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In Silico: Mutagenicity and carcinogenicity prediction of Sugar substitutes

Arulanandam, C. D.; Babu, V.; Soorni, Y.; R, P.

2021-01-30 bioengineering
10.1101/2021.01.28.428696 bioRxiv
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Sugar substitutes are mostly artificial, man-made industrial products used as additives in food and beverages. Most of these substances flow through the digestive tract and food chains to become emerging organic contaminants in various abiotic and biotic environmental media. Here, we predict the mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of commonly used sugar substitutes using the in silico based methods. The simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) of sugar substitutes were obtained from the PubChem database for the toxicity predictions. Here, sixteen sugar substitutes tested out of these four compounds Glucin (GLU), and 5-nitro-2-propoxyaniline (P-4000), SCL, Ace were predicted as mutagens by using in silico tools such as LAZAR, pKCSM, and Toxtree. Based on the predicted results GLU and P-4000 were predicted as carcinogenic sugar substitutes.

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