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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 751, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142269
Keywords
Genotoxicity; Micronucleus assay; V79; High-throughput; Metabolization; Animal-free alternatives
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Funding
- Deutsche Bundesstiftung Uri-melt [AZ 32654]
- Foundation Animalfree Research
- German BMWi [03EGSNW464]
- Deans Seed Funds at RWTH Aachen University, as part of the German Excellence Initiative via the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy Exzellenzcluster 2186 ''The Fuel Science Center
- BMBF [02WCL1471M]
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This study introduces a high-throughput micronucleus assay based on multi-well plates for risk assessment applications, offering faster evaluation and lower cost. The newly developed animal-free metabolization system ewoS9R shows promising potential in the micronucleus assay, yielding comparable results to rat-derived S9 for 6 of the 9 pro-genotoxic substances tested, suggesting its potential future applications. However, there are still substances that require rat-derived S9 for metabolization.
This study presents a high-throughput (HTP) micronucleus assay inmulti-well plates with an automated evaluation for risk assessment applications. The evaluation of genotoxicity via the micronucleus assays according to international guidelines ISO 21427-2 with Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus) V79 cells was the starting point to develop our methodology. A drawback of this assay is that it is very time consuming and cost intensive. Our HTP micronucleus assay in a 48-well plate format allows for the simultaneous assessment of five different sample-concentrations with additional positive, negative and solvent controls with six technical replicates each within a quarter of the time required for the equivalent evaluation using the traditional slide method. In accordance with the 3R principle, animal compounds should be replaced with animal-free alternatives. However, traditional cell culture-based methods still require animal derived compounds like rat-liver derived S9-fraction, which is used to simulate the mammalian metabolism in in vitro assays that do show intrinsic metabolization capabilities. In the present study, a recently developed animal-free biotechnological alternative (ewoS9R) was investigated in the new high-throughput micronucleus assay. In total, 12 different mutagenic or genotoxic chemicals were investigated to assess the potential use of the animal-free metabolization system (ewoS9R) in comparison to a common rat-derived product. Out of the 12 compounds, one compound did not induce micronuclei in any treatment and 2 substances showed a genotoxic potential without the need for a metabolization system. EwoS9R demonstrated promising potential for future applications as it shows comparable results to the rat-derived S9 for 6 of the 9 pro-genotoxic substances tested. The remaining 3 substances (2-Acetamidofluorene, Benzo[a]pyrene, Cyclophosphamide) were only metabolized by rat-derived S9. A potential explanation is that ewoS9R was investigated with an approx. 10-fold lower enzyme concentration and was only optimized for CYP1 A metabolization that may be improved with a modified production procedure. Future applications of ewoS9R go beyond the micronucleus assay, but further research is necessary. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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