title: Expression of heat shock protein 70 in a permanent cell line (EPC) exposed to sediment extracts from the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
abstract: Heat shock proteins 70 (hsp70) are known to be induced by a great variety of chemical stressors. The effects of different environmental contaminants, which were identified in sediments of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea as main contaminants or as contaminants of special toxicological interest, on the extent of expression of hsp70 in a permanent cell line Epithelioma papulosum cyprini (EPC) were investigated. Concentrations of the single contaminants leading to elevated hsp70 levels were compared to the respective concentrations of these contaminants encountered in the sediment extracts thus allowing an assessment of their contribution to the toxicity of these sediments. Analysis of hsp70 was performed using western blotting techniques with subsequent comparative quantification by densitometry. Eleven of thirteen contaminants have shown a dose-dependent increase in hsp70 levels. An expression of hsp70 was observed in most cases between 0.1 and 10 microg/mL test solution. Some of the investigated stressors led to extremely high hsp70 contents even at low concentrations. However, in most cases contaminant concentrations in sediments were too low to cause an effect. For this reason, effects of the tested sediments are attributed to other contaminants or rather to mixtures of stressors.
authors.affiliation: University of Hamburg, Institute of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kinder
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sierts-Herrmann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Biselli
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Heinzel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hühnerfuss
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kammann
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Reineke
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Theobald
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Steinhart
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002347:Carps / Q000378:metabolism*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D003720:Densitometry; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000032:analysis*; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D009659:North Sea
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase