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Sci Rep. 2021 Sep 22;11(1):18801. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-95013-7.

Examining the effects of cigarette smoke on mouse lens through a multi OMIC approach.

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Shahid Y Khan, Muhammad Ali, Yura Jang, Taekyung Ryu, Andrew J Schwab, Brian O Ingram, Peter H Cable, Chan Hyun Na, James T Handa, S Amer Riazuddin

Affiliations

  1. The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
  2. Department of Neurology, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
  3. Metabolon Inc, Morrisville, NC, 27560, USA.
  4. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
  5. The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 34552108 PMCID: PMC8458305 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95013-7

Abstract

Here, we report a multi OMIC (transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome) approach to investigate molecular changes in lens fiber cells (FC) of mice exposed to cigarette smoke (CS). Pregnant mice were placed in a whole-body smoke chamber and a few days later pups were born, which were exposed to CS for 5 hours/day, 5 days/week for a total of 3½ months. We examined the mice exposed to CS for CS-related cataractogenesis after completion of the CS exposure but no cataracts were observed. Lenses of CS-exposed and age-matched, untreated control mice were extracted and lens FC were subjected to multi OMIC profiling. We identified 348 genes, 130 proteins, and 14 metabolites exhibiting significant (p < 0.05) differential levels in lens FC of mice exposed to CS, corresponding to 3.6%, 4.3%, and 5.0% of the total genes, protein, and metabolites, respectively identified in this study. Our multi OMIC approach confirmed that only a small fraction of the transcriptome, the proteome, and the metabolome was perturbed in the lens FC of mice exposed to CS, which suggests that exposure of CS had a minimal effect on the mouse lens. It is worth noting that while our results confirm that CS exposure does not have a substantial impact on the molecular landscape of the mouse lens FC, we cannot rule out that CS exposure for longer durations and/or in combination with other morbidities or environmental factors would have a more robust effect and/or result in cataractogenesis.

© 2021. The Author(s).

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