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Fasullo M, Dolan M. The continuing evolution of barcode applications: Functional toxicology to cell lineage. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2022; 247:2119-2127. [PMID: 36113119 PMCID: PMC9837303 DOI: 10.1177/15353702221121600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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DNA barcoding is a method to identify biological entities, including individual cells, tissues, organs, or species, by unique DNA sequences. With the advent of next generation sequencing (NGS), there has been an exponential increase in data acquisition pertaining to medical diagnosis, genetics, toxicology, ecology, cancer, and developmental biology. While barcoding first gained wide access in identifying species, signature tagged mutagenesis has been useful in elucidating gene function, particularly in microbes. With the advent of CRISPR/CAS9, methodology to profile eukaryotic genes has made a broad impact in toxicology and cancer biology. Designed homing guide RNAs (hgRNAs) that self-target DNA sequences facilitate cell lineage barcoding by introducing stochastic mutations within cell identifiers. While each of these applications has their limitations, the potential of sequence barcoding has yet to be realized. This review will focus on signature-tagged mutagenesis and briefly discuss the history of barcoding, experimental problems, novel detection methods, and future directions.
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- Michael Fasullo
- College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY 12203, USA
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- College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY 12203, USA
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Azevedo AMO, Vilaranda AG, Neves AFDC, Sousa MJ, Santos JLM, Saraiva MLMFS. Development of an automated yeast-based spectrophotometric method for toxicity screening: Application to ionic liquids, GUMBOS, and deep eutectic solvents. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 277:130227. [PMID: 33794429 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2021] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used as a eukaryotic model organism for studying the toxic effects of various compounds. In this context, an automated spectrophotometric method based on the enzymatic reduction of methylene blue dye to a colorless product by living yeast cells was implemented in a sequential injection analysis system. Loss of yeast viability/impaired metabolic activity was monitored by an increase in optical density at 664 nm. To prove the usefulness of this approach, the toxicity of ILs (ionic liquids), GUMBOS (group of uniform materials based on organic salts), and DESs (deep eutectic solvents) was examined. Differences obtained between IC50 values confirmed the impact of structural elements on each compounds' toxicity. While DESs appeared to be less toxic than ILs, GUMBOS were found to be among the most toxic compounds to yeast cells and thus can be viewed as promising antimicrobial candidates. The automated methodology showed satisfactory repeatability and reproducibility (RSD < 9%), which is in good agreement with Green Chemistry principles. In fact, the method required consumption of only 40 μL of reagents and produced less than 2 mL of effluents per cycle. Thus, the developed assay can be used as an alternative tool for toxicity screening.
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- Ana M O Azevedo
- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CBMA, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
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Lujan H, Romer E, Salisbury R, Hussain S, Sayes C. Determining the Biological Mechanisms of Action for Environmental Exposures: Applying CRISPR/Cas9 to Toxicological Assessments. Toxicol Sci 2021; 175:5-18. [PMID: 32105327 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfaa028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Toxicology is a constantly evolving field, especially in the area of developing alternatives to animal testing. Toxicological research must evolve and utilize adaptive technologies in an effort to improve public, environmental, and occupational health. The most commonly cited mechanisms of toxic action after exposure to a chemical or particle test substance is oxidative stress. However, because oxidative stress involves a plethora of genes and proteins, the exact mechanism(s) are not commonly defined. Exact mechanisms of toxicity can be revealed using an emerging laboratory technique referred to as CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats). This article reviews the most common CRISPR techniques utilized today and how each may be applied in Toxicological Sciences. Specifically, the CRISPR/CRISPR-associated protein complex is used for single gene knock-outs, whereas CRISPR interference/activation is used for silencing or activating (respectively) ribonucleic acid. Finally, CRISPR libraries are used for knocking-out entire gene pathways. This review highlights the application of CRISPR in toxicology to elucidate the exact mechanism through which toxicants perturb normal cellular functions.
