PMID- 22450794 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120716 LR - 20190923 IS - 1738-8872 (Electronic) IS - 1017-7825 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 3 DP - 2012 Mar TI - Organotin compounds act as inhibitor of transcriptional activation with human estrogen receptor. PG - 378-84 AB - In aquatic invertebrates, particularly marine gastropods, organotin compounds induce irreversible sexual abnormality in females, which is termed imposex, at very low concentrations. Organotin compounds are agonists for nuclear receptors such as RXRs and PPARgamma. However, the imposex phenomenon has not been reported to act as an antagonist on estrogen receptors in other species, including vertebrates and invertebrates. In order to gain insights into the antagonistic activity of organotin compounds on estrogen receptors (ERs), we examined the inhibitive effect of these compounds on estradiol-dependent beta-galactosidase activity using the yeast two-hybrid detection system consisting of a combination of the human estrogen receptor (hERbeta) ligand-binding domain and the co-activator steroid receptor co-activator-1 (SRC1). Tributyltin-hydroxide (TBT-OH) and triphenyltin-chlorine (TPT-Cl) exhibited an inhibitive effect on E(2)-dependent transcriptional activity, similar to antagonistic chemicals such as 4-hydroxytamoxifen (OHT) or ICI 182,780, at a very low concentration of 10(-)(1)(4) M TBT or 10(-)(1)(0) M TPT, respectively. The yeast growth and transcriptional activity with transcriptional factor GAL4 did not exhibit any effect at the tested concentration of TBT or TPT. Moreover, the yeast two-hybrid system using the interaction between p53 and the T antigen of SV40 large did not describe any effect at the tested concentration of OHT or ICI 182,780. However, the interaction between p53 and T antigen was inhibited at a TBT or TPT concentration of 10(-)(9) M, respectively. These results indicate that TBT and TPT act as inhibitors of ER-dependent reporter gene transcriptional activation and of the interaction between hERbeta LBD and the co-activator SRC1 in the yeast two-hybrid system. Consequently, our data could partly explain the occurrence of organotin compound-induced imposex on the endocrine system of mammals, including humans. FAU - Cho, Eun-Min AU - Cho EM AD - New and Renewable Energy Company, North of Gyeonggi Venture Center, Uijongbu, Gyeonggi-do 480-020, Korea. FAU - Lee, Haeng-Seog AU - Lee HS FAU - Moon, Jeong-Suk AU - Moon JS FAU - Kim, Im-Soon AU - Kim IS FAU - Sim, Sanghyo AU - Sim S FAU - Ohta, Akinori AU - Ohta A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Korea (South) TA - J Microbiol Biotechnol JT - Journal of microbiology and biotechnology JID - 9431852 RN - 0 (Endocrine Disruptors) RN - 0 (Organotin Compounds) RN - 0 (Receptors, Estrogen) RN - 0 (Trialkyltin Compounds) RN - 4TI98Z838E (Estradiol) RN - 4XDX163P3D (tributyltin) RN - EC 3.2.1.23 (beta-Galactosidase) RN - I1L80IDY27 (triphenyltin chloride) SB - IM MH - Down-Regulation/*drug effects MH - Endocrine Disruptors/pharmacology MH - Estradiol/metabolism MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Models, Biological MH - Organotin Compounds/*pharmacology MH - Ovotesticular Disorders of Sex Development/*etiology/genetics/metabolism MH - Receptors, Estrogen/*genetics/metabolism MH - Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics/metabolism MH - Transcriptional Activation/*drug effects MH - Trialkyltin Compounds/*pharmacology MH - Two-Hybrid System Techniques MH - beta-Galactosidase/antagonists & inhibitors/genetics/metabolism EDAT- 2012/03/28 06:00 MHDA- 2012/07/17 06:00 CRDT- 2012/03/28 06:00 PHST- 2012/03/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/03/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/07/17 06:00 [medline] AID - JMB022-03-13 [pii] AID - 10.4014/jmb.1105.05033 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2012 Mar;22(3):378-84. doi: 10.4014/jmb.1105.05033.