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ARCHIVES OF TOXICOLOGY
Volume 95, Issue 4, Pages 1391-1396Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-021-02994-5
Keywords
Polychlorinated n-alkane; Chloroparaffin; Thyroid disruption; Countercurrent chromatography; Thyroxine; Bioassay; TTR-TRβ CALUX
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- Projekt DEAL
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Short-chain chlorinated paraffins, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins, and long-chain chlorinated paraffins have been shown to have effects on the thyroid hormone system. Testing revealed that longer chains and higher degrees of chlorination in chlorinated paraffins may have higher activities and lower toxic thresholds.
Over the last decades, short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs), medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), and long-chain chlorinated paraffins (LCCPs) have become the most heavily produced monomeric organohalogen compound class of environmental concern. However, knowledge about their toxicology is still scarce, although SCCPs were shown to have effects on the thyroid hormone system. The lack of data in the case of MCCPs and LCCPs and the structural similarity with perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) prompted us to test CPs in the novel TTR-TR CALUX assay for their thyroid hormone transport disrupting potential. Four self-synthesized and additionally purified single chain length CP mixtures (C-10-CPs, C-11-CPs, C-14-CPs and C-16-CPs) and two each of industrial MCCP and LCCP products were tested in parallel with PFOA. All CP mixtures influenced the TTR binding of T4, giving activities of 1,300 to 17,000 mu g/g PFOA equivalents and lowest observable effect concentrations (LOELs) of 0.95 to 0.029 mM/L incubate. Highest activities and lowest LOELs were observed for C-16-CPs (48.3% Cl content, activity 17,000, LOEL 0.047 mM/L) and a LCCP mixture (71.7% Cl content; activity 10,000; LOEL 0.029 mM/L). A trend of higher activities and lower LOELs towards longer chains and higher chlorination degrees was implied, but could not be statistically confirmed. Irrespectively, the less well examined and current-use LCCPs showed the highest response in the TTR-TR beta CALUX assay.
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