PMID- 23485034 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140325 LR - 20130416 IS - 1520-5851 (Electronic) IS - 0013-936X (Linking) VI - 47 IP - 8 DP - 2013 Apr 16 TI - Enantioselective induction of cytotoxicity by o,p'-DDD in PC12 cells: implications of chirality in risk assessment of POPs metabolites. PG - 3909-17 LID - 10.1021/es3049306 [doi] AB - The increased release of chiral persistent organic pollutants (POPs) into the environment has resulted in more attention to the role of enantioselectivity in the fate and ecotoxicological effects of these compounds. Although the enantioselectivity of chiral POPs has been considered in previous studies, little effort has been expended to discern the enantiospecific effects of chiral POPs metabolites, which may impede comprehensive risk assessments of these chemicals. In the present study, o,p'-DDD, the chiral metabolite of o,p'-DDT, was used as a model chiral metabolite. First, a preferential chiral separation at 100% ethanol was employed to obtain a pure enantiomer. The enantioselective cytotoxicity of o,p'-DDD in rat cells (PC12) was evaluated by detecting activation of the cellular apoptosis and oxidative stress systems and microarray analysis. We have documented for the first time that R-(+)-o,p'-DDD increases apoptosis by selectively disturbing the oxidative system (enzymes and molecules) and regulating the transcription of Aven, Bid, Cideb and Tp53. By comparing the data from the present study to data derived from the parent compound, we concluded that the R-enantiomer is the more detrimental stereostructure for both o,p'-DDT and o,p'-DDD. This observed stereostructural effect is in line with the structure-activity relationship formulated at other structural levels. Biological activities of the chiral metabolites are likely to occur in the same absolute configuration between chiral POPs and their metabolites provided that they have the similar stereostructures. FAU - Wang, Cui AU - Wang C AD - MOE Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. FAU - Li, Zhuoyu AU - Li Z FAU - Zhang, Quan AU - Zhang Q FAU - Zhao, Meirong AU - Zhao M FAU - Liu, Weiping AU - Liu W LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130401 PL - United States TA - Environ Sci Technol JT - Environmental science & technology JID - 0213155 RN - 0 (Air Pollutants) RN - 0 (Antioxidants) RN - 0 (Heat-Shock Proteins) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) RN - V14159DF29 (Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane) SB - IM MH - Air Pollutants/*chemistry/*toxicity MH - Animals MH - Antioxidants/metabolism MH - Apoptosis/drug effects/genetics MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane/*chemistry/isolation & purification/*toxicity MH - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay MH - Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects MH - Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis MH - Oxidative Stress/drug effects/genetics MH - PC12 Cells MH - Rats MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - *Risk Assessment MH - Stereoisomerism MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism EDAT- 2013/03/15 06:00 MHDA- 2014/03/26 06:00 CRDT- 2013/03/15 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/15 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/03/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/03/26 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1021/es3049306 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Sci Technol. 2013 Apr 16;47(8):3909-17. doi: 10.1021/es3049306. Epub 2013 Apr 1.