Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 302, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119106
Keywords
Environmental microplastic; Autophagy; Cytoskeleton; Metabolome; Polychaete
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- Ministry of Higher Ed-ucation [UR13AGR08]
- ENICBC-Med project COMMON [A_B.4.4_080]
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This study evaluates the impact of different environmental microplastics (MPs) collected from the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea on the metabolome and proteome of the marine polychaete Hediste diversicolor. The results show that MPs cause cytoskeleton damage and induce abnormal autophagy pathway in polychaetes. Metabolomics analysis reveals altered metabolic profiles in polychaetes treated with MPs, with elevated levels of amino acids, glucose, and other substances, and reduced concentration of aspartate.
Although the hazards of microplastics (MPs) have been quite well explored, the aberrant metabolism and the involvement of the autophagy pathway as an adverse response to environmental MPs in benthic organisms are still unclear. The present work aims to assess the impact of different environmental MPs collected from the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea, composed by polyethylene (PE), polyethylene vinyl acetate (PEVA), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP) and polyamide (PA) on the metabolome and proteome of the marine polychaete Hediste diversicolor. As a result, all the microplastic types were detected with Raman microspectroscopy in polychaetes tissues, causing cytoskeleton damage and induced autophagy pathway manifested by immunohistochemical labeling of specific targeted proteins, through Tubulin (Tub), Microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 (LC3), and p62 (also named Sequestosome 1). Metabolomics was conducted to further investigate the metabolic alterations induced by the environmental MPs-mixture in polychaetes. A total of 28 metabolites were differentially expressed between control and MPs-treated polychaetes, which showed elevated levels of amino acids, glucose, ATP/ADP, osmolytes, glutathione, choline and phosphocholine, and reduced concentration of aspartate. These novel findings extend our understanding given the toxicity of environmental microplastics and unravel their underlying mechanisms.
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