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- Henry Lujan
- Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76706
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- Molecular Bioeffects Branch, Bioeffects Division, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio 45433
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- Molecular Bioeffects Branch, Bioeffects Division, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio 45433
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- Molecular Bioeffects Branch, Bioeffects Division, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio 45433
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- Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76706
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Hartman JH, Widmayer SJ, Bergemann CM, King DE, Morton KS, Romersi RF, Jameson LE, Leung MCK, Andersen EC, Taubert S, Meyer JN. Xenobiotic metabolism and transport in Caenorhabditis elegans. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. PART B, CRITICAL REVIEWS 2021; 24:51-94. [PMID: 33616007 PMCID: PMC7958427 DOI: 10.1080/10937404.2021.1884921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as a major model in biomedical and environmental toxicology. Numerous papers on toxicology and pharmacology in C. elegans have been published, and this species has now been adopted by investigators in academic toxicology, pharmacology, and drug discovery labs. C. elegans has also attracted the interest of governmental regulatory agencies charged with evaluating the safety of chemicals. However, a major, fundamental aspect of toxicological science remains underdeveloped in C. elegans: xenobiotic metabolism and transport processes that are critical to understanding toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics, and extrapolation to other species. The aim of this review was to initially briefly describe the history and trajectory of the use of C. elegans in toxicological and pharmacological studies. Subsequently, physical barriers to chemical uptake and the role of the worm microbiome in xenobiotic transformation were described. Then a review of what is and is not known regarding the classic Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III processes was performed. In addition, the following were discussed (1) regulation of xenobiotic metabolism; (2) review of published toxicokinetics for specific chemicals; and (3) genetic diversity of these processes in C. elegans. Finally, worm xenobiotic transport and metabolism was placed in an evolutionary context; key areas for future research highlighted; and implications for extrapolating C. elegans toxicity results to other species discussed.
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- Jessica H Hartman
- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University - West Campus, Glendale, Arizona, United States
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- School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University - West Campus, Glendale, Arizona, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
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- Dept. Of Medical Genetics, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Guan M, Xia P, Tian M, Chen D, Zhang X. Molecular fingerprints of conazoles via functional genomic profiling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Toxicol In Vitro 2020; 69:104998. [PMID: 32919014 DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2020.104998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 09/02/2020] [Accepted: 09/06/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Conazoles were designed to inhibit ergosterol biosynthesis. Conazoles have been widely used as agricultural fungicides and are frequently detected in the environment. Although conazoles have been reported to have adverse effects, such as potential carcinogenic effects, the underlying molecular mechanisms of toxicity remain unclear. Here, the molecular fingerprints of five conazoles (propiconazole (Pro), penconazole (Pen), tebuconazole (Teb), flusilazole (Flu) and epoxiconazole (Epo)) were assessed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) via functional genome-wide knockout mutant profiling. A total of 169 (4.49%), 176 (4.67%), 198 (5.26%), 218 (5.79%) and 173 (4.59%) responsive genes were identified at three concentrations (IC50, IC20 and IC10) of Pro, Pen, Teb, Flu and Epo, respectively. The five conazoles tended to have similar gene mutant fingerprints and toxicity mechanisms. "Ribosome" (sce03010) and "cytoplasmic translation" (GO: 0002181) were the common KEGG pathway and GO biological process term by gene set enrichment analysis of the responsive genes, which suggested that conazoles influenced protein synthesis. Conazoles also affected fatty acids synthesis because "biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids" pathway was among the top-ranked KEGG pathways. Moreover, two genes, YGR037C (acyl-CoA-binding protein) and YCR034W (fatty acid elongase), were key fingerprints of conazoles because they played vital roles in conazole-induced toxicity. Overall, the fingerprints derived from the yeast functional genomic screening provide an alternative approach to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of environmental pollutant conazoles.
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- Miao Guan
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Ave., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Rd., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Ave., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Ave., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Ave., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Environmental Science, 176 North Jiangdong Rd., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210036, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Ave., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
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Sobh A, Loguinov A, Yazici GN, Zeidan RS, Tagmount A, Hejazi NS, Hubbard AE, Zhang L, Vulpe CD. Functional Profiling Identifies Determinants of Arsenic Trioxide Cellular Toxicity. Toxicol Sci 2020; 169:108-121. [PMID: 30815697 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfz024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Arsenic exposure is a worldwide health concern associated with an increased risk of skin, lung, and bladder cancer but arsenic trioxide (AsIII) is also an effective chemotherapeutic agent. The current use of AsIII in chemotherapy is limited to acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). However, AsIII was suggested as a potential therapy for other cancer types including chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), especially when combined with other drugs. Here, we carried out a genome-wide CRISPR-based approach to identify modulators of AsIII toxicity in K562, a human CML cell line. We found that disruption of KEAP1, the inhibitory partner of the key antioxidant transcription factor Nrf2, or TXNDC17, a thioredoxin-like protein, markedly increased AsIII tolerance. Loss of the water channel AQP3, the zinc transporter ZNT1 and its regulator MTF1 also enhanced tolerance to AsIII whereas loss of the multidrug resistance protein ABCC1 increased sensitivity to AsIII. Remarkably, disruption of any of multiple genes, EEFSEC, SECISBP2, SEPHS2, SEPSECS, and PSTK, encoding proteins involved in selenocysteine metabolism increased resistance to AsIII. Our data suggest a model in which an intracellular interaction between selenium and AsIII may impact intracellular AsIII levels and toxicity. Together this work revealed a suite of cellular components/processes which modulate the toxicity of AsIII in CML cells. Targeting such processes simultaneously with AsIII treatment could potentiate AsIII in CML therapy.
