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Systems chemo-biology analysis of DNA damage response and cell cycle effects induced by coal exposure

Abstract

Cell cycle alterations are among the principle hallmarks of cancer. Consequently, the study of cell cycle regulators has emerged as an important topic in cancer research, particularly in relation to environmental exposure. Particulate matter and coal dust around coal mines have the potential to induce cell cycle alterations. Therefore, in the present study, we performed chemical analyses to identify the main compounds present in two mineral coal samples from Colombian mines and performed systems chemo-biology analysis to elucidate the interactions between these chemical compounds and proteins associated with the cell cycle. Our results highlight the role of oxidative stress generated by the exposure to the residues of coal extraction, such as major inorganic oxides (MIOs), inorganic elements (IEs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) on DNA damage and alterations in the progression of the cell cycle (blockage and/or delay), as well as structural dysfunction in several proteins. In particular, IEs such as Cr, Ni, and S and PAHs such as benzo[a]pyrene may have influential roles in the regulation of the cell cycle through DNA damage and oxidative stress. In this process, cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases, zinc finger proteins such as TP53, and protein kinases may play a central role.

Keywords:
Coal; Colombia; cell cycle; systems chemo-biology

Introduction

One of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world is located in northern Colombia Huertas et al. (2012a)Huertas JI, Huertas ME, Izquierdo S and González ED (2012a) Air quality impact assessment of multiple open pit coal mines in northern Colombia. J Environ Manage 93:121-129.. According to the 2015 BP Statistical Energy Survey, Colombia aimed to increase its coal production by 35% to 115,000 tons per year by 2015 from 85,000 tons in 2011. Open-pit mines were forcast to account for almost 50% of this increase (BP, 2014British Petroleum (2014) BP Statistical Review of World Energy. British Petroleum, London.). According to Chaulya (2004)Chaulya S (2004) Assessment and management of air quality for an opencast coal mining area. J Environ Manage 70:1-14. and Huertas et al. (2012b)Huertas JI, Huertas ME and Solis DA (2012b) Characterization of airborne particles in an open pit mining region. Sci Total Environ 423:39-46., activities associated with coal extraction during surface coal mining release major air pollutants into the atmosphere as particulate matter (PM) and coal dust. These activities include: topsoil removal, drilling, blasting, overburden loading and unloading, coal transport over unpaved roads and wind erosion of exposed surfaces. In addition to the coal itself, PM and coal dust around coal mines can also contain O, N, H, trace species, and several inorganic minerals. The trace species may include SiO2, Cu, Al, Ni, Cd, B, Sb, Fe, Pb, and Zn (Huertas et al., 2012aHuertas JI, Huertas ME, Izquierdo S and González ED (2012a) Air quality impact assessment of multiple open pit coal mines in northern Colombia. J Environ Manage 93:121-129.). In mining, excessive occupational exposure to metals is considered to be the leading cause of metal-related cancers (Gloscow, 2007Gloscow EJ (2007) New Research on Genomic Instability. Nova Science Publishers, Nova York.). Additionally, in open-cast coal mines, coal is stored at elevated ambient temperatures, where combustion may lead to the emission of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) (Liu et al., 2008Liu G, Niu Z, Van Niekerk D, Xue J and Zheng L (2008) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from coal combustion: emissions, analysis, and toxicology. Rev Environ Contam Toxicol 192:1-28.), most of which exhibit mutagenic and carcinogenic properties (Celik et al., 2007Celik M, Donbak L, Unal F, Yuzbasioglu D, Aksoy H and Yilmaz S (2007) Cytogenetic damage in workers from a coal-fired power plant. Mutat Res 627:158-163.).

There is a growing body of evidence that links long-term exposure to coal mining residues with increased risks of cardiovascular mortality (Pope and Dockery, 2006Pope CA and Dockery DW (2006) Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connect. J Air Waste Manag Assoc 56:709-742.; Brook et al., 2010Brook RD, Rajagopalan S, Pope CA 3rd, Brook JR, Bhatnagar A, Diez-Roux AV, Holguin F, Hong Y, Luepker RV, Mittleman MA et al. (2010) Particulate matter air pollution and cardiovascular disease: An update to the scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation 121:2331-2378.), premature mortality (Callén et al., 2009Callen MS, de la Cruz MT, Lopez JM, Navarro MV and Mastral AM (2009) Comparison of receptor models for source apportionment of the PM10 in Zaragoza (Spain). Chemosphere 76:1120-1129.) and cancer (Pope 3rd et al., 2002Pope CA 3rd, Burnett RT, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D, Ito K and Thurston GD (2002) Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. Jama 287:1132-1141., 2011Pope CA 3rd, Burnett RT, Turner MC, Cohen A, Krewski D, Jerrett M, Gapstur SM and Thun MJ (2011) Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality associated with ambient air pollution and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationships. Environ Health Perspect 119:1616-1621.). However, the mechanisms underlying the development of these adverse effects are poorly understood. In vitro toxicological studies have found that exposure to PM induces cell damage including genotoxicity (de Kok et al., 2005de Kok TM, Hogervorst JG, Briede JJ, van Herwijnen MH, Maas LM, Moonen EJ, Driece HA and Kleinjans JC (2005) Genotoxicity and physicochemical characteristics of traffic-related ambient particulate matter. Environ Mol Mutagen 46:71-80.; Billet et al., 2008Billet S, Abbas I, Le Goff J, Verdin A, Andre V, Lafargue PE, Hachimi A, Cazier F, Sichel F, Shirali P and Garcon G (2008) Genotoxic potential of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons-coated onto airborne Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) in human lung epithelial A549 cells. Cancer Lett 270:144-155.), cell death (Hsiao et al., 2000Hsiao WL, Mo ZY, Fang M, Shi XM and Wang F (2000) Cytotoxicity of PM(2.5) and PM(2.5—10) ambient air pollutants assessed by the MTT and the Comet assays. Mutat Res 471:45-55.; Alfaro-Moreno et al., 2002Alfaro-Moreno E, Martínez L, García-Cuellar C, Bonner JC, Murray JC, Rosas I, Rosales SP and Osornio-Vargas AR (2002) Biologic effects induced in vitro by PM10 from three different zones of Mexico City. Environ Health Persp 110:715-720.), cell cycle alterations (Poma et al., 2006Poma A, Limongi T, Pisani C, Granato V and Picozzi P (2006) Genotoxicity induced by fine urban air particulate matter in the macrophages cell line RAW 264.7. Toxicol In Vitro 20:1023-1029.) and the stimulation of pro-inflammatory cytokine production (Schins and Borm, 1999Schins RP and Borm PJ (1999) Mechanisms and mediators in coal dust induced toxicity: a review. Ann Occup Hyg 43:7-33.). Some of the mechanisms proposed for these effects include the occurrence of oxidative damage through the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) (Valko et al., 2006Valko M, Rhodes CJ, Moncol J, Izakovic M and Mazur M (2006) Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer. Chem Biol Interact 160:1-40.); the release of growth factors, such as TGF-β (Borm, 1997Borm PJ (1997) Toxicity and occupational health hazards of coal fly ash (CFA). A review of data and comparison to coal mine dust. Ann Occup Hyg 41:659-676.; Sambandam et al., 2015Sambandam B, Devasena T, Islam VI and Prakhya BM (2015) Characterization of coal fly ash nanoparticles and their induced in vitro cellular toxicity and oxidative DNA damage in different cell lines. Indian J Exp Biol 53:585-593.), and reduced proliferation associated with cell cycle arrest in response to genotoxic stresses and structural dysfunction of proteins (Kocbach et al., 2008Kocbach A, Herseth JI, Låg M, Refsnes M and Schwarze PE (2008) Particles from wood smoke and traffic induce differential pro-inflammatory response patterns in co-cultures. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 232:317-326.; Gualtieri et al., 2011Gualtieri M, Øvrevik J, Mollerup S, Asare N, Longhin E, Dahlman HJ, Camatini M and Holme JA (2011) Airborne urban particles (Milan winter-PM 2.5) cause mitotic arrest and cell death: effects on DNA, mitochondria, AhR binding and spindle organization. Mutat Res 713:18-31.). Furthermore, a recent study (Espitia-Pérez et al., 2018Espitia-Pérez L, da Silva J, Espitia-Pérez P, Brango H, Salcedo-Arteaga S, Hoyos-Giraldo LS, de Souza CT, Dias JF, Agudelo-Castañeda D, Valdés Toscano A et al. (2018) Cytogenetic instability in populations with residential proximity to open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia in relation to PM10 and PM2.5 levels. Ecotox and Environ Saf 148:453-466.) revealed a highly significant correlation between PM2.5 levels around the coal mining areas of northern Colombia and incidences of mitotic arrest, centromere damage, kinetochore malfunction and disruption of the mitotic spindle in local populations.

