AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-03-06DOI: 10.1007/s10453-022-09740-z
Hanna Jari, Afshin Maleki, Saeed Dehestani Athar, Ebrahim Mohammadi, Ebrahim Darvishi, Manouchehr Ahmadi Hedayati, Nader Marzban, Van Tai Tang, Bejan Nouri
{"title":"Airborne bacteria and fungi in a wastewater treatment plant: type and characterization of bio-aerosols, emission characterization and mapping","authors":"Hanna Jari, Afshin Maleki, Saeed Dehestani Athar, Ebrahim Mohammadi, Ebrahim Darvishi, Manouchehr Ahmadi Hedayati, Nader Marzban, Van Tai Tang, Bejan Nouri","doi":"10.1007/s10453-022-09740-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-022-09740-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Exposure to bioaerosols causes infection, over-sensitivity, respiratory, and lung diseases. This study was conducted at Sanandaj wastewater treatment plant in three seasons of winter, spring and summer to investigate the type and density of bio-aerosols. Sampling was performed using a sampling pump with a discharge rate of 28.3 L/min at a height of 1.5 m above the ground; the samples were taken from five stations: treatment plant entrance, aeration tank, grit chamber, drying sludge bed and laboratory. At each sampling point, time, temperature, relative humidity (Soleimani et al.), wind speed and particulate matter were recorded. In order to identify the bacteria, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and culture-based methods were applied. It was also found that there was not a significant relationship between bacterial count and RH, wind direction, wind speed and temperature. Regarding fungi, the results showed that RH and wind direction and wind has a significant relationship with the concentration of fungi. The most predominant bacteria and fungi were as follows: <i>Staphylococcus</i>, <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i>, <i>Bacillus</i>, <i>Acinetobacter</i>, <i>Micrococcus</i>, <i>Enterococcus</i>, <i>Neisseria</i>, <i>Listeria</i>, and <i>Pseudomonas</i> and <i>Penicillium</i>, <i>Aspergillus</i> flavus. The concentration of bacteria in the air was significantly correlated with < 4, < 5, < 7 and < 10 μm suspended particles. However, there was a correlation between particle number of 10 μm and fungi concentration in the air.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 2","pages":"163 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10453-022-09740-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43707060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1007/s10453-022-09739-6
Marie Choël, Nicolas Visez, Xavier Secordel, Karine Deboudt
{"title":"Atmospheric particulate matter deposition on birch catkins and pollen grains before pollination","authors":"Marie Choël, Nicolas Visez, Xavier Secordel, Karine Deboudt","doi":"10.1007/s10453-022-09739-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-022-09739-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Birch is the most allergenic tree species in Northern and Central Europe. Airborne birch pollen concentrations are observed to be on the rise for several decades. Health hazard due to birch pollen grains (BPGs) can worsen due to particulate air pollution. The prevalence of the intimate mixture of BPGs with atmospheric particulate matter (APM) at the single pollen grain level is still unraveled. In this study, APM transfer mechanisms to birch catkins and BPGs prior to pollination were investigated at an urban-industrial and a peri-urban site in Northern France. The surface of catkins was heavily polluted with micrometer-sized particles. Conversely, BPGs were relatively unpolluted with on average 0.1 particle.BPG<sup>−1</sup>. Differences in the chemical composition of adhered particles were observed as a function of the sampling sites. In contrast, no significant difference was found in terms of surface concentrations of APM adhered to BPGs and catkins between the two sites. Comparison of the number of particles deposited per pollen grain according to whether they were harvested from catkins or collected while airborne suggests that particulate pollution of pollen occurs preferentially after pollen shedding, either by impaction or coagulation mechanisms with other suspended APM or by pollen settling on dust-contaminated surfaces followed by resuspension.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 2","pages":"151 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45598186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s10453-022-09738-7
H. A. Guerrero-Parra, M. C. Calderón-Ezquerro, B. Martínez-López
{"title":"Environmental factors that modulate the release and transport of airborne urediniospores Hemileia vastatrix (Berk. & Broome) in coffee crops in Veracruz México","authors":"H. A. Guerrero-Parra, M. C. Calderón-Ezquerro, B. Martínez-López","doi":"10.1007/s10453-022-09738-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-022-09738-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The coffee leaf rust, <i>Hemileia vastatrix</i>, is the most destructive coffee-growing disease and the most important economically. More aggressive outbreaks of the disease were recently reported worldwide, including in Mexico, where coffee production showed a 40% decrease. This work aimed to determine the environmental conditions that favor release and air transport of the <i>H. vastatrix</i> urediniospores in coffee crops in Veracruz. The monitoring of airborne coffee leaf rust urediniospores was performed using three types of aerobiological traps at different heights: Hirst Spore Trap (HST, 1.5 m), Passive Spore Trap (PST 1.5, 3, 6, and 9 m), and Sedimentation Spore Sampler (SSS 1 m) from January 2014 to October 2015, in two plots in Veracruz, Mexico. The airborne urediniospores counts exhibited a bimodal distribution. Low concentrations that increase over time are evident from January to April, decreasing abruptly in May and June, only to rise again in August, reaching the highest record for airborne urediniospores during the mid-summer drought phenomenon. Dispersal of coffee rust urediniospores is mainly influenced by temperature, rain, wind, and humidity in leaves. They can reach heights in the air up to 9 m (above the canopy) in shade coffee crops. The dispersal of pathogens in the atmosphere comprises complex processes interconnected; their knowledge allows better comprehensive management of them.