Relative potency of fifteen pyrrolizidine alkaloids to induce DNA damage as measured by micronucleus induction in HepaRG human liver cells
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Relative potency of fifteen pyrrolizidine alkaloids to induce DNA damage as measured by micronucleus induction in HepaRG human liver cells
Abstract
Plant-based 1,2-unsaturated Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids (PAs) can be found as contaminants in foods like teas, herbs and honey. PAs are responsible for liver genotoxicity/carcinogenicity following metabolic activation, making them a relevant concern for safety assessment. Current regulatory risk assessments take a precautionary approach and assume all PAs are as potent as the known most potent representatives: lasiocarpine and riddelliine. Our study investigated whether genotoxicity potency differed as a consequence of structural differences, assessing micronuclei in vitro in HepaRG cells which express metabolising enzymes at levels similar to primary human hepatocytes. Benchmark Dose (BMD) analysis was used to calculate the critical effect dose for 15 PAs representing 6 structural classes. When BMD confidence intervals were used to rank PAs, lasiocarpine was the most potent PA and plotted distinctly from all other PAs examined. PA-N-oxides were least potent, notably less potent than their corresponding parent PA's. The observed genotoxic potency compared favorably with existing in vitro data when metabolic competency was considered. Although further consideration of biokinetics will be needed to develop a robust understanding of relative potencies for a realistic risk assessment of PA mixtures, these data facilitate understanding of their genotoxic potencies and affirm that not all PAs are created equal.
Keywords: Genetic toxicology; HepaRG; Micronucleus test; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids; Relative potency factor; Risk assessment.
Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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