<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stojkovic, Miodrag</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ortuño Guzmán, Francisco Manuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Han, Dongjun</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stojkovic, Petra</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dopazo, Joaquin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stankovic, Konstantina M</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Polystyrene nanoplastics affect transcriptomic and epigenomic signatures of human fibroblasts and derived induced pluripotent stem cells: Implications for human health.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environ Pollut</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environ Pollut</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022 Dec 09</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">120849</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Plastic pollution is increasing at an alarming rate yet the impact of this pollution on human health is poorly understood. Because human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) are frequently derived from dermal fibroblasts, these cells offer a powerful platform for the identification of molecular biomarkers of environmental pollution in human cells. Here, we describe a novel proof-of-concept for deriving hiPSC from human dermal fibroblasts deliberately exposed to polystyrene (PS) nanoplastic particles; unexposed hiPSC served as controls. In parallel, unexposed hiPSC were exposed to low and high concentrations of PS nanoparticles. Transcriptomic and epigenomic signatures of all fibroblasts and hiPSCs were defined using RNA-seq and whole genome methyl-seq, respectively. Both PS-treated fibroblasts and derived hiPSC showed alterations in expression of ESRRB and HNF1A genes and circuits involved in the pluripotency of stem cells, as well as in pathways involved in cancer, inflammatory disorders, gluconeogenesis, carbohydrate metabolism, innate immunity, and dopaminergic synapse. Similarly, the expression levels of identified key transcriptional and DNA methylation changes (DNMT3A, ESSRB, FAM133CP, HNF1A, SEPTIN7P8, and TTC34) were significantly affected in both PS-exposed fibroblasts and hiPSC. This study illustrates the power of human cellular models of environmental pollution to narrow down and prioritize the list of candidate molecular biomarkers of environmental pollution. This knowledge will facilitate the deciphering of the origins of environmental diseases.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bojic, Sanja</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Falco, Matias M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stojkovic, Petra</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ljujic, Biljana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gazdic Jankovic, Marina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Armstrong, Lyle</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Markovic, Nebojsa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dopazo, Joaquin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lako, Majlinda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bauer, Roman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stojkovic, Miodrag</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Platform to study intracellular polystyrene nanoplastic pollution and clinical outcomes.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stem Cells</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stem Cells</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental Pollution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Intracellular Space</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nanoparticles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Plastics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Polystyrenes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Transcriptome</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Treatment Outcome</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020 10 01</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">38</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1321-1325</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Increased pollution by plastics has become a serious global environmental problem, but the concerns for human health have been raised after reported presence of microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) in food and beverages. Unfortunately, few studies have investigate the potentially harmful effects of MPs/NPs on early human development and human health. Therefore, we used a new platform to study possible effects of polystyrene NPs (PSNPs) on the transcription profile of preimplantation human embryos and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Two pluripotency genes, LEFTY1 and LEFTY2, which encode secreted ligands of the transforming growth factor-beta, were downregulated, while CA4 and OCLM, which are related to eye development, were upregulated in both samples. The gene set enrichment analysis showed that the development of atrioventricular heart valves and the dysfunction of cellular components, including extracellular matrix, were significantly affected after exposure of hiPSCs to PSNPs. Finally, using the HiPathia method, which uncovers disease mechanisms and predicts clinical outcomes, we determined the APOC3 circuit, which is responsible for increased risk for ischemic cardiovascular disease. These results clearly demonstrate that better understanding of NPs bioactivities and its implications for human health is of extreme importance. Thus, the presented platform opens further aspects to study interactions between different environmental and intracellular pollutions with the aim to decipher the mechanism and origin of human diseases.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32614127?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moreno-Manzano, Victoria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rodríguez-Jiménez, Francisco J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aceña-Bonilla, Jose L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fustero-Lardíes, Santos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Erceg, Slaven</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dopazo, Joaquin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Montaner, David</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stojkovic, Miodrag</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sánchez-Puelles, Jose M</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">FM19G11, a new hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) modulator, affects stem cell differentiation status.