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"123 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10453-022-09738-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47060769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s10453-021-09735-2
Thomas Tasioulis, Kostas Karatzas, Athanasios Charalampopoulos, Athanasios Damialis, Despoina Vokou
{"title":"Five ways to define a pollen season: exploring congruence and disparity in its attributes and their long-term trends","authors":"Thomas Tasioulis, Kostas Karatzas, Athanasios Charalampopoulos, Athanasios Damialis, Despoina Vokou","doi":"10.1007/s10453-021-09735-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-021-09735-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We applied five sets of criteria for pollen season (PS) definition, which are associated with the ‘clinical’, ‘grains’, ‘logistic’, ‘moving average’ and ‘percentage’ methods, on a 30-year time series of daily airborne pollen concentration values of Cupressaceae (cypress family), Oleaceae (olive family) and Poaceae (grass family), from Thessaloniki, Greece. These methods could identify a pollen season for more than 90% of the study period for all three taxa, except for the clinical that identified less than 40% for Oleaceae. The estimated values of the PS start, end, and duration varied largely, in a method-specific way. Even significant reverse patterns of change were recorded for the same attribute and taxon, as for the Poaceae PS end date that shows a significant advance earlier in the year with the moving average method and delay with the percentage. As the season peak date is method-independent and, hence, directly comparable, we recommend this attribute to be examined in airborne pollen studies. Results taken with the percentage method could be compared with those of the past for Thessaloniki, with a more than 10-year shorter time series. No climate-related change was detected for Cupressaceae PS attributes, but an earlier peak was now detected for Oleaceae and Poaceae, and a later end and a longer duration for Poaceae, suggesting an increased allergy risk for this taxon. The different criteria concurrently applied for PS definition that led to even greatly diverging results for the same PS attribute is an issue for the science and calls for efforts at standardization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"71 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43957817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s10453-021-09737-0
Daria Bilińska-Prałat, Małgorzata Werner, Maciej Kryza, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Piotr Rapiejko, Kazimiera Chłopek, Katarzyna Dąbrowska-Zapart, Agnieszka Lipiec, Dariusz Jurkiewicz, Ewa Kalinowska, Barbara Majkowska-Wojciechowska, Dorota Myszkowska, Krystyna Piotrowska-Weryszko, Małgorzata Puc, Anna Rapiejko, Grzegorz Siergiejko, Elżbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska, Andrzej Wieczorkiewicz, Monika Ziemianin
{"title":"Application of the HYSPLIT model for birch pollen modelling in Poland","authors":"Daria Bilińska-Prałat, Małgorzata Werner, Maciej Kryza, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Piotr Rapiejko, Kazimiera Chłopek, Katarzyna Dąbrowska-Zapart, Agnieszka Lipiec, Dariusz Jurkiewicz, Ewa Kalinowska, Barbara Majkowska-Wojciechowska, Dorota Myszkowska, Krystyna Piotrowska-Weryszko, Małgorzata Puc, Anna Rapiejko, Grzegorz Siergiejko, Elżbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska, Andrzej Wieczorkiewicz, Monika Ziemianin","doi":"10.1007/s10453-021-09737-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-021-09737-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, the HYSPLIT model was used to reproduce birch pollen concentrations in Poland for the years 2015 and 2016, where there was significant variation in terms of pollen concentrations and start/end dates of the pollen season. The analysis of pollen observations showed that the seasonal pollen integral (SPIn) was low in 2015 with a shorter season compared to 2016. In 2016, SPIn was unusually high. The HYSPLIT model simulation, with a one-hour temporal resolution, was conducted during the birch pollen season (from March to May) for 2015 and 2016. Meteorological data were obtained from the WRF model. The birch coverage map of the European Forest Institute was used. The emission, introduced to the model, covered Central Europe with a resolution of 0.3° × 0.3°. The results were compared to data from 11 observation stations in Poland. The measured birch pollen concentrations for 2015 were overestimated by HYSPLIT at 8 of the 11 stations (normalized mean bias/NMB from 0.13 to 2.53) and underestimated for three stations (NMB from − 0.44 to − 0.15). For 2016, the model highly underestimated the pollen concentrations, with NMB ranging from − 0.45 to − 0.93. In general, the results show that the model can resolve the main peaks of pollen concentrations, which is a step forward in the application of the HYSPLIT model for birch pollen forecasting over Poland. We suggest the application of methods that can reduce the bias of temperature such as meteorological data assimilation or bias correction, which could improve calculation of the start of emissions and consequently the start of the pollen season as well as pollen concentrations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"103 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10453-021-09737-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48477566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-01-28DOI: 10.1007/s10453-021-09736-1
