toxic insult, which leads to a plummeting of ATP and photosynthesis and damage because of oxidative stress. In response, the cells mount a defense response to combat oxidative stress and to eliminate silver via efflux transporters. From the analysis of the perturbations of the cell's functions, we derived a detailed mechanistic understanding of temporal dynamics of toxicity and adaptive response pathways for C. reinhardtii exposed to silver.

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PhenotypeAdaptation, PhysiologicalAdenosine TriphosphateChlamydomonas reinhardtiiGene Expression ProfilingMicroarray AnalysisPhotosynthesisProteomeSilverStress, PhysiologicalTranscriptomeAdenosine TriphosphateProteomeSilveradaptive pathwayadverse outcome pathwayalgaesystems biologytoxicity response

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PMID24550482
PMCPMC3948315
OpenAlexW2146247723

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