It has been shown that oxidative stress can override the spindle checkpoint (D’Angiolella et al., 2007D’Angiolella V, Santarpia C and Grieco D (2007) Oxidative stress overrides the spindle checkpoint. Cell Cycle 6:576-579.), inducing microtubule depolymerization (Parker et al., 2014Parker AL, Kavallaris M and McCarroll JA (2014) Microtubules and their role in cellular stress in cancer. Front Oncol 4:153.) and alterations in the spindle structure (Choi et al., 2007Choi WJ, Banerjee J, Falcone T, Bena J, Agarwal A and Sharma RK (2007) Oxidative stress and tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced alterations in metaphase II mouse oocyte spindle structure. Fertil Steril 88:1220-1231.). This observation supports prior results showing that the organic components of PM2.5, particularly PAHs, have deleterious effects on the cell cycle and cause DNA damage (Longhin et al., 2013Longhin E, Holme JA, Gutzkow KB, Arlt VM, Kucab JE, Camatini M and Gualtieri M (2013) Cell cycle alterations induced by urban PM2.5 in bronchial epithelial cells: characterization of the process and possible mechanisms involved. Part Fibre Toxicol 10:63.). DNA-integrity checkpoints G1/S and G2/M and metaphase–anaphase (M/A) transitions are particularly implicated in cell cycle delay (Branzei and Foiani, 2008Branzei D and Foiani M (2008) Regulation of DNA repair throughout the cell cycle. Nat Rev Mol Cell Bio 9:297-308.).

Considering that one of the main characteristics of cancer is cell cycle alterations (Otto and Sicinski, 2017Otto T and Sicinski P (2017) Cell cycle proteins as promising targets in cancer therapy. Nat Rev Cancer 17:93-115.). The study of cell cycle regulators, particularly in terms of exposure to environmental stresors, has emerged as a pertinent avenue of research in cancer studies (Puente et al., 2014Puente BN, Kimura W, Muralidhar SA, Moon J, Amatruda JF, Phelps KL, Grinsfelder D, Rothermel BA, Chen R, Garcia JA et al. (2014) The oxygen-rich postnatal environment induces cardiomyocyte cell-cycle arrest through DNA damage response. Cell 157:565-579.). Populations are rarely exposed to single air pollutants; therefore, experimental investigations which have focused on single-pollutant effects do not accurately assess real-world exposure risks. Consequently, a multi-pollutant perspective should be the focus of air quality management, rather than adhering to a single-pollutant viewpoint (Huang et al., 2012Huang YC, Rappold AG, Graff DW, Ghio AJ and Devlin RB (2012) Synergistic effects of exposure to concentrated ambient fine pollution particles and nitrogen dioxide in humans. Inhal Toxicol 24:790-797.). Furthermore, although several recent studies have investigated the combined toxicity of complex mixtures of chemicals (Labranche et al., 2012Labranche N, El Khattabi C, Dewachter L, Dreyfuss C, Fontaine J, Van De Borne P, Berkenboom G and Pochet S (2012) Vascular oxidative stress induced by diesel exhaust microparticles: synergism with hypertension. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 60:530-537.), detailed investigations into synergistic toxicity and the possible mechanisms involved in biological responses to complex exposures remain scarce (Ku et al., 2017Ku T, Chen M, Li B, Yun Y, Li G and Sang N (2017) Synergistic effects of particulate matter (PM 2.5) and sulfur dioxide (SO 2) on neurodegeneration via the microRNA-mediated regulation of tau phosphorylation. Toxicol Res (Camb) 6:7-16.). Therefore, in the present study, we performed a chemical analysis of mineral coals from two different Colombian mines to identify the main compounds present. We then performed systems chemo-biology analyses to reveal the interactions between these compounds and proteins associated with the cell cycle, elucidating their underlying regulatory mechanisms.

Material and Methods

Coal sample collection

To construct a chemo-biology interactome network for the proteins associated with the cell cycle and the major chemical constituents present in the coal samples, we chemically characterized bituminous and sub-bituminous coal samples, each collected from a different open-pit mine in Colombia. The samples were collected from coalfaces at the ‘El Cerrejón’ (La Guajira, Colombia) and ‘Guacamaya’ (Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia) coal mines in December 2013 (Figure S1). Six random points at each mine were sampled; samples were then prepared as a homogeneous pool. Coals from El Cerrejón are typically bituminous with a volatile content of 37.4% and an ash content of 6.8% (dry basis) (Feng et al., 2003Feng B, Jensen A, Bhatia SK and Dam-Johansen K (2003) Activation energy distribution of thermal annealing of a bituminous coal. Energ Fuel 17:399-404.). Coals from Guacamaya are sub-bituminous with a high S content (2.30% total S with 1.06% as pyritic, 1.10% as organic and 0.14% from sulfates) and high volatile content (Prada et al., 2016Prada-Fonseca M, Caicedo-Pineda G and Márquez-Godoy M (2016) Comparación del potencial oxidativo de Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, en un proceso de biodesulfurización de carbón. Rev Colomb Biotecnol 18:57-64.). While detailed chemical characterizations of El Cerrejón coal have been reported elsewhere (Nathan et al., 1999Nathan Y, Dvorachek M, Pelly I and Mimran U (1999) Characterization of coal fly ash from Israel. Fuel 78:205-213.), other Colombian coals, such as those obtained from the Guacamaya mine, have not been sufficiently characterized.

