氧化应激
砷
污染
化学
环境污染
砷毒性
环境化学
环境科学
环境保护
生物
生物化学
生态学
有机化学
作者
Ying Lv,Hongling Wang,Zheng Dan,Mingyang Shi,Dingnian Bi,Qian Hu,Haiyan Zhi,Didong Lou,Jun Li,Shaofeng Wei,Yong Hu
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171237
摘要
Arsenic (As), a common environmental pollutant, has become a hot topic in recent years due to its potentially harmful effects. Liver damage being a central clinical feature of chronic arsenic poisoning. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We demonstrated that arsenic can lead to oxidative stress in the liver and result in structural and functional liver damage, significantly correlated with the expression of AUF1, Dicer1, and miR-155 in the liver. Interestingly, knockdown AUF1 promoted the up-regulatory effects of arsenic on Dicer1 and miR-155 and the inhibitory effects on SOD1, which exacerbated oxidative damage in rat liver. However, overexpression of AUF1 reversed the up-regulatory effects of arsenic on Dicer1 and miR-155, restored arsenic-induced SOD1 depletion, and attenuated liver oxidative stress injury. Further, we verified the mechanism and targets of miR-155 in regulating SOD1 by knockdown/overexpression of miR-155 and nonsense mutant SOD1 3'UTR experiments. In conclusion, these results powerfully demonstrate that arsenic inhibits AUF1 protein expression, which in turn reduces the inhibitory effect on Dicer1 expression, which promotes miR-155 to act on the SOD1 3'UTR region after high expression, thus inhibiting SOD1 protein expression and enzyme activity, and inducing liver injury. This finding provides a new perspective for the mechanism research and targeted prevention of arsenic poisoning, as well as scientific evidence for formulating strategies to prevent and control environmental arsenic pollution.
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