Aquatic organisms modulate the bioreactivity of engineered nanoparticles: focus on biomolecular corona.

ABSTRACT: The increased use of nanoparticle (NP)-enabled materials in everyday-life products have raised concerns about their environmental implications and safety. This motivated the extensive research in nanoecotoxicology showing the possibility that NPs could cause harm to the aquatic organisms if present at high concentrations. By contrast, studies dealing with influence that organisms could exert on the fate and thus effects of NPs are still very rare. Drawing on the existing up-to-date knowledge we critically discuss the formation of biomolecular corona as one of the mechanisms by which organisms exerted control on the NPs fate in the aquatic and biotic environments. We focused the formation of corona by exogeneous and endogenous biomolecules and illustrated the discussion with the specific ex

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9437328 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature