Genome-Wide Assessment in Escherichia coli Reveals Time-Dependent Nanotoxicity Paradigms

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• 作者：Vincent C. Reyes ; Minghua Li ; Eric M. V. Hoek ; Shaily Mahendra ; Robert Damoiseaux
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：November 27, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：6
• 期：11
• 页码：9402-9415
• 全文大小：789K
• 年卷期：v.6,no.11(November 27, 2012)
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

The use of engineered nanomaterials (eNM) in consumer and industrial products is increasing exponentially. Our ability to rapidly assess their potential effects on human and environmental health is limited by our understanding of nanomediated toxicity. High-throughput screening (HTS) enables the investigation of nanomediated toxicity on a genome-wide level, thus uncovering their novel mechanisms and paradigms. Herein, we investigate the toxicity of zinc-containing nanomaterials (Zn-eNMs) using a time-resolved HTS methodology in an arrayed Escherichia coli genome-wide knockout (KO) library. The library was screened against nanoscale zerovalent zinc (nZn), nanoscale zinc oxide (nZnO), and zinc chloride (ZnCl₂) salt as reference. Through sequential screening over 24 h, our method identified 173 sensitive clones from diverse biological pathways, which fell into two general groups: early and late responders. The overlap between these groups was small. Our results suggest that bacterial toxicity mechanisms change from pathways related to general metabolic function, transport, signaling, and metal ion homeostasis to membrane synthesis pathways over time. While all zinc sources shared pathways relating to membrane damage and metal ion homeostasis, Zn-eNMs and ZnCl₂ displayed differences in their sensitivity profiles. For example, ZnCl₂ and nZnO elicited unique responses in pathways related to two-component signaling and monosaccharide biosynthesis, respectively. Single isolated measurements, such as MIC or IC₅₀, are inadequate, and time-resolved approaches utilizing genome-wide assays are therefore needed to capture this crucial dimension and illuminate the dynamic interplay at the nano-bio interface.

Keywords:

nanomaterial; nanoparticle; nanotoxicity; zinc; zinc oxide; zinc chloride; high-throughput screening; Keio knockout library; E. coli; cytotoxicity; toxicity mechanism