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Disruptive environmental chemicals and cellular mechanisms that confer resistance to cell death

Narayanan KB , Ali M 1 , Barclay BJ 2 , Cheng QS 3 , D'Abronzo L 4 , Dornetshuber-Fleiss R 5 Show all authors , Ghosh PM 4 , Gonzalez Guzman MJ 6 , Lee TJ 7 , Leung PS 8 , Li L 8 , Luanpitpong S 9 , Ratovitski E 10 , Rojanasakul Y 11 , Romano MF 12 , Romano S 12 , Sinha RK 13 , Yedjou C 14 , Al-Mulla F 15 , Al-Temaimi R 15 , Amedei A 16 , Brown DG 17 , Ryan EP 17 , Colacci A 18 , Hamid RA 19 , Mondello C 20 , Raju J 21 , Salem HK 22 , Woodrick J 23 , Scovassi AI 20 , Singh N 24 , Vaccari M 18 , Roy R 23 , Forte S 25 , Memeo L 25 , Kim SY 26 , Bisson WH 27 , Lowe L 28 , Park HH

Affiliations 

  • 1 Sultan Zainal Abidin University, Malaysia
  • 2 Plant Biotechnologies Inc, St. Albert AB, Canada
  • 3 Computer Science Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
  • 4 Department of Urology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
  • 5 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Vienna, Austria
  • 6 University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, School of Public Health, Nutrition Program, San Juan Puerto Rico 00936-5067, USA
  • 7 Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, 705-717, South Korea
  • 8 School of Biomedical Science, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 9 Siriraj Center of Excellence for Stem Cell Research, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
  • 10 Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Head and Neck Cancer Research Division, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
  • 11 Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
  • 12 Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, Federico II University of Naples, 80131 Naples, Italy
  • 13 Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, MEM 180, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  • 14 Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USA
  • 15 Department of Pathology, Kuwait University, Safat 13110, Kuwait
  • 16 Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Firenze, Firenze, 50134, Italy
  • 17 Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado state University/ Colorado School of Public Health, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1680, USA
  • 18 Center for Environmental Carcinogenesis and Risk Assessment, Environmental Protection and Health Prevention Agency, Bologna, 40126, Italy
  • 19 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
  • 20 Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council, Pavia, 27100, Italy
  • 21 Toxicology Research Division, Bureau of Chemical Safety Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0K9, Canada
  • 22 Urology Department, Kasr Al-Ainy School of Medicine, Cairo University, El Manial, Cairo, 12515, Egypt
  • 23 Molecular Oncology Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, 20057, USA
  • 24 Advenced Molecular Science Research Centre, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226003, India
  • 25 Mediterranean Institute of Oncology, Viagrande, 95029, Italy
  • 26 Department of Internal Medicine, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul 139-706, South Korea
  • 27 Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Environmental Health Science Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA and
  • 28 Getting to Know Cancer, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Carcinogenesis, 2015 Jun;36 Suppl 1:S89-110.
PMID: 26106145 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgv032

Abstract

Cell death is a process of dying within biological cells that are ceasing to function. This process is essential in regulating organism development, tissue homeostasis, and to eliminate cells in the body that are irreparably damaged. In general, dysfunction in normal cellular death is tightly linked to cancer progression. Specifically, the up-regulation of pro-survival factors, including oncogenic factors and antiapoptotic signaling pathways, and the down-regulation of pro-apoptotic factors, including tumor suppressive factors, confers resistance to cell death in tumor cells, which supports the emergence of a fully immortalized cellular phenotype. This review considers the potential relevance of ubiquitous environmental chemical exposures that have been shown to disrupt key pathways and mechanisms associated with this sort of dysfunction. Specifically, bisphenol A, chlorothalonil, dibutyl phthalate, dichlorvos, lindane, linuron, methoxychlor and oxyfluorfen are discussed as prototypical chemical disruptors; as their effects relate to resistance to cell death, as constituents within environmental mixtures and as potential contributors to environmental carcinogenesis.

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