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NANOSCALE
Volume 9, Issue 17, Pages 5489-5498Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr08188f
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31502120]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China for Key Project of International Cooperation [61420106012]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [KJQN201620]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province in China [BK20140716]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
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Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are the most commonly used engineered nanomaterials in commercialized products because of their antimicrobial activity. Previously, we have shown that polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-coated AgNPs have an anti-leukemia effect against human myeloid leukemia cells; however, whether AgNPs are able to trigger autophagy in normal hematopoietic cells and the role of autophagy in AgNP-induced cytotoxicity remain unclear. In the current study, we observed that AgNPs were taken up by murine pro-B cells (Ba/F3), and then promoted accumulation of autophagosomes, which resulted from the induction of autophagy rather than the blockade of autophagic flux. AgNPs induced cytotoxicity in a dose-dependent manner accompanied by apoptosis and DNA damage through the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the release of silver ions. The ROS-mediated mTOR signaling pathway was responsible for the induction of autophagy. More importantly, the inhibition of autophagy with the addition of 3-methyladenine (3-MA) or silencing of Atg5 significantly attenuated the cytotoxicity of AgNPs in Ba/F3. These findings suggest that autophagy is involved in the cytotoxicity of PVP-coated AgNPs in normal hematopoietic cells, and the inhibition of autophagy is a novel and potent strategy to protect normal hematopoietic cells upon treatment with AgNPs.
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