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- Amin Sobh
- Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.,Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, Comparative Biochemistry Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.,Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.,Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.,Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, Comparative Biochemistry Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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Lehman JG, Causey RD, LaGrasta CV, Ruff AL. High Throughput SiRNA Screening for Chloropicrin and Hydrogen Fluoride-Induced Cornea Epithelial Cell Injury. J Vis Exp 2018:57372. [PMID: 29985346 PMCID: PMC6101754 DOI: 10.3791/57372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Toxicant-induced ocular injury is a true ocular emergency because chemicals have the potential to rapidly inflict significant tissue damage. Treatments for toxicant-induced corneal injury are generally supportive as no specific therapeutics exist to treat these injuries. In the efforts to develop treatments and therapeutics to care for exposure, it can be important to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms of these injuries. We propose that utilization of high throughput small inhibitory RNA (siRNA) screening can be an important tool that could help to more rapidly elucidate the molecular mechanisms of chemical cornea epithelial injury. siRNA are double stranded RNA molecules that are 19-25 nucleotides long and utilize the post-transcriptional gene silencing pathway to degrade mRNA which have homology to the siRNA. The resulting reduction of expression of the specific gene can then be studied in toxicant exposed cells to ascertain the function of that gene in the cellular response to the toxicant. The development and validation of in vitro exposure models and methods for the high throughput screening (HTS) of hydrogen fluoride- (HF) and chloropicrin- (CP) induced ocular injury are presented in this article. Although we selected these two toxicants, our methods are applicable to the study of other toxicants with minor modifications to the toxicant exposure protocol. The SV40 large T antigen immortalized human corneal epithelial cell line SV40-HCEC was selected for study. Cell viability and IL-8 production were selected as endpoints in the screening protocol. Several challenges associated with the development of toxicant exposure and cell culture methods suitable for HTS studies are presented. The establishment of HTS models for these toxicants allows for further studies to better understand the mechanism of injury and to screen for potential therapeutics for chemical ocular injury.
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- John G Lehman
- US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
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- US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense;
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Zhang X, Xia P, Wang P, Yang J, Baird DJ. Omics Advances in Ecotoxicology. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:3842-3851. [PMID: 29481739 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b06494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Toxic substances in the environment generate adverse effects at all levels of biological organization from the molecular level to community and ecosystem. Given this complexity, it is not surprising that ecotoxicologists have struggled to address the full consequences of toxic substance release at ecosystem level, due to the limits of observational and experimental tools to reveal the changes in deep structure at different levels of organization. -Omics technologies, consisting of genomics and ecogenomics, have the power to reveal, in unprecedented detail, the cellular processes of an individual or biodiversity of a community in response to environmental change with high sample/observation throughput. This represents a historic opportunity to transform the way we study toxic substances in ecosystems, through direct linkage of ecological effects with the systems biology of organisms. Three recent examples of -omics advance in the assessment of toxic substances are explored here: (1) the use of functional genomics in the discovery of novel molecular mechanisms of toxicity of chemicals in the environment; (2) the development of laboratory pipelines of dose-dependent, reduced transcriptomics to support high-throughput chemical testing at the biological pathway level; and (3) the use of eDNA metabarcoding approaches for assessing chemical effects on biological communities in mesocosm experiments and through direct observation in field monitoring. -Omics advances in ecotoxicological studies not only generate new knowledge regarding mechanisms of toxicity and environmental effect, improving the relevance and immediacy of laboratory toxicological assessment, but can provide a wholly new paradigm for ecotoxicology by linking ecological models to mechanism-based, systems biology approaches.
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- Xiaowei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment , Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment , Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment , Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment , Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023 , China
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- Environment & Climate Change Canada @ Canadian Rivers Institute, Department of Biology , University of New Brunswick , Fredericton , New Brunswick E3B 5A3 , Canada
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Negritto MC, Valdez C, Sharma J, Rosenberg C, Selassie CR. Growth Inhibition and DNA Damage Induced by X-Phenols in Yeast: A Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Study. ACS OMEGA 2017; 2:8568-8579. [PMID: 29302629 PMCID: PMC5748281 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b01200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Phenolic compounds and their derivatives are ubiquitous constituents of numerous synthetic and natural chemicals that exist in the environment. Their toxicity is mostly attributed to their hydrophobicity and/or the formation of free radicals. In a continuation of the study of phenolic toxicity in a systematic manner, we have examined the biological responses of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to a series of mostly monosubstituted phenols utilizing a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) approach. The biological end points included a growth assay that determines the levels of growth inhibition induced by the phenols as well as a yeast deletion (DEL) assay that assesses the ability of X-phenols to induce DNA damage or DNA breaks. The QSAR analysis of cell growth patterns determined by IC50 and IC80 values indicates that toxicity is delineated by a hydrophobic, parabolic model. The DEL assay was then utilized to detect genomic deletions in yeast. The increase in the genotoxicity was enhanced by the electrophilicity of the phenolic substituents that were strong electron donors as well as by minimal hydrophobicity. The electrophilicities are represented by Brown's sigma plus values that are a variant of the Hammett sigma constants. A few mutant strains of genes involved in DNA repair were separately exposed to 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methyl-phenol (BHT) and butylated hydroxy anisole (BHA). They were subsequently screened for growth phenotypes. BHA-induced growth defects in most of the DNA repair null mutant strains, whereas BHT was unresponsive.