Ana Paula Mendes Emygdio, Cristiane Degobbi, Federico Carotenuto, Dulcilena de Matos Castro e Silva, Thaysla Beluco Quintino, Rafael Henrique de Souza Zanetti, Mauricio C. Mantoani, Solana Meneghel Boschilia, Lara Chaves Carvalho Guerra, Pedro Leite da Silva Dias, Cindy E. Morris, Fábio Luiz Teixeira Gonçalves
{"title":"Bioaerosol vertical fungal spores profile in Minas Gerais State, Brazil","authors":"Ana Paula Mendes Emygdio, Cristiane Degobbi, Federico Carotenuto, Dulcilena de Matos Castro e Silva, Thaysla Beluco Quintino, Rafael Henrique de Souza Zanetti, Mauricio C. Mantoani, Solana Meneghel Boschilia, Lara Chaves Carvalho Guerra, Pedro Leite da Silva Dias, Cindy E. Morris, Fábio Luiz Teixeira Gonçalves","doi":"10.1007/s10453-021-09736-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-021-09736-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) are involved in multiple phenomena ranging from seasonal allergies to pandemic diseases. Furthermore, PBAPs that act as ice nuclei, might interact with cloud physics affecting the formation of hail and, potentially, causing damage to agriculture. These latter dynamics are still unclear, especially due to the lack of knowledge about PBAPs concentration and emission rates. Here we characterized the fungal aerobiology of Arceburgo, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, through ground level and airborne sampling of PBAPs via a hot-air balloon. Total and cultivable fungal spores were collected using personal portable Burkard and a MAS100 sampler respectively during the summer and winter of 2019. In the latter season, daily dynamics were resolved by repeating flights and sampling in the morning and in the afternoon. Both samplers identified a core fungal community (<i>Penicillum/Aspergillus</i> and <i>Cladosporium</i> spp.) that are coupled with local meteorological dynamics and are able to undergo atmospheric transport as indicated by their survival in the night-time residual boundary layer. These results are invaluable in identifying a core set of aerobiological indicators that can be used in future works to unravel PBAPs emission rates on the area of Arceburgo and form a basis to close the gap in knowledge in the interplay between PBAPs and hail formation.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"85 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10453-021-09736-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47495710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-01-08DOI: 10.1007/s10453-021-09733-4
Estefanía Sánchez Reyes, Alicia Córdoba Jara, José Sánchez Sánchez, Pedro Mardones Precht
{"title":"Seasonal pattern of Alternaria airborne spores in Santiago de Chile, Chile (2005–2015 period): first Alternaria spore calendar","authors":"Estefanía Sánchez Reyes, Alicia Córdoba Jara, José Sánchez Sánchez, Pedro Mardones Precht","doi":"10.1007/s10453-021-09733-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-021-09733-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since <i>Alternaria</i> is an important aeroallergen in temperate areas of the world, this study was undertaken in order to provide the first results obtained about the seasonal regimen of <i>Alternaria</i> airborne spores in the atmosphere of Santiago de Chile (Chile), for a period of 10 years (2005–2015), which has led to the construction of the first calendar for the city. Furthermore, the periods of maximum presence of these particles in the air were determined together with those days in which the threshold levels set up for the development of clinical symptoms were reached and/or surpassed. The annual spore integral varied between 4077 spores/m<sup>3</sup> registered in 2013–2014 and 6824 spores/m<sup>3</sup> in 2010–2011, with a main spore season from mid-winter (mid-July/mid-August) to the end of the autumn (June). Daily peaks were mainly detected in spring or autumn seasons but even in winter, although without surpassing 65 spores/m<sup>3</sup> in any case.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"145 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41586228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2022-01-08DOI: 10.1007/s10453-021-09732-5
Hamza Mbareche, Marc Veillette, Vanessa Dion-Dupont, Jacques Lavoie, Caroline Duchaine
{"title":"Microbial composition of bioaerosols in indoor wastewater treatment plants","authors":"Hamza Mbareche, Marc Veillette, Vanessa Dion-Dupont, Jacques Lavoie, Caroline Duchaine","doi":"10.1007/s10453-021-09732-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-021-09732-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Wastewater treatment is one of the major biotechnological processes used to treat municipal and industrial sewage. All the steps involved in the removal of contaminants from wastewaters to treat municipal and industrial sewage represent a reservoir of a dynamic microbial communities with specific key players in the different process types. Aerosolized biological particles, defined as bioaerosols, can be generated during different steps of the wastewater treatment process. The goal of this study is to offer a comprehensive indoor-air microbiota description of numerous wastewater treatments plants using an amplicon-based high-throughput sequencing approach. To fill up the gap of the wastewater-bioaerosol microbial diversity literature, a