3-Hydroxyflavone enhances the toxicity of ZnO nanoparticles in vitro

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Luo, Yunfeng

作者： Luo, Yunfeng;Wu, Chaohua;Gong, Yu;Peng, Shengming;Xie, Yixi;Cao, Yi;Liu, Liangliang;Cao, Yi

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关键词： 3-Hydroxyflavone (H3); Combined effect; Cytotoxicity; Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress; ZnO nanoparticles (NPs)

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF APPLIED TOXICOLOGY （ 影响因子：3.446； 五年影响因子：3.727 ）

ISSN： 0260-437X

年卷期： 2018 年 38 卷 9 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： It is recently shown that flavonoids might reduce the toxicity of nanoparticles (NPs) due to their antioxidative properties. In this study, the influence of 3-hydroxyflavone (H3) on the toxicity of ZnO NPs was investigated. H3 increased hydrodynamic size, polydispersity index and absolute value of the zeta potential of ZnO NPs, which indicated that H3 could influence the colloidal aspects of NPs. Surprisingly, H3 markedly decreased the initial concentration of ZnO NPs required to induce cytotoxicity to Caco-2, HepG2, THP-1 and human umbilical vein endothelial cells, which suggested that H3 could promote the toxicity of ZnO NPs to both cancerous and normal cells. For comparison, 6-hydroxyflavone did not show this effect. H3 remarkably increased cellular Zn elements and intracellular Zn ions in HepG2 cells following ZnO NP exposure, and co-exposure to H3 and NPs induced a relatively higher intracellular reactive oxygen species. Exposure to ZnO NPs at 3 hours induced the expression of endoplasmic reticulum stress markers DDIT3 and XBP-1 s, which was suppressed by H3. The expression of apoptotic genes BAX and CASP3 was significantly induced by ZnO NP exposure after 3 and 5 hours, respectively, and H3 further significantly promoted CASP3 expression at 5 hours. In combination, the results from this study suggested that H3 affected colloidal stability of ZnO NPs, promoted the interactions between NPs and cells, and altered the NP-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress-apoptosis signaling pathway, which finally enhanced the cytotoxicity of ZnO NPs.

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