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- M. Cristina Negritto
- Molecular
Biology Program, Department of Biology/Department of Chemistry, Pomona College, 175 West 6th Street, Claremont, California 91711, United States
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- Molecular
Biology Program, Department of Biology/Department of Chemistry, Pomona College, 175 West 6th Street, Claremont, California 91711, United States
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- Molecular
Biology Program, Department of Biology/Department of Chemistry, Pomona College, 175 West 6th Street, Claremont, California 91711, United States
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- Chemistry
Department, Pomona College, 645 North College Avenue, Claremont, California 91711, United States
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- Chemistry
Department, Pomona College, 645 North College Avenue, Claremont, California 91711, United States
- E-mail: (C.R.S.)
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De La Rosa VY, Asfaha J, Fasullo M, Loguinov A, Li P, Moore LE, Rothman N, Nakamura J, Swenberg JA, Scelo G, Zhang L, Smith MT, Vulpe CD. Editor's Highlight: High-Throughput Functional Genomics Identifies Modulators of TCE Metabolite Genotoxicity and Candidate Susceptibility Genes. Toxicol Sci 2017; 160:111-120. [PMID: 28973557 PMCID: PMC5837773 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfx159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial chemical and environmental contaminant, is a human carcinogen. Reactive metabolites are implicated in renal carcinogenesis associated with TCE exposure, yet the toxicity mechanisms of these metabolites and their contribution to cancer and other adverse effects remain unclear. We employed an integrated functional genomics approach that combined functional profiling studies in yeast and avian DT40 cell models to provide new insights into the specific mechanisms contributing to toxicity associated with TCE metabolites. Genome-wide profiling studies in yeast identified the error-prone translesion synthesis (TLS) pathway as an import mechanism in response to TCE metabolites. The role of TLS DNA repair was further confirmed by functional profiling in DT40 avian cell lines, but also revealed that TLS and homologous recombination DNA repair likely play competing roles in cellular susceptibility to TCE metabolites in higher eukaryotes. These DNA repair pathways are highly conserved between yeast, DT40, and humans. We propose that in humans, mutagenic TLS is favored over homologous recombination repair in response to TCE metabolites. The results of these studies contribute to the body of evidence supporting a mutagenic mode of action for TCE-induced renal carcinogenesis mediated by reactive metabolites in humans. Our approach illustrates the potential for high-throughput in vitro functional profiling in yeast to elucidate toxicity pathways (molecular initiating events, key events) and candidate susceptibility genes for focused study.
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- Vanessa Y. De La Rosa
- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Albany, New York 12205
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Gonzalez-Moragas L, Maurer LL, Harms VM, Meyer JN, Laromaine A, Roig A. Materials and toxicological approaches to study metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2017; 4:719-746. [PMID: 29057078 PMCID: PMC5648024 DOI: 10.1039/c7mh00166e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Understanding the in vivo fate and transport of nanoparticles (NPs) is challenging, but critical. We review recent studies of metal and metal oxide NPs using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, summarizing major findings to date. In a joint transdisciplinary effort, we highlight underutilized opportunities offered by powerful techniques lying at the intersection of mechanistic toxicology and materials science,. To this end, we firstly summarize the influence of exposure conditions (media, duration, C. elegans lifestage) and NP physicochemical properties (size, coating, composition) on the response of C. elegans to NP treatment. Next, we focus on the techniques employed to study NP entrance route, uptake, biodistribution and fate, emphasizing the potential of extending the toolkit available with novel and powerful techniques. Next, we review findings on several NP-induced biological responses, namely transport routes and altered molecular pathways, and illustrate the molecular biology and genetic strategies applied, critically reviewing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we advocate the incorporation of a set of minimal materials and toxicological science experiments that will permit meta-analysis and synthesis of multiple studies in the future. We believe this review will facilitate coordinated integration of both well-established and underutilized approaches in mechanistic toxicology and materials science by the nanomaterials research community.