Analytical methods

Chemical analysis of the coal samples included identification of the major inorganic oxides (MIOs) in the coal ashes, inorganic element (IE) determination and quantification of PAHs, described in detail below.

Analysis of MIOs in coal ashes

A fraction of bituminous and sub-bituminous coal samples were incinerated separately at 815°C. The resulting ashes were processed according to the methods described by Norrish and Hutton (1969)Norrish K and Hutton JT (1969) An accurate X-ray spectrographic method for the analysis of a wide range of geological samples. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 33:431-453.. Finally, the detection of MIOs was performed using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) in a Philips PW2400 spectrometer system equipped with SuperQ software.

IE measurements by particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) assay

The elemental composition of each coal sample was measured by the conventional in vacuo PIXE assay, as described by Johansson et al. (1995)Johansson SAE, Campbell JL and Malmqvist KG (1995) Particle-Induced X-Ray Emission Spectrometry (PIXE). Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken.. Individual portions of each coal sample were homogenized using a mortar, pressed into pellets, and then placed in the reaction chamber (at ∼ 10-5 mbar), in a 3-MV Tandetron accelerator equipped with an energy resolution of ∼ 155 eV to 5.9 keV for obtaining the spectra. The spectra were analyzed using GUPIXWIN software (Campbell et al., 2010Campbell JL, Boyd NI, Grassi N, Bonnick P and Maxwell JA (2010) The Guelph PIXE software package IV. Nucl Instrum Meth B 268:3356-3363.), and expressed in parts per million. Each sample was evaluated three times in independent replicates to obtain the mean and standard deviation.

Measurement and quantification of PAHs

The PAH contents of the coal samples were quantified using the HPLC-UV/Vis method, according to Sun et al. (1998)Sun F, Littlejohn D and Gibson MD (1998) Ultrasonication extraction and solid phase extraction clean-up for determination of US EPA 16 priority pollutant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils by reversed-phase liquid chromatography with ultraviolet absorption detection. Anal Chim Acta 364:1-11. and Cavalcante et al. (2008)Cavalcante RM, de Lima DM, Correia LM, Nascimento RF, Silveira ER, Freire GS and Viana RB (2008) Técnicas de extrações e procedimentos de clean-up para a determinação de hidrocarbonetos policílicos aromáticos (HPA) em sedimentos da costa do Ceará. Quím Nova 31:1371-1377.. Briefly, 5 g of each coal sample was dried at 30 °C for 24 h (in duplicate) for later extraction. The extraction was performed by ultrasonication in 5 mL acetone/hexane (1:1, v/v) for 15 min. The filtrate was concentrated on a rotary evaporator and then further under a stream of nitrogen gas to ∼2 mL. A clean glass column was used for adsorption chromatography. The concentrated extracts were fractionated using a 20 × 1.5-cm column containing pre-cleaned silica gel (20 h at 110 °C). The column was first eluted with 20 mL hexane/dichloromethane (9:1, v/v), then with 30 mL hexane/dichloromethane (4:1, v/v) and finally with 10 mL dichloromethane/methanol (9:1, v/v). The eluted volumes were reduced to 1 mL, and finally, each extract was injected into a HPLC-UV system. The chromatographic conditions were as follows: 5 μm Kromasil C18 reverse-phase column (250 × 4.6 mm); injection volume: 20 μL; mobile phase (A): acetonitrile; mobile phase (B): MilliQ water; gradient method: 0 min (1:1), 10 min (7:3), 20 min (8:2), 25 min (8:2), 28 min (1:1), 30 min (1:1) and λ = 254 nm. Analytical curves were created using external standardization for quantification. In our study, we detected 11 PAHs in the samples. The PAHs detected and their limits of detection were: naphthalene (1.7976 g L−1), acenaphthylene (0.0041 g L−1), phenanthrene (0.1758 g L−1), anthracene (0.0339 g L−1), fluoranthene (0.3787 g L−1), benzo[a]anthracene (0.3411 g L−1), benzo[b]fluoranthene (0.0691 g L−1), dibenzo[a,h]anthracene (1.1110 g L−1), benzo[k]fluoranthene (2.2221 g L−1), indene[1,2,3-cd]pyrene (3.5788 g L−1) and benzo[g,h,i]perylene (0.0005 g L−1). All chromatographic measurements were performed in duplicate at ambient temperature.

Interactome data mining and design of the chemo-biology network

To design the interactome network among the main chemical substances present in the coal samples and their potential interactions with Homo sapiens proteins involved in the cell cycle, we used the STITCH search engine version 5.0 [http://stitch.embl.de/] and STRING 10.0 [http://http://string-db.org/newstring_cgi/show_input_page.pl/] (Snel et al., 2000Snel B, Lehmann G, Bork P and Huynen MA (2000) STRING: a web-server to retrieve and display the repeatedly occurring neighbourhood of a gene. Nucleic Acids Res 28:3442-3444.; Jensen et al., 2008). A total of 36 chemical elements were detected in the chemical analysis of both coal samples using the XRF, PIXE, and HPLC/UV/Vis methods, and these were used for the exploration of networks within the STITCH metasearch engine. While STITCH allows visualization of the physical interactions between chemical elements and proteins, the STRING metasearch engine generates protein-protein interactions (PPIs) (Feltes et al., 2013Feltes BC, de Faria Poloni J, Notari DL and Bonatto D (2013) Toxicological Effects of the Different Substances in Tobacco Smoke on Human Embryonic Development by a Systems Chemo-Biology Approach. PLoS ONE 8:e61743.). Each chemical–protein interaction (CPI) and PPI has a confidence level between 0 and 1.0 (where 1.0 indicates the highest confidence). Parameters used by the STITCH and STRING metasearch engines were as follows: all predictive methods were enabled except text mining; interactions: 50; degree of confidence: 0.7 and network depth: 1. The results were combined and analyzed using Cytoscape 3.4.0 (Shannon et al., 2003Shannon P, Markiel A, Ozier O, Baliga NS, Wang JT, Ramage D, Amin N, Schwikowski B and Ideker T (2003) Cytoscape: a software environment for integrated models of biomolecular interaction networks. Genome Res 13:2498-2504.) and the search engine GeneCards (Rebhan et al., 1997Rebhan M, Chalifa-Caspi V, Prilusky J and Lancet D (1997) GeneCards: integrating information about genes, proteins and diseases. Trends Genet 13:163.; Safran et al., 2010Safran M, Dalah I, Alexander J, Rosen N, Iny Stein T, Shmoish M, Nativ N, Bahir I, Doniger T, Krug H et al. (2010) GeneCards Version 3: the human gene integrator. Database (Oxford) 2010:baq020.) using the default parameters.

The chemical elements not involved in interactions according to STITCH were excluded. Then, using Cytoscape 3.4.0., we created the interactome that fused the small CPI and PPI networks (not shown individually) that were generated by STITCH and STRING, respectively.

