Method for detecting the reactivity of chemicals towards peptides as an alternative test method for assessing skin sensitization potential |
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Authors: | Sun-A. Cho Yun Hyeok Jeong Ji Hoon Kim Seoyoung Kim Jun-Cheol Cho Young Heo Kyung-Do Suh Susun An Kyeho Shin |
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Affiliation: | 1. AmorePacific Corporation R&D Unit, Yongin-si, Republic of Korea;2. College of Natural Sciences, Catholic University of Daegu, Kyongsan-si, Republic of Korea;3. Division of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | Cosmetics are normally composed of various ingredients. Some cosmetic ingredients can act as chemical haptens reacting toward proteins or peptides of human skin and they can provoke an immunologic reaction, called as skin sensitization. This haptenation process is very important step of inducing skin sensitization and evaluating the sensitizing potentials of cosmetic ingredients is very important for consumer safety. Therefore, animal alternative methods focusing on monitoring haptenation potential are undergoing vigorous research. To examine the further usefulness of spectrophotometric methods to monitor reactivity of chemicals toward peptides for cosmetic ingredients. Forty chemicals (25 sensitizers and 15 non-sensitizers) were reacted with 2 synthetic peptides, e.g., the cysteine peptides (Ac-RFAACAA-COOH) with free thiol group and the lysine peptides (Ac-RFAAKAA-COOH) with free amine group. Unreacted peptides can be detected after incubating with 5,5′-dithiobis-2-nitrobenzoic acid or fluorescamine™ as detection reagents for free thiol and amine group, respectively. Chemicals were categorized as sensitizers when they induced more than 10% depletion of cysteine peptides or more than 30% depletion of lysine peptides. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 80.0%, 86.7% and 82.5%, respectively. These results demonstrate that spectrophotometric methods can be an easy, fast, and high-throughput screening tools predicting the skin sensitization potential of chemical including cosmetic ingredient. |
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Keywords: | Skin sensitization Peptide assay Spectrophotometric method Cosmetic ingredient |
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