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Journal of biological chemistry</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010 Jan 8</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">285</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1333-42</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The biology of the alpha subunits of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFalpha) has expanded from their role in angiogenesis to their current position in the self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells. The results reported in this article show the discovery of FM19G11, a novel chemical entity that inhibits HIFalpha proteins that repress target genes of the two alpha subunits, in various tumor cell lines as well as in adult and embryonic stem cell models from rodents and humans, respectively. FM19G11 inhibits at nanomolar range the transcriptional and protein expression of Oct4, Sox2, Nanog, and Tgf-alpha undifferentiating factors, in adult rat and human embryonic stem cells, FM19G11 activity occurs in ependymal progenitor stem cells from rats (epSPC), a cell model reported for spinal cord regeneration, which allows the progression of oligodendrocyte cell differentiation in a hypoxic environment, has created interest in its characterization for pharmacological research. Experiments using small interfering RNA showed a significant depletion in Sox2 protein only in the case of HIF2alpha silencing, but not in HIF1alpha-mediated ablation. Moreover, chromatin immunoprecipitation data, together with the significant presence of functional hypoxia response element consensus sequences in the promoter region of Sox2, strongly validated that this factor behaves as a target gene of HIF2alpha in epSPCs. FM19G11 causes a reduction of overall histone acetylation with significant repression of p300, a histone acetyltransferase required as a co-factor for HIF-transcription activation. Arrays carried out in the presence and absence of the inhibitor showed the predominant involvement of epigenetic-associated events mediated by the drug.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Prado-Lopez, Sonia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conesa, Ana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Armiñán, Ana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martínez-Losa, Magdalena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Escobedo-Lucea, Carmen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gandia, Carolina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tarazona, Sonia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Melguizo, Dario</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blesa, David</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Montaner, David</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sanz-González, Silvia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sepúlveda, Pilar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Götz, Stefan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">O'Connor, José Enrique</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moreno, Ruben</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dopazo, Joaquin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Burks, Deborah J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stojkovic, Miodrag</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hypoxia promotes efficient differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to functional endothelium.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stem Cells</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stem Cells</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Angiopoietin-1</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Animals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">biomarkers</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cell Culture Techniques</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cell Differentiation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cell Hypoxia</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cell Transplantation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cells, Cultured</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Down-Regulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Embryonic Stem Cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Endothelial Cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gene Expression Profiling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gene Expression Regulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Myocardial Infarction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neovascularization, Physiologic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxygen</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pluripotent Stem Cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rats</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rats, Nude</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010 Mar 31</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">407-18</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Early development of mammalian embryos occurs in an environment of relative hypoxia. Nevertheless, human embryonic stem cells (hESC), which are derived from the inner cell mass of blastocyst, are routinely cultured under the same atmospheric conditions (21% O(2)) as somatic cells. We hypothesized that O(2) levels modulate gene expression and differentiation potential of hESC, and thus, we performed gene profiling of hESC maintained under normoxic or hypoxic (1% or 5% O(2)) conditions. Our analysis revealed that hypoxia downregulates expression of pluripotency markers in hESC but increases significantly the expression of genes associated with angio- and vasculogenesis including vascular endothelial growth factor and angiopoitein-like proteins. Consequently, we were able to efficiently differentiate hESC to functional endothelial cells (EC) by varying O(2) levels; after 24 hours at 5% O(2), more than 50% of cells were CD34+. Transplantation of resulting endothelial-like cells improved both systolic function and fractional shortening in a rodent model of myocardial infarction. Moreover, analysis of the infarcted zone revealed that transplanted EC reduced the area of fibrous scar tissue by 50%. Thus, use of hypoxic conditions to specify the endothelial lineage suggests a novel strategy for cellular therapies aimed at repair of damaged vasculature in pathologies such as cerebral ischemia and myocardial infarction.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20049902?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>