Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products

Erlotinib is a highly potent tyrosine kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of the most common type of lung cancer. Due to its recent introduction, very scarce information is available on its occurrence, environmental fate and toxicological effects on aquatic organisms. During chlorination processe...

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Authors: Negreira, Noelia; Regueiro, Jorge; López de Alda, Miren; Barceló i Cullerés, Damià
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Status:Published version
Publication date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/12574
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12574
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Keyword:Aigua -- Contaminació
Water -- Pollution
Contaminants emergents en l'aigua
Emerging contaminants in water
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description Erlotinib is a highly potent tyrosine kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of the most common type of lung cancer. Due to its recent introduction, very scarce information is available on its occurrence, environmental fate and toxicological effects on aquatic organisms. During chlorination processes normally carried out in wastewater treatment plants and in the pretreatment of hospital effluents, chlorinated transformation products can be formed with an enhanced toxicity relative to the parent compound.Thus, the reactivity of the cytostatic drug erlotinib in free chlorine-containing water was investigated for the first time in the present work. A non-targeted screening approach based on the use of differential profiling tools was applied in order to reveal its potential transformation products. Structural elucidation of the detected transformation products was performed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution hybrid quadrupole-Orbitrap tandem mass spectrometry. The proposed approach allowed detecting a total of nineteen transformation products, being eighteen of them described for the first time in this work, which demonstrates its potential in environmental analysis. Among them, six compounds presented chlorine atoms in their structures, which may be of major concern. Other transformation products involved hydroxylation and oxidation reactions. Time-course profiles of erlotinib and its transformation products were followed in real wastewater samples under conditions that simulate wastewater disinfection. Although the structures of these transformation products could not be positively confirmed due to lack of standards, their chemical formulas and product ions can be added to databases, which will allow their screening in future monitoring studies
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spelling Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products Negreira, Noelia Regueiro, Jorge López de Alda, Miren Barceló i Cullerés, Damià Aigua -- Contaminació Water -- Pollution Contaminants emergents en l'aigua Emerging contaminants in water Erlotinib is a highly potent tyrosine kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of the most common type of lung cancer. Due to its recent introduction, very scarce information is available on its occurrence, environmental fate and toxicological effects on aquatic organisms. During chlorination processes normally carried out in wastewater treatment plants and in the pretreatment of hospital effluents, chlorinated transformation products can be formed with an enhanced toxicity relative to the parent compound.Thus, the reactivity of the cytostatic drug erlotinib in free chlorine-containing water was investigated for the first time in the present work. A non-targeted screening approach based on the use of differential profiling tools was applied in order to reveal its potential transformation products. Structural elucidation of the detected transformation products was performed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution hybrid quadrupole-Orbitrap tandem mass spectrometry. The proposed approach allowed detecting a total of nineteen transformation products, being eighteen of them described for the first time in this work, which demonstrates its potential in environmental analysis. Among them, six compounds presented chlorine atoms in their structures, which may be of major concern. Other transformation products involved hydroxylation and oxidation reactions. Time-course profiles of erlotinib and its transformation products were followed in real wastewater samples under conditions that simulate wastewater disinfection. Although the structures of these transformation products could not be positively confirmed due to lack of standards, their chemical formulas and product ions can be added to databases, which will allow their screening in future monitoring studies This study has been financially supported by the EU through the FP7 projects CYTOTHREAT (265264) and SOLUTIONS (603437), by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the project SCARCE (Consolider-Ingenio 2010 CSD2009-00065), and by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Consolidated Research Groups “2014 SGR 418dWater and Soil Quality Unit” and 2014 SGR 291dICRA Elsevier http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12574
spellingShingle Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products
Negreira, Noelia
Aigua -- Contaminació
Water -- Pollution
Contaminants emergents en l'aigua
Emerging contaminants in water
status_str publishedVersion
title Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products
title_full Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products
title_fullStr Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products
title_full_unstemmed Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products
title_short Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products
title_sort Degradation of the anticancer drug erlotinib during water chlorination: Non-targeted approach for the identification of transformation products
topic Aigua -- Contaminació
Water -- Pollution
Contaminants emergents en l'aigua
Emerging contaminants in water
topic_facet Aigua -- Contaminació
Water -- Pollution
Contaminants emergents en l'aigua
Emerging contaminants in water
url http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12574