Tumor promoting effects of cyanobacterial extracts are potentiated by anthropogenic contaminants--evidence from in vitro study |
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Authors: | Nováková Kateřina Bláha Luděk Babica Pavel |
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Institution: | a Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, Brno CZ60200, Czech Republic b Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, Brno CZ62500, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | Inhibition of gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) is affiliated with tumor promotion process and it has been employed as an in vitro biomarker for evaluation of tumor promoting effects of chemicals. In the present study we investigated combined effects of anthropogenic environmental contaminants 2,2′,4,4′,5,5′-hexachlorobiphenyl (PCB 153) and fluoranthene, cyanotoxins microcystin-LR and cylindrospermopsin, and extracts of laboratory cultures of cyanobacteria Aphanizomenon gracile and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii, on GJIC in the rat liver epithelial cell line WB-F344. Binary mixtures of PCB 153 with fluoranthene and the mixtures of the two cyanobacterial strains elicited simple additive effects on GJIC after 30 min exposure, whereas microcystin-LR and cylindrospermopsin neither inhibited GJIC nor altered effects of PCB 153 or fluoranthene. However, synergistic effects were observed in the cells exposed to binary mixtures of anthropogenic contaminants (PCB 153 or fluoranthene) and cyanobacterial extracts. The synergistic effects were especially pronounced after prolonged (6-24 h) co-exposure to fluoranthene and A. gracile extract, when mixture caused nearly complete GJIC inhibition, while none of the individual components caused any downregulation of GJIC at the same concentration and exposure time. The effects of cyanobacterial extracts were independent of microcystin-LR or cylindrospermopsin, which were not detected in cyanobacterial biomass. It provides further evidence on the presence of unknown tumor promoting metabolites in cyanobacteria. Clear potentiation of the GJIC inhibition observed in the mixtures of two anthropogenic contaminants and cyanobacteria highlight the importance of combined toxic effects of chemicals in complex environmental mixtures. |
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Keywords: | CYN cylindrospermopsin FLU fluoranthene DDT dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane ERK extracellular-signal-regulated kinase GJIC gap junctional intercellular communication IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer MAPK mitogen-activated protein kinase MC-LR microcystin-LR PAHs polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PCB 153 2 2&prime 4 4&prime 5 5&prime -hexachlorobiphenyl PCBs polychlorinated biphenyls PCDD/Fs polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans SL-DT scrape loading-dye transfer |
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