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ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
卷 37, 期 11, 页码 2692-2702出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/tox.23629
关键词
apoptosis; cadmium; Fas; FasL; gap junction intercellular communication; hepatocyte
资金
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31702305, 31872533, 32072933]
This study found that gap junction inhibitor may play a dual role in Cd-induced cell damage by inhibiting the transmission of death signals from damaged cells to healthy cells but also aggravating the transmission of death signals between damaged cells. The Fas/FasL-mediated death receptor pathway may play an important role in this process.
As a common environmental pollutant, cadmium (Cd) causes damage to many organs of the body. Gap junction intercellular communication (GJIC) represents one of the most important routes of rapid signaling between cells. However, the mechanisms underlying GJIC's role in hepatotoxicity induced by Cd remain unknown. We established a Cd poisoning model in vitro by co-culturing Cd-exposed and unexposed hepatocytes and found that 18 beta-glycyrrhetinic acid (GA), a GJIC inhibitor, can effectively reduce the apoptosis rate of healthy cells co-cultured with apoptotic cells treated with Cd. We also found that anti-FasL antibody had the same effect. However, in mono-cultured cells, GA treatment in combination with Cd was found to aggravate the damage induced by Cd exposure, increase the level of oxidative stress and protein expression of HO-1, decrease the mitochondrial membrane potential, incur more serious morphological damage to mitochondria than Cd treatment alone. Moreover, compared with Cd-only exposure, GA and Cd co-treatment further increased the expression levels of the apoptosis-related proteins Fas, FasL, FADD and the ratio of Bax/Bcl-2, inhibited the protein expression of ASK1 and Daxx. We also found that the protein expression of Daxx in siFADD + Cd hepatocytes was significantly higher than in Cd-treated cells. Thus, our study suggests that gap junction inhibition may play a dual role in Cd-induced cell damage by inhibiting the transmission of death signals from damaged cells to healthy cells but also aggravating the transmission of death signals between damaged cells, and that the Fas/FasL-mediated death receptor pathway may play an important role in this process.
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