title: Binding of brominated diphenyl ethers to male rat carrier proteins.
abstract: 1. Two [(14)C]-labelled brominated diphenyl ethers, 2,2',4,4',5-pentabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-99) and decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209), were separately administered to the male Sprague-Dawley rat as a single oral dose (2.2 mg kg(-1) body weight and 3.0 mg kg(-1), respectively). 2. Very low [(14)C] urine excretion was observed for both congeners (<1% of the dose), and cumulative biliary excretion was approximately 4% for BDE-99 and 9% for BDE-209. 3. More than 6% of the pooled urine from the BDE-99-treated rat was protein-bound to an 18-kDa protein characterized by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western immunoblot analysis as alpha(2u)-globulin. Eighteen per cent of the radioactivity from the pooled urine from the BDE-209 treated rat was bound to albumin; no binding to alpha(2u)-globulin was detected. 4. In bile, 27-39% of the radioactivity from the BDE-99-dosed rat was bound to an unidentified 79-kDa protein, whereas essentially all (>87%) of the biliary radioactivity from BDE-209 was bound to the 79-kDa protein. Both parent BDE-99 and-209 and their metabolites were detected by thin layer chromatography in the extracted fraction of this bile protein. 5. By differential centrifugation, the subcellular localization of the (14)C derived from each congener in selected tissues was quantified. The cytosolic [(14)C] from livers of the BDE-209-treated rat was bound to a 14-kDa protein, which was characterized as a fatty acid-binding protein.
authors.affiliation: US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Biosciences Research Laboratory, PO Box 5674-University Station, Fargo, ND 58105, USA. hakkh@fargo.ars.usda.gov
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hakk
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Larsen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Orn
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001835:Body Weight; D001966:Bromine / Q000737:chemistry; D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism / Q000652:urine; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D007525:Isoelectric Focusing; D008024:Ligands; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D010647:Phenyl Ethers / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; C490174:Fabp7 protein, rat; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D008024:Ligands; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D010647:Phenyl Ethers; C031538:phenyl ether; D002244:Carbon; D001966:Bromine