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Effects of selected polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners on hepatic glutathione, glutathione-related enzymes, and selenium status: implications for oxidative stress.

Abstract：

:Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) induce drug metabolism that may lead to the bioactivation of PCBs themselves or alternatively may lead to oxidative events within the cell. The goal of the present study was to determine the influence of congeneric PCBs, selected as substrates for or inducers of drug metabolism, upon hepatic glutathione, glutathione-related enzymes, and selenium status. Male and female Sprague-Dawley rats received two i.p. injections per week of PCB 3 (4-chlorobiphenyl), PCB 28 (2,4,4'-trichlorobiphenyl), PCB 38 (3,4,5-trichlorobiphenyl), PCB 77 (3,3',4,4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl), PCB 153 (2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl), or both PCBs 77 and 153 (100 micromol/kg/injection) and were killed at the end of 1, 2, or 3 weeks. Whole liver homogenates, hepatic cytosol, and microsomes were prepared. Both glutathione reductase and glutathione transferase activities were increased significantly in both male and female rats receiving PCB 77, an aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist, as well as in those receiving both PCBs 77 and 153. No significant trend was observed in the levels of hepatic total glutathione. PCB 77 treatment decreased hepatic selenium-dependent glutathione peroxidase (SeGPX) activity in both male and female rats significantly. This decrease in activity following PCB 77 treatment was accompanied by a decrease in the cytosolic selenium-dependent glutathione peroxidase gene (GSPx1) transcript, as well as a decrease in hepatic total selenium levels. These data support the concept that exposure to the coplanar PCB 77 suppresses, via gene regulatory mechanisms, the cellular antioxidant enzyme SeGPX and that this decrease involves selenium. Lower halogenated PCBs that may be bioactivated to reactive oxygen species (ROS)-producing metabolites, and higher halogenated PCBs that are not Ah receptor agonists, were inactive.

journal_name

Biochem Pharmacol

journal_title

Biochemical pharmacology

authors

Twaroski TP,O'Brien ML,Robertson LW

doi

10.1016/s0006-2952(01)00668-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-08-01 00:00:00

pages

273-81

issue

eissn

0006-2952

issn

1873-2968

pii

S0006-2952(01)00668-2

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Effects of selected polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners on hepatic glutathione, glutathione-related enzymes, and selenium status: implications for oxidative stress.