Journal
TOXICOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL HEALTH
Volume 37, Issue 11, Pages 685-694Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/07482337211048582
Keywords
Formaldehyde; ferritinophagy; neurotoxicity; neurodegenerative diseases; hippocampal neurons
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81771178]
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The study revealed that formaldehyde induces neurotoxicity by promoting ferritinophagy, and inhibiting ferritinophagy can alleviate formaldehyde-induced toxic damage in neuronal cells.
Formaldehyde (FA) causes neurotoxicity and contributes to the occurrence of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the mechanism of FA-induced neurotoxicity has not been fully elucidated. Ferritinophagy, an autophagy process of ferritin mediated by the nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4), is a potential mechanism of neurotoxicity. In this study, we explored whether ferritinophagy is associated with the neurotoxicity of FA. Our results showed that FA (50, 100, 200 mu M; 24 h) exposure upregulated ferritinophagy in the mouse hippocampal neuronal HT22 cells, which was evidenced by the upregulated autophagic flux, the increased colocalizations of NCOA4 with ferritin heavy chain (FTH1) and NCOA4 with microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain-3B (LC3B), the augmented expression of NCOA4, and the reduced content of FTH1. We also found that FA (0.1, 1, and 10 mu mol, i.c.v., 7d) administration boosted ferritinophagy in the hippocampus of Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, which was demonstrated by the accumulated autophagosomes, the increased expressions of LC3II/I and NCOA4, and the decreased contents of p62 and FTH1 in the hippocampus. Further, we confirmed that inhibition of ferritinophagy by silencing the expression of NCOA4 decreased FA-induced toxic damage in HT22 cells. These results indicated that FA induces neurotoxicity by promoting ferritinophagy. Our findings suggest a potential mechanism insight into the FA-induced neurotoxicity, which in turn provides a new thought for the treatment of FA-related neurodegenerative diseases.
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