Abstract

Emerging classes of dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) like hydroxylated/methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (HO-/MeO-PBDEs) and polychlorinated diphenyl sulfides (PCDPSs) could lead to diverse adverse outcomes in humans and wildlife, yet knowledge gaps exist in their molecular mechanisms associated with different structures following early life environmental exposure. This study integrated a genetic knockout technique and concentration-dependent reduced zebrafish transcriptome approach (CRZT) to unravel the toxicological pathways underpinning developmental toxicity of four HO-/MeO-PBDEs and five PCDPSs at environmentally relevant doses. Generally, the dependence of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) on the embryotoxicity and transcriptomic potencies induced by the HO-PBDEs and PCDPSs varied across different congeners. The knockout of the ahr2 gene led to 1.02- to 76.48-fold decreases of DLC-induced embryotoxicities and reduced the transcriptome-based potencies ranging from 1.38 to 2124.74 folds in the CRZT test. The fold changes denoting AhR-mediated potentials significantly increased with the increasing chlorination degrees of MeO-PBDEs and PCDPSs (p < 0.05). Moreover, ahr2 knockout primarily affected the DLC-induced early molecular responses relevant to DNA damage, enzyme activation, and organ development. Our integrated approach revealed the differential role of AhR in mediating the developmental toxicity of emerging DLCs possessing varied structures at environmentally relevant doses.

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