Diesel exhaust particles are mutagenic in FE1-MutaMouse lung epithelial cells

Nicklas Raun Jacobsen, Peter Møller, Corey Alexander Cohn, Steffen Loft, Ulla Vogel, Håkan Wallin

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Abstract

The particulate phase of diesel engine exhaust is likely carcinogenic. However, the mechanisms of diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) induced mutagenicity/carcinogenicity are still largely unknown. We determined the mutant frequency following eight repeated 72 h incubations with 37.5 or 75 microg/ml DEP (NIST SRM 1650) in the FE1-MutaMouse lung epithelial cell line. We measured DEP-induced acellular and intracellular production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and compared with ROS production induced by carbon black, which we have previously shown is mutagenic in this cell line [N.R. Jacobsen, A.T. Saber, P. White, P. Moller, G. Pojana, U. Vogel, S. Loft, J. Gingerich, L. Soper, G.R. Douglas, H. Wallin. Increased mutant frequency by carbon black, but not quartz, in the lacZ and cII transgenes of mutamouse lung epithelial cells, Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 48(6) (2007) 451-461]. The mutant frequency was marginally elevated in cells treated with 37.5 microg/ml DEP (1.29-fold [95% CI: 0.96-1.60], p=0.08) and significantly increased in cells treated with 75 microg/ml DEP (1.55-fold [95% CI: 1.23-1.87], p < 0.001). ROS production from DEP was low both within cells and in acellular systems when compared to carbon black. These results show that DEP are mutagenic in a mammalian cell line in vitro and that additional pathways besides ROS production, such as those involving the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, likely are involved in the mutagenesis.
Original languageEnglish
JournalMutation Research - Reviews
Volume641
Issue number1-2
Pages (from-to)54-7
Number of pages3
ISSN1383-5742
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

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Keywords: Air Pollutants; Animals; Cells, Cultured; Epithelial Cells; Lung; Mice; Mutagenesis; Mutagens; Reactive Oxygen Species; Soot; Vehicle Emissions

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