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J Environ Sci Health B ; 47(7): 599-607, 2012.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22560022

ABSTRACT

Certain congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine insecticides are ligands of aryl hydrocarbon receptors (AhRs) in animals. A recombinant guinea pig (g) AhR, XgDV, was constructed by fusing the ligand-binding domain of gAhR, the DNA-binding domain of LexA, and the transactivating domain of VP16. Then, the expression unit of ß-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene regulated by XgDV was introduced into Arabidopsis and tobacco plants. When the transgenic Arabidopsis XgDV plants were cultured on Murashige-Skoog (MS) medium containing PCB congeners, the GUS activity in the plants increased toxic equivalent (TEQ)-dependently. The GUS activity in the transgenic Arabidopsis XgDV plants cultured on MS medium containing the organochlorine insecticide dieldrin was also induced. On the other hand, in the case of DDT, the GUS activity induced by 3-methylcholanthere in the plants decreased. The transgenic Arabidopsis XgDV plants detected 1000 ng g(-1) PCB126 in 1 g of soils. Thus the XgDV plants seemed to be useful for convenient assays of PCB congeners and organochlorine insecticides, without any extraction and purification steps.


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Arabidopsis/drug effects , Biological Assay/methods , Glucuronidase/genetics , Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/pharmacology , Insecticides/pharmacology , Nicotiana/drug effects , Polychlorinated Biphenyls/chemistry , Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/genetics , Animals , Arabidopsis/genetics , Arabidopsis/metabolism , Environmental Monitoring , Gene Expression , Genes, Reporter , Glucuronidase/metabolism , Guinea Pigs/genetics , Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/chemistry , Insecticides/chemistry , Plants, Genetically Modified/drug effects , Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics , Plants, Genetically Modified/metabolism , Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/metabolism , Stereoisomerism , Nicotiana/genetics , Nicotiana/metabolism
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J Environ Sci Health B ; 47(4): 233-9, 2012.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22428884

ABSTRACT

The transgenic tobacco plant XD4V-26 carrying the recombinant mouse aryl hydrocarbon receptor XD4V-mediated ß-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene expression system was used for assay of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds consisting of polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (Co-PCBs) in actually contaminated soils. The transgenic tobacco plant XD4V-26 showed a significant dose-dependent induced GUS activity when cultured on MS medium containing PCB126 [toxic equivalency factor (TEF) = 0.1]. In contrast, PCB169 and PCB180, which have 0.03 of TEF and unassigned TEF values, respectively, did not significantly induce GUS activity under the same conditions as with PCB126. When the tobacco plants were cultivated for up to 5 weeks on actually contaminated soils with dioxins and dioxin-like compounds collected from the periphery of an incinerator used for disposal of life and industrial wastes, GUS activity in the leaves was dose-dependently increased. The plants clearly detected 360 pg-TEQ g(-1) of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in this assay. There was a positive correlation between GUS activity and TEQ value of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in the plants. This assay does not require any extraction and purification processes for the actually contaminated soil samples.


Subject(s)
Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics , Dioxins/analysis , Environmental Monitoring/methods , Nicotiana/genetics , Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics , Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/genetics , Soil Pollutants/analysis , Animals , Gene Expression , Genes, Reporter , Glucuronidase/genetics , Glucuronidase/metabolism , Mice , Plants, Genetically Modified/metabolism , Soil/analysis , Nicotiana/metabolism
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J Environ Sci Health B ; 47(1): 59-65, 2012.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22022789

ABSTRACT

The transgenic tobacco plant XD4V-26 carrying the recombinant mouse aryl hydrocarbon receptor XD4V-mediated ß-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene expression system was used for assay of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds consisting of polychlorinated dibenzeno-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (Co-PCBs) in actually contaminated soils. The transgenic tobacco plant XD4V-26 showed a significant dose-dependent induced GUS activity when cultured on MS medium containing PCB126 [toxic equivalency factor (TEF) = 0.1]. In contrast, PCB169 and PCB180, which have 0.03 of TEF and unassigned TEF values, respectively, did not significantly induce GUS activity under the same conditions as with PCB126. When the tobacco plants were cultivated for up to 5 weeks on actually contaminated soils with dioxins and dioxin-like compounds collected from the periphery of an incinerator used for disposal of residential and industrial wastes, GUS activity in the leaves was dose-dependently increased. The plants clearly detected 360 pg-TEQ g(-1) of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in this assay. There was a positive correlation between GUS activity and TEQ value of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in the plants. This assay does not require any extraction and purification processes for the actually contaminated soil samples.


Subject(s)
Dioxins/toxicity , Environmental Monitoring/methods , Genes, Reporter/drug effects , Nicotiana/drug effects , Plants, Genetically Modified/drug effects , Polychlorinated Biphenyls/toxicity , Soil Pollutants/toxicity , Animals , Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics , Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/metabolism , Dioxins/analysis , Environmental Monitoring/instrumentation , Glucuronidase/genetics , Glucuronidase/metabolism , Mice , Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics , Plants, Genetically Modified/metabolism , Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis , Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/genetics , Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/metabolism , Soil Pollutants/analysis , Nicotiana/genetics , Nicotiana/metabolism , Transcriptional Activation/drug effects
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