Modulation of aromatase activity and mRNA by various selected pesticides in the human choriocarcinoma JEG-3 cell line

被引:91
作者
Laville, Nathalie
Balaguer, Patrick
Brion, Francois
Hinfray, Nathalie
Casellas, Claude
Porcher, Jean-Marc
Ait-Aissa, Selim
机构
[1] INERIS, Ecotoxicol Risk Assessment Unit, F-60550 Verneuil En Halatte, France
[2] INSERM, U540, F-34090 Montpellier, France
[3] Univ Montpellier I, CNRS, UMR 5569, F-34093 Montpellier 5, France
关键词
pesticides; aromatase activity; aromatase mRNA; JEG-3; retinoic acid receptor;
D O I
10.1016/j.tox.2006.08.021
中图分类号
R9 [药学];
学科分类号
1007 ;
摘要
Aromatase enzyme plays a central role in steroidogenesis by converting androgens to estrogens and has been proposed as an important molecular target for many environmental endocrine disrupters, chemicals. In this study, we have screened 30 selected pesticides with known, unknown or supposed effects on aromatase activity, for their ability to modulate aromatase activity in the human choriocarcinoma JEG-3 cell line after both short (2 h) and long exposure (24 h). All pesticides were tested at concentrations up to 10 mu M that did not cause cytotoxicity after 24 h of exposure, as verified by the MTT viability assay. Four pesticides inhibited aromatase activity after 2 h of exposure: prochloraz (IC50 < 1 mu M), fenbuconazole (IC50 = 1.1 mu M), propiconazole (IC50 = 1.5 mu M) and fenarimol (IC50 = 3.3 mu M). Among them, prochloraz and fenbuconazole also exerted inhibitory effects after 24 h. Toxaphen (10 RM) and heptachlor (10 mu M) inhibited aromatase activity after 24 h exposure only. Nine pesticides induced aromatase activity: aldrin, chlordane, cypermethrin, parathion-methyl, endosulfan, methoxychlor, oxadiazon, metolachlor and atrazine after 24 h of exposure, while tributyltin induced aromatase activity at 1 nM and 3 nM after both 2 h and 24 h of exposure, respectively. To further investigate the mechanisms of aromatase induction we measured CYP19 mRNA expression and showed that methoxychlor, aldrin, chlordane and tributyltin induced the transcription of the cyp19 gene. In addition, none of the aromatase inducers transactivated the retinoic acid receptor (RAR) in JEG-3 stably transfected with a RARE-luciferase plasmid while the RAR agonist TTNPB induced both aromatase and luciferase expression in these cells. Our results, which provide new data for fenbuconazole, as an inhibitor of human aromatase, and for eight pesticides as aromatase inducers, are discussed with regards to the regulation of aromatase expression in the JEG-3 cellular context. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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