Article ; Online: Baseline Toxicity Model to Identify the Specific and Nonspecific Effects of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Cell-Based Bioassays.
Environmental science & technology
2024 Volume 58, Issue 13, Page(s) 5727–5738
Abstract: High-throughput screening is a strategy to identify potential adverse outcome pathways (AOP) for thousands of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) if the specific effects can be distinguished from nonspecific effects. We hypothesize that baseline ... ...
| Abstract | High-throughput screening is a strategy to identify potential adverse outcome pathways (AOP) for thousands of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) if the specific effects can be distinguished from nonspecific effects. We hypothesize that baseline toxicity may serve as a reference to determine the specificity of the cell responses. Baseline toxicity is the minimum (cyto)toxicity caused by the accumulation of chemicals in cell membranes, which disturbs their structure and function. A mass balance model linking the critical membrane concentration for baseline toxicity to nominal (i.e., dosed) concentrations of PFAS in cell-based bioassays yielded separate baseline toxicity prediction models for anionic and neutral PFAS, which were based on liposome-water distribution ratios as the sole model descriptors. The specificity of cell responses to 30 PFAS on six target effects (activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) gamma, aryl hydrocarbon receptor, oxidative stress response, and neurotoxicity in own experiments, and literature data for activation of several PPARs and the estrogen receptor) were assessed by comparing effective concentrations to predicted baseline toxic concentrations. HFPO-DA, HFPO-DA-AS, and PFMOAA showed high specificity on PPARs, which provides information on key events in AOPs relevant to PFAS. However, PFAS were of low specificity in the other experimentally evaluated assays and others from the literature. Even if PFAS are not highly specific for certain defined targets but disturb many toxicity pathways with low potency, such effects are toxicologically relevant, especially for hydrophobic PFAS and because PFAS are highly persistent and cause chronic effects. This implicates a heightened need for the risk assessment of PFAS mixtures because nonspecific effects behave concentration-additive in mixtures. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors ; Fluorocarbons/toxicity ; Propionates ; Biological Assay ; Alkanesulfonic Acids |
| Chemical Substances | ammonium 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-(heptafluoropropoxy)-propanoate ; Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors ; Fluorocarbons ; Propionates ; Alkanesulfonic Acids |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-02-23 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ISSN | 1520-5851 |
| ISSN (online) | 1520-5851 |
| DOI | 10.1021/acs.est.3c09950 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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