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Protein Analysis of A. halleri and N. caerulescens Hyperaccumulators when Exposed to Nano and Ionic Forms of CD and Zn

Version 1 : Received: 7 October 2022 / Approved: 19 October 2022 / Online: 19 October 2022 (13:14:25 CEST)

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Gallo, V.; Serianni, V.M.; Imperiale, D.; Zappettini, A.; Villani, M.; Marmiroli, M.; Marmiroli, N. Protein Analysis of A. halleri and N. caerulescens Hyperaccumulators When Exposed to Nano and Ionic Forms of Cd and Zn. Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 4236. Gallo, V.; Serianni, V.M.; Imperiale, D.; Zappettini, A.; Villani, M.; Marmiroli, M.; Marmiroli, N. Protein Analysis of A. halleri and N. caerulescens Hyperaccumulators When Exposed to Nano and Ionic Forms of Cd and Zn. Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 4236.

Abstract

Hyperaccumulator plant species growing on metal-rich soils can accumulate high quantity of metals and metalloids in aerial tissues and several proteomic studies on the molecular mechanisms at the basis of metals resistance and hyperaccumulation have been published. Hyperaccumulator are also at the basis of phytoremediation strategy to remove more efficiently metals from polluted soils or water. Arabidopsis halleri and Noccea caerulescens are both hyperaccumulators of metals and nano-metals. In this study it was assessed the change in some proteins in A. halleri and N. caer-ulescens after the growth in soil with cadmium and zinc, provided as sulphate salts (CdSO4 and ZnSO4) or sulfide quantum dots (CdS QDs and ZnS QDs). The protein extracts obtained from plants after 30 days of growth were analyzed by 2D-gel electrophoresis (2D SDS-PAGE) and identified by MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry. A bioinformatics analysis was carried out on quantitative protein differences between control and treated plants. In total, 43 proteins resulted significatively modulated in A. halleri, while 61 resulted modulated in N. caerulescens. Though these two plants are hyperaccumulator of both metals and nano-metals, at protein levels the mechanisms involved do not proceed in the same way but at the end bring to a similar physiological result.

Keywords

Proteomics; 2D SDS-PAGE; Nanoscale and ionic metals; Quantum dots; Hyperaccumulator

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanotechnology

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