Changes of the human skin microbiota upon chronic exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollutants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of environmental and public health concerns and contribute to adverse skin attributes such as premature skin aging and pigmentary disorder. However, little information is available on the potential roles of chronic urban PAH pollutant exposure on the cutaneous microbiota. Given the roles of the skin microbiota have on healthy and undesirable skin phenotypes and the relationships between PAHs and skin properties, we hypothesize that exposure of PAHs may be associated with changes in the cutaneous microbiota. In this study, the skin microbiota of over two hundred Chinese individuals from two cities in China with varying exposure levels of PAHs were characterized by bacterial and fungal amplicon and shotgun metagenomics sequencing

SUBMITTER: Leung MHY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7320578 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature