Review of Cyanotoxicity Studies Based on Cell Cultures

Overview

Journal J Toxicol

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Toxicology

Date 2022 May 5

PMID 35509523

Authors

Iliyana Sazdova

Milena Keremidarska-Markova

Mariela Chichova

Blagoy Uzunov

Georgi Nikolaev

Mitko Mladenov

Rudolf Schubert

Maya Stoyneva-Gartner

Hristo S Gagov

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Abstract

Cyanotoxins (CTs) are a large and diverse group of toxins produced by the peculiar photosynthetic prokaryotes of the domain Cyanoprokaryota. Toxin-producing aquatic cyanoprokaryotes can develop in mass, causing "water blooms" or "cyanoblooms," which may lead to environmental disaster-water poisoning, extinction of aquatic life, and even to human death. CT studies on single cells and cells in culture are an important stage of toxicological studies with increasing impact for their further use for scientific and clinical purposes, and for policies of environmental protection. The higher cost of animal use and continuous resistance to the use of animals for scientific and toxicological studies lead to a progressive increase of cell lines use. This review aims to present (1) the important results of the effects of CT on human and animal cell lines, (2) the methods and concentrations used to obtain these results, (3) the studied cell lines and their tissues of origin, and (4) the intracellular targets of CT. CTs reviewed are presented in alphabetical order as follows: aeruginosins, anatoxins, BMAA (-N-methylamino-L-alanine), cylindrospermopsins, depsipeptides, lipopolysaccharides, lyngbyatoxins, microcystins, nodularins, cyanobacterial retinoids, and saxitoxins. The presence of all these data in a review allows in one look to advance the research on CT using cell cultures by facilitating the selection of the most appropriate methods, conditions, and cell lines for future toxicological, pharmacological, and physiological studies.

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