site-related and seasonal variation of bioaerosol emission in eight indoor wastewater treatments plants is described targeting the 16S rRNA gene for bacterial community analyses. No significant differences were observed between summer and winter in terms of microbial diversity and composition. However, indoor pre-treatment and secondary treatment steps suggest the presence of different bacterial taxa, some of them being pathogens or opportunistic pathogens. Gut-associated flora was most abundant in the air collected during the biodegradation of organic matter of the wastewater treatment step and suggests that fecal contamination can persist in aerosols until the last steps of the process. The results suggest that wastewater workers could be exposed to pathogenic and opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms in aerosols released at every treatment step with a peak during degritting and degreasing. This study offers a comprehensive indoor-air microbiota description of waste water treatment plants—concluding a significant potential occupational risk.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"35 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47143537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2021-12-17DOI: 10.1007/s10453-021-09734-3
Katarzyna Dąbrowska-Zapart, Tadeusz Niedźwiedź
{"title":"The course of birch pollen seasons in Sosnowiec (Southern Poland) in 1997–2020 in relation to meteorological conditions","authors":"Katarzyna Dąbrowska-Zapart, Tadeusz Niedźwiedź","doi":"10.1007/s10453-021-09734-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-021-09734-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study's main objective was to specify the extent to which weather conditions were related to the course of birch pollen seasons in the years 1997–2020. The impact of atmospheric conditions on the daily concentrations of birch pollen grains, the Annual pollen integral (APIn), and the length of pollen seasons were studied. The dependency between each meteorological condition and various features of the birch pollen season was determined using Spearman’s rho correlation, the Kruskal–Wallis test, and cluster analysis with the k-means method. It has been shown that the duration of sunshine and average air temperature occurring within 14 days preceding the season has the most significant influence on the beginning of a birch pollen season. The value of daily birch pollen concentrations in Sosnowiec showed a statistically significant positive correlation with the duration of sunlight and the average and maximum wind speed. The daily concentration also depended on the synoptic situation: the mass airflow direction, the type of air mass inflow, and the type of weather front. The near-ground temperature influenced the APIn of birch pollen grains during the period of 14 days before the beginning of the season and the meteorological conditions occurring in the summer of the preceding year such as the maximum temperature, duration of sunlight, the maximum and average wind speed, and the relative air humidity. It was concluded that the length of birch pollen seasons decreased year by year.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"51 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10453-021-09734-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48583612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AerobiologiaPub Date : 2021-11-27DOI: 10.1007/s10453-021-09731-6
Xingzi Wang, Shumin Zhou, Senlin Lu, Lu Zhang, Teng Ma, Xinchun Liu, Wei Zhang, Shuijun Li, Kai Xiao, Weqian Wang, Qingyue Wang
{"title":"Comparison of the characterization of allergenic protein 3 (Pla a3) released from Platanus pollen grains collected in Shanghai during the spring of 2019 and 2020","authors":"Xingzi Wang, Shumin Zhou, Senlin Lu, Lu Zhang, Teng Ma, Xinchun Liu, Wei Zhang, Shuijun Li, Kai Xiao, Weqian Wang, Qingyue Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10453-021-09731-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10453-021-09731-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, large-scale industrial production has been stagnant and reduced, the urban air quality has been greatly improved. It provided an excellent opportunity to explore the effects of air pollutants on the sensitization of pollen allergen proteins in the environment. <i>Platanus</i> pollen grains sampled in the spring of 2019 and 2020 were used for detailed characterization and analysis. Scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared, X-ray spectroscopy (XPS), trypan blue staining, and western blot analysis were employed to characterize <i>Platanus</i> pollen protein released from pollen grains. Our data showed that the viability of the pollen grains in 2019 was lower compared that in 2020, and the pollen grains collected in 2019 had a higher absorption peak of protein functional groups. The XPS spectra assay result demonstrated that the binding energy of the high-resolution components had not variation on the surface of pollen grains, but relative content of nitrogen and peptide chain in the pollen grains sampled in 2019 were higher than in 2020. These results suggested that more protein in the pollen grains was released onto the surface of pollen grains. In addition, western blot assay showed that the expression of Pla a3 protein in pollen grains sampled in 2019 was significantly higher than that in 2020, revealing that air pollutants could enhance the expression of Pla a3 proteins in <i>Platanus</i> pollen.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7718,"journal":{"name":"Aerobiologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"23 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50519091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}