ArticleScientific reports2017
Perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS)-induced Sertoli cell injury through a disruption of F-actin and microtubule organization is mediated by Akt1/2.
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- Ecotoxicological Insights From Ex Vivo Exposure of Whole Blood to PFOS and Glyphosate: Oxidative Stress and Immune Disruption.Environmental toxicology · 2026Article
- Early Life Exposure to PFOS or F‑53B is Associated with Increased Asthma Susceptibility in Offspring and Alterations in the Pulmonary Barrier, Immune Function, and Gut Microbiota.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Risk Assessment of PFAS-Induced Male Reproductive Toxicity: A Comprehensive Evaluation Using the TRAEC Strategy.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Label-Free Target Discovery Strategy for Natural Active Products.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Unveiling the Research Void: Exploring the Reproductive Effects of PFAS Compounds on Male Health.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Male infertility and perfluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances: evidence for alterations in phosphorylation of proteins and fertility-related functional attributes in bull spermatozoa†.Biology of reproduction · 2024Article
- Developmental PFOS exposure alters lung inflammation and barrier integrity in juvenile mice.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2024Article
- Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid Disrupts Protective Tight Junction Proteins via Protein Kinase D in Airway Epithelial Cells.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2022Article
- The PI3K/AKT signaling pathway: How does it regulate development of Sertoli cells and spermatogenic cells?Histology and histopathology · 2022Review
- Pachypodol attenuates Perfluorooctane sulphonate-induced testicular damage by reducing oxidative stress.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2022Article
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- Effects of endocrine disruptors on fetal testis development, male puberty, and transition age.Endocrine · 2021Review
- Perfluoroalkyl Chemicals and Male Reproductive Health: Do PFOA and PFOS Increase Risk for Male Infertility?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) in microtubule cytoskeletal dynamics and spermatogenesis.Histology and histopathology · 2021Review
- Assessment of the Emerging Threat Posed by Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances to Male Reproduction in Humans.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Review
- Signaling Proteins That Regulate Spermatogenesis Are the Emerging Target of Toxicant-Induced Male Reproductive Dysfunction.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Review
- The Non-hormonal Male Contraceptive Adjudin Exerts its Effects via MAPs and Signaling Proteins mTORC1/rpS6 and FAK-Y407.Endocrinology · 2021Article
- Testis Toxicants: Lesson from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021Article
- Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorohexane Sulfonate (PFHxS) Alters Protein Phosphorylation, Increase ROS Levels and DNA Fragmentation during In Vitro Capacitation of Boar Spermatozoa.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
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Abstract
PFOS (perfluorooctanesulfonate, or perfluorooctane sulfonic acid) is an anthropogenic fluorosurfactant widely used in consumer products. While its use in Europe, Canada and the U.S. has been banned due to its human toxicity, it continues to be used in China and other developing countries as a global pollutant. Herein, using an in vitro model of Sertoli cell blood-testis barrier (BTB), PFOS was found to induce Sertoli cell injury by perturbing actin cytoskeleton through changes in the spatial expression of actin regulatory proteins. Specifically, PFOS caused mis-localization of Arp3 (actin-related protein 3, a branched actin polymerization protein) and palladin (an actin bundling protein). These disruptive changes thus led to a dis-organization of F-actin across Sertoli cell cytosol, causing truncation of actin microfilament, thereby failing to support the Sertoli cell morphology and adhesion protein complexes (e.g., occludin-ZO-1, CAR-ZO-1, and N-cadherin-ß-catenin), through a down-regulation of p-Akt1-S473 and p-Akt2-S474. The use of SC79, an Akt1/2 activator [corrected], was found to block the PFOS-induced Sertoli cell injury by rescuing the PFOS-induced F-actin dis-organization. These findings thus illustrate PFOS exerts its disruptive effects on Sertoli cell function downstream through Akt1/2. As such, PFOS-induced male reproductive dysfunction can possibly be managed through an intervention on Akt1/2 expression.
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