Carcinogenesis, Vol. 24, No. 4, 673-680,
April 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
CANCER BIOLOGY |
TCDD-mediated alterations in the AhR-dependent pathway in Seveso, Italy, 20 years after the accident
1 Genetic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Nih, Bethesda, MD 20892-7236, USA
2 EPOCA, Epidemiology Research Center, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
3 Environmental Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
4 Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Milan–bicocca, Hospital of Desio, Desio, Milan, Italy
5 Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
6 Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College–CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA
7 To whom correspondence should be addressed Email: landim{at}mail.nih.gov
Approximately 20 years after the Seveso, Italy, accident we conducted a population-based study to evaluate the impact of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) exposure on cancer using mechanistically based biomarkers of dioxin response in humans. TCDD toxic effects are mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). We studied the AhR-dependent pathway in lymphocytes from 62 subjects randomly sampled from the highest exposed zones and 59 subjects from the surrounding non-contaminated area, frequency matched for age, gender and smoking. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive investigation to date designed to evaluate the key genes in the pathway, including AhR, aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator, CYP1A1 and CYP1B1 transcripts and CYP1A1-associated 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) activity in a population heavily exposed to dioxin. Current lipid-adjusted plasma TCDD concentrations in these subjects ranged from 3.5 to 90 ng/kg (or p.p.t.) and were negatively associated with AhR mRNA in unstimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P = 0.03). When mitogen-induced lymphocytes were cultured with 10 nM TCDD, all AhR-dependent genes were induced 1.2- to 13-fold. In these cells, plasma TCDD was associated with decreased EROD activity. In addition, there was a strong positive correlation between AhR and CYP1A1 expression (P = 0.001) and between AhR and CYP1B1 expression (P = 0.006). CYP1A1 expression was also strongly correlated with EROD activity (P = 0.001). The analysis of the expression of dioxin-inducible genes involved in carcinogenesis may help in determining dose–response relationships for human exposure to dioxin in vivo and in assessing the variability of human response, which may indicate the presence of subjects more susceptible to disease as a result of such exposures.
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