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- Laura Gonzalez-Moragas
- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc., Annandale, NJ 08801-3059, United States
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- Nicholas School of the Environment and Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0328, United States
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- Nicholas School of the Environment and Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0328, United States
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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Kumar R, Mota LC, Litoff EJ, Rooney JP, Boswell WT, Courter E, Henderson CM, Hernandez JP, Corton JC, Moore DD, Baldwin WS. Compensatory changes in CYP expression in three different toxicology mouse models: CAR-null, Cyp3a-null, and Cyp2b9/10/13-null mice. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0174355. [PMID: 28350814 PMCID: PMC5370058 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Targeted mutant models are common in mechanistic toxicology experiments investigating the absorption, metabolism, distribution, or elimination (ADME) of chemicals from individuals. Key models include those for xenosensing transcription factors and cytochrome P450s (CYP). Here we investigated changes in transcript levels, protein expression, and steroid hydroxylation of several xenobiotic detoxifying CYPs in constitutive androstane receptor (CAR)-null and two CYP-null mouse models that have subfamily members regulated by CAR; the Cyp3a-null and a newly described Cyp2b9/10/13-null mouse model. Compensatory changes in CYP expression that occur in these models may also occur in polymorphic humans, or may complicate interpretation of ADME studies performed using these models. The loss of CAR causes significant changes in several CYPs probably due to loss of CAR-mediated constitutive regulation of these CYPs. Expression and activity changes include significant repression of Cyp2a and Cyp2b members with corresponding drops in 6α- and 16β-testosterone hydroxylase activity. Further, the ratio of 6α-/15α-hydroxylase activity, a biomarker of sexual dimorphism in the liver, indicates masculinization of female CAR-null mice, suggesting a role for CAR in the regulation of sexually dimorphic liver CYP profiles. The loss of Cyp3a causes fewer changes than CAR. Nevertheless, there are compensatory changes including gender-specific increases in Cyp2a and Cyp2b. Cyp2a and Cyp2b were down-regulated in CAR-null mice, suggesting activation of CAR and potentially PXR following loss of the Cyp3a members. However, the loss of Cyp2b causes few changes in hepatic CYP transcript levels and almost no significant compensatory changes in protein expression or activity with the possible exception of 6α-hydroxylase activity. This lack of a compensatory response in the Cyp2b9/10/13-null mice is probably due to low CYP2B hepatic expression, especially in male mice. Overall, compensatory and regulatory CYP changes followed the order CAR-null > Cyp3a-null > Cyp2b-null mice.
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- Ramiya Kumar
- Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America
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- Environmental Toxicology, Clemson University, Pendleton, SC, United States of America
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- Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America
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- NHEERL, US-EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America
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- Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America
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- Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America
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- Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America
- Environmental Toxicology, Clemson University, Pendleton, SC, United States of America
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North M, Gaytán BD, Romero C, De La Rosa VY, Loguinov A, Smith MT, Zhang L, Vulpe CD. Functional Toxicogenomic Profiling Expands Insight into Modulators of Formaldehyde Toxicity in Yeast. Front Genet 2016; 7:200. [PMID: 27909446 PMCID: PMC5112362 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Formaldehyde (FA) is a commercially important chemical with numerous and diverse uses. Accordingly, occupational and environmental exposure to FA is prevalent worldwide. Various adverse effects, including nasopharyngeal, sinonasal, and lymphohematopoietic cancers, have been linked to FA exposure, prompting designation of FA as a human carcinogen by U.S. and international scientific entities. Although the mechanism(s) of FA toxicity have been well studied, additional insight is needed in regard to the genetic requirements for FA tolerance. In this study, a functional toxicogenomics approach was utilized in the model eukaryotic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify genes and cellular processes modulating the cellular toxicity of FA. Our results demonstrate mutant strains deficient in multiple DNA repair pathways-including homologous recombination, single strand annealing, and postreplication repair-were sensitive to FA, indicating FA may cause various forms of DNA damage in yeast. The SKI complex and its associated factors, which regulate mRNA degradation by the exosome, were also required for FA tolerance, suggesting FA may have unappreciated effects on RNA stability. Furthermore, various strains involved in osmoregulation and stress response were sensitive to FA. Together, our results are generally consistent with FA-mediated damage to both DNA and RNA. Considering DNA repair and RNA degradation pathways are evolutionarily conserved from yeast to humans, mechanisms of FA toxicity identified in yeast may be relevant to human disease and genetic susceptibility.
