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ARCHIVES OF TOXICOLOGY
Volume 92, Issue 3, Pages 1023-1035Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-017-2141-4
Keywords
Water-extracted PM10 (WE-PM10); Metals; MiR-26a; Migration; Invasion; Inflammation
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41390240, 21677140, 21477124]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS [217349]
- Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [IUEQN201301, IUEQN201506]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian, China [2017J01028]
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Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) has been linked to the increasing incidence and mortality of lung cancer, but the principal toxic components and molecular mechanism remain to be further elucidated. In this study, human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells were treated with serial concentrations of water-extracted PM10 (WE-PM10) collected from Beijing, China. Our results showed that exposure to 25 and 50 mu g/ml of WE-PM10 for 48 h significantly suppressed miR-26a to upregulate lin-28 homolog B (LIN28B), and in turn activated interleukin 6 (IL6) and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in A549 cells, subsequently contributing to enhanced epithelial-mesenchymal transition and accelerated migration and invasion. In vivo pulmonary colonization assay further indicated that WE-PM10 enhanced the metastatic ability of A549 cells. In addition, luciferase reporter assay demonstrated that 3' untranslated region of LIN28B was a direct target of miR-26a. Last but not the least, the key toxic contribution of metals in WE-PM10 was confirmed by the finding that removal of metals through chelation significantly rescued WE-PM10-mediated inflammatory, carcinogenic and metastatic responses. Taken together, miR-26a could act as the tumor suppressor in PM10-related lung cancer, and PM10-bound metals promoted lung cancer cell metastasis through downregulation of miR-26a that directly mediated LIN28B expression.
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