Obesity and endocrine-disrupting chemicals

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Angelica Amorim Amato Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA

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Obesity is now a worldwide pandemic. The usual explanation given for the prevalence of obesity is that it results from consumption of a calorie dense diet coupled with physical inactivity. However, this model inadequately explains rising obesity in adults and in children over the past few decades, indicating that other factors must be important contributors. An endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) is an exogenous chemical, or mixture that interferes with any aspect of hormone action. EDCs have become pervasive in our environment, allowing humans to be exposed daily through ingestion, inhalation, and direct dermal contact. Exposure to EDCs has been causally linked with obesity in model organisms and associated with obesity occurrence in humans. Obesogens promote adipogenesis and obesity, in vivo, by a variety of mechanisms. The environmental obesogen model holds that exposure to obesogens elicits a predisposition to obesity and that such exposures may be an important yet overlooked factor in the obesity pandemic. Effects produced by EDCs and obesogen exposure may be passed to subsequent, unexposed generations. This “generational toxicology” is not currently factored into risk assessment by regulators but may be another important factor in the obesity pandemic as well as in the worldwide increases in the incidence of noncommunicable diseases that plague populations everywhere. This review addresses the current evidence on how obesogens affect body mass, discusses long-known chemicals that have been more recently identified as obesogens, and how the accumulated knowledge can help identify EDCs hazards.

Abstract

Obesity is now a worldwide pandemic. The usual explanation given for the prevalence of obesity is that it results from consumption of a calorie dense diet coupled with physical inactivity. However, this model inadequately explains rising obesity in adults and in children over the past few decades, indicating that other factors must be important contributors. An endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) is an exogenous chemical, or mixture that interferes with any aspect of hormone action. EDCs have become pervasive in our environment, allowing humans to be exposed daily through ingestion, inhalation, and direct dermal contact. Exposure to EDCs has been causally linked with obesity in model organisms and associated with obesity occurrence in humans. Obesogens promote adipogenesis and obesity, in vivo, by a variety of mechanisms. The environmental obesogen model holds that exposure to obesogens elicits a predisposition to obesity and that such exposures may be an important yet overlooked factor in the obesity pandemic. Effects produced by EDCs and obesogen exposure may be passed to subsequent, unexposed generations. This “generational toxicology” is not currently factored into risk assessment by regulators but may be another important factor in the obesity pandemic as well as in the worldwide increases in the incidence of noncommunicable diseases that plague populations everywhere. This review addresses the current evidence on how obesogens affect body mass, discusses long-known chemicals that have been more recently identified as obesogens, and how the accumulated knowledge can help identify EDCs hazards.

Introduction

The incidence of obesity around the world has tripled since the 1970s, affecting more than 650 million people (1). Within the United States alone, 39.8% of adults (93.3 million) aged 20 and over, along with 18.5% (41 million) of youth aged 2–19 are classified as obese (2, 3, 4). Imbalance between caloric intake and energy expenditure has always been the major explanation given for weight gain and obesity. If the uptake in caloric dense food is greater than the energy expenditure, it is expected that the accumulation of fat will increase in direct proportion to this imbalance. However, different lines of evidence challenge the energy balance model as a full explanation for weight gain. For example, the nature of calories consumed seems to be more important than the total number of calories. Recent studies reported that the glycemic load of carbohydrate calories consumed (high vs low glycemic load) was a more important predictor of weight gain than was the total number of calories from carbohydrate (5, 6). With respect to caloric intake, NHANES data demonstrated that US adults are largely following the dietary guidelines distributed by the American Heart Association, the US Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services for the last 40 years (7, 8). From 1965 to 2011, average dietary fat consumption decreased from 45 to 34% in US adults, with carbohydrate consumption increasing from 39 to 51%. Despite these recommended dietary shifts, the average BMI for men and women has increased from to 29 kg/m2 over this same time period (8, 9).

