Genomic comparison of insecticides and herbicide in human hepatoma (HepG2) cell line

Molecular & Cellular Toxicology - Tập 6 - Trang 378-383 - 2010
Yu Ri An1, Seung-Jun Kim1,2, Hey-Won Park2,3, Moon-Ju Oh2, Youn-Jung Kim4, Jae-Chun Ryu4, Seung Yong Hwang1,2
1Department of Biochemistry, Hanyang University, Sangnok-gu, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2GenoCheck Co. Ltd., Sangnok-gu, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
3Department of Bionanotechnology, Hanyang University, Sangnok-gu, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
4Cellular and Molecular Toxicology Laboratory, Korea Institute of Science & Technology, Cheongryang, Seoul, Korea

Tóm tắt

Pesticide is a chemical substance, biological agent, antimicrobial, disinfectant or device used against any pest, and it can be grouped in several different ways. Atrazine is one of the most commonly used herbicides found in the rural environments, permethrin and prallethrin are pyrethroid insecticides. In this study, we compared the characters of herbicide and insecticide by cytotoxicity and microarray experiments. In the cytotoxicity tests, we couldn’t find specific chemical features. However, in the gene expression analysis, we found that insecticides affects to RNA processing and RNA metabolism, and especially, in the energy metabolism, such as generation of precursor metabolites and energy, and energy derivation by oxidation of organic compounds, herbicides and insecticides are differently working. This study provides characteristics of two pesticides by checking the transcriptional change.

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