Similarities in the Endocrine-Disrupting Potencies of Indoor Dust and Flame Retardants by Using Human Osteosarcoma (U2OS) Cell-Based Reporter Gene Assays

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• 作者：Go Suzuki ; Nguyen Minh Tue ; Govindan Malarvannan ; Agus Sudaryanto ; Shin Takahashi ; Shinsuke Tanabe ; Shin-ichi Sakai ; Abraham Brouwer ; Naoto Uramaru ; Shigeyuki Kitamura ; Hidetaka Takigami
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T)
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March 19, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：47
• 期：6
• 页码：2898-2908
• 全文大小：441K
• 年卷期：v.47,no.6(March 19, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5851

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Indoor dust is a sink for many kinds of pollutants, including flame retardants (FRs), plasticizers, and their contaminants and degradation products. These pollutants can be migrated to indoor dust from household items such as televisions and computers. To reveal high-priority end points of and contaminant candidates in indoor dust, using CALUX reporter gene assays based on human osteosarcoma (U2OS) cell lines, we evaluated and characterized the endocrine-disrupting potencies of crude extracts of indoor dust collected from Japan (n = 8), the United States (n = 21), Vietnam (n = 10), the Philippines (n = 17), and Indonesia (n = 10) and for 23 selected FRs. The CALUX reporter gene assays used were specific for compounds interacting with the human androgen receptor (AR), estrogen receptor 伪 (ER伪), progesterone receptor (PR), glucocorticoid receptor (GR), and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor 纬2 (PPAR纬2). Indoor dust extracts were agonistic to ER伪, GR, and PPAR纬2 and antagonistic against AR, PR, GR, and PPAR纬2. In comparison, a majority of FRs was agonistic to ER伪 and PPAR纬2 only, and some FRs demonstrated receptor-specific antagonism against all tested nuclear receptors. Hierarchical clustering clearly indicated that agonism of ER伪 and antagonism of AR and PR were common, frequently detected end points for indoor dust and tested FRs. Given our previous results regarding the concentrations of FRs in indoor dust and in light of our current results, candidate contributors to these effects include not only internationally controlled brominated FRs but also alternatives such as some phosphorus-containing FRs. In the context of indoor pollution, high-frequency effects of FRs such as agonism of ER伪 and antagonism of AR and PR are candidate high-priority end points for further investigation.