Rather than physical activity decreasing, a study analyzing data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES) between 1988 and 2006 reported that leisure time physical activity has increased by 47% in males and 120% in females over this time period (10). This study additionally showed that that for an equivalent amount of caloric consumption and physical activity, adults in 2006 had a BMI 2.3 kg/m2 higher than did adults in 1988 (10). However, the impact of changes in physical activity pattern trends over the last decades in the obesity epidemics is not straightforward. In parallel with the increase in leisure physical activity, a decrease in occupational physical activity has been reported (11).

Genetics is widely believed to be associated with obesity, and around 40–70% of inter-individual BMI variability is considered heritable (12, 13). Genome-wide association studies have revealed that BMI is affected by many loci, each with small effect sizes (14). However, the known gene variants can only explain 2.7% of the individual variation in BMI (15). Despite the significance of genetic factors for weight gain, the two most commonly given explanations for the substantial increases in obesity incidence observed worldwide – genetics and energy balance – cannot fully explain it.

Several environmental factors are known to impact obesity susceptibility (reviewed in 16, 17). These include stress (18), disrupted circadian rhythms (19), the composition of the gut microbiome (bacterial diversity, balance of bacterial types and the particular species found) (20, 21), air pollution from proximity to highways (22), disrupted circadian rhythms and time and frequency of eating (23) to name a few. Notably, the sensitivity to such environmental stressors is enhanced during critical windows of development, and exposure within these periods may lead to increased obesity risk later in life (16).

On a physiopathological basis, obesity is defined as an abnormal or excessive accumulation of adipose tissue that presents a health risk (24). It has long been acknowledged that fat distribution rather than its total amount is more closely linked to obesity-related morbidity and mortality. White adipose tissue (WAT) surrounding abdominal viscera in the mesentery and omentum, known as visceral WAT, poses a greater health risk than WAT in s.c. areas, known as s.c. WAT (25). Visceral and s.c. WAT differ in functional features, such as regulation of triglyceride storage and release, and production of adipokines (26). Moreover, WAT is a sexually dimorphic endocrine organ. Men tend to have more visceral fat whereas women have more s.c. fat stores. Visceral fat is associated with a higher risk of diabetes largely due to the production of proinflammatory cytokines, which contribute to insulin resistance. In contrast, s.c. fat protects against impaired glucose metabolism and lessens the risk of heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and diabetes in women (27). The number of adipocytes is determined mostly from prenatal life through adolescence (28, 29). However, there is increasing evidence that expansion of WAT mass occurring during the development of obesity in adulthood results both from increased white adipocyte size (hypertrophy) and from an increase in adipocyte number (hyperplasia) (30). Moreover, the manner through which WAT expands in response to positive energy balance is most likely dependent upon the depot location (31, 32) and gender (33).

Obesity is a risk factor for other diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancers, hypertension, and asthma (reviewed in 17). In addition, obese individuals have a higher prevalence of mental illnesses including depression, eating disorders, anxiety, and low self-esteem (34, 35). The rising incidence of obesity and its associated comorbidities have greatly increased national health care costs. In 2008, an estimated $147 billion US dollars was spent to cover the average medical cost of obesity within the US. Since then, national health care costs have risen to $208 billion annually (36). More directly, medical costs for obese individuals are $1429 higher than those of healthy weight, costing around $3508 per obese adult (37).

Beyond the usual explanations for obesity

In addition to energy balance, weight gain can be influenced by a variety of complex ‘environmental factors’ (broadly defined). These can include socio-economic status, family lifestyle, workplace culture, and urban design (the ‘built environment’). Coupled with inadequate physical activity and nutritional imbalance, these may explain some of the obesity pandemic (35). However, it is hard to argue that these alone are the main contributors to obesity. The prevalence of obesity is increasing in children as well as in adults. The percentage of obese children aged 2–5 years has doubled from 5 to 13.9% and quadrupled in ages 12–19 from 5 to 20.6% (3). Currently, there are an estimated 107.7 million children worldwide under the age of 20 that are considered obese, including those under the age of 2 (1). Unless the average infant consumes more calories and exercises less than previous generations, it may have been born with more fat due to an alteration in the prenatal or early postnatal environment. In addition, animals that reside within human-influenced environments (pets, laboratory animals, and feral rats in cities) have also exhibited increases in obesity over the past decades. This includes animals maintained in research colonies where food intake is regulated (38). A reasonable inference is that something has changed within the environment in which humans and animals reside, independent of overeating and sedentary lifestyle of obesity.

The intrauterine environment and predisposition to obesity

Environmental stressors experienced during fetal development can have profound effects later in life. For example, mothers that were in their first and second trimester of pregnancy during the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944–1945 gave birth to children that were predisposed to obesity later in life compared with the children of mothers who had not experienced famine during pregnancy (39). Maternal smoking during pregnancy is a much studied and well-established risk factor for obesity in the exposed offspring (reviewed in 40).

Fetal experience within the intrauterine environment has the potential to increase the risk of disease via alterations in metabolic programming, hormonal control, and gene regulation (41). Not only poor prenatal nutrition but also maternal obesity (presumably reflecting excess prenatal nutrition) can lead to life-long health consequences, including obesity (42). This phenomenon was first referred to as ‘fetal programming’ by David Barker who suggested that there were associations between changes in the intrauterine environment and adverse health outcomes in adults. Ultimately, prenatal programming led to the development of Barker’s ‘thrifty phenotype hypothesis’ (43), which proposed that malnutrition, in utero, programed the fetus to use calories sparingly later in life. If the postnatal environment is calorie-rich, this mismatch between the thrifty phenotype and abundant calories leads to adverse outcomes such as obesity.

The ‘Developmental Origins of Health and Disease’ (DOHaD) model was proposed to account for the observation that developmental programming continues throughout early life, rather than simply during gestation and that this programming is critical for the establishment of adult physiology (44, 45, 46). The DOHaD hypothesis holds that exposure to poor nutrition, stress, hormonal shifts and other disruptions during early life can lead to long-term physiological adaptations that can permanently influence health and disease susceptibility (42, 44, 45). All of these stressors can modify the neuroendocrine programming that regulates growth, fuel homeostasis, appetite, and adipocyte differentiation, leading to increased risk of obesity (47, 48, 49, 50). Also, it has become quite clear that chemical exposures are another important factor in DOHaD (17).

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals

The endocrine system ultimately modulates function in tissues that regulate weight and metabolism. Endocrine hormones such as insulin, thyroid hormone, estrogens, and androgens are well known to regulate pathways that control the number and size of adipocytes and a variety of peptide hormones regulate appetite and satiety. These have been reviewed in great detail elsewhere (e.g. 17). The Endocrine Society defined an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) as an exogenous chemical, or mixture that interferes with any aspect of hormone action (51). This differs somewhat from the toxicological definition of an EDC which adds the additional requirement that exposure must cause adverse effects in an intact organism. To an endocrinologist, disruption of endocrine function is adverse; per se. The key characteristics of EDCs have been defined in order to facilitate hazard identification (52). EDCs have become pervasive contaminants in our environment and human exposure can result from agrochemicals, food, pharmaceutical drugs, personal care products, medical equipment and even children’s toys (53, 54, 55). The presence of EDCs in commonly used products ensures that humans will be exposed on a daily basis via ingestion, inhalation, or direct dermal contact (54, 56). Epidemiological studies have established links between exposure to EDCs and detrimental effects on the endocrine system, leading to neural, metabolic, and fertility defects (54). EDCs can act through a diverse array of hormonal signaling mechanisms to influence physiology (55, 57).

Nuclear hormone receptors were the original ‘targets’ defined for endocrine disruptors. These receptors comprise a superfamily of ligand-regulated transcription factors sharing a modular domain structure consisting of a variable N-terminal A/B domain, a conserved DNA-binding domain, a hinge region, and a C-terminal ligand-binding domain harboring a hydrophobic ligand-binding pocket that can accommodate a variety of small lipophilic endogenous and exogenous molecules (58). There are 48 genes that encode nuclear hormone receptors in the human genome, and the ligands regulating the transcription activity of many receptors have been identified (59). Therefore, it should be self-evident that many of these ligand-modulated hormonal signaling pathways will also be susceptible to interference from EDCs.

Among these are key players in development and physiology such as the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), progesterone receptor (PR), retinoic acid receptors (RARα,β,γ), the 9-cis retinoic acid receptor (RXRα,β,γ), the peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARα,β/δ, γ) and the liver ‘X’ receptor (LXRα,β). In principle there is no reason to exclude the possibility that most, if not all members of the nuclear receptor superfamily can be EDC targets, in addition to other ligand-mediated transcription factors such as the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (60). It is also possible that EDCs could disrupt any of the thousands of cellular signaling pathways that are modulated by peptides or small molecules. The emerging concept of ‘signal toxicity’ opens the possibility that there may be hundreds to thousands of pathways targeted by EDCs (61). In agreement with this concept, the so-called EATs paradigm that defined EDCs as chemicals that disrupted estrogen, androgen or thyroid hormone signaling (62) is currently considered inadequate. Therefore, it is being increasingly discussed that screening approaches for EDCs should include a wider range of cellular signaling pathways. This has been extensively reviewed elsewhere (52) and is beyond the scope of this review.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals as obesogens

The term ‘obesogen’ was coined to describe chemicals (including EDCs) that can promote obesity in humans and animals. Multiple studies have causally linked exposure to EDCs and obesity development in model organisms, either independently or by increasing susceptibility to other factors such as high-fat diet. In humans, data from observational studies indicate that many EDCs known for their obesogenic effect in animals are associated with increased obesity prevalence (63). However, the association between specific EDCs and body weight in humans should be interpreted with caution since there is simultaneous exposure to a broad range of EDCs, in addition to other environmental factors that increase obesity risk.

Obesogens can act directly on adipocytes to increase their number, promote fat storage in existing adipocytes, or produce dysfunctional adipocytes. Obesogens can also indirectly increase adiposity by multiple mechanisms, such as disruption of metabolism and appetite control (reviewed in 16, 17, 64), alteration of metabolic setpoints, induction of unfavorable changes in microbiome composition, and increasing the fraction of caloric intake that is stored as fat (reviewed in 16).

Sensitivity to the obesogenic effects of EDCs is particularly high when exposure occurs within critical developmental windows. This is because the fetus and infant have unique features that lead to higher tissue exposure than adults, such as lower expression of cytochrome P450 enzymes that metabolize xenobiotics (65). Moreover, early life is a developmentally plastic stage in which a wide range of processes are programmed by hormone signaling pathways (63) and can respond and adapt to physiological challenges. This ability also enhances the susceptibility to environmental stressors such as EDCs, which may lead to long-term alterations in various systems, ultimately resulting in increased obesity risk later in life. Indeed, early-life exposure to obesogens may reprogram physiological processes that are critical determinants of body mass, including energy metabolism, appetite control, and adipogenesis, leading to a thrifty phenotype and increasing the susceptibility to weight gain.

The obesogenic effect of early-life exposure to EDCs is supported by many animal and epidemiological studies. Rodent studies reported that perinatal or early postnatal exposure to BPA (66), pesticides (67), nonylphenol (68), and PFOA (69) lead to increased weight gain during adulthood, in dose- and gender-dependent manner. Human studies have also indicated the association between perinatal exposure to EDCs and increased risk of obesity later in life (63). It is important to point out that animal model studies indicate that some EDCs also have obesogenic effects when exposure occurs after critical development periods (67). Therefore, in a scenario of continued exposure, it is most likely that the effects of early life and adulthood exposure ultimately determine the actions of obesogens on phenotype. However, little is known about the interaction of exposure in different time periods.

Early life obesogen exposure can increase white adipose tissue mass by increasing the steady state level of adipocytes, or adipocyte precursors and promotes differentiation of adipocytes from multipotent mesenchymal stromal stem cells (a.k.a., mesenchymal stem cells, MSCs) or existing preadipocytes. Activation of specific nuclear hormone receptors by EDCs has been extensively studied as a mechanism underlying obesogen action, since it has the potential to alter fat cell commitment, differentiation and function. The nuclear receptor, PPARγ is the co-called ‘master regulator’ of adipogenesis (70) and, therefore, is a logical candidate to mechanistically explain the obesogen action of chemicals. Like other PPARs, PPARγ requires heterodimerization with RXR to bind DNA and regulate its target genes. Activation of this heterodimer by endogenous ligands, pharmaceutical drugs or EDCs promotes expression of adipogenic genes that lead to fat cell differentiation. PPARγ engages in a mutually interactive feedback loop with the transcription factors, CCAAT-enhancer binding proteins (C/EBP)α, β, and γ, that stabilizes and promotes the adipogenic fate (reviewed in 71). Considering this, many screening efforts to identify potential obesogens targeted PPARγ (72, 73, 74). A variety of actual and potential chemical obesogens have been identified using such screening approaches as adipogenesis inducers in human cell-culture models by activating PPARγ, including lactofen, diclofop-methyl, and MEHP (75). However, it is acknowledged that EDCs may induce adipocyte differentiation by PPARγ-independent mechanisms. This is the case for bisphenol A, nicotine, organophosphate pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), all of which promoted adipogenesis through mechanisms that may not involve direct activation of PPARγ (71, 76). PCB-77 acts through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor to promote adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes (60).

Importantly, some effects of obesogens seem to be independent from direct modulation of nuclear hormone receptors. These include the transmission of the obese phenotype to subsequent generations not directly exposed to the chemical, following early life exposure, or the so-called transgenerational effect of obesogens. This has been reported for some chemicals, and there has been a great effort to understand the mechanisms underlying these transgenerational effects; possible candidates are epigenetic modifications and changes in chromatin organization.

Tributyltin the model obesogen

Tributyltin (TBT) was among the first obesogens to be identified and is currently the most thoroughly studied. TBT binds to and activates PPARγ and RXR (77, 78, 79) to promote adipocyte commitment (80) and differentiation (81, 82). In vitro studies confirmed that TBT exposure drove the differentiation of murine 3T3-L1 adipocytes into adipocytes via the activation of PPARγ and RXR (77, 78, 81, 82). In addition, 3T3-L1 preadipocytes exposed to TBT produced dysfunctional adipocytes with altered gene expression and lipid metabolism (83). Mouse MSCs differentiated in the presence of TBT or an RXR-selective chemical also produced dysfunctional adipocytes with impaired insulin sensitivity, an unfavorable adipokine profile, pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic gene expression and impaired thermogenic activity (80).

In vivo studies found that TBT exposure increased fat accumulation and hepatic steatosis in rodents (77, 84, 85, 86), fish (87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92) and even in snails (93) and Daphnia (94). F0 mice exposed to TBT during pregnancy produced F1 offspring with increased adipose depot size in mice (77) and resulted in a bias of MSCs toward the adipose lineage at the expense of bone (81, 95). Remarkably the effects of prenatal TBT exposure could be transmitted to subsequent generations. Exposure of pregnant F0 dams to environmentally relevant (nanomolar) levels of TBT in the drinking water led to increases in adipose depot weight, adipocyte size, adipocyte number and the propensity of MSCs to differentiate along the adipogenic rather than the osteogenic pathways in F1, F2 and F3 offspring (96). Transgenerational increases in obesity were also reported with different chemicals in other laboratories (97, 98, 99, 100, 101). The data indicated that these effects were likely mediated by an epigenetic process. A subsequent experiment using TBT exposure found that the effects of prenatal TBT exposure on fat depot size persisted until at least the F4 generation (102). F4 male descendants of pregnant F0 mice exposed to TBT had increased fat mass in adulthood and gained more fat mass than their control counter parts when dietary fat was increased modestly (from 13.2 to 21.2% kcal from fat) (102). Moreover, these animals resisted fat loss during fasting and retained the increased fat when returned to the normal low-fat diet (102).

