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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
卷 249, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.114412
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Polystyrene nanoplastics (PS -NPs); Mussel; MicroRNAs (miRNA); Toxicological effects; Metabolism
In this study, the miRNA responses of digestive glands in mussels treated with PS-NPs were analyzed. The results showed significant differential expression of miRNAs, indicating that PS-NPs disturb various biological processes. Additionally, histopathological analysis revealed severe disruptions in metabolic capability in digestive glands under PS-NPs stress.
Polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs) are typical accumulated nanoplastics in the marine environment and organ-isms, and have strong potential risks to marine ecological environment and human health. MiRNAs could respond to and participate in the response process of environmental stressors. However, the response of miRNAs to nanoplastics has not been fully explored. In this study, miRNA responses of digestive glands in mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis treated by 200 nm PS-NPs (20, 200, 2000 mu g/L) for 7 days were characterized by BGISEQ-500 deep sequencing and bioinformatics analysis, along with histopathological quantification with planimetric pa-rameters on hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. Results showed that one novel miRNA (novel_mir63) and seven known miRNAs (miR-34_2, miR-34_5, miR-281_8, let-7-5p_6, miR-10, miR-124, miR-29b-3p) were significantly (adjusted P-value < 0.05) differentially expressed after PS-NPs treatments, and most of them were down-regulated expect for novel_mir63 and miR-34_2. Function analysis of target genes corresponding to these differentially expressed miRNAs indicated that PS-NPs disturbed the process related to metabolism, aging, car-diac function, neural excitation, and repairment. Among them, acetyl-CoA C-acetyltransferase and purine metabolism pathway played vital connection roles. Meanwhile, significantly morphology changes of digestive tubes obtained from H&E stained sections also implied severely disrupted metabolic capability in digestive glands, reflected by significantly increased mean diverticular radius (MDR) and mean luminal radius (MLR) values and the ratio of MLR to mean epithelial thickness (MET), and significantly decreased MET value and MET/ MDR. Overall, these findings have revealed new characterization of miRNAs and their target genes in mussel M. galloprovincialis under PS-NPs stress, and provide important clues to further elucidate the toxicity mechanisms of PS-NPs.
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