Research Progress on Cell Membrane Damage Induced by Environmental Pollutants
The cell membrane is the barrier that can protect cells from external pollutants,and plays an important role in material transportation,energy conversion,information transmission,and other activities between cell and its outside.At present,the researches on cell membrane damage induced by environmental pollutants are relatively scattered and not systematic.In this paper,we summarized the relevant researches in the past five years and ana-lyzed the effects of environmental pollutants on cell membrane damage from four aspects:lipid bilayers,membrane proteins,cytoskeletons and membrane microdomains.Firstly,the damage of environmental pollutants to lipid bilayers was elaborated from structural changes of lipid bilayers,lipid peroxidation,as well as permeability and integrity of lipid bilayers.Secondly,From the membrane protein activity and protein expression,the damage of environmental pollutants to membrane protein was described.Subsequently,the damage of environmental pollutants to cytoskele-tons was elucidated from changes of microtubules,microfilaments and intermediate fibers.Finally,the damage of environmental pollutants to membrane microdomains was summarized from changes in lipid rafts and caveolae.In addition,we considered the current research status and prospected future research trends of cell membrane damage induced by environmental pollutants at the end of this review.