Centrality analysis

To evaluate the node degree, betweenness, and to identify the ‘central’ nodes (chemical compounds/proteins) in the interactome, a centrality analysis of the interactome was performed using CentiScaPe 2.1 in Cytoscape (Scardoni et al., 2009Scardoni G, Petterlini M and Laudanna C (2009) Analyzing biological network parameters with CentiScaPe. Bioinformatics 25:2857-2859.).

Modular analysis of the major CPI-PPI network

In the interactome or CPI-PPI network, we analyzed clusters or highly connected regions that are indicative of functional protein complexes. These regions were identified using the Molecular Complex Detection application (MCODE) (Bader and Hogue, 2003Bader GD and Hogue CW (2003) An automated method for finding molecular complexes in large protein interaction networks. BMC Bioinformatics 4:2.; Scott, 2017Scott J (2017) Social Network Analysis. SAGE Publications, Nova York.). The MCODE application is included within the Cytoscape program and was used with the following parameters: loops; grade limit: 2; cluster expansion by a neighbor shell allowed; removal of a single connected node from the clusters; cut-off node density: 0.1; node score limit: 0.2; score: 2 and maximum network depth: 100.

Gene ontology (GO) analysis

The genetic ontology analysis was performed using the Biological Networks GO tool (BiNGO 3.0.3) (Maere et al., 2005Maere S, Heymans K and Kuiper M (2005) BiNGO: a Cytoscape plugin to assess overrepresentation of gene ontology categories in biological networks. Bioinformatics 21:3448-3449.), which is an application installed in Cytoscape. The clusters obtained with MCODE were analyzed to determine the main bioprocesses associated with each cluster. The degree of functional enrichment was evaluated quantitatively using the hypergeometric distribution by group and category (p-value). The false discovery rate algorithm (Benjamini and Hochberg, 1995Benjamini Y and Hochberg Y (1995) Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. J Roy Stat Soc B Met 57:289-300.) was used to correct for multiple tests, as implemented in BINGO with a significance of p <0.05.

Comet assay

The alkaline comet assay was carried out according to Singh et al. (1988)Singh NP, McCoy MT, Tice R and Schneider EL (1988) A simple technique for quantitation of low levels of DNA damage in individual cells. Exp Cell Res 175:184–91. and Tice et al. (2000)Tice R, Agurell E, Anderson D, Burlinson B, Hartmann A, Kobayashi H, Miyamae Y, Rojas E, Ryu JC and Sasaki YF (2000) Single-cell gel/comet assay: guidelines for in vitro and in vivo genetic toxicology testing. Env Mol Mutagen 35:206–21. with several modifications for a high-throughput comet assay version, which allows the processing of multiple samples (Tice et al., 2000Tice R, Agurell E, Anderson D, Burlinson B, Hartmann A, Kobayashi H, Miyamae Y, Rojas E, Ryu JC and Sasaki YF (2000) Single-cell gel/comet assay: guidelines for in vitro and in vivo genetic toxicology testing. Env Mol Mutagen 35:206–21.). The high-throughput “96-mini gel format” is an 8x12 multi-array on GelBond® film (Lonza, Rockland Inc. ME, USA) (McNamee, 2000McNamee J (2000) Comet assay: rapid processing of multiple samples. Mutat Res Toxicol Environ Mutagen 466:63–9.) described by Kiskinis et al. (2002)Kiskinis E, Suter W and Hartmann A (2002) High throughput comet assay using 96-well plates. Mutagen 17:37–43.. Briefly, 6 × 104 V79 cells per well were seeded in 12-well cell culture plates and incubated for 24 h; plates were subsequently treated with a 0.15 mg/mL coal dilution from either El Cerrejón or Guacamaya for 24 h. The negative control was incubated with DMEM medium (FBS free), and the positive control was treated with 150 μM H2O2 for 3 h. For semi-automated scoring, stained cells were analyzed using an Olympus BX51 fluorescence microscope (Olympus, Japan) and examined at 40X magnification under a green filter (540 nm). We analyzed 100 randomly selected nuclei, 50 from each of the two replicate slides (Gutzkow et al., 2013Gutzkow KB, Langleite TM, Meier S, Graupner A, Collins AR and Brunborg G (2013) High-throughput comet assay using 96 minigels. Mutagen 28:333–40.). % tail DNA was scored using the Comet Assay IV software (Perceptive Instruments, Haverhill, UK). The alkaline comet assay using the lesion-specific enzyme Formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase (FPG) (New England Biolabs, MA, USA) was used to detect oxidized purines (Collins, 2009Collins AR (2009) Investigating oxidative DNA damage and its repair using the comet assay. Mut Res 681:24–32.). The protocol was used as previously described with minor modifications for the high-throughput comet assay (Kushwaha, 2011Kushwaha S, Vikram A, Trivedi PP and Jena GB (2011) Alkaline, Endo III and FPG modified comet assay as biomarkers for the detection of oxidative DNA damage in rats with experimentally induced diabetes. Mutat Res 726:242–250.). FPG recognizes oxidized purines, specifically 8-oxo-guanine (Kushwaha, 2011Kushwaha S, Vikram A, Trivedi PP and Jena GB (2011) Alkaline, Endo III and FPG modified comet assay as biomarkers for the detection of oxidative DNA damage in rats with experimentally induced diabetes. Mutat Res 726:242–250.). All experiments were performed in triplicate.

The normality of the data was evaluated using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, while the Student's t-test was used to compare results of the comet assay with and without the FPG enzyme. P ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All analyses were performed using the Graphpad PRISM statistical software (Graphpad Inc., San Diego, CA).

Results

Chemical characterization, interactome data mining and design of the chemo-biology network

The chemical characterizations of the El Cerrejón and Guacamaya coal samples are shown in Tables S1S3. Chemical analysis by XRF revealed a similar oxide composition for each coal ash (Table S1). A total of 10 different oxides were identified. As expected, samples from El Cerrejón showed a bulk chemical composition containing several metal oxides in the order SiO2 > Al2O3 > Fe2O3 > K2O > MgO. Ashes from the sub-bituminous coal samples from Guacamaya showed higher concentrations of CaO, MgO, and SO3 and lower concentrations of SiO2 and Al2O3 than those reported in similar studies on bituminous and sub-bituminous coals (Blissett and Rowson, 2012Blissett RS and Rowson NA (2012) A review of the multi-component utilisation of coal fly ash. Fuel 97:1-23.).

As shown in Table S2, 15 IEs were identified by PIXE. Typically, bituminous samples from El Cerrejón showed higher concentrations of Si, Al, S, and Fe than those from the sub-bituminous samples of Guacamaya. Conversely, relatively high concentrations of Na, Ca, and Mg were present in the Guacamaya samples. Sr was detected only in the Guacamaya samples. Finally, concentration data for the 11 PAHs identified by HPLC/UV/Vis are shown in Table S3. For both samples, the most abundant PAHs detected were naphthalene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene and benzo[a]anthracene. In general, however, higher concentrations of all PAHs were found in the El Cerrejón samples.

