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Particulate matter, with an aerodynamic diameter equal to or less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5), is an air pollutant that causes serious pulmonary injury when inhaled. Sparstolonin B (SsnB) from the Chinese herb, Sparganium stoloniferum inhibits the expression of inflammatory cytokines and is involved in survival pathways. We investigated the protective effects of SsnB against PM2.5-induced lung damage. PM2.5 was pretreated intranasally and 30 minutes later, SsnB was injected via a vein in the tail of mouse. The effects of SsnB on PM2.5-induced lung damages, barrier disruptive responses, and pulmonary inflammation and the underlying mechanism of SsnB were investigated. SsnB significantly reduced pathological lung injury, the lung wet/dry weight ratio, and the levels of permeability. It also considerably attenuated PM2.5-induced myeloperoxidase activity in lung tissue, reduced PM2.5-induced inflammatory cytokine levels, and suppressed PM2.5-induced lymphocytes in bronchial alveolar fluid. Moreover, SsnB increased the phosphorylation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and significantly inhibited the expression of PM2.5-stimulated toll-like receptor 2, 4 (TLR2, 4), MyD88, and autophagy-related proteins, LC3II and Beclin 1. We concluded that SsnB regulates both the TLR2, 4-MyD88 and mTOR-autophagy pathways, therefore SsnB can be used as a potential therapeutic agent for preventing PM2.5-induced pulmonary damage.
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This study was supported by a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (grant number: HI15C0001) and by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2020R1A2C1004131 and 2022R1A4A10189001).
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Kim, C., Ryu, S.H., Choi, H. et al. The Inhibitory Functions of Sparstolonin B against Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Induced Lung Injury. Biotechnol Bioproc E 27, 949–960 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-022-0286-3
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