J 2017

Chlorination and ozonation differentially reduced the microcystin content and tumour promoting activity of a complex cyanobacterial extract

SOVADINOVÁ, Iva, Pavel BABICA, Ondřej ADAMOVSKÝ, Alla ALPATOVA, Volodymyr TARAMARA et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Chlorination and ozonation differentially reduced the microcystin content and tumour promoting activity of a complex cyanobacterial extract

Authors

SOVADINOVÁ, Iva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Pavel BABICA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ondřej ADAMOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Alla ALPATOVA (124 Canada), Volodymyr TARAMARA (840 United States of America), Brad L. UPHAM (840 United States of America) and Luděk BLÁHA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2017, 1947-573X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10502 Oceanography

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00095572

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

Cyanobacteria; water treatment; toxicity; chlorination; ozonation; microcystin

Tags

Změněno: 31/5/2022 14:31, RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Despite intensive research and management efforts in the past decades, cyanobacterial blooms and their toxins, such as microcystins (MCs), continue to represent a major ecological and health problem in fresh waters throughout the world. Our objective was to compare the efficacy of two commonly used drinking water treatment technologies, chlorination and ozonation, in removing MCs and in reducing tumour promotion-related effects of cyanobacteria, such as inhibition of gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) and activation of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in a rat liver epithelial stem-like cell line (WB-F344). This combined chemical and bioassay approach demonstrated that ozone effectively removed all MCs from an extract of a globally important bloom-forming cyanobacterium, Microcystis sp. Ozone also significantly reduced the overall tumour promotional potency of the cyanobacterial extract, as indicated by a substantial reduction in the ability of the extract to inhibit GJIC and activate extracellular receptor kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2). Although comparable reduction of total organic carbon was achieved by ozone and chlorine treatment, chlorination was much less effective in removing MCs and reducing the effects on GJIC. Chlorination had a biphasic effect with an observed decrease of extract-induced activation of ERK1/2 at the lower chlorine doses; whereas at high doses of chlorine the by-products of chlorination actually induced the activation of ERK1/2. The extracts induced p38 activation, and chlorination was not effective in reversing this effect, while ozone did reverse this effect, albeit not as much as the activation of ERK1/2. Thus, ozone was effective in reducing the toxicity of cyanobacterial extracts while chlorination was not only lacking efficacy, but at high doses of chlorination further produced by-products that were equally toxic as the untreated samples. Our study indicates the value of using an effect-based approach to assess the efficacy of water treatment systems in removing toxins, and more specifically demonstrates that ozone was more effective at reducing the toxic potential of cyanobacterial-contaminated water.

Links

GA15-12408S, research and development project
Name: Role kmenových a diferencovaných jaterních buněk v hepatotoxicitě a hepatokarcinogenitě indukované cyanotoxiny
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
LM2015051, research and development project
Name: Centrum pro výzkum toxických látek v prostředí (Acronym: RECETOX RI)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
LO1214, research and development project
Name: Centrum pro výzkum toxických látek v prostředí (Acronym: RECETOX)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR