1. Toxicogenomic Mechanisms of 6-HO-BDE-47, 6-MeO-BDE-47, and BDE-47 in E. coli.
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Guanyong Su, Xiaowei Zhang, Hongling Liu, Giesy, John P., Lam, Michael H. W., Lam, Paul K. S., Siddiqui, Maqsood A., Musarrat, Javed, Al-Khedhairy, Abdulaziz, and Hongxia Yu
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TOXICOGENOMICS , *INHIBITORY Concentration 50 , *CELL-mediated cytotoxicity , *POLYBROMINATED diphenyl ethers & the environment , *ESCHERICHIA coli , *GENE expression , *MOLECULAR toxicology - Abstract
Cytotoxicity of 6-HO-BDE-47 and its two analogues, BDE-47 and 6-MeO-BDE-47, and the associated molecular mechanisms were assessed by use of a live cell reporter assay system which contains a library of 1820 modified green fluorescent protein (GFP) expressing promoter reporter vectors constructed from E. coli K12 strains. 6-HO-BDE-47 inhibited growth of E. coli with a 4 h median effect concentration (EC50) of 22.52 ± 2.20 mg/L, but neither BDE-47 nor 6-MeO-BDE-47 were cytotoxic. Thus, 6-HO-BDE-47 might serve as an antibiotic in some living organisms. Exposure to 6-HO-BDE-47 resulted in 65 (fold change >2) or 129 (fold change >1.5) genes being differentially expressed. The no observed transcriptional effect concentration (NOTEC) and median transcriptional effect concentration (TEC50) based on transcriptional end points, of 6-HO-BDE-47 were 0.0438 and 0.580 mg/L, respectively. The transcriptional responses were 514- and 39-fold more sensitive than the acute EC50 to inhibit cell growth. Most of the genes that were differentially expressed in response to 6-HO-BDE-47 were not modulated by BDE-47 or 6-MeO-BDE-47. These results suggest that cytotoxicity of 6-HO-BDE-47 to E. coli was via a mechanism that was different from that of either BDE-47 or 6-MeO-BDE-47. Gene expression associated with metabolic pathways was more responsive to 6-HO-BDE-47, which suggests that this pathway might be the primary target of this compound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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