Chemical characterization of the bituminous and sub-bituminous coal samples revealed no significant differences in their chemical compositions. 36 compounds (i.e., 10 MIOs detected in coal ash, 15 IEs, and 11 PAHs) were used to construct the chemo-biology interactome. Once unconnected compounds were excluded, the remaining 24 protein-interacting compounds were used to generate 48 small CPI-PPI networks using the STRING and STITCH metasearch engines (Table 1). All the small networks were combined, resulting in a large CPI-PPI network with 2,057 nodes and 24,957 edges (Figure S2). This large CPI-PPI network was then analyzed using CentiScaPe 2.1 to identify the nodes (proteins) occupying central positions in the network architecture. In this context, nodes known as hub-bottlenecks (HBs) are the most important and combine hub (high degree) and bottleneck (high betweenness) characteristics according to Azevedo and Moreira-Filho (2015)Azevedo H and Moreira-Filho CA (2015) Topological robustness analysis of protein interaction networks reveals key targets for overcoming chemotherapy resistance in glioma. Sci Rep-UK 5:16830.. Through centrality analysis, we observed three HB nodes (UBC, UBA52, and RPS27A) and 15 bottlenecks (HSP90AA1, CAD, SRC, JUN, MAPK14, APP, CREBBP, AKT1, K, Na, Ni, Mg, Fe, benzo[a]pyrene and Cr) (Figure 1 and Table S4).

Table 1
Chemical constituents of coal samples found in the major CPI-PPI network.
Figure 1
Scatter plot of degree and betweenness values for all nodes. Hubs (high degree), bottlenecks (high betweenness), and nodes with high relative values in both parameters are identified.

To understand how coal chemical constituents interact with cell cycle processes, we identified the modules in the main CPI-PPI network using the MCODE program. From these analyses, we obtained eight significant modules related to cell cycle processes (Figures 2 - 9). Clusters 6 (Figure 2), 11(Figure 3), 13 (Figure 4), and 14 (Figure 5) are associated with MIOs, IEs and PAHs; clusters 9 (Figure 6) and 12 (Figure 7) appear to be associated with IEs and PAHs; finally clusters 2 (Figure 8) and 4 (Figure 9) are associated with IEs only. The analysis revealed 15 common proteins associated with different cell cycle processes.

Figure 2
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing the association of cluster 6 with MIOs, IEs, and PAHs (yellow). The cluster is composed of 487 nodes and 5,545 edges, with Ci = 22,725. The associated constituents are SiO2, Ti, Mg, Cr, Cl, fluoranthene, and benzo[a]pyrene.
Figure 3
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing the association of cluster 11 with MIOs, IEs, and PAHs (yellow). It is composed of 117 nodes and 867 edges, with Ci = 14,695. The associated constituents are SiO2, Cr, benzo[b]fluoranthene, fluoranthene, phenanthrene and benzo[a]pyrene.
Figure 4
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing the association of cluster 13 with MIOs, IEs, and PAHs (yellow). It is composed of 118 nodes and 732 edges, with Ci = 12,303. The associated constituents include SiO2, Cr, fluoranthene, and benzo[a]pyrene.
Figure 5
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing the association of cluster 14 with MIOs, IEs, and PAHs (yellow). It is composed of 432 nodes and 2,520 edges, with Ci = 1,164. The associated constituents are S, Mn, Mg, Fe, Fe2O3 and benzo[a]pyrene.
Figure 6
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing the association of cluster 9 with IEs and PAHs (yellow). It is composed of 249 nodes and 2,180 edges, with Ci = 17,44. The associated compounds are S, Cr, Ti, and benzo[a]pyrene.
Figure 7
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing the association of cluster 12 with IEs and PAHs (yellow). It is composed of 102 nodes and 741 edges, with Ci = 14,388. The associated compounds are Cr and benzo[a]pyrene.
Figure 8
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing association of cluster 2 with IEs (yellow). It is composed of 250 nodes and 5,976 edges, with Ci = 47,618, associated with Mg.
Figure 9
Cluster analysis of the major CPI-PPI network showing association of cluster 4 with IEs (yellow). It is composed of 208 nodes and 3,134 edges, with Ci = 2,999, associated with Cr and S.

The DNA damage induced by El Cerrejón and Guacamaya coal was determined by the modified alkaline high-throughput version of the comet assay and evaluated by the % tail DNA. The results of the comet assay showed statistically significant differences in relation to the negative control (NC) without enzyme (P <0.05) and the % DNA tail increase. Additionally, the results of the modified comet assay showed a statistically significant difference when compared with the same sample group (P < 0.05) (Figure 10).

Figure 10
Percent tail DNA in the alkaline comet assay (strand breaks in white) and oxidized purines (grid) in a modified comet assay with FPG in V79 cells under 24 h exposure with El Cerrejon and Gucamaya coal. a) Statistically significant differences in relation negative control (NC) without enzyme P <0.05. b) Statistically significant differences in relation to the same sample group with an enzyme. The results are shown as the mean ± SEM.

Discussion

Ubiquitin (UBC) and two ubiquitin-coding genes (UBA52 and RPS27A) demonstrated the highest node degree and betweenness values, thus representing highly central proteins inside the network (Feltes et al., 2013Feltes BC, de Faria Poloni J, Notari DL and Bonatto D (2013) Toxicological Effects of the Different Substances in Tobacco Smoke on Human Embryonic Development by a Systems Chemo-Biology Approach. PLoS ONE 8:e61743.). UBC is a small 76-amino acid protein that is involved in several different pathways within the cell, including the clearing of damaged/misfolded proteins during proteotoxic stress (Bianchi et al., 2015Bianchi M, Giacomini E, Crinelli R, Radici L, Carloni E and Magnani M (2015) Dynamic transcription of ubiquitin genes under basal and stressful conditions and new insights into the multiple UBC transcript variants. Gene 573:100-109.). UBC genes are upregulated in response oxidative stress (Lee and Ryu, 2017Lee D and Ryu KY (2017) Effect of cellular ubiquitin levels on the regulation of oxidative stress response and proteasome function via Nrf1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 485:234-240.), thereby increasing cellular UBC above threshold levels and conferring resistance to oxidative damage.

