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FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2020.111405
Keywords
Zearalenone; iTRAQ; Proteomics; Leydig cells; Toxicology
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31972746, 31872538, 31772809]
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Zearalenone (ZEA) is a mycotoxin that contaminates crops worldwide and is toxic to the reproductive systems of mammals, however, the toxicological mechanism by which ZEA affects germ cells is not fully understood. In this study, proteomic analysis using iTRAQ technology was adopted to determine the cellular response of Leydig cells of rats to ZEA exposure. The results were used to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the toxicity of the ZEA towards germ cells. After 24 h of exposure to ZEA at a concentration of 30 mu mol/L, a total of 128 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were identified. Of these, 70 DEPs were up-regulated and 58 DEPs were downregulated. The DEPs associated with ZEA toxicology were then screened by using Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis. The results show that these DEPs are involved in a number of important ZEA toxicological pathways including apoptosis, immunotoxicity, DNA damage, and signaling pathways. The complex regulatory relationships between the DEPs and ZEA toxicological signaling pathways are also explicitly demonstrated in the form of a protein-protein interaction network. This study thus provides a theoretical molecular basis for understanding the toxicological mechanisms by which ZEA affects germ cells.
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