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Effect of Prevalent Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Pcbs) Food Contaminant on the Mcf7, Lncap and Mda-Mb-231 Cell Lines Viability and Pon1 Gene Expression Level: Proposed Model of Binding Publisher Pubmed



Yazdi F1 ; Shoeibi S2, 3 ; Yazdi MH4, 5 ; Eidi A1
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  1. 1. Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Food and Drug Reference Control Laboratories Center, Iran Food and Drug Administration (IFDA), MOH & ME, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Food and Drug Laboratory Research Center (FDLRC), Iran Food and Drug Administration (IFDA), MOH & ME, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Biotechnology Research Center and Recombinant Vaccine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box:1416753955, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. Immunotherapy Group, The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (TIPS), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: DARU# Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Published:2021


Abstract

Background: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of synthetic organic chlorine compounds known as an organic pollutant in food sources, which play important roles in malignancies. The present study aimed to investigate the direct effects of prevalent PCBs in food in hormone-responsive and non-responsive cell lines. Methods: In the current study, MCF-7, LNCap, and MDA-MB231 cell lines were treated with serial concentrations (0.001–100 μM) of PCBs for 48 h and cell viability assessment was performed using MTT assay. The best concentration then applied and the expression level of PON1 was evaluated using real-time PCR. Besides, molecular docking was performed to determine the binding mechanism and predicted binding energies of PBCs compounds to the AhR receptor. Results: Unlike MCF-7 and LNCap cells, the viability of MDA-MB231 cells did not significantly change by different concentrations of PCBs. Meanwhile, quantitative gene expression analysis showed that the PON1 was significantly more expressed in MCF-7 and LNCap lines treated with PCB28 and PCB101. However, the expression level of this gene in other groups and also MDA-MB231cells did not demonstrate any significantly change. Also, the results of molecular docking showed that PBCs had steric interaction with AhR receptor. Conclusions: Current results showed that despite of hormone non-responsive cells the PCBs have a significant positive effect on hormone-responsive cell. Therefore, and regarding to the existence of PCBs contamination in food there should be serious concern about their impact on the prevalence of different malignancies which certainly should result in a standard limit for this material. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.