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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2020-10-01

发表刊物：TOXICOLOGY LETTERS

收录刊物：SCIE

卷号：331

页面范围：178-187

ISSN号：0378-4274

关键字：Potassium dichromate; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Apoptosis; Autophagy; Glycolysis; ATF4

摘要：Chromium (Cr) (VI) compounds are known to be serious toxic and carcinogenic, but the mechanism is not clear. In our previous study, we found that Cr (VI)-induced ER stress plays an important role in the crosstalk between apoptosis and autophagy, while autophagy was apoptosis-dependent and subsequently prevents apoptosis cell death to keep A549 cells resistant to Cr (VI)-induced toxicity. In this study, we found that Cr (VI) could induce aerobic glycolysis in A549 cells. Both ER stress inhibitor, phenylbutyric acid (4-PBA) and the inhibitor of autophagy, 3-MA, repressed Cr (VI)-induced glycolysis, indicating that both ER stress and autophagy were involved in Cr (VI)-induced glycolysis in A549 cells. Co-treatment of the inhibitor of aerobic glycolysis, 2-DG and Cr (VI) for 24 h increased Cr (VI)-induced cleaved caspase-3, caspase-9 and the number of apoptotic cells, demonstrating that aerobic glycolysis played an important role in attenuating Cr (VI)-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, knockdown of ATF4 by siATF4 significantly decreased Cr (VI)-induced aerobic glycolysis and apoptosis, suggesting that ATF4 was involved in Cr (VI)-induced aerobic glycolysis and its effect of attenuating apoptosis in A549 cells. Taken together, our results demonstrated that autophagy-dependent glycolysis played a role in attenuating Cr (VI)-induced apoptosis. ER stress was involved in facilitating glycolysis, whose induction was mediated by ATF4. These findings open a window for the development of therapeutic interventions to prevent Cr (VI)-induced toxicity.