In recent years, the environmental health issue of microplastics has aroused an increasingly significant concern. Some studies suggested that exposure to polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) may lead to renal inflammation and oxidative stress in animals. However, little is known about the essential effects of PS-MPs with high-fat diet (HFD) on renal development and microenvironment. In this study, we provided the single-cell transcriptomic landscape of the kidney microenvironment induced by PS-MPs and HFD in mouse models by unbiased single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). The kidney injury cell atlases in mice were evaluated after continued PS-MPs exposure, or HFD treated for 35 days. Results showed that PS-MPs plus HFD treatment aggravated the kidney injury and profibrotic microenvironment, reshaping mouse kidney cellular components. First, we found that PS-MPs plus HFD treatment acted on extracellular matrix organization of renal epithelial cells, specifically the proximal and distal convoluted tubule cells, to inhibit renal development and induce ROS-driven carcinogenesis. Second, PS-MPs plus HFD treatment induced activated PI3K-Akt, MAPK, and IL-17 signaling pathways in endothelial cells. Besides, PS-MPs plus HFD treatment markedly increased the proportions of CD8(+) effector T cells and proliferating T cells. Notably, mononuclear phagocytes exhibited substantial remodeling and enriched in oxidative phosphorylation and chemical carcinogenesis pathways after PS-MPs plus HFD treatment, typified by alterations tissue-resident M2-like PF4(+) macrophages. Multispectral immunofluorescence and immunohistochemistry identified PF4(+) macrophages in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) and adjacent normal tissues, indicating that activate PF4(+) macrophages might regulate the profibrotic and pro-tumorigenic microenvironment after renal injury. In conclusion, this study first systematically revealed molecular variation of renal cells and immune cells in mice kidney microenvironment induced by PS-MPs and HFD with the scRNA-seq approach, which provided a molecular basis for decoding the effects of PS-MPs on genitourinary injury and understanding their potential profibrotic and carcinogenesis in mammals.
基金:
This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82370847), Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (No.
20ZR1413100), Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau Project (No. 2020CXJQ03),
Beijing Xisike Clinical Oncology Research Foundation (No. Y-HR2020MS-0948),
Shanghai Anti-Cancer Association Eyas Project (No. SACA-CY21A06 and
No. SACA-CY21B01), and National Council for Scientifc and Technological
Development (CNPq/Brazil) for the fnancial support needed to conduct
this research. Malafaia G. holds a productivity scholarship from CNPq (Proc.
#308854/2021-7).
第一作者机构:[1]Fudan Univ, Shanghai Canc Ctr, Dept Urol, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China[2]Fudan Univ, Shanghai Med Coll, Dept Oncol, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China[3]Shanghai Genitourinary Canc Inst, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China
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通讯机构:[1]Fudan Univ, Shanghai Canc Ctr, Dept Urol, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China[2]Fudan Univ, Shanghai Med Coll, Dept Oncol, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China[3]Shanghai Genitourinary Canc Inst, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China
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Xu Wenhao,Ye Shiqi,Liu Wangrui,et al.Single-cell RNA-seq analysis decodes the kidney microenvironment induced by polystyrene microplastics in mice receiving a high-fat diet[J].JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY.2024,22(1):doi:10.1186/s12951-023-02266-7.
APA:
Xu, Wenhao,Ye, Shiqi,Liu, Wangrui,Guo, Huaqi,Zhang, Linhui...&Wei, Gang.(2024).Single-cell RNA-seq analysis decodes the kidney microenvironment induced by polystyrene microplastics in mice receiving a high-fat diet.JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY,22,(1)
MLA:
Xu, Wenhao,et al."Single-cell RNA-seq analysis decodes the kidney microenvironment induced by polystyrene microplastics in mice receiving a high-fat diet".JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY 22..1(2024)