Kong, Shuai published the artcileFluorescently visualizing the penetration of anionic surfactants across cytoplasmic membrane and the subsequent damage on human cells, Formula: C12H25Br, the publication is Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2022), 29(14), 20593-20602, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
The extensive application of chem. synthesized anionic surfactants would cause serious pollution of water and increase health risk to humans. However, the adverse impact of anionic surfactant on human cells has never been systematically demonstrated. In this paper, a series of fluorescent anionic surfactants containing a varying length of alkyl chain from C8 to C18 and a fixed hydrophilic head of 8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid trisodium salt (HPTS) were synthesized and utilized for visualizing the interaction between surfactants and cells. The obtained mols. exhibited blue fluorescence presenting a decreasing fluorescent intensity with the increasing length of alkyl chain from C8 to C18 while showed the same sequence of HPTS-C16>HPTS-C18>HPTS-C12>HPTS-C8 on either surface activity, cellular adsorption, or cytotoxicity. In opposite, HPTS which contained no hydrophobic chain and thus exhibited no surface activity showed no cellular adsorption and cytotoxicity. It seems that the ligand of the appropriate chain length (C16) onto the hydrophilic HPTS mols. could cause the largest surface activity, the most distinguished cellular adsorption as well as the most adverse cytotoxicity. As reflected by the dynamic fluorescent visualization, the surfactant mols. of HPTS-C16 initially bound with cell membrane and entered into the intracellular lumen before finally localized at the (ER) and damaged it into a swollen structure. It is most likely that the structure of hydrophobic chain could determine the surface activities of surfactants and hence affect their cellular uptake and cytotoxicity. This study could help us to understand the adverse impact of anionic surfactant on human cells and its correlation with the surface activities or, in another word, the hydrophobic chain length.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research published new progress about 143-15-7. 143-15-7 belongs to bromides-buliding-blocks, auxiliary class Bromide,Aliphatic hydrocarbon chain, name is 1-Bromododecane, and the molecular formula is C12H25Br, Formula: C12H25Br.
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