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ARCHIVES OF TOXICOLOGY
卷 87, 期 6, 页码 1115-1127出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-013-1012-x
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Adenoviral vectors; Bioactivation; Cytochrome P450; Hepatotoxicity; HepG2 cells; High-content screening
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资金
- ALIVE Foundation
- Spanish Ministry of Health [IF08/3638, PI10/0923]
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Use of the HepG2 cell line to assess hepatotoxicity induced by bioactivable compounds is hampered by their low cytochrome P450 expression. To overcome this limitation, we have used adenoviral transfection to develop upgraded HepG2 cells (ADV-HepG2) expressing the major P450 enzymes involved in drug metabolism (CYP1A2, CYP2D6, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP3A4) at levels comparable to those of human hepatocytes. The potential utility of this new cell model for the in vitro screening of bioactivable drugs was assessed using a high-content screening assay that we recently developed to simultaneously measure multiple parameters indicative of cell injury. To this end, ADV-HepG2 and HepG2 cells, cultured in 96-well plates, were exposed for 24 h to a wide range of concentrations of 12 bioactivable and 3 non-bioactivable compounds. The cell viability and parameters associated with nuclear morphology, mitochondrial function, intracellular calcium concentration, and oxidative stress indicative of prelethal cytotoxicity and representative of different mechanisms of toxicity were evaluated. Bioactivable compounds showed lower IC50 values in ADV-HepG2 cells than in HepG2 cells. Moreover, significant differences in the other parameters analyzed were observed between both cell models, while similar effects were observed for non-bioactivable compounds (negative controls). The changes in cell parameters detected in our assay for a given compound are in good agreement with the previously reported toxicity mechanism. Overall, our results indicate that this assay may be a suitable new in vitro approach for early screening of compounds to identify bioactivable hepatotoxins and the mechanism(s) involved in their toxicity.
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