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The Human Toxome Project

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Bouhifd, Mounir·2015·ALTEX

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The Human Toxome Project, funded as an NIH Transformative Research grant 2011-2016, is focused on developing the concepts and the means for deducing, validating and sharing molecular pathways of toxicity (PoT). Using the test case of estrogenic endocrine disruption, the responses of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells are being phenotyped by transcriptomics and mass-spectroscopy-based metabolomics. The bioinformatics tools for PoT deduction represent a core deliverable. A number of challenges for quality and standardization of cell systems, omics technologies and bioinformatics are being addressed. In parallel, concepts for annotation, validation and sharing of PoT information, as well as their link to adverse outcomes, are being developed. A reasonably comprehensive public database of PoT, the Human Toxome Knowledge-base, could become a point of reference for toxicological research and regulatory test strategies.

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  • The study used MCF-7 cells from the same ATCC lot (lot number 59388743, passage 147) in two laboratories with strict adherence to standards for validation, including standard operating protocols, formal training, transfer, and Good Cell Culture Practice recommendations.

    “As part of our “Mapping the Human Toxome” project, two laboratories (Brown University [BU] and Johns Hopkins University [JHU]) used MCF-7 cells from the same ATCC lot (lot number 59388743, passage 147) combined with strict adherence to standards for validation (standard operations protocols, formal training, and transfer) for cell culture and analytic methods14 including the recommendations for Go”

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  1. Gstraunthaler G Hartung T 1999 Bologna declaration toward good cell culture practice Altern Lab Anim 27 206 12234246
  2. Miller S Kennedy D Thomson J 2000 A rapid and sensitive reporter gene that uses green fluorescent protein expression to detect chemicals with estrogenic activity Toxicol Sci 55 69 77 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/55.1.69 10788561 · DOI

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Authors
Bouhifd, M.
Affiliations
Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author
Bouhifd, Mounir
Venue
ALTEX
Publisher
ALTEX Edition
Published
2015
Volume
32
Issue
2
Pages
112-124
ISSN
  • 0946-7785 (ISSN-L)
  • 1868-596X
OpenAlex
W2165340299
Cited by
69
References
107
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 5
FWCI
8.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • ALTEX (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U01 FD004230)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01ES020750, T32ES007272)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
Keywords
MCF-7 cells, transcriptomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics software, toxicology, toxicology databases
MeSH terms
Animals, Animal Testing Alternatives, Humans, Toxicology, Databases, Factual, Toxicity Tests, Mice, Endocrine Disruptors, Metabolomics, Transcriptome

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