Toxic potentials of particulate and gaseous air pollutant
mixtures and the role of PAHs and their derivatives

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Toxic potentials of particulate and gaseous air pollutant mixtures and the role of PAHs and their derivatives

NOVÁKOVÁ, Zuzana; Jiří NOVÁK; Zoran KITANOVSKI; Petr KUKUČKA; Marie SMUTNÁ et. al.

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Original name

Toxic potentials of particulate and gaseous air pollutant mixtures and the role of PAHs and their derivatives

Authors

NOVÁKOVÁ, Zuzana (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution); Jiří NOVÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution); Zoran KITANOVSKI (276 Germany); Petr KUKUČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution); Marie SMUTNÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution); Marco WIETZORECK (276 Germany); Gerhard LAMMEL (276 Germany, belonging to the institution) and Klára HILSCHEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Environment International, OXFORD, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2020, 0160-4120

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Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114323

Organization

Přírodovědecká fakulta – Repository – Repository

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105634

UT WoS

000544887000014

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85084860937

Keywords in English

Air pollutant mixture; Toxic potential; Endocrine disruption; Bioassay; PAHs; OPAHs; NPAHs; Human health

Links

EF17_043/0009632, research and development project. GA16-11537S, research and development project. 857560, interní kód Repo. RECETOX RI, large research infrastructures.

Changed: 3/6/2025 00:50, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

V originále

Background: Air pollution, which represents a major environmental risk to human health, comprises a complex mixture of compounds where only little is known about its specific toxicities. Objectives: This study examined the specific toxicities associated with ambient air pollutant mixtures with respect to gas/particle partitioning, particulate matter (PM) size, pollutant polarity and bioaccessibility from PM, and evaluated the contribution of PAHs and their oxygenated and nitrated derivatives (OPAHs, NPAHs). Methods: Air samples (gas phase, PM10 and size- segregated PM), were collected at urban (in winter and summer) and background (winter) sites in the Czech Republic. The total and bioaccessible concentrations were addressed using organic solvent extraction and simulated lung fluid extraction, respectively. Organic extracts were also further fractionated according to polarity. Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR)-mediated activity, anti-/estro- genicity, anti-/androgenicity, thyroid receptor (TR)-mediated activity and cytotoxicity for bronchial cells were determined by human cell-based in vitro bioassays. The contribution of studied compounds to observed effects was assessed by both modelling and reconstructing the mixtures. Results: Significant effects were detected in the sub-micrometre size fraction of PM (estrogenicity, androgenicity, TR- and AhR-mediated activities) and in the gas phase (TR-mediated activity, antiandrogenicity). Compounds interacting with TR showed high bioaccessibility to simulated lung fluid. Relatively lower bioaccessibility was observed for estrogenicity and AhR-mediated activity. However, the toxicity testing of reconstructed mixtures revealed that the targeted pollutants are not the main contributors, except for urban PM air pollution in winter, where they accounted for 5-88% of several effects detected in the original complex environmental samples. Discussion: Studied toxicities were mostly driven by polar compounds largely attributed to the easily inhalable PM1, which is of high relevance for human health risk assessment. Except of parent PAHs in some cases, the targeted compounds contributed to the detected effects mostly to a relatively low extent implying huge data gaps in terms of endocrine disruptive potencies of targeted substances and the significance of other polar compounds present in ambient air.

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NOVÁKOVÁ, Zuzana; Jiří NOVÁK; Zoran KITANOVSKI; Petr KUKUČKA; Marie SMUTNÁ; Marco WIETZORECK; Gerhard LAMMEL and Klára HILSCHEROVÁ. Toxic potentials of particulate and gaseous air pollutant mixtures and the role of PAHs and their derivatives. Environment International. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2020, vol. 139, June 2020, p. 1-15. ISSN 0160-4120. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105634.

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NOVÁKOVÁ, Zuzana; Jiří NOVÁK; Zoran KITANOVSKI; Petr KUKUČKA; Marie SMUTNÁ; Marco WIETZORECK; Gerhard LAMMEL and Klára HILSCHEROVÁ. Toxic potentials of particulate and gaseous air pollutant mixtures and the role of PAHs and their derivatives. \textit{Environment International}. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2020, vol.~139, June 2020, p.~1-15. ISSN~0160-4120. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105634.