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- Matthew North
- Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
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Dahms HU, Won EJ, Kim HS, Han J, Park HG, Souissi S, Raisuddin S, Lee JS. Potential of the small cyclopoid copepod Paracyclopina nana as an invertebrate model for ecotoxicity testing. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2016; 180:282-294. [PMID: 27770640 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2016.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2016] [Revised: 10/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Aquatic invertebrates contribute significantly to environmental impact assessment of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems. Much effort has been made to identify viable and ecologically relevant invertebrate test organisms to meet rigorous regulatory requirements. Copepods, which are ecologically important and widely distributed in aquatic organisms, offer a huge opportunity as test organisms for aquatic toxicity testing. They have a major role not only in the transfer of energy in aquatic food chains, but also as a medium of transfer of aquatic pollutants across the tropic levels. In this regard, a supratidal and benthic harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus japonicus Mori (order Harpacticoida) has shown promising characteristics as a test organism in the field of ecotoxicology. Because there is a need to standardize a battery of test organisms from species in different phylogenetic and critical ecosystem positions, it is important to identify another unrelated planktonic species for wider application and comparison. In this regard, the cyclopoid copepod Paracyclopina nana Smirnov (order Cyclopoida) has emerged as a potential test organism to meet such requirements. Like T. japonicus, it has a number of features that make it a candidate worth consideration in such efforts. Recently, the genomics of P. nana has been unraveled. Data on biochemical and molecular responses of P. nana against exposure to environmental chemicals and other stressors have been collected. Recently, sequences and expression profiles of a number of genes in P. nana encoding for heat shock proteins, xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes, and antioxidants have been reported. These genes serve as potential biomarkers in biomonitoring of environmental pollutants. Moreover, the application of gene expression techniques and the use of its whole transcriptome have allowed evaluation of transcriptional changes in P. nana with the ultimate aim of understanding the mechanisms of action of environmental stressors. Whole-animal bioassays and gene expression studies indicate that P. nana may serve as an excellent tool to evaluate the impact of diverse disturbances in the marine environment. With a better understanding of toxicological mechanisms, ecotoxicologists will be able to understand defense mechanisms against toxicants in copepods. In this review, we illustrate the potential of P. nana as an alternative as well as a complementary invertebrate model organism for risk assessment of aquatic pollutants.
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- Hans-Uwe Dahms
- Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan; Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
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- Department of Biological Science, College of Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Science, College of Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Science, College of Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea
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- Department of Marine Bioscience, College of Life Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung 25457, South Korea
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Univ. Littoral Cote d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, 62930 Wimereux, France
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- Department of Medical Elementology and Toxicology, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard University, New Delhi 110062, India
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- Department of Biological Science, College of Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea.
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Xia P, Zhang X, Xie Y, Guan M, Villeneuve DL, Yu H. Functional Toxicogenomic Assessment of Triclosan in Human HepG2 Cells Using Genome-Wide CRISPR-Cas9 Screening. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:10682-10692. [PMID: 27459410 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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There are thousands of chemicals used by humans and detected in the environment for which limited or no toxicological data are available. Rapid and cost-effective approaches for assessing the toxicological properties of chemicals are needed. We used CRISPR-Cas9 functional genomic screening to identify the potential molecular mechanism of a widely used antimicrobial triclosan (TCS) in HepG2 cells. Resistant genes at IC50 (the concentration causing a 50% reduction in cell viability) were significantly enriched in the adherens junction pathway, MAPK signaling pathway, and PPAR signaling pathway, suggesting a potential role in the molecular mechanism of TCS-induced cytotoxicity. Evaluation of the top-ranked resistant genes, FTO (encoding an mRNA demethylase) and MAP2K3 (a MAP kinase kinase family gene), revealed that their loss conferred resistance to TCS. In contrast, sensitive genes at IC10 and IC20 were specifically enriched in pathways involved with immune responses, which was concordant with transcriptomic profiling of TCS at concentrations of <IC10. It is suggested that the CRISPR-Cas9 fingerprint may reveal the patterns of TCS toxicity at low concentration levels. Moreover, we retrieved the potential connection between CRISPR-Cas9 fingerprint and disease terms, obesity, and breast cancer from an existing chemical-gene-disease database. Overall, CRISPR-Cas9 functional genomic screening offers an alternative approach for chemical toxicity testing.
