1. A dual mixture of persistent organic pollutants modifies carbohydrate metabolism in the human hepatic cell line HepaRG
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Eléonore A. Attignon, Dimosthenis Sarigiannis, Robert Barouki, Emilie Distel, Sylvie Bortoli, Alix F. Leblanc, Xavier Coumoul, Martine Aggerbeck, Etienne Blanc, Spyros Karakitsios, Toxicité environnementale, cibles thérapeutiques, signalisation cellulaire (T3S - UMR_S 1124), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), and Université de Paris (UP)
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Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,010501 environmental sciences ,Carbohydrate metabolism ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,Cell Line ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Toxicity Tests ,Constitutive androstane receptor ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Receptor ,Ecosystem ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,Pregnane X receptor ,Glycogen ,biology ,Chemistry ,Aryl hydrocarbon receptor ,13. Climate action ,Hepatocytes ,biology.protein ,Carbohydrate Metabolism ,Environmental Pollutants ,Signal transduction ,Xenobiotic - Abstract
Individuals as well as entire ecosystems are exposed to mixtures of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Previously, we showed, by a non-targeted approach, that the expression of several genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism was almost completely inhibited in the human hepatic cell line HepaRG following exposure to a mixture of the organochlorine insecticide alpha-endosulfan and 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. In this European HEALS project, which studies the effects of the exposome on human health, we used a Physiologically Based BioKinetic model to compare the concentrations previously used in vitro with in vivo exposures for humans. We investigated the effects of these POPs on the levels of proteins, on glycogen content, glucose production and the oxidation of glucose into CO2 and correlated them to the expression of genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism as measured by RT-qPCR. Exposure to individual POPs and the mixture decreased the expression of the proteins investigated as well as glucose output (up to 82%), glucose oxidation (up to 29%) and glycogen content (up to 48%). siRNAs that specifically inhibit the expression of several xenobiotic receptors were used to assess receptor involvement in the effects of the POPs. In the HepaRG model, we demonstrate that the effects are mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and the estrogen receptor alpha, but not the pregnane X receptor or the constitutive androstane receptor. These results provide evidence that exposure to combinations of POPs, acting through different signaling pathways, may affect, more profoundly than single pollutants alone, metabolic pathways such as carbohydrate/energy metabolism and play a potential role in pollutant associated metabolic disorders.
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- 2019
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