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SAR QSAR Environ Res ; 27(10): 781-798, 2016 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27775436

RESUMO

Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) became a class of contaminants of emerging concern because are ubiquitously detected in surface water and soil, where they can affect wildlife. Ecotoxicological data are only available for a few PPCPs, thus modelling approaches are essential tools to maximize the information contained in the existing data. In silico methods may be helpful in filling data gaps for the toxicity of PPCPs towards various ecological indicator organisms. The good correlation between toxicity toward Daphnia magna and those on two fish species (Pimephales promelas and Oncorhynchus mykiss), improved by the addition of one theoretical molecular descriptor, allowed us to develop predictive models to investigate the relationship between toxicities in different species. The aim of this work is to propose quantitative activity-activity relationship (QAAR) models, developed in QSARINS and validated for their external predictivity. Such models can be used to predict the toxicity of PPCPs to a particular species using available experimental toxicity data from a different species, thus reducing the tests on organisms of higher trophic level. Similarly, good QAAR models, implemented by molecular descriptors to improve the quality, are proposed here for fish interspecies. We also comment on the relevance of autocorrelation descriptors in improving all studied interspecies correlations.


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Cosméticos/toxicidade , Daphnia/efeitos dos fármacos , Efeitos Colaterais e Reações Adversas Relacionados a Medicamentos , Poluentes Ambientais/toxicidade , Relação Quantitativa Estrutura-Atividade , Animais , Biologia Computacional , Cyprinidae , Modelos Estatísticos , Oncorhynchus mykiss
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SAR QSAR Environ Res ; 27(7): 521-38, 2016 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27329717

RESUMO

The understanding of the mechanisms and interactions that occur when nanomaterials enter biological systems is important to improve their future use. The adsorption of proteins from biological fluids in a physiological environment to form a corona on the surface of nanoparticles represents a key step that influences nanoparticle behaviour. In this study, the quantitative description of the composition of the protein corona was used to study the effect on cell association induced by 84 surface-modified gold nanoparticles of different sizes. Quantitative relationships between the protein corona and the activity of the gold nanoparticles were modelled by using several machine learning-based linear and non-linear approaches. Models based on a selection of only six serum proteins had robust and predictive results. The Projection Pursuit Regression method had the best performances (r(2) = 0.91; Q(2)loo = 0.81; r(2)ext = 0.79). The present study confirmed the utility of protein corona composition to predict the bioactivity of gold nanoparticles and identified the main proteins that act as promoters or inhibitors of cell association. In addition, the comparison of several techniques showed which strategies offer the best results in prediction and could be used to support new toxicological studies on gold-based nanomaterials.


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Ouro/química , Aprendizado de Máquina , Nanopartículas Metálicas/química , Coroa de Proteína/química , Proteínas Sanguíneas/química , Simulação por Computador , Tamanho da Partícula
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