新生儿接触 BPA、BDE-99 和 PCB 会导致成年老鼠肝脏中肠道微生物失调相关的肝转录组产生持久变化。
Neonatal Exposure to BPA, BDE-99, and PCB Produces Persistent Changes in Hepatic Transcriptome Associated With Gut Dysbiosis in Adult Mouse Livers.
机构信息
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
出版信息
Toxicol Sci. 2021 Oct 27;184(1):83-103. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfab104.
Recent evidence suggests that complex diseases can result from early life exposure to environmental toxicants. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and remain a continuing risk to human health despite being banned from production. Developmental BPA exposure mediated-adult onset of liver cancer via epigenetic reprogramming mechanisms has been identified. Here, we investigated whether the gut microbiome and liver can be persistently reprogrammed following neonatal exposure to POPs, and the associations between microbial biomarkers and disease-prone changes in the hepatic transcriptome in adulthood, compared with BPA. C57BL/6 male and female mouse pups were orally administered vehicle, BPA, BDE-99 (a breast milk-enriched PBDE congener), or the Fox River PCB mixture (PCBs), once daily for three consecutive days (postnatal days [PND] 2-4). Tissues were collected at PND5 and PND60. Among the three chemicals investigated, early life exposure to BDE-99 produced the most prominent developmental reprogramming of the gut-liver axis, including hepatic inflammatory and cancer-prone signatures. In adulthood, neonatal BDE-99 exposure resulted in a persistent increase in Akkermansia muciniphila throughout the intestine, accompanied by increased hepatic levels of acetate and succinate, the known products of A. muciniphila. In males, this was positively associated with permissive epigenetic marks H3K4me1 and H3K27, which were enriched in loci near liver cancer-related genes that were dysregulated following neonatal exposure to BDE-99. Our findings provide novel insights that early life exposure to POPs can have a life-long impact on disease risk, which may partly be regulated by the gut microbiome.
最近的证据表明,复杂疾病可能是由于儿童早期暴露于环境毒物引起的。多溴二苯醚(PBDEs)和多氯联苯(PCBs)是持久性有机污染物(POPs),尽管已被禁止生产,但它们仍然对人类健康构成持续威胁。已经确定,发育过程中 BPA 暴露通过表观遗传重编程机制导致成年后肝癌的发生。在这里,我们研究了新生儿暴露于 POPs 是否会持续重编程肠道微生物组和肝脏,以及微生物生物标志物与成年后肝脏转录组中易患病变化之间的关联,与 BPA 相比。C57BL/6 雄性和雌性幼鼠每天口服给予载体、BPA、BDE-99(一种富含母乳的 PBDE 同系物)或 Fox River PCB 混合物(PCBs),连续三天(出生后第 2-4 天)。在 PND5 和 PND60 收集组织。在所研究的三种化学物质中,早期生命暴露于 BDE-99 对肠道-肝脏轴产生了最显著的发育重编程,包括肝脏炎症和癌症易患特征。在成年期,新生儿 BDE-99 暴露导致整个肠道中 Akkermansia muciniphila 的持续增加,伴随着肝内乙酸盐和琥珀酸盐水平的升高,这是 A. muciniphila 的已知产物。在男性中,这与允许性表观遗传标记 H3K4me1 和 H3K27 呈正相关,这些标记在靠近肝癌相关基因的位置富集,这些基因在新生儿暴露于 BDE-99 后失调。我们的研究结果提供了新的见解,即儿童早期暴露于 POPs 会对疾病风险产生终身影响,这可能部分受到肠道微生物组的调节。