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Nanopolystyrene-induced microRNAs response in Caenorhabditis elegans after long-term and lose-dose exposure
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C. elegans nematodes were exposed to 100 nm nanopolystyrene at 1 μg/L (predicted environmental concentration) and 7 microRNAs were found to be dysregulated in a dose-dependent manner, with functional analysis linking specific miRNAs to the regulation of nanoplastic toxicity responses. The study reveals a previously uncharacterized microRNA-mediated molecular mechanism underlying nanoplastic toxicity.
microRNAs (miRNAs) usually act post-transcriptionally to suppress the expression of many targeted genes. However, the response of miRNAs to nanoplastics is still unclear. We here employed Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the response of miRNAs to 100 nm nanopolystyrene at a predicted environmental concentration (1 μg/L). After exposure from L1-larvae to adult day-3, we found that 7 miRNAs (4 down-regulated (mir-39, mir-76, mir-794, and mir-1830) and 3 up-regulated (mir-35, mir-38, and mir-354)) were dysregulated by nanopolystyrene. Expressions of these 7 miRNAs were dose-dependent in nematodes exposed to 1-100 μg/L nanopolystyrene. Among these 7 miRNAs, we found that only mir-35, mir-38, mir-76, mir-354, and mir-794 were involved in the regulation of response to nanopolystyrene based on phenotypic analysis of both transgenic strains and mutant nematodes. Overexpression of mir-35, mir-38, or mir-354 induced a resistance to nanopolystyrene toxicity, and overexpression of mir-76 or mir-794 induced a susceptibility to nanopolystyrene toxicity, which suggested that these 5 miRNAs mediated a protective response to nanopolystyrene. Gene ontology and KEGG analysis further implied that mir-35, mir-38, mir-76, mir-354, and mir-794 were associated with various biological processes and signaling pathways. Our results suggest the crucial role of a certain number of miRNAs in response to nanopolystyrene after long-term and low-dose exposure in organisms.
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