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Further insight into the potential toxicity of zearalenone-14-glucoside based on toxicokinetics, tissue distribution, transformation, and excretion in rats

Journal

ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 246, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.114184

Keywords

Zearalenone-14-Glucoside; Toxicokinetic; Tissue distribution; Excretion; Biotransformation; UHPLC-q-trap-MS/MS

Funding

  1. National Key Research and Development Plan Program [2019YFC1710504]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81872999]
  3. CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) [2021-I2M-1-031, 2021-I2M-1-071]
  4. High-end Foreign Experts Project [G2021194003L]

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This study assessed the toxicokinetics of Zearalenone-14-Glucoside (Z14G), a modified mycotoxin, to determine its potential risk. The research found that Z14G readily transformed into its parent form ZEN, distributed throughout the tissues, and was primarily excreted through urine. The presence of the metabolite alpha-ZEL in various samples also highlights the importance of biotransformation in Z14G exposure.
Bioaccumulation and biotransformation are critical factors that affect the release of easily metabolizable chemicals to cause human toxicity. The glucoside-type modified mycotoxin Zearalenone-14-Glucoside (Z14G) has attracted global attention for its high occurrence in foodstuffs and the potential threat to humans as its high rate of transformation into parent forms. Given the limited toxicokinetics information, this study assessed the absorption, distribution, biotransformation and excretion of Z14G, aiming to define the potential risk of Z14G. The toxicokinetics of Z14G were assessed after intravenous (IV) or oral administration (PO) in SD rats at doses of 10 mg/kg.b.w. In addition, comparative work with the parent mycotoxin ZEN was performed in parallel. The determination of Z14G and its metabolites (ZEN, alpha-zearalenol, beta-zearalenol, alpha-zearalanol, beta-zearalanol) proceeded with a sensitive UHPLC-MS/MS method. Our research indicated that Z14G readily disappeared from the blood, and distributed throughout the tissues via transformation into its parent form ZEN, and excreted primarily through urine. More importantly, the metabolite alpha-ZEL was observed in most analyzed tissue, urine and feces samples. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of biotransformation with regard to Z14G, providing critical insight for the health risk assessment of co-exposure of humans to glucoside-type modified mycotoxins.

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