Can the Ames Test Provide an Insight Into Nano-Object Mutagenicity? Investigating the Interaction Between Nano-Objects and Bacteria
Published in "1DQRWR[LFRORJ\ ± which should be cited to refer to this work. Can the Ames test provide an insight into nano-object mutagenicity? Investigating the interaction between nano-objects and bacteria Martin J. D. Clift1, David O. Raemy1, Carola Endes1, Zulqurnain Ali2, Andrea D. Lehmann3, Christina Brandenberger3, Alke Petri-Fink1, Peter Wick4, Wolfgang J. Parak2, Peter Gehr3, Roel P. F. Schins5 & Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser1,6 1Adolphe Merkle Institute and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Rte de l’Ancienne Papeterie, CH-1723 Marly 1, Switzerland, 2Department of Physics, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, 35032, Germany, 3Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 2, CH-3000, Bern 9, Switzerland, 4Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Testing and Research, Materials-Biology Interactions Laboratory, Lerchenfeldstrasse 5, CH-9014, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 5IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Auf’m Hennekamp 50, D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany and 6Respiratory Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland Abstract genotoxicity of nano-objects (Schins & Knaapen 2007; The aim of this study was to assess the interaction of a series Landsiedel et al. 2009; Greim & Norppa 2010) has intensified of well characterised nano-objects with the Gram negative through the findings of Poland et al. (Poland et al. 2008), who bacterium Salmonella typhimurium, and how such an interaction showed that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) (Iijima 1991), with may relate to the potential mutagenicity of nano-objects. multiple walls (MWCNTs) (BSI 2007), can cause increased Transmission electron microscopy showed that nano- granulomatous inflammation at the peritoneal aspect of the objects (Au-PMA-ATTO NPs, CeO2 NPs, SWCNTs and MWCNTs), diaphragms’ surface in vivo.
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