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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2020

Atropselective Partitioning of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in a HepG2 Cell Culture System: Experimental and Modeling Results.

Chun-Yun Zhang, Susanne Flor, Gabriele Ludewig, Hans-Joachim Lehmler

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chun-Yun ZhangDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States.
Susanne FlorDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States.
Gabriele LudewigDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States.
Hans-Joachim LehmlerDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9163-927X
University of Iowa · US

Funding

Training CoreP42ES013661 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Rachel Frances Marek · 2006 to 2026
$60.3M
Pulmonary Toxicology Facility CoreP30ES005605 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Jong Sung Kim · 1990 to 2026
$40.5M
PCB Enantiomers Implicated in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Identification of Individual Metabolic Factors that Determine Risk and VulnerabilityR21ES027169 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI LEHMLER, HANS-JOACHIM · 2017 to 2018
$410k
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES005605NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES013661NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES027169
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell culture models are used to study the toxicity of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); however, it is typically unknown how much PCB enters the cells and, for chiral PCBs, if the partitioning is atropselective. We investigated the partitioning of racemic PCB 91, PCB 95, PCB 132, and PCB 136 in HepG2 cells following a 72 h incubation. PCBs were present in the cell culture medium (60.7-88.8%), cells (8.0-14.6%), and dishes (2.3-7.8%) and displayed atropisomeric enrichment in the cells (enantiomeric fraction [EF] = 0.55-0.77) and dishes (EF = 0.53-0.68). Polyparameter linear free energy relationships coupled with a composition-based model provided a good estimate of the PCB levels in the cells and cell culture medium. The free concentration was subsequently used to extrapolate from the nominal cell culture concentration to PCB tissue levels and

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Polychlorinated BiphenylsCell Culture TechniquesStereoisomerismPolychlorinated Biphenyls

Identifiers

PMID33059451
PMCPMC7642102
OpenAlexW3092913066

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