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TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 164, 期 2, 页码 592-602出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfy112
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stem cell; cadmium; breast cancer; mammary gland; RNA-seq; mammosphere
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- Ravitz Family Foundation
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [R01 ES028802, P30 ES017885]
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health [CA130810]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [P30ES017885, R01ES028802] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Developmental cadmium exposure in vivo disrupts mammary gland differentiation, while exposure of breast cell lines to cadmium causes invasion consistent with the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). The effects of cadmium on normal human breast stem cells have not been measured. Here, we quantified the effects of cadmium exposure on reduction mammoplasty patient-derived breast stem cell proliferation and differentiation. Using the mammosphere assay and organoid formation in 3D hydrogels, we tested 2 physiologically relevant doses of cadmium, 0.25 and 2.5 mu M, and tested for molecular alterations using RNA-seq. We functionally validated our RNA-seq findings with a hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 alpha activity reporter line and pharmaceutical inhibition of HIF-1 alpha in organoid formation assays. 2.5 mu M cadmium reduced primary mammosphere formation and branching structure organoid formation rates by 33% and 87%, respectively. Despite no changes in mammosphere formation, 0.25 mu M cadmium inhibited branching organoid formation in hydrogels by 73%. RNA-seq revealed cadmium downregulated genes associated with extracellular matrix formation and EMT, while upregulating genes associated with metal response including metallothioneins and zinc transporters. In the RNA-seq data, cadmium downregulated HIF-1 alpha target genes including LOXL2, ZEB1, and VIM. Cadmium significantly inhibited HIF-1 alpha activity in a luciferase assay, and the HIF-1 alpha inhibitor acriflavine ablated mammosphere and organoid formation. These findings show that cadmium, at doses relevant to human exposure, inhibited human mammary stem cell proliferation and differentiation, potentially through disruption of HIF-1 alpha activity.
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