Avaliação da toxicidade da emodina e sua associação com radiação ultravioleta A em cepas de Escherichia coli e células da linhagem A549

• Autor(a) principal: Bhering, Cecília de Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12746
• topic: Emodin; Ultraviolet A radiation; Base excision repair; Escherichia coli; Strain A549; Emodina; Radiação ultravioleta A; Reparo por excisão de bases; Escherichia coli; Linhagem A549; Escherichia coli; Emodina Toxicidade; Radiação ultravioleta; Reparo do DNA; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BIOFISICA

Emodin is an anthraquinone structurally similar to aloe-emodin and both have been identified as capable of causing oxidative damage by ROS production. Its presence in skin cosmetics and toiletries, associated to the information that the photoactivation of anthraquinones leads to increased oxidative damage caused by ROS, make studies about the association of emodin with UVA relevant. The aim of this study was to evaluate the cytotoxicity induced by the combination of emodin with sublethal doses of UVA radiation in Escherichia coli cells (wild strain and strains deficient in enzymes of BER) by bacterial survival assay (UVA dose rate equal to 20J/m²/s, totaling 108kJ/m² at the end of 90min of experiment); and in A549 cell line by trypan blue exclusion assay and clonogenic survival(dose rate of UVA equal to 20J/m²/s, totaling 36kJ/m² at the end of 30 minutes of experiment). Furthermore, the genotoxicity of these agents was studied by electrophoresis on agarose gel of plasmid DNA (dose rate of UVA equal to 16J/m²/s, totaling 57,6kJ/m² at the end of 60 minutes of experiment). According to the results: i) concentrations equal or below 5.55mM of emodin did not affect the survival in any of the studied strains; ii) proteins Xth and Fpg appear to have an important role in the repair of lesions induced by emodin, at high concentrations, suggesting the involvement of base excision repair (BER) in this process, iii) the association of emodin with UVA showed to be cytotoxic in all strains of E. coli iv) The nfo gene was the most important in bacterial resistance to damages induced by the association of the two agents, reinforcing the involvement of BER and indicating a possible role of the nucleotide incision repair (NIR), v) emodin appears to have interacted with plasmid DNA, altering its migration pattern in the agarose gel; vi) in A549 cell line, emodin caused immediate toxic effects that seemed to be repaired with time. However, when the drug remained for 24 hours in contact with the cells, there was a reduction in cell survival which seems to be in a dose dependent mode, vii) The concentrations of 10μM and 25μM of emodin, when associated with UVA, were responsible for a survival reduction of more than 50% survival in A549 cells, reaching 100% of death with the concentration of 50μM of emodin, viii) UVA radiation potentiates the cytotoxic effect of emodin in two experimental models in the present study, indicating that this interaction is genotoxic and therefore harmful to health.