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Duval JFL, Maffei L, Delatour E, Zaffino M, Pagnout C. Kinetics of metal detection by luminescence-based whole-cell biosensors: connecting biosensor response to metal bioavailability, speciation and cell metabolism. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:30276-30295. [PMID: 37930226 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04653b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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Luminescent whole-cell metal biosensors are genetically engineered cells used for the detection of metals in e.g. aqueous solutions. Herein, we detail the quantitative connections between time-response of luminescent bacterial metal sensors and the bioavailability of free and complexed metal species. To that end, we formulate the biophysicochemical dynamics of metal partitioning at a biosensor/solution interface and integrate the required metabolism contribution to cell response. The formalism explains the ways in which cell signal depends on: coupled Eigen kinetics of metal complexation and diffusion of metal species to/from the interface; kinetics of metal excretion, Michaelis-Menten bioaccumulation and ensuing metal depletion from bulk solution; and kinetics of bioluminescence production following intracellular metal sequestration by regulatory metalloproteins. In turn, an expression is derived for the time-dependent cell signal as a function of interrelated (bioavai)lability of metal species and (thermo)dynamic descriptors of extra/intracellular metal complexation. Quantitative criteria are elaborated to identify scenarios where equilibrium modeling of metal speciation is incorrect, bulk metal depletion is operative, metal biouptake kinetics is governed by metal diffusion, or labile metal complexes fully contribute to cell response. Remarkably, in agreement with experiments, the theory predicts time-shifts of bioluminescence peaks with increasing concentration of biosensor and/or metal ligand in solution. We show that these shifts originate from the crosstalk between activation kinetics of cell photoactivity and speciation-dependent kinetics of bulk metal depletion. Overall, the work paves the way for the elaboration of new strategies to exploit the bioluminescence response of metal lux-biosensors at a dynamic level and evaluate metal bioavailability properties in environmental or biological aqueous samples.
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LIEC, F-57000 Metz, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LIEC, F-57000 Metz, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LIEC, F-57000 Metz, France
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Quevedo-Ospina C, Arroyave C, Peñuela-Vásquez M, Villegas A. Effect of mercury in the influx and efflux of nutrients in the microalga Desmodesmus armatus. Aquat Toxicol 2023; 258:106496. [PMID: 36941145 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2023.106496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Anthropogenic activities such as mining and the metallurgical industry are the main sources of mercury contamination. Mercury is one of the most serious environmental problems in the world. This study aimed to investigate, using experimental kinetic data, the effect of different inorganic mercury (Hg2+) concentrations on the response of microalga Desmodesmus armatus stress. Cell growth, nutrients uptake and mercury ions from the extracellular medium, and oxygen production were determined. A Compartment Structured Model allowed elucidating the phenomena of transmembrane transport, including influx and efflux of nutrients, metal ions and bioadsorption of metal ions on the cell wall, which are difficult to determine experimentally. This model was able to explain two tolerance mechanisms against mercury, the first one was the adsorption of Hg2+ions onto the cell wall and the second was the efflux of mercury ions. The model predicted a competition between internalization and adsorption with a maximum tolerable concentration of 5.29 mg/L of HgCl2. The kinetic data and the model showed that mercury causes physiological changes in the cell, which allow the microalga to adapt to these new conditions to counteract the toxic effects. For this reason, D. armatus can be considered as a Hg-tolerant microalga. This tolerance capacity is associated with the activation of the efflux as a detoxification mechanism that facilitates the maintenance of the osmotic balance for all the modeled chemical species. Furthermore, the accumulation of mercury in the cell membrane suggests the presence of thiol groups associated with its internalization, leading to the conclusion that metabolically active tolerance mechanisms are dominant over passive ones.
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- Catalina Quevedo-Ospina
- Bioprocess Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No. 52-21, Medellín 050010, Colombia.
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- GRINBIO Research Group, Department of Environmental Engineering, Universidad de Medellín UdeM, Carrera 87 #30-65, Medellín 050026, Colombia
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- Bioprocess Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No. 52-21, Medellín 050010, Colombia
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- TERMOMEC Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia UCC, Medellín 050012, Colombia
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The signal produced by aqueous dispersions of bioluminescent, metal-responsive whole-cell bacterial sensors is indicative of the concentration of bioavailable metal ions in solution. The conventional calibration-based strategy followed for measuring this concentration is however inadequate to provide any quantitative prediction of the cell response over time as a function of, e.g., their growth features, their defining metal accumulation properties, or the physicochemical medium composition. Such an evaluation is still critically needed for assessing on a mechanistic level the performance of biosensors in terms of metal bioavailability and toxicity monitoring. Herein we report a comprehensive formalism unraveling how the dependence of bioluminescence on time is governed by the dynamics of metal biouptake, by the activation kinetics of lux-based reporter gene, and by the ensuing rate of luciferase production, the kinetics of light emission, and quenching. It is shown that the bioluminescence signal corresponds to the convolution product between two time-dependent functions, one detailing the dynamic interplay of the above micro- and nanoscale processes, and the other pertaining to the change in concentration of photoactive cell sensors over time. Numerical computations illustrate how the shape and magnitude of the bioluminescence peak(s) are intimately connected to the dependence of the photoactive cell concentration on time and to the magnitudes of Deborah numbers that compare the relevant time scales of the biointerfacial and intracellular events controlling light emission. Explicit analytical expressions are further derived for practical situations where bioluminescence is proportional to the concentration of metal ions in solution. The theory is further quantitatively supported by experiments performed on luminescent cadmium-responsive lux-based Escherichia coli biosensors.
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- Jérôme F. L. Duval
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire
des Environnements Continentaux), UMR 7360, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F-54501, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LIEC, UMR 7360, Campus
Bridoux, Metz F-57070, France
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Liang L, Ngwenya BT. Metal internalization by bacterial cells depends on metal biotoxicity and metal to biomass ratio. Chemosphere 2018; 212:585-593. [PMID: 30172040 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.08.125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Revised: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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UNLABELLED The traditional view of metal adsorption to bacterial surfaces is that it can act as a protective mechanism by externalizing the metal outside the cell. However, numerous studies focussing on the biodynamics of metal uptake using biotic ligand models consider metal adsorption to cell surfaces as an important first step in metal uptake and internalization. In order to resolve these conflicting views, we adsorbed two metals (copper and cadmium) with contrasting metal biotoxicity on E. coli JM109, and quantified the distribution of each metal amongst surface sites, periplasmic space and the cytoplasm. Distribution of each metal depended on biotoxicity and metal to biomass ratio. For both metals, low metal to biomass ratio led to most of the metal being associated with the periplasmic space, with less Cd being taken up by cells overall. At high metal to biomass ratios, most of the Cd was associated with surface sites, whereas Cu also increased in surface sites but remained below periplasmic concentrations. These observations are consistent with metal internalization being the dominant process at low metal to biomass ratios, whereas was active efflux when metal to biomass was high, leading to equilibrium between cytoplasm and surface concentrations. Significantly, efflux was more intense for high biotoxicity Cd, consistent with active enzymatic regulation of Cu internalization/homeastasis, which is essential at low concentrations. Moreover, metal internalization increases as surface-bound metal increases, the maximum being constrained by maximum adsorption consistent with Langmuir adsorption behaviour. SUMMARIZE OF PAPER Bacterial metal internalization is a function of metal biotoxicity and metal loading.
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- Lili Liang
- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, James Hutton Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FE, UK.
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Présent RM, Rotureau E, Billard P, Pagnout C, Sohm B, Flayac J, Gley R, Pinheiro JP, Duval JFL. Impact of intracellular metallothionein on metal biouptake and partitioning dynamics at bacterial interfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:29114-29124. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp05456d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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This study reports the quantitative evaluation of the metal biopartitioning dynamics following biouptake at bacterial interfaces with explicit account of the effects stemming from intracellular metal binding by metallothionein proteins.
