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Proposal of an in silico profiler for categorisation of repeat dose toxicity data of hair dyes
Nelms, M. D., Ates, G., Madden, J. C., Vinken, M., Cronin, M. T. D., Rogiers, V., & Enoch, S. J. (2015). Proposal of an in silico profiler for categorisation of repeat dose toxicity data of hair dyes. Archiv fur Toxikologie, 89(5), 733-741. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-014-1277-8
This study outlines the analysis of 94 chemicals with repeat dose toxicity data taken from Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety opinions for commonly used hair dyes in the European Union. Structural similarity was applied to group these chemicals into categories. Subsequent mechanistic analysis suggested that toxicity to mitochondria is potentially a key driver of repeat dose toxicity for chemicals within each of the categories. The mechanistic hypothesis allowed for an in silico profiler consisting of four mechanism-based structural alerts to be proposed. These structural alerts related to a number of important chemical classes such as quinones, anthraquinones, substituted nitrobenzenes and aromatic azos. This in silico profiler is intended for grouping chemicals into mechanism-based categories within the adverse outcome pathway paradigm.