Systemic effects of MIOs, IEs and PAHs in the cell cycle and DNA damage

Tables 24 show the results of the GO analysis for each cluster and the cell cycle process categories. The main biological processes linked to clusters 6, 11, 13 and 14 included the following: (i) cell cycle process, (ii) mitotic cell cycle, (iii) cell cycle, (iv) cell cycle checkpoint, (v) regulation of cell cycle and (vi) cell cycle arrest (Table 2). Interestingly, DNA repair bioprocesses were found in this module only in co-occurrence with MIOs, IEs and PAHs. The particular combination of these compounds is associated with increased DNA damage in cell systems in vitro (Leon-Mejia et al., 2016Leon-Mejia G, Silva LF, Civeira MS, Oliveira ML, Machado M, Villela IV, Hartmann A, Premoli S, Correa DS, da Silva J et al. (2016) Cytotoxicity and genotoxicity induced by coal and coal fly ash particles samples in V79 cells. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 23:24019-24031.) and human populations in coal mining environments (Leon-Mejia et al., 2011Leon-Mejia G, Espitia-Perez L, Hoyos-Giraldo LS, da Silva J, Hartmann A, Henriques JA and Quintana M (2011) Assessment of DNA damage in coal open-cast mining workers using the cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus test and the comet assay. Sci Total Environ 409:686-691.). The primary mechanism proposed for these effects involves oxidative damage through the production of ROS (Valko et al., 2006Valko M, Rhodes CJ, Moncol J, Izakovic M and Mazur M (2006) Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer. Chem Biol Interact 160:1-40.). In this regard, within the same module, proteins regulated by oxidative stress inside the cell were identified as bottlenecks (AKT, APP, JUN and CREBBP). While AKT has been reported to be regulated by oxidative stress for cell survival (Wang et al., 2000Wang X, McCullough KD, Franke TF and Holbrook NJ (2000) Epidermal growth factor receptor-dependent Akt activation by oxidative stress enhances cell survival. J Biol Chem 275:14624-14631.), several studies have indicated that oxidative stress participates in events that enhance amyloidogenic APP processing in neurons (Lin and Beal, 2006Lin MT and Beal MF (2006) Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases. Nature 443:787-795.; Mouton-Liger et al., 2012Mouton-Liger F, Paquet C, Dumurgier J, Bouras C, Pradier L, Gray F and Hugon J (2012) Oxidative stress increases BACE1 protein levels through activation of the PKR-eIF2alpha pathway. Biochim Biophys Acta 1822:885-896.) and in events that affect cerebrovascular endothelial APP processing (Muche et al., 2017Muche A, Arendt T and Schliebs R (2017) Oxidative stress affects processing of amyloid precursor protein in vascular endothelial cells. PloS One 12:e0178127.). ROS-facilitated protein phosphorylation can also lead to kinase-mediated activation of transcription factors, such as the JUN group (Nathan and Cunningham-Bussel, 2013Nathan C and Cunningham-Bussel A (2013) Beyond oxidative stress: an immunologist's guide to reactive oxygen species. Nat Rev Immunol 13:349-361.), affecting cell cycle progression by their ability to regulate the expression and function of cell cycle regulators such as cyclins (Schreiber et al., 1999Schreiber M, Kolbus A, Piu F, Szabowski A, Möhle-Steinlein U, Tian J, Karin M, Angel P and Wagner EF (1999) Control of cell cycle progression by c-Jun is p53 dependent. Genes Dev 13:607-619.; Chiba et al., 2017Chiba S, Okayasu K, Tsuchiya K, Tamaoka M, Miyazaki Y, Inase N and Sumi Y (2017) The C-jun N-terminal kinase signaling pathway regulates cyclin D1 and cell cycle progression in airway smooth muscle cell proliferation. Int J Clin Exp Med 10:2252-2262.), and apoptosis (Meixner et al., 2010Meixner A, Karreth F, Kenner L, Penninger JM and Wagner EF (2010) Jun and JunD-dependent functions in cell proliferation and stress response. Cell Death Differ 17:1409-1419.). Together with JUN, CREBBP is also involved in cell division and cell proliferation, and it is upregulated by the oxidative stress response in retinoblastoma cells (Meixner et al., 2010Meixner A, Karreth F, Kenner L, Penninger JM and Wagner EF (2010) Jun and JunD-dependent functions in cell proliferation and stress response. Cell Death Differ 17:1409-1419.).

Table 2
Major cell cycle bioprocesses in clusters 6, 11, 13 and 14 associated with MIOs, IEs and PAHs.
Table 3
Major cell cycle bioprocesses in clusters 9 and 12 associated with IEs and PAHs.
Table 4
Major cell cycle bioprocesses in clusters 2 and 4 associated with IEs.

Oxidative stress can generate alterations in the progression of the cell cycle (blockage and/or delay), as well as structural dysfunction in several proteins. DNA-integrity checkpoints G1/S and G2/M, and M/A transitions determine cell cycle delays (Rieder, 2011Rieder CL (2011) Mitosis in vertebrates: the G2/M and M/A transitions and their associated checkpoints. Chromosome Res 19:291-306.) depending on the cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk)/cyclin system, such as Cdk1/cyclin B1, which drives the progression from G2 to the mitotic phase (Pearce and Humphrey, 2001Pearce AK and Humphrey TC (2001) Integrating stress-response and cell-cycle checkpoint pathways. Trends Cell Biol 11:426-433.). The protein kinases ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM and Rad3-related (ATR) promote DNA damage response and stimulate the checkpoint protein kinases Chk1/2, that can influence cell cycle arrest. CDK1 and other important proteins related to cell cycle checkpoints (e.g. CDC25C and CDC25A), and DNA damage, were found to be the critical proteins inside this cluster. Oxidative stress often induces cell cycle arrest (Klein and Ackerman, 2003Klein JA and Ackerman SL (2003) Oxidative stress, cell cycle, and neurodegeneration. J Clin Invest 111:785-793.; Pyo et al., 2013Pyo CW, Choi JH, Oh SM and Choi SY (2013) Oxidative stress-induced cyclin D1 depletion and its role in cell cycle processing. Biochim Biophys Acta 1830:5316-5325.), in part through the degradation of the CDC25C protein through a Chk1 protein kinase-dependent pathway (Savitsky and Finkel, 2002Savitsky PA and Finkel T (2002) Redox regulation of Cdc25C. Int J Biol Chem 277:20535-20540.).

Cell cycle arrest associated with complex mixtures of PAHs, metals, and other organic compounds upon exposure to coal mining residues has been observed in vitro (Tucker and Ong, 1985Tucker JD and Ong TM (1985) Induction of sister chromatid exchanges by coal dust and tobacco snuff extracts in human peripheral lymphocytes. Environ Mutagen 7:313-324.) and in vivo (Espitia-Perez et al., 2018Espitia-Pérez L, da Silva J, Espitia-Pérez P, Brango H, Salcedo-Arteaga S, Hoyos-Giraldo LS, de Souza CT, Dias JF, Agudelo-Castañeda D, Valdés Toscano A et al. (2018) Cytogenetic instability in populations with residential proximity to open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia in relation to PM10 and PM2.5 levels. Ecotox and Environ Saf 148:453-466.). More recently, exposure to benzo[a]pyrene (also present in the cluster) has been reported to induce cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human choriocarcinoma cancer cells through the generation of ROS (Kim et al., 2017Kim SM, Lee HM, Hwang KA and Choi KC (2017) Benzo(a)pyrene induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human choriocarcinoma cancer cells through reactive oxygen species-induced endoplasmic reticulum-stress pathway. Food Chem Toxicol 107:339-348.).

