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Liu H, Tian X, Jiang L, Han D, Hu S, Cui Y, Jiang F, Liu Y, Xu Y, Li H. Sources, bioaccumulation, and toxicity mechanisms of cadmium in Chlamys farreri. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 453:131395. [PMID: 37058935 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
The Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) cadmium (Cd) is one of the most serious stressors polluting the marine environment. Marine bivalves have specific high enrichment capacity for Cd. Previous studies have investigated the tissue distribution changes and toxic effects of Cd in bivalves, but the sources of Cd enrichment, migration regulation during growth, and toxicity mechanisms in bivalves have not been fully explained. Here, we used stable-isotope labeling to investigate the contributions of Cd from different sources to scallop tissues. We sampled the entire growth cycle of Chlamys farreri, which is widely cultured in northern China, from juveniles to adult scallops. We found tissue variability in the bioconcentration-metabolism pattern of Cd in different bound states, with Cd in the aqueous accounting for a significant contribution. The accumulation pattern of Cd in all tissues during growth was more significant in the viscera and gills. Additionally, we combined a multi-omics approach to reveal a network of oxidative stress-induced toxicity mechanisms of Cd in scallops, identifying differentially expressed genes and proteins involved in metal ion binding, oxidative stress, energy metabolism, and apoptosis. Our findings have important implications for both ecotoxicology and aquaculture. They also provide new insights into marine environmental assessment and mariculture development.
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- Huan Liu
- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China; School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China.
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- Yantai Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control and Deep Processing of Marine Food, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource & Environment Research Institute, Yantai, China.
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Zhang X, Li F, Ji C, Wu H. Toxicological mechanism of cadmium in the clam Ruditapes philippinarum using combined ionomic, metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 323:121286. [PMID: 36791949 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Cadmium (Cd) contamination in marine environment poses great risks to the organisms due to its potential adverse effects. In the present study, the toxicological effects and mechanisms of Cd at environmentally relevant concentrations (5 and 50 μg/L) on clam Ruditapes philippinarum after 21 days were investigated by combined ionomic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic analyses. Results showed that the uptake of Cd significantly decreased the concentrations of Cu, Zn, Sr, Se, and Mo in the whole soft tissue from 50 μg/L Cd-treated clams. Significantly negative correlations were observed between Cd and essential elements (Zn, Sr, Se, and Mo). Altered essential elements homeostasis was associated with the gene regulation of transport and detoxification, including ATP-binding cassette protein subfamily B member 1 (ABCB1) and metallothioneins (MT). The crucial contribution of Se to Cd detoxification was also found in clams. Additionally, gene set enrichment analysis showed that Cd could interfere with proteolysis by peptidases and decrease the translation efficiency at 50 μg/L. Cd inhibited lipid metabolism in clams and increased energy demand by up-regulating glycolysis and TCA cycle. Osmotic pressure was regulated by free amino acids, including alanine, glutamate, taurine, and homarine. Meanwhile, significant alterations of some differentially expressed genes, such as dopamine-β-hydroxylase (DBH), neuroligin (NLGN), NOTCH 1, and chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 1 (CSPG1) were observed in clams, which implied potential interference with synaptic transmission. Overall, through integrating multiple omics, this study provided new insights into the toxicological mechanisms of Cd, particularly in those mediated by dysregulation of essential element homeostasis.
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- Xiaoyu Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, PR China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Qingdao, 266071, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, PR China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Qingdao, 266071, PR China.
