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Low Toxicological Impact of Commercial Pristine Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Martel Martín, Sonia Barros García, Rocío Domi, Brixhilda Rumbo Lorenzo, Carlos Poddighe, Matteo Aparicio Martínez, Santiago Suarez Diez, Maria Tamayo Ramos, Juan Antonio Carbon nanotubes MWCNTs Saccharomyces cerevisiae Toxicity Oxidative stress Differential expression Transcriptomics Química física Chemistry, Physical and theoretical Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted the attention of academy and industry due to their potential applications, being currently produced and commercialized at a mass scale, but their possible impact on different biological systems remains unclear. In the present work, an assessment to understand the toxicity of commercial pristine multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on the unicellular fungal model Saccharomyces cerevisiae is presented. Firstly, the nanomaterial was physico-chemically characterized, to obtain insights concerning its morphological features and elemental composition. Afterwards, a toxicology assessment was carried out, where it could be observed that cell proliferation was negatively affected only in the presence of 800 mg L−1 for 24 h, while oxidative stress was induced at a lower concentration (160 mg L−1) after a short exposure period (2 h). Finally, to identify possible toxicity pathways induced by the selected MWCNTs, the transcriptome of S. cerevisiae exposed to 160 and 800 mg L−1, for two hours, was studied. In contrast to a previous study, reporting massive transcriptional changes when yeast cells were exposed to graphene nanoplatelets in the same exposure conditions, only a small number of genes (130) showed significant transcriptional changes in the presence of MWCNTs, in the higher concentration tested (800 mg L−1), and most of them were found to be downregulated, indicating a limited biological response of the yeast cells exposed to the selected pristine commercial CNTs. This work was supported by the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreements N° 691095 (NANOGENTOOLS), N° 952379 (SURFBIO), and N° 953152 (DIAGONAL); Junta de Castilla y Leon-FEDER under grant N° BU058P20 (NANOCOMP). 2024-07-25T11:43:51Z 2024-07-25T11:43:51Z 2021-09-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2079-4991 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9485 10.3390/nano11092272 2079-4991 eng Nanomaterials. 2021, V. 11, n. 9, 2272 https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11092272 Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf MDPI