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Low concentration triphenyl phosphate fuels proliferation and migration of hepatocellular carcinoma cells

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Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) have been widely used due to their unique properties. The OPFRs are mainly metabolized in the liver. However, whether the plasma level of OPFRs was involved… Click to show full abstract

Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) have been widely used due to their unique properties. The OPFRs are mainly metabolized in the liver. However, whether the plasma level of OPFRs was involved in the progression of liver cancer remains unclear. Triphenyl phosphate (TPP) is one of the OPFRs that are mostly detected in environment. In this study, we performed CCK8, ATP, and EdU analyses to evaluate the effect of TPP at the concentrations at 0.025–12.8 μM on the proliferation, invasion, and migration of Hep3B, a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell line. Tumor‐bearing mouse model was used for in vivo validation. The results showed that low concentrations of TPP at (0.025–0.1 μM), which are obtained in the plasma of patients with cancers, remarkably promoted cell invasion and migration of Hep3B cells. Animal experiments confirmed that TPP treatment significantly enhanced tumor growth in the xenograft HCC model. To explore the possible molecular mechanisms that might mediate the actions of TPP on Hep3B cells, we profiled gene expression in groups treated with or without TPP at the concentrations of 0.05 and 0.1 μM using transcriptional sequencing. Gene ontology (GO), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment, and Protein–protein interaction (PPI) analyses demonstrated that pathways affected by differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were mainly in nuclear‐transcribed mRNA catabolic processes, cytosolic ribosome, and ATPase activity. A 0.05 and 0.1 μM TPP led to up‐regulation of a series of genes including EREG, DNPH1, SAMD9, DUSP5, PFN1, CKB, MICAL2, SCUBE3, and CXCL8, but suppressed the expression of MCC. These genes have been shown to be associated with proliferation and movement of cells. Taken together, our findings suggest that low concentration of TPP could fuel the proliferation, invasion, and migration of HCC cells. Thus, TPP is a risk factor in the progression of HCC in human beings.

Keywords: hepatocellular carcinoma; proliferation; triphenyl phosphate; low concentration; migration

Journal Title: Environmental Toxicology
Year Published: 2022

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