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Long P, Wang H, Zhang Z, Li W, Zhang Y, He S, Yu K, Jiang H, Liu X, Guo H, He M, Zhang X, Wu T, Yuan Y. Plasma metal concentrations and their interactions with genetic susceptibility on homocysteine levels. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2022; 241:113705. [PMID: 35687997 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 05/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Limited studies have evaluated the associations of multiple metal exposures with homocysteine (Hcy) levels, which were independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Furthermore, the interactions between genetic variants and plasma metals in relation to Hcy levels were largely unknown. We aimed to explore the associations of multiple plasma metals (including metalloids arsenic [As] and selenium [Se]) with Hcy levels and whether their associations were modified by genetic susceptibility. We included 2989 participants from the baseline of the Dongfeng-Tongji cohort (DFTJ cohort) and conducted a cross-sectional study to explore the associations of 17 plasma metals with serum Hcy levels. Both multi-variable linear regression model (single-metal model) and LASSO penalized regression model (multiple-metal model) were used to identify the Hcy-associated metals. The weighted genetic risk score (GRS) was calculated based on 18 established Hcy-associated genetic variants. For metals that were associated with Hcy, we further assessed the gene-metal interactions on Hcy levels. Among 17 metals, plasma molybdenum (Mo), strontium (Sr), and Zinc (Zn) were positively associated with Hcy levels, whereas Se was inversely associated with Hcy levels in both single- and multiple-metal models. We also observed that the genetic predisposition to Hcy significantly modified the association between plasma Se and serum Hcy levels (P for interaction = 0.003), while no significant gene-metal interactions were found for Mo, Sr, and Zn (all P for interactions > 0.05). These findings provide novel insight into the associations of the plasma concentrations of Mo, Se, Sr and Zn with Hcy levels and address the importance of Se as a potential upstream modifiable factor for the personalized prevention of elevated Hcy levels and CVD.
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- Pinpin Long
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
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von Mässenhausen A, Zamora Gonzalez N, Maremonti F, Belavgeni A, Tonnus W, Meyer C, Beer K, Hannani MT, Lau A, Peitzsch M, Hoppenz P, Locke S, Chavakis T, Kramann R, Muruve DA, Hugo C, Bornstein SR, Linkermann A. Dexamethasone sensitizes to ferroptosis by glucocorticoid receptor-induced dipeptidase-1 expression and glutathione depletion. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabl8920. [PMID: 35108055 PMCID: PMC8809683 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl8920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
Dexamethasone is widely used as an immunosuppressive therapy and recently as COVID-19 treatment. Here, we demonstrate that dexamethasone sensitizes to ferroptosis, a form of iron-catalyzed necrosis, previously suggested to contribute to diseases such as acute kidney injury, myocardial infarction, and stroke, all of which are triggered by glutathione (GSH) depletion. GSH levels were significantly decreased by dexamethasone. Mechanistically, we identified that dexamethasone up-regulated the GSH metabolism regulating protein dipeptidase-1 (DPEP1) in a glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-dependent manner. DPEP1 knockdown reversed the phenotype of dexamethasone-induced ferroptosis sensitization. Ferroptosis inhibitors, the DPEP1 inhibitor cilastatin, or genetic DPEP1 inactivation reversed the dexamethasone-induced increase in tubular necrosis in freshly isolated renal tubules. Our data indicate that dexamethasone sensitizes to ferroptosis by a GR-mediated increase in DPEP1 expression and GSH depletion. Together, we identified a previously unknown mechanism of glucocorticoid-mediated sensitization to ferroptosis bearing clinical and therapeutic implications.
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- Anne von Mässenhausen
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Clinic for Renal and Hypertensive Disorders, Rheumatological and Immunological Disease, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Aachen 52074, Germany
- Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine, and Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Snyder Institute for Chronic Disease, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, Dresden 01307, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, Dresden 01307, Germany
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- Clinic for Renal and Hypertensive Disorders, Rheumatological and Immunological Disease, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Aachen 52074, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Snyder Institute for Chronic Disease, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
- Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of Helmholtz Centre Munich at University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
- Corresponding author.
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Li W, Li M, Qi J. Nano-Drug Design Based on the Physiological Properties of Glutathione. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26185567. [PMID: 34577040 PMCID: PMC8469141 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26185567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 09/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Glutathione (GSH) is involved in and regulates important physiological functions of the body as an essential antioxidant. GSH plays an important role in anti-oxidation, detoxification, anti-aging, enhancing immunity and anti-tumor activity. Herein, based on the physiological properties of GSH in different diseases, mainly including the strong reducibility of GSH, high GSH content in tumor cells, and the NADPH depletion when GSSH is reduced to GSH, we extensively report the design principles, effect, and potential problems of various nano-drugs in diabetes, cancer, nervous system diseases, fluorescent probes, imaging, and food. These studies make full use of the physiological and pathological value of GSH and develop excellent design methods of nano-drugs related to GSH, which shows important scientific significance and prominent application value for the related diseases research that GSH participates in or responds to.
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- Correspondence: or (M.L.); or (J.Q.)
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