Systemic effects of IEs and PAHs in the cell cycle

As shown in Table 3, the GO analysis of clusters 9 and 12 revealed 14 main process annotations associated with the cell cycle and particularly Cr and benzo[a]pyrene. The main biological processes found in these clusters included the following: i) regulation of mitotic cell cycle, ii) cell cycle checkpoint and iii) the interphase of mitotic cell cycle. Several reports have demonstrated that more-than-additive mortality is common for IE/PAH mixtures. The PAH toxicity in individual aspects suggests that they modify the accumulation of IEs and improve element-derived reactive ROS. Redox-active elements (e.g., Cu and Ni) are also capable of enhancing the redox cycling of PAHs (Gauthier et al., 2015Gauthier PT, Norwood WP, Prepas EE and Pyle GG (2015) Metal–polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mixture toxicity in Hyalella azteca. 2. Metal accumulation and oxidative stress as interactive co-toxic mechanisms. Environ Sci Technol 49:11780-11788.). Several reports have implicated IEs as modifiers of P450 function and regulation, which implies that such elements could alter P450-mediated PAH mutagenicity and carcinogenicity (Peng et al., 2015Peng C, Muthusamy S, Xia Q, Lal V, Denison MS and Ng JC (2015) Micronucleus formation by single and mixed heavy metals/loids and PAH compounds in HepG2 cells. Mutagen 30:593-602.). Cr is typically used in coal mining processes (Pandey et al., 2014Pandey B, Agrawal M and Singh S (2014) Assessment of air pollution around coal mining area: Emphasizing on spatial distributions, seasonal variations and heavy metals, using cluster and principal component analysis. Atmospheric Pollution Research 5:79-86.) and is particularly associated with the fine fractions of PM (Kothai et al., 2009Kothai P, Prathibha P, Saradhi I, Pandit G and Puranik V (2009) Characterization of atmospheric particulate matter using pixe technique. Int J Environ Sci Eng 3:39-42.). The genotoxic effects of Cr are predominantly the formation of oxidative adducts and apurinic/apyrimidinic lesions, eventually resulting in DNA breakage (Vasylkiv et al., 2010Vasylkiv OY, Kubrak OI, Storey KB and Lushchak VI (2010) Cytotoxicity of chromium ions may be connected with induction of oxidative stress. Chemosphere 80:1044-1049.). Additionally, Cr(VI) has been shown to be aneugenic, as revealed by both chromosome assays and centromere-positive micronuclei assays (Wise and Wise, 2010Wise SS and Wise JP (2010) Aneuploidy as an early mechanistic event in metal carcinogenesis. Biochem Soc Trans 38:1650-1654.). However, the combined toxicity of Cr and benzo[a]pyrene has rarely been studied.

Interestingly, in vitro cell cycle analysis has demonstrated that mixtures of benzo[a]pyrene and metals reduce the cell population in the G1 phase and increase cell arrest or accumulation in the G2/M phase (Muthusamy et al., 2018Muthusamy S, Peng C and Ng JC (2018) Genotoxicity evaluation of multi-component mixtures of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), arsenic, cadmium, and lead using flow cytometry based micronucleus test in HepG2 cells. Mutat Res Genet Toxicol Environ Mutagen 827:9-18.). Once more, the mechanisms suggested include oxidative stress (Fischer et al., 2005Fischer JM, Robbins SB, Al-Zoughool M, Kannamkumarath SS, Stringer SL, Larson JS, Caruso JA, Talaska G, Stambrook PJ and Stringer JR (2005) Co-mutagenic activity of arsenic and benzo[a]pyrene in mouse skin. Mutat Res 588:35-46.), DNA repair alteration (Tran et al., 2002Tran HP, Prakash AS, Barnard R, Chiswell B and Ng JC (2002) Arsenic inhibits the repair of DNA damage induced by benzo(a)pyrene. Toxicol Lett 133:59-67.), and suppressor protein TP53 inhibition (Chiang and Tsou, 2009Chiang HC and Tsou TC (2009) Arsenite enhances the benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE)-induced mutagenesis with no marked effect on repair of BPDE-DNA adducts in human lung cells. Toxicol In Vitro 23:897-905.). Particularly, in vitro exposure to a combination of benzo[a]pyrene with As, Cr and Pb increases the ROS-mediated oxidative stress in HepG2 cells (Muthusamy et al., 2018Muthusamy S, Peng C and Ng JC (2018) Genotoxicity evaluation of multi-component mixtures of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), arsenic, cadmium, and lead using flow cytometry based micronucleus test in HepG2 cells. Mutat Res Genet Toxicol Environ Mutagen 827:9-18.). In this regard, within the same module, proteins regulated by oxidative stress and DNA damage inside the cell were also identified as bottlenecks (AKT1, JUN, and CREBBP) together with benzo[a]pyrene. Other trace species found in our IE analysis, such as SiO2, have also been found to cause DNA damage, oxidative stress, cell cycle arrest at the G2/M checkpoint and apoptosis synergistically in co-exposure with benzo[a]pyrene (Asweto et al., 2017Asweto CO, Wu J, Hu H, Feng L, Yang X, Duan J and Sun Z (2017) Combined Effect of Silica Nanoparticles and Benzo[a]pyrene on Cell Cycle Arrest Induction and Apoptosis in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells. Int J Environ Res Public Health 14:289.).

Systemic effects of IEs in the cell cycle

This cluster (composed of clusters 2 and 4) addresses a particular area of interest in relation to whether metal ions and IEs interfere with other cellular responses to DNA damage, such as cell cycle progression and control. In clusters 2 and 4, AKT1, JUN and CREBBP and the TP53, CCNB1, CCNA2, CDK6, CDK2, CDK1, ATM, ATR, and CDK7 proteins were found to be bottlenecks together with Cr and S. The biological processes linked to this and its respective proteins are presented in Table 4.

Among all the chemical species present in coal mining environments, IEs, in particular, are capable of causing the most oxidative damage through the generation of ROS (Valko et al., 2006Valko M, Rhodes CJ, Moncol J, Izakovic M and Mazur M (2006) Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer. Chem Biol Interact 160:1-40.). IEs can enter the body through inhalation or consumption of contaminated meals and then accumulate in the bloodstream (Schweinsberg and Von Karsa, 1990Schweinsberg F and von Karsa L (1990) Heavy metal concentrations in humans. Comp Biochem Physiol C 95:117-123.). These elements are deposited in tissues by various mechanisms (Bridges and Zalups, 2005Bridges CC and Zalups RK (2005) Molecular and ionic mimicry and the transport of toxic metals. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 204:274-308.) and may cause DNA damage. In this cluster, together with proteins regulated by oxidative stress and DNA damage, we also found proteins such as cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases that have been reported to be down-regulated in response to ROS and are implicated in the induction of cell cycle arrest as one of the immediate defense mechanisms against genotoxic damage from oxidative stress (Burch and Heintz, 2005Burch PM and Heintz NH (2005) Redox regulation of cell-cycle re-entry: cyclin D1 as a primary target for the mitogenic effects of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. Antioxid Redox Signal 7:741-751.). Particularly, CCNB1 seems to be depleted in response to oxidative stress, causing the regulation of G2/M transit via the Chk1-Cdc2 DNA damage checkpoint pathway (Pyo et al., 2013Pyo CW, Choi JH, Oh SM and Choi SY (2013) Oxidative stress-induced cyclin D1 depletion and its role in cell cycle processing. Biochim Biophys Acta 1830:5316-5325.). Conversely, because altered cell cycle progression and/or cell cycle control and DNA repair inhibition have been observed under low, non-cytotoxic concentrations of metal compounds, some authors have suggested that inhibition could also be a result of the ability of metal ions to modify zinc finger proteins involved in cell cycle control and DNA repair (Hartwig et al., 2002Hartwig A, Asmuss M, Ehleben I, Herzer U, Kostelac D, Pelzer A, Schwerdtle T and Bürkle A (2002) Interference by toxic metal ions with DNA repair processes and cell cycle control: molecular mechanisms. Environ Health Perspect 110 Suppl 5:797-799.). Interestingly, some authors have reported the suppression of TP53-mediated cell cycle arrest in human breast cancer cells MCF7, as a response to DNA damage caused by Cd(II) (Méplan et al., 1999Meplan C, Mann K and Hainaut P (1999) Cadmium induces conformational modifications of wild-type p53 and suppresses p53 response to DNA damage in cultured cells. J Biol Chem 274:31663-31670.). Other IEs involved in the modification of zinc finger proteins include Ni and Co (Hartwig and Schwerdtle, 2002Hartwig A and Schwerdtle T (2002) Interactions by carcinogenic metal compounds with DNA repair processes: toxicological implications. Toxicol Lett 127:47-54.). However, no similar implications have been reported for Cr and S.