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- Pu Xia
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China
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- Mid-Continent Ecology Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency , Duluth, Minnesota 55804, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China
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Anatomical features for the adequate choice of experimental animal models in biomedicine: I. Fishes. Ann Anat 2016; 205:75-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2016.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2015] [Revised: 12/01/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Shen H, McHale CM, Haider SI, Jung C, Zhang S, Smith MT, Zhang L. Identification of Genes That Modulate Susceptibility to Formaldehyde and Imatinib by Functional Genomic Screening in Human Haploid KBM7 Cells. Toxicol Sci 2016; 151:10-22. [PMID: 27008852 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfw032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Though current functional genomic screening systems are useful for investigating human susceptibility to chemical toxicity, they have limitations. Well-established, high-throughput yeast mutant screens identify only evolutionarily conserved processes. RNA interference can be applied in human cells but is limited by incomplete gene knockout and off-target effects. Human haploid cell screening is advantageous as it requires knockdown of only a single copy of each gene. A human haploid cell mutant library (KBM7-Mu), derived from a chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patient, was recently developed and has been used to identify genes that modulate sensitivity to infectious agents and pharmaceutical drugs. Here, we sought to improve the KBM7-Mu screening process to enable efficient screening of environmental chemicals. We developed a semi-solid medium based screening approach that cultures individual mutant colonies from chemically resistant cells, faster (by 2-3 weeks) and with less labor than the original liquid medium-based approach. As proof of principle, we identified genetic mutants that confer resistance to the carcinogen formaldehyde (FA, 12 genes, 18 hits) and the CML chemotherapeutic agent imatinib (6 genes, 13 hits). Validation experiments conducted on KBM7 mutants lacking each of the 18 genes confirmed resistance of 6 FA mutants (CTC1, FCRLA, GOT1, LPR5, M1AP, and MAP2K5) and 1 imatinib-resistant mutant (LYRM9). Despite the improvements to the method, it remains technically challenging to limit false positive findings. Nonetheless, our findings demonstrate the broad applicability of this optimized haploid approach to screen toxic chemicals to identify novel susceptibility genes and gain insight into potential mechanisms of toxicity.
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- Hua Shen
- Superfund Research Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Superfund Research Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Superfund Research Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Superfund Research Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Superfund Research Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Superfund Research Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Superfund Research Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Graziano S, Gullì M, Maestri E, Marmiroli N. The global effect of exposing bakers' yeast to 5-fluoruracil and nystatin; a view to Toxichip. CHEMOSPHERE 2016; 145:470-479. [PMID: 26694798 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.11.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2015] [Revised: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 11/15/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A genome-wide screen of a haploid deletion library of bakers' yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) was conducted to document the phenotypic and transcriptional impact of exposure to each of the two pharmaceutical products 5-fluorouracil (an anti-tumor agent) and nystatin (an anti-fungal agent). The combined data set was handled by applying a systems biology perspective. A Gene Ontology analysis identified functional categories previously characterized as likely targets for both compounds. Induced transcription profiles were well correlated in yeast and human HepG2 cells. The identified molecular targets for both compounds were used to suggest a small set of human orthologues as appropriate for testing on human material. The yeast system developed here (denoted "Toxichip") has likely utility for identifying biomarkers relevant for health and environmental risk assessment applications required as part of the development process for novel pharmaceuticals.
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- Sara Graziano
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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Il'yasova D, Kloc N, Kinev A. Cord Blood Cells for Developmental Toxicology and Environmental Health. Front Public Health 2015; 3:265. [PMID: 26697419 PMCID: PMC4668287 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Tox21 program initiated a shift in toxicology toward in vitro testing with a focus on the biological mechanisms responsible for toxicological response. We discuss the applications of these initiatives to developmental toxicology. Specifically, we briefly review current approaches that are widely used in developmental toxicology to demonstrate the gap in relevance to human populations. An important aspect of human relevance is the wide variability of cellular responses to toxicants. We discuss how this gap can be addressed by using cells isolated from umbilical cord blood, an entirely non-invasive source of fetal/newborn cells. Extension of toxicological testing to collections of human fetal/newborn cells would be useful for better understanding the effect of toxicants on fetal development in human populations. By presenting this perspective, we aim to initiate a discussion about the use of cord blood donor-specific cells to capture the variability of cellular toxicological responses during this vulnerable stage of human development.
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- Dora Il'yasova
- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Georgia State University , Atlanta, GA , USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Georgia State University , Atlanta, GA , USA
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Maurer LL, Ryde IT, Yang X, Meyer JN. Caenorhabditis elegans
as a Model for Toxic Effects of Nanoparticles: Lethality, Growth, and Reproduction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 66:20.10.1-20.10.25. [DOI: 10.1002/0471140856.tx2010s66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Laura L. Maurer
- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Durham North Carolina
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Durham North Carolina
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Durham North Carolina
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Durham North Carolina
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Braconi D, Bernardini G, Santucci A. Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model in ecotoxicological studies: A post-genomics perspective. J Proteomics 2015; 137:19-34. [PMID: 26365628 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Revised: 08/29/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae represents a well-consolidated and widely used eukaryotic model, with a number of features that make it an ideal organism to carry out functional toxicological studies. Several advantages are permitted by the use of yeast cells, as the possibility to identify molecular biomarkers, unknown mechanisms of action and novel potential targets. Thanks to the evolutionary conservation, yeast can provide also useful clues allowing the prioritization of more complex analyses and toxicity predictions in higher eukaryotes. The last two decades were incredibly fruitful for yeast "omics", but referring to the analysis of the effects of pesticides on yeast much still remains to be done. Furthermore, a deeper knowledge of the effects of environmental pollutants on biotechnological processes associated with the use of yeasts is to be hoped.
