| Literature DB >> 24497971 |
Won Jun Lee1, Sang Cheol Kim2, Seul Ji Lee1, Jeongmi Lee3, Jeong Hill Park1, Kyung-Sang Yu4, Johan Lim5, Sung Won Kwon1.
Abstract
Based on the process of carcinogenesis, carcinogens are classified as either genotoxic or non-genotoxic. In contrast to non-genotoxic carcinogens, many genotoxic carcinogens have been reported to cause tumor in carcinogenic bioassays in animals. Thus evaluating the genotoxicity potential of chemicals is important to discriminate genotoxic from non-genotoxic carcinogens for health care and pharmaceutical industry safety. Additionally, investigating the difference between the mechanisms of genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens could provide the foundation for a mechanism-based classification for unknown compounds. In this study, we investigated the gene expression of HepG2 cells treated with genotoxic or non-genotoxic carcinogens and compared their mechanisms of action. To enhance our understanding of the differences in the mechanisms of genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens, we implemented a gene set analysis using 12 compounds for the training set (12, 24, 48 h) and validated significant gene sets using 22 compounds for the test set (24, 48 h). For a direct biological translation, we conducted a gene set analysis using Globaltest and selected significant gene sets. To validate the results, training and test compounds were predicted by the significant gene sets using a prediction analysis for microarrays (PAM). Finally, we obtained 6 gene sets, including sets enriched for genes involved in the adherens junction, bladder cancer, p53 signaling pathway, pathways in cancer, peroxisome and RNA degradation. Among the 6 gene sets, the bladder cancer and p53 signaling pathway sets were significant at 12, 24 and 48 h. We also found that the DDB2, RRM2B and GADD45A, genes related to the repair and damage prevention of DNA, were consistently up-regulated for genotoxic carcinogens. Our results suggest that a gene set analysis could provide a robust tool in the investigation of the different mechanisms of genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens and construct a more detailed understanding of the perturbation of significant pathways.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24497971 PMCID: PMC3908933 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086700
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Thirty-four compounds were classified as part of the training sets and test sets.
| Dataset | Compound | Time (h) | |
| Training | GTX | Aflatoxin B1 | 12,24,48 |
| Benzo[a]pyrene | 12,24,48 | ||
| 2-Acetyl aminofluorene | 12,24,48 | ||
| Dimethyl nitrosamine | 12,24,48 | ||
| Mitomycin C | 12,24,48 | ||
| NGTX | 2,3,7,8-Tetrachloro | 12,24,48 | |
| dibenzo-p-dioxin | 12,24,48 | ||
| Wy 14643 | 12,24,48 | ||
| Cyclosporine A | 12,24,48 | ||
| Ampicillin trihydrate | 12,24,48 | ||
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | 12,24,48 | ||
| d-Mannitol | 12,24,48 | ||
| Diclofenac | 12,24,48 | ||
| Test | GTX | Azathioprine | 24, 48 |
| 4-Aminobiphenyl | 24, 48 | ||
| Benzidine | 24, 48 | ||
| Chlorambucil | 24, 48 | ||
| 1-Ethyl-1-nitrosourea | 24, 48 | ||
| 4,4′-Methylenebis(2chloroaniline) | 24, 48 | ||
| 2-Amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f] quinolone | 24, 48 | ||
| Cyclophosphamide | 24, 48 | ||
| Cisplatin | 24, 48 | ||
| Furan | 24, 48 | ||
| Diethylnitrosamine | 24, 48 | ||
| NGTX | Caprolactam | 24, 48 | |
| Coumaphos | 24, 48 | ||
| Diazinon | 24, 48 | ||
| Acesulfame-K | 24, 48 | ||
| Progesterone | 24, 48 | ||
| 1,1,1-Trichloro-2,2-di-(4chlorophenyl) ethane | 24, 48 | ||
| Lindane | 24, 48 | ||
| Nitrobenzene | 24, 48 | ||
| Simazine | 24, 48 | ||
| Tetrachloroethylene | 24, 48 | ||
| Pentachlorophenol | 24, 48 | ||
Training sets included 5 GTXs and 7 NGTXs, and the test sets included 11 GTXs and 11 NGTXs. The time points were 12, 24 and 48 h of exposure for the training set and 24 and 48 h of exposure for the test set.
Figure 1A Venn diagram displaying the 57 gene sets that met p < 0.05 for at least one of the 12, 24 or 48 h time points.
To validate the 6 significant gene sets, PAM was conducted to classify the compounds using the fold changes of the 6 significant gene sets.
| Gene Set Name | 24 h | 48 h | ||||||||||
| Training | Test | Training | Test | |||||||||
| accuracy (%) | sensitivity (%) | specificity (%) | accuracy (%) | sensitivity (%) | specificity (%) | accuracy (%) | sensitivity (%) | specificity (%) | accuracy (%) | sensitivity (%) | specificity (%) | |
| Adherens junction | 92 | 80 | 100 | 73 | 55 | 91 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 |
| Bladder cancer | 92 | 80 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 | 92 | 80 | 100 | 77 | 55 | 100 |
| p53 signaling pathway | 92 | 80 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 | 92 | 80 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 |
| Pathways in cancer | 100 | 100 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 |
| Peroxisome | 10 | 100 | 100 | 77 | 64 | 91 | 92 | 100 | 86 | 77 | 82 | 73 |
| RNA degradation | 92 | 80 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 73 | 45 | 100 |
| Mean | 95 | 87 | 100 | 74 | 50 | 97 | 96 | 93 | 98 | 74 | 53 | 96 |
Accuracy, sensitivity and specificity were calculated for both the training dataset and the test dataset.
P-values calculated from the Globaltest for each of the 3 time points in the training set.
| Gene set Name | Training data | ||
| 12 h | 24 h | 48 h | |
| Adherens junction | 0.035 | 0.111 | 0.338 |
| Bladder cancer | 0.010 | 0.008 | 0.015 |
| p53 Signaling pathway | 0.016 | 0.006 | 0.013 |
| Pathways in cancer | 0.039 | 0.056 | 0.277 |
| Peroxisome | 0.016 | 0.265 | 0.438 |
| RNA degradation | 0.008 | 0.205 | 0.207 |
Figure 2Gene plot (top) from Globaltest and KEGG pathway (bottom) showing the fold change of individual genes in the p53 signaling pathway.
Red and green bars indicate up-regulated and down-regulated genes, respectively, after GTX exposure at A. 24 h or B. 48 h in comparison to NGTX exposure.
Figure 3Principal component analysis revealed the distribution of 12 compounds in the training data.
A. PCA results for gene expression in the p53 signaling pathway gene set at 24 h [red, 5 GTX; blue, 7 NGTX]. B. PCA results for gene expression in the bladder cancer gene set at 48 h [red, 5 GTX; blue, 7 NGTX].