As discussed in the previous section, Cr(VI) has been demonstrated to be consistently mutagenic in bacterial and mammalian model systems, and its carcinogenic activity is thought to be due to the induction of DNA damage generated by reactive intermediates, eventually resulting in DNA breakage (Vasylkiv et al., 2010Vasylkiv OY, Kubrak OI, Storey KB and Lushchak VI (2010) Cytotoxicity of chromium ions may be connected with induction of oxidative stress. Chemosphere 80:1044-1049.). Free radicals from SO2 metabolism, such as SO3._, SO4._, SO5._ may also induce DNA strand breaks (Meng et al., 2005Meng Z, Qin G and Zhang B (2005) DNA damage in mice treated with sulfur dioxide by inhalation. Environ Mol Mutagen 46:150-155.), and recent studies have confirmed that SO2 derivatives (bisulfite and sulfite) cause mitotic delay in cultured human blood lymphocytes in a dose-dependent manner (Uren et al., 2014Uren N, Yuksel S and Onal Y (2014) Genotoxic effects of sulfur dioxide in human lymphocytes. Toxicol Ind Health 30:311-315.).

Effect of El Cerrejón and Guacamaya coal exposure on alkaline and FPG high-throughput Comet assay

The results of the alkaline comet assay showed the presence of primary lesions (% DNA tail increase) in V79 cells exposed to ECCS (bituminous coal from El Cerrejón mine) and LGCS (sub-bituminous coal from La Guacamaya mine) for 24 h. Additionally, the results of the modified comet assay show that the cultures exposed to ECCS maintain the same levels of % tail DNA, wheras the cultures exposed to LGCS showed an increase in % tail DNA, when compared to the no-enzyme groups. These results could indicate oxidative damage. Previous studies on coal and its products demonstrated resulting DNA damage and oxidative stress induced by the presence of IE and PAH (Valko et al., 2006Valko M, Rhodes CJ, Moncol J, Izakovic M and Mazur M (2006) Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer. Chem Biol Interact 160:1-40.; da Silva, 2016da Silva J (2016) DNA damage induced by occupational and environmental exposure to miscellaneous chemicals. Mutat Res 770:170-182.). Such results may also be due to compounds identified in the current study, in which we report various levels of inorganic elements (heavy metals) in the bituminous coal from ECCS and sub-bituminous coal from LGCS and high levels of chromium in the coal from LGCS. It was known that some IEs (heavy metals) could generate oxidative damage by generating ROS (Valko et al., 2006Valko M, Rhodes CJ, Moncol J, Izakovic M and Mazur M (2006) Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer. Chem Biol Interact 160:1-40.). Multiple cellular processes including cell cycle checkpoint activation and DNA repair are typically initiated in response to such DNA damage (Dasika et al., 1999Dasika GK, Lin SCJ, Zhao S, Sung P, Tomkinson A and Lee EY (1999) DNA damage-induced cell cycle checkpoints and DNA strand break repair in development and tumorigenesis. Oncog 18:7883-7899.; Lima et al., 2016Lima M, Bouzid H, Soares DG, Selle F, Morel C, Galmarini CM, Henriques JAP, Larsen AK and Escargueil AE (2016) Dual inhibition of ATR and ATM potentiates the activity of trabectedin and lurbinectedin by perturbing the DNA damage response and homologous recombination repair. Oncotarget 7:25885–25901.).

Conclusions

Using a systems chemo-biology approach, we examined how some of the major chemical constituents of coal dust and PM derived from coal mining activities interact with specific biological processes relation to the cell cycle. The main proteins and compounds present in the network were taken into account to construct a molecular model characterizing the effects of major coal residues on the cell cycle (Figure 11). The analysis performed in the present study suggests that coal residue MIOs (SiO2), IEs (Ti, Mg, Cr, Cl and S) and PAHs (benzo[a]pyrene, fluoranthene, benzo[b]fluoranthene and phenanthrene) can generate ROS. The resultant oxidative stress can induce cell cycle arrest through the upregulation of proteins such as AKT, APP, JUN and CREBBP, leading to DNA damage response activation by ATM/ATR and Chk1/Chk2 or by CDC25C or CCNB1 degradation. The model also suggested that protein p53 could be activated by Chk1/Chk2 and induce cell cycle arrest, senescence or apoptosis.

Figure 11
Molecular model illustrating how major coal residues potentially affect cell cycle progression: Exposure to major coal residues, such as benzo[a]pyrene, fluoranthene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, phenanthrene, Ti, Mg, Cr, Cl, S, and SiO2, can generate ROS via several pathways (e.g., Fenton-like reactions). The ROS imbalance and/or inhibition of the DNA repair process can lead to oxidative stress and the upregulation of several proteins associated with the oxidative response (AKT, APP, JUN and CREBBP) which are also involved in the control of the cell cycle. DNA and protein damage caused by the oxidative damage triggers DNA damage response mechanisms (DDR), including the protein kinase cascades ATM-Chk2/ATR-Chk1, which may result in cell cycle arrest. Oxidative stress can also induce cell cycle arrest through the degradation of CDC25C via the Chk1 protein kinase-dependent pathway. ATR phosphorylates and activates Chk1, which in turn, phosphorylates and inhibits Cdc25 phosphatases. Cdc25 inhibition ends up causing cell cycle arrest. Cdc25A phosphorylation by Chk1 triggers its degradation in a ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent manner. Both kinases phosphorylate TP53. In response to DNA damage, the activation of TP53 activates the expression of numerous genes involved in cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, apoptosis, and many other processes.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a grant from Conselho Nacional para o Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq, Brazil; Universal Grant Number 454288/2014-0.

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  • Associate Editor: Regina C. Mingroni-Netto

Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    26 June 2020
  • Date of issue
    2020

History

  • Received
    25 Apr 2019
  • Accepted
    06 Apr 2020
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