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- Daniela Braconi
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, via A. Moro 2, Università degli Studi di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, via A. Moro 2, Università degli Studi di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, via A. Moro 2, Università degli Studi di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.
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Miousse IR, Currie R, Datta K, Ellinger-Ziegelbauer H, French JE, Harrill AH, Koturbash I, Lawton M, Mann D, Meehan RR, Moggs JG, O'Lone R, Rasoulpour RJ, Pera RAR, Thompson K. Importance of investigating epigenetic alterations for industry and regulators: An appraisal of current efforts by the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute. Toxicology 2015; 335:11-9. [PMID: 26134581 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2015.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Revised: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 06/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Recent technological advances have led to rapid progress in the characterization of epigenetic modifications that control gene expression in a generally heritable way, and are likely involved in defining cellular phenotypes, developmental stages and disease status from one generation to the next. On November 18, 2013, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) held a symposium entitled "Advances in Assessing Adverse Epigenetic Effects of Drugs and Chemicals" in Washington, D.C. The goal of the symposium was to identify gaps in knowledge and highlight promising areas of progress that represent opportunities to utilize epigenomic profiling for risk assessment of drugs and chemicals. Epigenomic profiling has the potential to provide mechanistic information in toxicological safety assessments; this is especially relevant for the evaluation of carcinogenic or teratogenic potential and also for drugs that directly target epigenetic modifiers, like DNA methyltransferases or histone modifying enzymes. Furthermore, it can serve as an endpoint or marker for hazard characterization in chemical safety assessment. The assessment of epigenetic effects may also be approached with new model systems that could directly assess transgenerational effects or potentially sensitive stem cell populations. These would enhance the range of safety assessment tools for evaluating xenobiotics that perturb the epigenome. Here we provide a brief synopsis of the symposium, update findings since that time and then highlight potential directions for future collaborative efforts to incorporate epigenetic profiling into risk assessment.
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- Isabelle R Miousse
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Syngenta Jealotts Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
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- Toxicology, Bayer Pharma AG, Wuppertal, Germany; Member of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) BioMARkers & molecular tumor classification for non-genotoxic CARcinogenesis (MARCAR) consortium www.imi-marcar.eu
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- National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Division of the National Toxicology Program, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Fibrosis Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Member of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) BioMARkers & molecular tumor classification for non-genotoxic CARcinogenesis (MARCAR) consortium www.imi-marcar.eu
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- Discovery and Investigative Safety, Preclinical Safety, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland; Member of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) BioMARkers & molecular tumor classification for non-genotoxic CARcinogenesis (MARCAR) consortium www.imi-marcar.eu
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- ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
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- Toxicology Environmental Research and Consulting, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, USA
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- Division of Applied Regulatory Science, OCP, CDER, US FDA, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Marmiroli M, Pagano L, Pasquali F, Zappettini A, Tosato V, Bruschi CV, Marmiroli N. A genome-wide nanotoxicology screen of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants reveals the basis for cadmium sulphide quantum dot tolerance and sensitivity. Nanotoxicology 2015; 10:84-93. [PMID: 25938282 DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2015.1019586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The use of cadmium sulphide quantum dots (CdS QDs) is increasing, particularly in the electronics industry. Their size (1-10 nm in diameter) is, however, such that they can be taken up by living cells. Here, a bakers' yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) deletion mutant collection has been exploited to provide a high-throughput means of revealing the genetic basis for tolerance/susceptibility to CdS QD exposure. The deletion of 112 genes, some associated with the abiotic stress response, some with various metabolic processes, some with mitochondrial organization, some with transport and some with DNA repair, reduced the level of tolerance to CdS QDs. A gene ontology analysis highlighted the role of oxidative stress in determining the cellular response. The transformation of sensitive mutants with centromeric plasmids harbouring DNA from a wild type strain restored the wild type growth phenotype when the complemented genes encoded either HSC82, DSK2 or ALD3. The use of these simple eukaryote knock-out mutants for functional toxicogenomic analysis will inform studies focusing on higher organisms.
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- M Marmiroli
- a Department of Life Sciences , University of Parma , Parma , Italy
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- a Department of Life Sciences , University of Parma , Parma , Italy
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- a Department of Life Sciences , University of Parma , Parma , Italy
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- c Yeast Molecular Genetics Laboratory, International Centre of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology , Trieste , Italy
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- c Yeast Molecular Genetics Laboratory, International Centre of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology , Trieste , Italy
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- a Department of Life Sciences , University of Parma , Parma , Italy
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