Analyzing high-throughput assay data to advance the rapid screening of environmental chemicals for human reproductive toxicity.
bioRxiv
; 2024 May 22.
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ABSTRACT
While high-throughput (HTP) assays have been proposed as platforms to rapidly assess reproductive toxicity, there is currently a lack of established assays that specifically address germline development/function and fertility. We assessed the applicability domains of yeast (S. cerevisiae) and nematode (C. elegans) HTP assays in toxicity screening of 124 environmental chemicals, determining their agreement in identifying toxicants and their concordance with reproductive toxicity in vivo. We integrated data generated in the two models and compared results using a streamlined, semi-automated benchmark dose (BMD) modeling approach. We then extracted and modeled relevant mammalian in vivo data available for the matching chemicals included in the Toxicological Reference Database (ToxRefDB). We ranked potencies of common compounds using the BMD and evaluated correlation between the datasets using Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients. We found moderate to good correlation across the three data sets, with r = 0.48 (95% CI 0.28-1.00, p<0.001) and rs = 0.40 (p=0.002) for the parametric and rank order correlations between the HTP BMDs; r = 0.95 (95% CI 0.76-1.00, p=0.0005) and rs = 0.89 (p=0.006) between the yeast assay and ToxRefDB BMDs; and r = 0.81 (95% CI 0.28-1.00, p=0.014) and rs = 0.75 (p=0.033) between the worm assay and ToxRefDB BMDs. Our findings underscore the potential of these HTP assays to identify environmental chemicals that exhibit reproductive toxicity. Integrating these HTP datasets into mammalian in vivo prediction models using machine learning methods could further enhance the predictive value of these assays in future rapid screening efforts.
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BioRxiv
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2024
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