The influence of different light quality and benzene on gene expression and benzene degradation of Chlorophytum comosum

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Author list: Setsungnern A., Treesubsuntorn C., Thiravetyan P.

Publisher: Elsevier

Publication year: 2017

Journal: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (0981-9428)

Volume number: 120

Start page: 95

End page: 102

Number of pages: 8

ISSN: 0981-9428

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030725184&doi=10.1016%2fj.plaphy.2017.09.021&partnerID=40&md5=e73c5834b48ddf278ffe54f47e1f32f7

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

Benzene, a carcinogenic compound, has been reported as a major indoor air pollutant. Chlorophytum comosum (C. comosum) was reported to be the highest efficient benzene removal plant among other screened plants. Our previous studies found that plants under light conditions could remove gaseous benzene higher than under dark conditions. Therefore, C. comosum exposure to airborne benzene was studied under different light quality at the same light intensity. C. comosum could remove 500 ppm gaseous benzene with the highest efficiency of 68.77% under Blue:Red = 1:1 LED treatments and the lowest one appeared 57.41% under white fluorescent treatment within 8 days. After benzene was uptaken by C. comosum, benzene was oxidized to be phenol in the plant cells by cytochrome P450 monooxygenase system. Then, phenol was catalyzed to be catechol that was confirmed by the up-regulation of phenol 2-monooxygenase (PMO) gene expression. After that, catechol was changed to cic, cis-muconic acid. Interestingly, cis,cis-muconic acid production was found in the plant tissues higher than phenol and catechol. The result confirmed that NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR), cytochrome b5 (cyt b5), phenol 2-monooxygenase (PMO) and cytochrome P450 90B1 (CYP90B1) in plant cells were involved in benzene degradation or detoxification. In addition, phenol, catechol, and cis,cis-muconic acid production were found under the Blue-Red LED light conditions higher than under white fluorescent light conditions due to under LED light conditions gave higher NADPH contents. Hence, C. comosum under the Blue-Red LED light conditions had a high potential to remove benzene in a contaminated site. ฉ 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS

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Cytochrome P450, Light emitting diode (LED)