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High-Throughput Transcriptomics Platform for Screening Environmental Chemicals

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TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 181, 期 1, 页码 68-89

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfab009

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transcriptomics; high-throughput screening; TempO-Seq; computational toxicology

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  1. U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development

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This study evaluated the TempO-Seq assay for HTTr concentration-response screening of chemicals in the human-derived MCF7 cell model. A robust bioinformatics pipeline was developed using open-source tools, along with a novel gene expression signature-based concentration-response modeling approach. Analysis showed highly reproducible differential gene expression signatures, along with in vitro transcriptional biological pathway altering concentrations closely aligned with previous high-throughput screening assays.
New approach methodologies (NAMs) that efficiently provide information about chemical hazard without using whole animals are needed to accelerate the pace of chemical risk assessments. Technological advancements in gene expression assays have made in vitro high-throughput transcriptomics (HTTr) a feasible option for NAMs-based hazard characterization of environmental chemicals. In this study, we evaluated the Templated Oligo with Sequencing Readout (TempO-Seq) assay for HTTr concentration-response screening of a small set of chemicals in the human-derived MCF7 cell model. Our experimental design included a variety of reference samples and reference chemical treatments in order to objectively evaluate TempO-Seq assay performance. To facilitate analysis of these data, we developed a robust and scalable bioinformatics pipeline using open-source tools. We also developed a novel gene expression signature-based concentration-response modeling approach and compared the results to a previously implemented workflow for concentration-response analysis of transcriptomics data using BMDExpress. Analysis of reference samples and reference chemical treatments demonstrated highly reproducible differential gene expression signatures. In addition, we found that aggregating signals from individual genes into gene signatures prior to concentration-response modeling yielded in vitro transcriptional biological pathway altering concentrations (BPACs) that were closely aligned with previous ToxCast high-throughput screening assays. Often these identified signatures were associated with the known molecular target of the chemicals in our test set as the most sensitive components of the overall transcriptional response. This work has resulted in a novel and scalable in vitro HTTr workflow that is suitable for high-throughput hazard evaluation of environmental chemicals.

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