1. Down-regulation of the expression of alcohol dehydrogenase 4 and CYP2E1 by the combination of α-endosulfan and dioxin in HepaRG human cells
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Eléonore A. Attignon, Martine Aggerbeck, Emilie Distel, Béatrice Le-Grand, Alix F. Leblanc, Robert Barouki, Eliandre de Oliveira, and Etienne Blanc
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0301 basic medicine ,Insecticides ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins ,Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator ,Alcohol Dehydrogenase 4 ,Down-Regulation ,Pharmacology ,Toxicology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Downregulation and upregulation ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,RNA, Small Interfering ,Pregnane X receptor ,Chemistry ,Alcohol Dehydrogenase ,Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1 ,Hep G2 Cells ,General Medicine ,Transfection ,CYP2E1 ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Hepatic stellate cell ,Environmental Pollutants ,Estrogen receptor alpha ,Endosulfan ,Signal Transduction - Abstract
Pesticides and other persistent organic pollutants are considered as risk factors for liver diseases. We treated the human hepatic cell line HepaRG with both 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and the organochlorine pesticide, α-endosulfan, to evaluate their combined impact on the expression of hepatic genes involved in alcohol metabolism. We show that the combination of the two pollutants (25nM TCDD and 10μM α-endosulfan) led to marked decreases in the amounts of both the mRNA (up to 90%) and protein (up to 60%) of ADH4 and CYP2E1. Similar results were obtained following 24h or 8days of treatment with lower concentrations of these pollutants. Experiments with siRNA and AHR agonists and antagonist demonstrated that the genomic AHR/ARNT pathway is necessary for the dioxin effect. The PXR, CAR and estrogen receptor alpha transcription factors were not modulators of the effects of α-endosulfan, as assessed by siRNA transfection. In another human hepatic cell line, HepG2, TCDD decreased the expression of ADH4 and CYP2E1 mRNAs whereas α-endosulfan had no effect on these genes. Our results demonstrate that exposure to a mixture of pollutants may deregulate hepatic metabolism.
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- 2017
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