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DOI 10.1021/acs.est.2c05217
Titel (primär) Baseline narcosis for the glass-vial 96-h growth inhibition of the nematode C. elegans and its use for identifying electrophilic and pro-electrophilic toxicity
Autor Saleem, S. ORCID logo ; Böhme, A.; Schüürmann, G.
Quelle Environmental Science & Technology
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
Department OEC
Band/Volume 57
Heft 4
Seite von 1692
Seite bis 1700
Sprache englisch
Topic T9 Healthy Planet
Supplements https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.2c05217/suppl_file/es2c05217_si_001.pdf
Keywords Narcosis; Aquatic Toxicity; In vitro; Nematodes; Dose
Abstract

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been widely used as a model organism for assessing chemical toxicity. So far, however, a respective baseline narcosis reference has been lacking to predict narcosis-level toxicity and to identify excess-toxic compounds and associated mechanisms of action. Employing 22 organic narcotics that cover 7.2 units of their log Kow (octanol/water partition coefficient) from −1.20 to 6.03, a baseline narcosis model has been derived for a glass-vial 96-h growth inhibition test with C. elegans, both without and with correction for compound loss through volatilization and sorption. The resultant effective concentrations yielding 50% growth inhibition, EC50, vary by 6.4 log units from 5.04 · 10–1 to 1.90 · 10–7 mol/L (exposure-corrected). Application of the new model is illustrated through sensing the toxicity enhancement (Te) of four Michael-acceptor carbonyls driven by their reactive mode of action. Moreover, narcosis-level predicted vs experimental EC50 of two α,β-unsaturated alcohols demonstrate the biotransformation capability of C. elegans regarding ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase). The discussion includes narcosis-level and excess-toxicity doses (critical body burdens) as well as chemical activities A50 (at the EC50) as compared to fish, daphnids, ciliates, bacteria, zebrafish embryo, and cell lines. Overall, the presently introduced model for predicting C. elegans baseline narcosis enables generating respective pre-test expectations, enriches experimental results by mechanistic information, and may complement 3Rs (reduce, refine, replace) test batteries through its ADH metabolic capacity.
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Saleem, S., Böhme, A., Schüürmann, G. (2023):
Baseline narcosis for the glass-vial 96-h growth inhibition of the nematode C. elegans and its use for identifying electrophilic and pro-electrophilic toxicity
Environ. Sci. Technol. 57 (4), 1692 - 1700 10.1021/acs.est.2c05217