Evaluation of a panel of in vitro methods for assessing thyroid receptor β and transthyretin transporter disrupting activities

Bérénice Collet*, Eszter Simon, Sander van der Linden, Nadia el Abdellaoui, Matthijs Naderman, Hai yen Man, Irene Middelhof, Bart van der Burg, Harrie Besselink, Abraham Brouwer

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    Abstract

    We developed a thyroid testing panel to assess endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) capacities to bind either the thyroid receptor β (TRβ) or the thyroid hormones transporter transthyretin (TTR). We first stably transfected a human U2OS cell line with TRβ and a luciferase reporter construct to develop the TRβ CALUX® reporter gene assay to assess chemicals’ potential to interact with TRβ. Secondly, we combined a TTR-binding assay with the TRβ CALUX (TTR-TRβ CALUX) and optimized the system to evaluate the competitive properties of EDCs towards T4 for TTR binding. Both systems were evaluated with a range of known thyroid-disrupting compounds. The agonistic/antagonistic TRβ CALUX successfully predicted 9/9 and 9/12 test compounds, respectively. The TTR-TRβ CALUX predicted 9/9 compounds and demonstrated competitive activities when analyzing waste water samples. We concluded that the proposed test battery is a promising screening method able to efficiently generate data on thyroid hormone interferences by chemicals.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)432-444
    Number of pages13
    JournalReproductive Toxicology
    Volume96
    Early online date8 May 2019
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

    Funding

    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 722634 .

    FundersFunder number
    European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
    European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
    Marie Sklodowska-Curie722634

      Keywords

      • Bioassay
      • CALUX
      • Endocrine disruption
      • Thyroid hormones
      • TTR binding potency
      • Water extract

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