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ArticleToxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology2020

Manganese-induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is Not Detectable at Exposures Below the Acute Cytotoxic Threshold in Neuronal Cell Types.

Emily B Warren, Miles R Bryan, Patricia Morcillo, Keisha N Hardeman, Michael Aschner, Aaron B Bowman

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Article in Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Environmentally relevant developmental methylmercury exposures alter neuronal differentiation in a human-induced pluripotent stem cell model.Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association · 2021
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  15. Molecular Targets of Manganese-Induced Neurotoxicity: A Five-Year Update.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  16. The Impact of Environmental Factors on Monogenic Mendelian Diseases.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emily B WarrenDepartment of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
Miles R BryanDepartments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
Patricia MorcilloDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
Keisha N HardemanDepartment of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
Michael AschnerDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
Aaron B BowmanDepartments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
Vanderbilt University · USAlbert Einstein College of Medicine · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Manganese NeurotoxicityR01ES010563 · NIEHS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Michael Aschner, Aaron B Bowman · 2001 to 2026
$11.9M
Gene-Neurotoxicant Interactions in Huntington DiseaseR01ES016931 · NIEHS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BOWMAN, AARON B · 2008 to 2018
$4.5M
Elucidating a role for Mn-dependent IGF/insulin biology and autophagy in Huntington's disease pathologyF31ES028084 · NIEHS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BRYAN, MILES RICHARD · 2018 to 2019
$49k
NIEHS NIH HHS F31 ES028084NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES010563NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES016931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Manganese (Mn) is an essential metal, but excessive exposures have been well-documented to culminate in neurotoxicity. Curiously, the precise mechanisms of Mn neurotoxicity are still unknown. One hypothesis suggests that Mn exerts its toxicity by inhibiting mitochondrial function, which then (if exposure levels are high and long enough) leads to cell death. Here, we used a Huntington's disease cell model with known differential sensitivities to manganese-STHdhQ7/Q7 and STHdhQ111/Q111 cells-to examine the effects of acute Mn exposure on mitochondrial function. We determined toxicity thresholds for each cell line using both changes in cell number and caspase-3/7 activation. We used a range of acute Mn exposures (0-300 µM), both above and below the cytotoxic threshold, to evaluate mitochondria-associated metabolic balance, mitochondrial respiration, and substrate dependence. In both cell lines, we observed no effect on markers of mitochondrial function at subtoxic Mn exposures (below detectable levels of cell death), yet at supratoxic exposures (above detectable levels of cell death) mitochondrial function significantly declined. We validated these findings in primary striatal neurons. In cell lines, we further observed that subtoxic Mn concentrations do not affect glycolytic function or major intracellular metabolite quantities. These data suggest that in this system, Mn exposure impairs mitochondrial function only at concentrations coincident with or above the initiation of cell death and is not consistent with the hypothesis that mitochondrial dysfunction precedes or induces Mn cytotoxicity.

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ManganeseCell LineCorpus StriatumHumansHuntington DiseaseMitochondriaNeuronsManganeseHuntington’s diseasemanganesemitochondria

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PMID32492146
PMCPMC7416316
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