Ziying Tian, Boni Ding, Yilin Guo, Jieyu Zhou, Su Jiang, Jiaxue Lu, Nan Li, Xiao Zhou, Wenling Zhang
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Abstract
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy in women and the leading cause of cancer death. Microplastics (MPs) are plastic fragments with a diameter of less than 5 mm, easily ingested by organisms. Although MPs have been reported to enter the human body through diet, surgery, etc., whether MPs accumulate in BC and their effects have been largely unknown. Our study revealed a significant accumulation of MPs in BC patient samples. MPs pull-down experiments and mass spectrometry (MS) studies showed that MPs bound to annexin A2 (ANXA2) and were endocytosed into cells. This process resulted in mitochondrial damage and subsequent induction of mitophagy. Furthermore, after binding to ANXA2, MPs regulated mitophagy by inhibiting IL-17 exocytosis. These findings revealed the mechanism of toxic effects of MPs in patients with BC, clarified the molecular mechanism of ANXA2-IL-17 signaling pathway causing mitochondrial damage by MPs, and suggested the potential toxic effects and toxicological mechanisms of MPs.
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Environmental Pollution is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality research papers and review articles covering all aspects of environmental pollution and its impacts on ecosystems and human health.
Subject areas include, but are not limited to:
• Sources and occurrences of pollutants that are clearly defined and measured in environmental compartments, food and food-related items, and human bodies;
• Interlinks between contaminant exposure and biological, ecological, and human health effects, including those of climate change;
• Contaminants of emerging concerns (including but not limited to antibiotic resistant microorganisms or genes, microplastics/nanoplastics, electronic wastes, light, and noise) and/or their biological, ecological, or human health effects;
• Laboratory and field studies on the remediation/mitigation of environmental pollution via new techniques and with clear links to biological, ecological, or human health effects;
• Modeling of pollution processes, patterns, or trends that is of clear environmental and/or human health interest;
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