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| author | Marinaro, Carmela Scarciello, Giulia Bianchi, Anna Rita Berman, Bruno Chianese, Teresa Scudiero, Rosaria Rosati, Luigi De Maio, Anna Lettieri, Gennaro Piscopo, Marina |
| author_facet | Marinaro, Carmela Scarciello, Giulia Bianchi, Anna Rita Berman, Bruno Chianese, Teresa Scudiero, Rosaria Rosati, Luigi De Maio, Anna Lettieri, Gennaro Piscopo, Marina Marinaro, Carmela Scarciello, Giulia Bianchi, Anna Rita Berman, Bruno Chianese, Teresa Scudiero, Rosaria Rosati, Luigi De Maio, Anna Lettieri, Gennaro Piscopo, Marina |
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| contents | Toxicological effects and potential reproductive risk of microplastic-induced molecular changes in protamine-like proteins and their DNA binding. Marinaro, Carmela Scarciello, Giulia Bianchi, Anna Rita Berman, Bruno Chianese, Teresa Scudiero, Rosaria Rosati, Luigi De Maio, Anna Lettieri, Gennaro Piscopo, Marina Animals Protamines Mytilus Male Microplastics DNA Spermatozoa Water Pollutants, Chemical Reproduction Polystyrenes DNA Damage Today, plastic pollution is a widespread problem in all ecosystems and has a particularly severe impact on marine ecosystems and external fertilisers such as the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. The present study aims to assess the toxicological reproductive health effects in this organism following exposure to two concentrations of polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) (0.5 and 1 μg/L), representative of conditions in the Mediterranean Sea. After exposure, the electrophoretic pattern of protamine-like (PL) proteins, the major basic protein component of Mytilus galloprovincialis sperm chromatin, was analysed. Compared to the unexposed condition, differences were observed by SDS-PAGE and an increased ability of PL to bind and protect DNA from oxidative damage was then measured, particularly for PL from mussels exposed to 1 μg/L PS-MPs. At this dose of PS-MPs, a reduced release of all PLs from the sperm nuclei was also observed, whereas the digestion by micrococcal nuclease did not show any significant differences between the exposed and the unexposed conditions. Finally, the possibility of poly(ADP)-ribosylation of the PLs was investigated. PL-II showed an increase in poly(ADP)-ribosylation after PS-MPs exposure, which may account for the difference in the ability of the PLs to bind DNA. In conclusion, while all the results might suggest a molecular mechanism of gametic plasticity occurring upon exposure of mussels to PS-MPs 1 μg/L, they also indicate that this dose of exposure could be extremely detrimental to the reproductive health of Mytilus galloprovincialis because it could prevent the release of basic nuclear proteins from the sperm DNA at fertilisation. |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Toxicological effects and potential reproductive risk of microplastic-induced molecular changes in protamine-like proteins and their DNA binding. Marinaro, Carmela Scarciello, Giulia Bianchi, Anna Rita Berman, Bruno Chianese, Teresa Scudiero, Rosaria Rosati, Luigi De Maio, Anna Lettieri, Gennaro Piscopo, Marina Animals Protamines Mytilus Male Microplastics DNA Spermatozoa Water Pollutants, Chemical Reproduction Polystyrenes DNA Damage Toxicological effects and potential reproductive risk of microplastic-induced molecular changes in protamine-like proteins and their DNA binding. Marinaro, Carmela Scarciello, Giulia Bianchi, Anna Rita Berman, Bruno Chianese, Teresa Scudiero, Rosaria Rosati, Luigi De Maio, Anna Lettieri, Gennaro Piscopo, Marina Animals Protamines Mytilus Male Microplastics DNA Spermatozoa Water Pollutants, Chemical Reproduction Polystyrenes DNA Damage Today, plastic pollution is a widespread problem in all ecosystems and has a particularly severe impact on marine ecosystems and external fertilisers such as the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. The present study aims to assess the toxicological reproductive health effects in this organism following exposure to two concentrations of polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) (0.5 and 1 μg/L), representative of conditions in the Mediterranean Sea. After exposure, the electrophoretic pattern of protamine-like (PL) proteins, the major basic protein component of Mytilus galloprovincialis sperm chromatin, was analysed. Compared to the unexposed condition, differences were observed by SDS-PAGE and an increased ability of PL to bind and protect DNA from oxidative damage was then measured, particularly for PL from mussels exposed to 1 μg/L PS-MPs. At this dose of PS-MPs, a reduced release of all PLs from the sperm nuclei was also observed, whereas the digestion by micrococcal nuclease did not show any significant differences between the exposed and the unexposed conditions. Finally, the possibility of poly(ADP)-ribosylation of the PLs was investigated. PL-II showed an increase in poly(ADP)-ribosylation after PS-MPs exposure, which may account for the difference in the ability of the PLs to bind DNA. In conclusion, while all the results might suggest a molecular mechanism of gametic plasticity occurring upon exposure of mussels to PS-MPs 1 μg/L, they also indicate that this dose of exposure could be extremely detrimental to the reproductive health of Mytilus galloprovincialis because it could prevent the release of basic nuclear proteins from the sperm DNA at fertilisation. |
| title | Toxicological effects and potential reproductive risk of microplastic-induced molecular changes in protamine-like proteins and their DNA binding. |
| topic | Animals Protamines Mytilus Male Microplastics DNA Spermatozoa Water Pollutants, Chemical Reproduction Polystyrenes DNA Damage |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39536893/ |