颗粒物通过AhR介导的表观遗传修饰刺激NADPH氧化酶系统
Kyoung Ah Kang1, Mei Jing Piao1, Pincha Devage Sameera Madushan Fernando1
1Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, and Jeju Research Center for Natural Medicine, Jeju National University, Jeju, 63243, South Korea.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
|March 6, 2024
概括
颗粒物2.5 (PM$_{2.5}$) 通过NADPH氧化酶 (NOXs) 和信号传递在皮肤细胞中触发反应性氧物种 (ROS). 这项研究揭示PM$_{2.5}$激活NOX1,NOX4和DUOX1,将空气污染与皮肤细胞氧化应激联系起来.
科学领域:
- 环境皮肤病学环境皮肤病学
- 细胞信号传输 细胞信号传输
- 分子毒理学 分子毒理学
背景情况:
- 众所周知,暴露于颗粒物2.5 (PM$_{2.5}$) 在人体角质细胞中会诱导氧化应激.
- 驱动PM$_{2.5}$诱导的活性氧物种 (ROS) 生成的精确分子机制仍然不完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 阐明参与PM$_{2.5}$诱导的人类角质细胞中ROS生产的信号通路和分子参与者.
- 调查NADPH氧化酶 (NOX) 酶和信号在这个过程中的作用.
主要方法:
- 人类表皮角质细胞细胞系用PM$_{2.5}$处理.
- 对NOX家族基因表达的分析 (NOX1,NOX4,DUOX1).
- 研究与NOX基因促进体结合的烯碳化合物受体 (AhR).
- 对DUOX1促进体的表观遗传修饰 (DNA脱甲基化,基因素甲基化) 的评估.
- 评估细胞内 (Ca$^{2+}$) 水平和NOX4-Ca$^{2+}$通道相互作用.
主要成果:
- PM$_{2.5}$显著增加了氨酸细胞中NOX1,NOX4和双氧化酶1 (DUOX1) 的表达.
- PM$_{2.5}$与AhR结合,后者随后与NOX1和DUOX1促进区结合,作为转录因子.
- 在DUOX1促进体的表观遗传修饰,包括DNA去甲基化和基因素甲基化,导致DUOX1mRNA表达的增加.
- PM$_{2.5}$暴露通过促进NOX4与Ca$^{2+}$通道的相互作用,导致Ca$^{2+}$释放,提高了细胞内Ca$^{2+}$水平.
- 激活的DUOX1,在Ca$^{2+}$信号的下游,被确定为PM$_{2.5}$诱导的ROS产生的关键媒介.
结论:
- 人类角质细胞中PM$_{2.5}$诱导的ROS产生是由一个涉及NOX系统和Ca$^{2+}$信号的网络介导的.
- AhR作为NOX1和DUOX1的转录调节剂,而表观遗传机制增强DUOX1的表达.
- NOX4,Ca2+道和DUOX1激活之间的相互作用形成了一个关键的ROS生成途径,以应对PM2.5暴露.
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