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- Romain M. Présent
- CNRS, LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F54501
- France
- Université de Lorraine
- LIEC
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- CNRS, LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F54501
- France
- Université de Lorraine
- LIEC
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- CNRS, LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F54501
- France
- Université de Lorraine
- LIEC
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- CNRS
- LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- UMR7360
- France
- Université de Lorraine
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- CNRS
- LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- UMR7360
- France
- Université de Lorraine
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- CNRS
- LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- UMR7360
- France
- Université de Lorraine
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- CNRS, LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F54501
- France
- Université de Lorraine
- LIEC
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- CNRS, LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F54501
- France
- Université de Lorraine
- LIEC
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- CNRS, LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F54501
- France
- Université de Lorraine
- LIEC
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Duval JFL, Présent RM, Rotureau E. Kinetic and thermodynamic determinants of trace metal partitioning at biointerphases: the role of intracellular speciation dynamics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:30415-30435. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05717a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A theory is elaborated for rationalizing the impacts of intracellular metal speciation dynamics on metal uptake in suspension of charged microorganisms beyond the classical thermodynamic representation.
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- Jérôme F. L. Duval
- CNRS
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux (LIEC)
- UMR 7360
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F-54501
- France
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- CNRS
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux (LIEC)
- UMR 7360
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F-54501
- France
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- CNRS
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux (LIEC)
- UMR 7360
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F-54501
- France
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Duval JFL. Coupled metal partitioning dynamics and toxicodynamics at biointerfaces: a theory beyond the biotic ligand model framework. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:9453-69. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07780j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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A theory is developed for coupled toxicodynamics and interfacial metal partitioning dynamics, with integration of intertwined metal adsorption–internalisation–excretion-transport at the biointerface, cell growth and metal depletion from solution.
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- Jérôme F. L. Duval
- CNRS
- LIEC (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux)
- UMR7360
- Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy F-54501
- France
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Duval JFL, Paquet N, Lavoie M, Fortin C. Dynamics of Metal Partitioning at the Cell-Solution Interface: Implications for Toxicity Assessment under Growth-Inhibiting Conditions. Environ Sci Technol 2015; 49:6625-6636. [PMID: 25945520 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Metal toxicity toward microorganisms is usually evaluated by determining growth inhibition. To achieve a mechanistic interpretation of such toxic effects, the intricate coupling between cell growth kinetics and metal partitioning dynamics at the cell-solution interface over time must be considered on a quantitative level. A formalism is elaborated to evaluate cell-surface-bound, internalized, and extracellular metal fractions in the limit where metal uptake kinetics is controlled by internalization under noncomplexing medium conditions. Cell growth kinetics is tackled using the continuous logistic equation modified to include growth inhibition by metal accumulation to intracellular or cell surface sites. The theory further includes metal-proton competition for adsorption at cell-surface binding sites, as well as possible variation of cell size during exposure to metal ions. The formalism elucidates the dramatic impacts of initial cell concentration on metal bioavailability and toxicity over time, in agreement with reported algae bioassays. It further highlights that appropriate definition of toxicity endpoints requires careful inspection of the ratio between exposure time scale and time scale of metal depletion from bulk solution. The latter depends on metal internalization-excretion rate constants, microorganism growth, and the extent of metal adsorption on nonspecific, transporter, and growth inhibitory sites. As an application of the theory, Cd toxicity in the algae Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata is interpreted from constrained modeling of cell growth kinetics and of interfacial Cd-partitioning dynamics measured under various exposure conditions.
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- Jérôme F L Duval
- †Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux (LIEC), CNRS, UMR7360, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, F-54501, France
- ‡Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux (LIEC), Université de Lorraine, UMR7360, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, F-54501, France
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- §Centre Eau Terre Environnement (INRS-ETE), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 490 de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9, Canada
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- §Centre Eau Terre Environnement (INRS-ETE), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 490 de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9, Canada
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- §Centre Eau Terre Environnement (INRS-ETE), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 490 de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9, Canada
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