Reduction of aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated activity of polychlorinated biphenyl mixtures due to anaerobic microbial dechlorination

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 806-813

  Quensen III, John F ^a   Mousa, Mahmoud A ^a   Boyd, Stephen A ^a   Thomas Sanderson, J ^a   Froese, Kenneth L ^a   Giesy, John P ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; Dechlorination; Ethoxyresorufin O deethylase; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Toxic equivalents

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031949280     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<0806:ROAHRM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Norstrom RJ, Muir DCG. 1994. Chorinated hydrocarbon contaminants in Arctic marine mammals. Sci Total Environ 154:107-128.
2. Abramowicz DA. 1990. Aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of PCBs: A review. Crit Rev Biotechnol 10:241-248.
3. Bedard DL, Quensen JF III. 1995. Microbial reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls. In Young LY, Cerniglia CE, eds, Microbial Transformation and Degradation of Toxic Organic Chemicals. Wiley-Liss, New York, NY, USA, pp 127-216.
4. Brown JF, Bedard DL, Brennan MJ, Carnahan JC, Feng H, Wagner RE. 1987. Polychlorinated biphenyl dechlorination in aquatic sediments. Science 236:709-712.
5. Brown JF, Wagner R, Feng H, Bedard DL, Brennan MJ, Carnahan JC, May RJ. 1987. Environmental dechlorination of PCBs. Environ Toxicol Chem 6:579-593.
6. Brown JF, Wagner RE. 1990. PCB movement, dechlorination, and detoxication in the Acushnet Estuary. Environ Toxicol Chem 9:1215-1233.
7. Quensen JF III, Tiedje JM, Boyd SA. 1988. Reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated hiphenyls by anaerobic microorganisms from sediments. Science 242:752-754.
8. Quensen JF III, Boyd SA, Tiedje JM. 1990. Dechlorination of four commercial polyehlorinated biphenyl mixtures (Aroclors) by anaerobic microorganisms from sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 56:2360-2369.
9. Mousa MA, Quensen JF, Chou K, Boyd SA. 1996. Microbial dechloriniition alleviates inhibitory effects of PCBs on mouse gamete fertilization in vitro. Environ Sci Technol 30:2087-2092.
10. Safe SH. 1990. Polychlorinated biphenyls, dibenzo-p-dioxins, and dibenzofurans and related compounds: Environmental and mechanistic considerations which support the development of toxic equivalency factors. Crit Rev Toxicol 21:51-71.
11. Safe S. 1993. Toxicology, structure function relationship, and human and environmental health impacts of polyehlorinated biphenyls - Progress and problems. Environ Health Perspect 100:259-268.
12. Safe SH. 1994. Polychlorinated biphenyls: Environmental impact. biochemical and toxic responses, and implications for risk assessment. Crit Rev Toxicol 24:87-149.
13. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 1993. Update: Toxicological profile for selected PCBs (Aroclor 1260, 1254, 1248, 1242, 1232, 1221, and 1016). TP-92/16 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA.
14. Giesy JP, Ludwig JP, Tillitt DE. 1994. Dioxins, dibenzofurans, PCBs, and colonial, fish-eating water birds. In Schecter A, ed, Dioxins and Health. Plenum, New York, NY, USA, pp 249-307.
15. Poland A, Knutson JC. 1982. 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and related halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons: Examination of the mechanism of toxicity. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 22:517-544.
16. Murk AJ, Legler J, Denison MS, Giesy JP, Van de Guchte C, Brouwer A. 1996. Chemical-activated luciferase gene expression (CALUX): A novel in vitro bioassay for Ah receptor active compounds in sediments and pore water. Fundam Appl Toxicol 33:149-160.
17. Sanderson JT, Aarts JMMJG, Brouwer A, Froese KL, Denison MS, Giesy JP. 1996. Comparison of Ah receptor-mediated ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase and luciferase induction in H4IIE cells: Implications for their use as bioanalytical tools for the detection of polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 137:316-325.
18. Delzell E, Giesy JP, Munro I, Doull J, Mackay D, Williams G. 1994. Interpretative review of the potential adverse effects of chlorinated organic chemicals on human health and the environment: Report of an expert panel. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 20: I-XXIX, S1-S1056.
19. Tillitt DE, et al. 1995. Dietary exposure to carp from Saginaw Bay. Ill: Characterization of dietary exposure to planar halogenated hydrocarbons, dioxin-equivalents, and biomagnification. Environ Sci Technol 30:283-291.
20. Hutzinger O, Safe S, Zitko V. 1983. The Chemistry of PCBs. Robert E. Krieger Publishing, Malabar, FL, USA.
21. Kannan N, Tanabe S, Tatsukawa R. 1988. Toxic potential of non-ortho and mono-ortho coplanar PCBs in commercial PCB preparations: "2,3,7,8-TCDD toxicity equivalence factors approach". Bull Environ Contant Toxicol 41:267-276.
22. Harkness MR, et al. 1993. In situ stimulation of aerobic PCB biodegradation in Hudson River sediments. Science 259:503-507.
23. Brown JF, Wagner RE, Bedard DL, Brennan MJ, Carnahan JC, May RJ, Tofflemire TJ. 1984. PCB transformations in upper Hudson sediments. Northeast Environ Sci 3:167-179.
24. Bedard DL, Unterman R, Bopp LH, Brennan MJ, Haberl ML, Johnson C. 1986. Rapid assay for screening and characterizing microorganisms for the ability to degrade polychlorinated biphenyls. Appl Environ Microbiol 51:761-768.