Stress Response of Mammalian Cells Incubated with Landfill Leachate
2008
Talorete, Terence | Limam, Atef | Kawano, Mitsuko | Jenhani, Amel Ben Rejeb | Ghrabi, Ahmed | Isoda, Hiroko
Environmental contamination from landfill leachate has been linked to disturbances in human health. Often, however, only global parameters, such as dissolved organic content, chemical oxygen demand, and 5-d biological oxygen demand, are used to evaluate wastewater quality. In the present study, we determined leachate cytotoxicity and stress response of leachate-treated mammalian cells using in vitro bioassays and other molecular techniques. The modified E-screen assay using human breast cancer MCF-7 cells was used to determine the estrogenic potential and/or cytotoxicity of water samples from two solid-waste landfills in Tunisia. The cytotoxicity mechanism of the leachate was determined by DNA fragmentation and lactate dehydrogenase assays. The stress response of heat shock protein (HSP) 47-positive Chinese hamster ovary cells treated with leachate also was determined. Proteomics analyses and real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction were used to determine and confirm the enhanced expressions of certain stress-related proteins. Results showed that the leachate samples generally did not have estrogenic activity. Instead, they were cytotoxic toward MCF-7 cells, and the cytotoxicity was by necrosis during the early stages of incubation. Leachate also enhanced the expression of HSP and various stress-related proteins, such as heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein E1, phosphoglycerate mutase, and nuclear matrix protein 200, in MCF-7 cells. These can be considered as survival mechanisms against leachate-induced cytotoxicity.
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