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ArticleFree radical biology & medicine2020

Traffic-related air pollutants (TRAP-PM) promote neuronal amyloidogenesis through oxidative damage to lipid rafts.

Mafalda Cacciottolo, Todd E Morgan, Arian A Saffari, Farimah Shirmohammadi, Henry Jay Forman, Costantinos Sioutas, Caleb E Finch

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Article in Free radical biology & medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 53 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Daily intake of antioxidants ameliorates PMFrontiers in nutrition · 2026
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  8. Environmental Toxicants and Their Disruption of Integrin Signaling in Lipid Rafts.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  14. Air pollution amyloidogenesis is attenuated by the gamma-secretase modulator GSM-15606.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mafalda CacciottoloLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Todd E MorganLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Arian A SaffariViterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Farimah ShirmohammadiViterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Henry Jay FormanLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Costantinos SioutasViterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Caleb E FinchLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Dornsife College, Dept. Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: cefinch@usc.edu.
University of Southern California · US

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES007048 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Joseph Leo Wiemels · 1996 to 2026
$46.4M
VASCULAR RISK AND COGNITIVE STATUS IN A LATINO POPULATIONP50AG005142 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ARANDA, MARIA P. · 1985 to 2019
$41.0M
USCADRC Diversity Supplement PachicanoP30AG066530 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI HELENA Chang CHUI, ARTHUR W TOGA · 2020 to 2026
$27.8M
Urban Air Pollution and Pathological Brain Aging: A Nationwide Twin Study in MenP01AG055367 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI MACK, WILLIAM J · 2018 to 2022
$11.5M
Amyloid and inflammation: modulation by apoE, gender, air pollution, and drugsRF1AG051521 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FINCH, CALEB E · 2015 to 2015
$3.0M
Human models of the particulate-induced inflammatory/antioxidant axis in agingR01ES023864 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FORMAN, HENRY JAY · 2015 to 2019
$2.4M
Air pollution nano-particulate matter, APP processing, and glutamate receptorsR21AG050201 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FINCH, CALEB E · 2016 to 2017
$454k
Human models of the particulate-induced inflammatory/antioxidant axis in agingR56ES023864 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FORMAN, HENRY JAY · 2014 to 2014
$150k
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG055367NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066530NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005142NIA NIH HHS R21 AG050201NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG051521NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES007048NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES023864NIEHS NIH HHS R56 ES023864
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traffic-related air pollution particulate matter (TRAP-PM) is associated with increased risk of Alzheimer Disease (AD). Rodent models respond to nano-sized TRAP-PM (nPM) with increased production of amyloid Aβ peptides, concurrently with oxidative damage. Because pro-Aβ processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) occurs on subcellular lipid rafts, we hypothesized that oxidative stress from nPM exposure would alter lipid rafts to favor Aβ production. This hypothesis was tested with J20 mice and N2a cells transgenic for hAPPswe (familial AD). Exposure of J20-APPswe mice to nPM for 150 h caused increased lipid oxidation (4-HNE) and increased the pro-amyloidogenic processing of APP in lipid raft fractions in cerebral cortex; the absence of these changes in cerebellum parallels the AD brain region selectivity for Aβ deposits. In vitro, nPM induced similar oxidative responses in N2a-APPswe cells, with dose-dependent production of NO, oxidative damage (4-HNE, 3NT), and lipid raft alterations of APP with increased Aβ peptides. The antioxidant N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) attenuated nPM-induced oxidative damage and lipid raft alterations of APP processing. These findings identify neuronal lipid rafts as novel targets of oxidative damage in the pro-amyloidogenic effects of air pollution.

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Air PollutantsAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAnimalsMembrane MicrodomainsMiceMice, TransgenicOxidative StressParticulate MatterVehicle EmissionsAir PollutantsAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorParticulate MatterVehicle EmissionsAir pollutantAlzheimer's diseaseAβLipid raftN-acetyl-cysteine (NAC)Oxidative stress

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PMID31883973
PMCPMC7075030
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