title: Estrogen-related receptor gamma disruption of source water and drinking water treatment processes extracts.
abstract: Environmental chemicals in drinking water can impact human health through nuclear receptors. Additionally, estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) are vulnerable to endocrine-disrupting effects. To date, however, ERR disruption of drinking water potency has not been reported. We used ERRgamma two-hybrid yeast assay to screen ERRgamma disrupting activities in a drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) located in north China and in source water from a reservoir, focusing on agonistic, antagonistic, and inverse agonistic activity to 4-hydroxytamoxifen (4-OHT). Water treatment processes in the DWTP consisted of pre-chlorination, coagulation, coal and sand filtration, activated carbon filtration, and secondary chlorination processes. Samples were extracted by solid phase extraction. Results showed that ERRgamma antagonistic activities were found in all sample extracts, but agonistic and inverse agonistic activity to 4-OHT was not found. When calibrated with the toxic equivalent of 4-OHT, antagonistic effluent effects ranged from 3.4 to 33.1 microg/L. In the treatment processes, secondary chlorination was effective in removing ERRgamma antagonists, but the coagulation process led to significantly increased ERRgamma antagonistic activity. The drinking water treatment processes removed 73.5% of ERRgamma antagonists. To our knowledge, the occurrence of ERRgamma disruption activities on source and drinking water in vitro had not been reported previously. It is vital, therefore, to increase our understanding of ERRy disrupting activities in drinking water.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China. linazone@163.com
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Weiwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Kaifeng
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Zijian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Satyanarayanan Senthik
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kumaran
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen / Q000032:analysis* / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D013629:Tamoxifen / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000032:analysis / Q000494:pharmacology; D020798:Two-Hybrid System Techniques; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis* / Q000494:pharmacology; D014881:Water Supply
chemical_list: D011960:Receptors, Estrogen; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C425824:estrogen receptor gamma; D013629:Tamoxifen; C016601:afimoxifene