Quo vadis blood protein adductomics?

Sabbioni, Gabriele and Day, Billy W. (2022): Quo vadis blood protein adductomics? In: Archives of toxicology, Vol. 96: pp. 79-103

Abstract

Chemicals are measured regularly in air, food, the environment, and the workplace. Biomonitoring of chemicals in biological fluids is a tool to determine the individual exposure. Blood protein adducts of xenobiotics are a marker of both exposure and the biologically effective dose. Urinary metabolites and blood metabolites are short term exposure markers. Stable hemoglobin adducts are exposure markers of up to 120~days. Blood protein adducts are formed with many xenobiotics at different sites of the blood proteins. Newer methods apply the techniques developed in the field of proteomics. Larger adducted peptides with 20 amino acids are used for quantitation. Unfortunately, at present the methods do not reach the limits of detection obtained with the methods looking at single amino acid adducts or at chemically cleaved adducts. Therefore, to progress in the field new approaches are needed.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Medicine; Medicine > Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and toxicology
• Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medicine and health
• Language: English