Chemical and Toxicological Characterization of Halobenzoquinones, an Emerging Class of Disinfection Byproducts
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Abstract
Halobenzoquinones (HBQs), a new class of disinfection byproducts (DBPs), occur widely in treated drinking water and recreational water. The main concern regarding human exposure to DBPs stems from epidemiological studies that have consistently linked the consumption of chlorinated drinking water with an increased risk of developing bladder cancer. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada have set regulations on the amount of DBPs in drinking water to minimize the risk. However, these regulated DBPs do not account for the increased risk of bladder cancer because they have different target organs or lower magnitudes of risk based on animal carcinogenesis studies. Because of the pervasive exposure to DBPs, identification of DBPs relevant to human health has become one of the important research targets to address DBP-associated health concerns. Quantitative structure-toxicity relationship (QSTR) analysis has predicted HBQs to be potential bladder carcinogens. Therefore, this perspective focuses on the chemical and toxicological characterization of HBQs. In vitro cytotoxicity experiments have shown that HBQs induce greater cytotoxicity and/or greater developmental toxicity than most of the regulated DBPs. Cellular mechanistic studies indicate that HBQs are capable of producing reactive oxygen species (ROS) either within cells or in solution, depleting cellular glutathione levels, and influencing cellular antioxidant enzymes, which further induces oxidative stress and oxidative damage to cellular proteins and DNA. Oxidative damage to DNA was demonstrated in the form of significant increases in cellular levels of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), DNA strand breaks, and apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites. HBQs can also form DNA adducts, affect genome-wide DNA methylation, and inhibit DNA repair enzymes. These findings demonstrate that HBQs are highly cytotoxic and potentially genotoxic and carcinogenic, although in vivo data corroborating this is not available. To fully understand the potential adverse health effects and cancer risk due to HBQ exposure, multidisciplinary research is required regarding human exposure, health risk assessment, and toxicological mechanisms of HBQs.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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