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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2024

Interfacial Interactions between Nanoplastics and Biological Systems: toward an Atomic and Molecular Understanding of Plastics-Driven Biological Dyshomeostasis.

Afroz Karim, Anju Yadav, Ummy Habiba Sweety, Jyotish Kumar, Sofia A Delgado, Jose A Hernandez, Jason C White, Lela Vukovic, Mahesh Narayan

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Afroz KarimDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
Anju YadavDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
Ummy Habiba SweetyEnvironmental Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
Jyotish KumarDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4606-8751
Sofia A DelgadoDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
Jose A HernandezDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
Jason C WhiteThe Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5001-8143
Lela VukovicDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9053-5708
Mahesh NarayanDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2194-5228

Funding

UTEP Border Biomedical Research CenterU54MD007592 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO · PI Marc B Cox · 2019 to 2026
$35.1M
Development and testing of Carbon Quantum Dot architectures to arrest neurotoxicant-insult- related outcomesR16GM145575 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO · PI NARAYAN, MAHESH · 2022 to 2025
$769k
NIGMS NIH HHS R16 GM145575NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD007592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Micro- and nano-plastics (NPs) are found in human milk, blood, tissues, and organs and associate with aberrant health outcomes including inflammation, genotoxicity, developmental disorders, onset of chronic diseases, and autoimmune disorders. Yet, interfacial interactions between plastics and biomolecular systems remain underexplored. Here, we have examined experimentally, in vitro, in vivo, and by computation, the impact of polystyrene (PS) NPs on a host of biomolecular systems and assemblies. Our results reveal that PS NPs essentially abolished the helix-content of the milk protein β-lactoglobulin (BLG) in a dose-dependent manner. Helix loss is corelated with the near stoichiometric formation of β-sheet elements in the protein. Structural alterations in BLG are also likely responsible for the nanoparticle-dependent attrition in binding affinity and weaker on-rate constant of retinol, its physiological ligand (compromising its nutritional role). PS NP-driven helix-to-sheet conversion was also observed in the amyloid-forming trajectory of hen egg-white lysozyme (accelerated fibril formation and reduced helical content in fibrils).

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PMID38722759
PMCPMC11694484

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