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Title: Data-driven learning of narcosis mode of action identifies a CNS transcriptional signature shared between whole organism Caenorhabditis elegans and a fish gill cell line
Authors: Brockmeier, EK
Basili, D
Herbert, J
Rendal, C
Boakes, L
Grauslys, A
Taylor, NS
Danby, EB
Gutsell, S
Kanda, R
Cronin, M
Barclay, J
Antczak, P
Viant, MR
Hodges, G
Falciani, F
Keywords: narcosis;omics;biomarkers;bioinformatic;cross-species analysis;mode of action
Issue Date: 28-Jul-2022
Publisher: Elsevier
Citation: Brockmeier, R. et al. (2022) 'Data-driven learning of narcosis mode of action identifies a CNS transcriptional signature shared between whole organism Caenorhabditis elegans and a fish gill cell line', Science of the Total Environment, 849 (25 November 2022), 157666, pp. 1 - 14. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157666.
Abstract: Copyright © 2022 The Authors. With the large numbers of man-made chemicals produced and released in the environment, there is a need to provide assessments on their potential effects on environmental safety and human health. Current regulatory frameworks rely on a mix of both hazard and risk-based approaches to make safety decisions, but the large number of chemicals in commerce combined with an increased need to conduct assessments in the absence of animal testing makes this increasingly challenging. This challenge is catalysing the use of more mechanistic knowledge in safety assessment from both in silico and in vitro approaches in the hope that this will increase confidence in being able to identify modes of action (MoA) for the chemicals in question. Here we approach this challenge by testing whether a functional genomics approach in C. elegans and in a fish cell line can identify molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of narcotics, and the effects of more specific acting toxicants. We show that narcosis affects the expression of neuronal genes associated with CNS function in C. elegans and in a fish cell line. Overall, we believe that our study provides an important step in developing mechanistically relevant biomarkers which can be used to screen for hazards, and which prevent the need for repeated animal or cross-species comparisons for each new chemical.
Description: Supplementary data related to this article: Supplementary material, available at https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0048969722047647-mmc1.docx (Word document35, 5KB)); Supplementary Data 1. These are the chemicals along with their properties and the calculated doses given for the C. elegans (Caenorhabditis elegans), available at https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0048969722047647-mmc2.xls (spreadsheet, 68KB); Supplementary Data 2. These are the chemicals and the doses given for the trout gill cell line (Rtgill-WT1). The codes here relate to the same codes on the microarray data, available at https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0048969722047647-mmc3.xlsx (spreadsheet; 11KB); Supplementary Data 3. These are the probes found to be significantly different between exposed and unexposed C. elegans for each of the narcotic chemicals tested, available at https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0048969722047647-mmc4.xlsx (spreadsheet, 363KB); Supplementary Data 4. The file provide the metabolite composition of the three clusters identified by running a metabolic-based predictive model, available at https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0048969722047647-mmc5.xlsx (spreadsheet, 10KB).
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/25401
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157666
ISSN: 0048-9697
Other Identifiers: ORCiD ID: Rakesh Kanda - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5427-3982
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Appears in Collections:Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers

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