Transgenic Models of Ah Receptor Action

Ah 受体作用的转基因模型

• 批准号: 8974829
• 负责人: CHRISTOPHER A BRADFIELD
• 金额: $ 33.86万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-10 至 2017-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8974829
• 关键词: ARNT gene; Affinity; Agonist; Alleles; Animal Model; Aromatic Polycyclic Hydrocarbons; Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor; Biological; Biological Markers; Candidate Disease Gene; Cells; Chemical Structure; Complex; Coupled; DNA; Data Set; Dependence; Development; Developmental Biology; Dioxins; Endothelial Cells; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Exposure to; Gene Expression; Gene Targeting; Genetic Enhancer Element; Genetic Polymorphism; Genomic approach; Goals; Grant; Health Policy; Hepatocyte; Human; Individual; Ligands; Liver neoplasms; Mediating; Modeling; Mus; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Physiological; Play; Polychlorinated Biphenyls; Population; Receptor Signaling; Recombinants; Risk; Risk Assessment; Rodent; Role; Signal Pathway; Signal Transduction; Staging; Testing; Toxic effect; Toxicity Tests; Toxicology; Transcript; Transcriptional Activation; Transgenic Model; Tumor Promotion; activating transcription factor; acute toxicity; aryl hydrocarbon receptor ligand; base; carcinogenesis; developmental toxicity; dibenzofuran; diphenyl; embryonic stem cell; environmental chemical; hazard; insight; man; mouse model; mutant; novel; pollutant; predictive marker; receptor; research study; response

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that mediates the biological effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), halogenated-dioxins ("dioxins"), - dibenzofurans, -biphenyls (PCBs), and -diphenylethers. Because of its central role in acute toxicity, teratogenesis and carcinogenesis of a large number of environmental contaminants, mechanistic information about AHR signaling is used by regulatory agencies to establish acceptable exposure levels for these pollutants. The overarching hypothesis of this proposal is that at least three distinct AHR signaling pathways exist that are of toxicological significance to human populations and vertebrate species in general. We propose that these three pathways can be distinguished by their unique impacts on transcriptional profiles within target cell populations and that these pathways can be further defined based upon their dependence on fractional activation of the AHR, by their cellular context, and their influence on gene expression through enhancer elements known as AHREs. The goal of this proposal is to identify biomarkers that reflect exposure to agonists and their induced toxic responses. We will accomplish this through the identification of low and high affinity AHREs in the hepatocyte and endothelial cell compartments of novel recombinant mouse models. To these ends, we propose the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Use gene targeting in ES cells to generate recombinant alleles derived from a ligand responsive version of Ahr. Specific Aim 2: Demonstrate the importance of the cellular expression and concentration of AHR. Specific Aim 3: Classify the high and low affinity AHRE batteries using genomic approaches. Specific Aim 4: Provide evidence that environmental AHR agonists can stimulate the endogenous AHR pathway. We propose that the results of this effort will provide new models that will inform the mechanism of dioxin toxicity in humans, characterize DNA signatures of toxicity, and test a novel hypothesis that developmental toxicity arises from interference with the endogenous AHR pathway. Collectively these studies will set the stage for more accurate and informative risk assessment in man.

描述(申请人提供)：芳烃受体(AHR)是一种配体激活的转录因子，介导多环芳烃(PAHs)、卤代二恶英(“二恶英”)、-二苯并呋喃、-联苯(PCB)和-二苯醚的生物效应。由于它在大量环境污染物的急性毒性、致畸和致癌中起着核心作用，有关AHR信号的机制信息被监管机构用来确定这些污染物的可接受暴露水平。这一建议的主要假设是，至少存在三种不同的AHR信号通路，它们对人类种群和一般脊椎动物物种具有毒理学意义。我们认为，这三种途径可以通过它们对靶细胞群体内转录谱的独特影响来区分，这些途径可以根据它们对AHR部分激活的依赖、它们的细胞环境以及它们通过被称为AHREs的增强子元件对基因表达的影响来进一步定义。这项提案的目标是确定反映激动剂暴露及其诱导的毒性反应的生物标记物。我们将通过在新型重组小鼠模型的肝细胞和内皮细胞中鉴定低亲和力和高亲和力的AHRE来实现这一点。为此，我们提出了以下具体目标：具体目标1：在ES细胞中使用基因打靶来产生来自配体响应版本的AhR的重组等位基因。具体目标2：证明AHR细胞表达和浓度的重要性。具体目标3：利用基因组学方法对高亲和力和低亲和力Are电池进行分类。具体目的4：提供环境AHR激动剂可以刺激内源性AHR途径的证据。我们认为，这项工作的结果将提供新的模型，将揭示二恶英对人类的毒性机制，表征毒性的DNA特征，并测试一个新的假设，即发育毒性来自对内源性AHR途径的干扰。总体而言，这些研究将为对人类进行更准确和更有信息量的风险评估奠定基础。