Multi-‘omic analysis of the transcriptome and DNA methylomes from the F4 male mice revealed that there were thousands of differentially methylated regions (DMRs) but that none of these were closely associated with the promoters of genes whose expression was altered. Instead, large regions of DNA where methylation was all in the same direction were identified. These iso-directional differentially methylated blocks were denoted as isoDMBs (102). It was hypothesized that the transgenerational phenotype was carried across generations through the germline by altered higher order chromatin structure (102, 103). ATAC-seq analysis of F3 and F4 sperm demonstrated that the DNA regions containing hypomethylated isoDMBs in F4 male WAT were less accessible in sperm chromatin and preferentially associated with DNA having elevated GC content (102). These regions that were enriched in hypomethylated isoDMBs and higher GC content contained many metabolically relevant genes, as did the inaccessible regions in sperm DNA (102). Expression of leptin mRNA in WAT was elevated, as were circulating levels of leptin protein in male mice and it was inferred that the animals displayed a leptin-resistant, thrifty phenotype promoted by altered higher order chromatin structure (102). Subsequent studies supported and extended this model, demonstrating that this disrupted chromatin organization is either transmitted directly to subsequent generations, or (more likely) self-reconstructs each generation (103).

An important aspect to be considered in light of the transgenerational effects of TBT and other obesogens is that since current toxicology risk assessment paradigms involve direct exposure to chemicals, they may fail to identify the hazards associated with chemical exposure comprehensively. Indeed, directly exposed generations may exhibit few or no significant phenotypes, and it has been argued that risks would be best assessed by complementing classic toxicology analysis with the assessment of the impacts on future generations, referred to as ‘generational toxicology’ (104).

Obesogens, old and new

A variety of chemicals have been demonstrated to be obesogenic in animal studies. These include such widely used chemicals as phthalates, bisphenols, parabens, flame retardants, and pesticides. This topic has been reviewed extensively elsewhere (e.g. 16, 105, 106). Below we discuss some long-known chemicals that were newly discovered as obesogens and potential obesogens of current interest. A list of verified and potential obesogens and their putative mechanisms of action are presented in Tables 1 and 2.

Table 1

Verified obesogens with possible mechanisms of action and effects.

Verified obesogen

EDC type

Potential mechanisms

Effects

Reference

3-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole (3-BHA) Food additive

(Food preservative)
Phosphorylates cAMP- response element binding protein (CREB) Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, increases lipid plasma levels (118, 119, 125)

Acrylamide Byproduct of frying, baking, or roasting Acts through mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and adenosine 5′-monophosphate–activated protein kinase–acetyl-CoA carboxylase (AMPK-ACC) Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, increases accumulation of lipid droplets in 3T3-L1 cells (108)

Bisphenol A (BPA)

Plasticizer PPARγ activator, interferes with estrogen signaling

Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, induces obesity in vivo, promotes transgenerational inheritance of obesity (154, 175, 176)

Carboxylmethylcellulose Food additive

(dietary emulsifier)
PPARγ activator Induces adipogenesis in vitro, induces obesity in vivo, disrupts gut microbiome, promotes intestinal inflammation (114, 115, 118)

Dibutyltin (DBT) Organotin PPARγ and RXR activator, induces expression of inflammatory genes Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and MSCs into adipocytes, induces insulin resistance (158, 160, 161)

p,p-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) Pesticide

(metabolite of DDT)
Currently unknown Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, induces obesity in vivo (145, 177, 178)

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) Pesticide Currently unknown Impairs thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT), promotes diet induced insulin resistance, promotes transgenerational inheritance of obesity (98, 100, 143)

di-2-ethylhexyl (DEHP) Phthalates Promotes expression of adipogenic genes Increases adipogenesis and lipid accumulation in vitro, induces obesityin vivo (97, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183)

Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DOSS) Food additive

(dietary emulsifier, surfactant)
PPARγ activator Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, induces obesity in vivo (114, 118)

Glyphosate Pesticide

(herbicide)
Currently unknown Promotes transgenerational inheritance of obesity (101)

Imidacloprid Pesticide

(insecticide)
Alters regulation of AMP-activated protein kinase-α (AMPKα), alters genes regulating glucose metabolism (i.e. GLUT4, PDK4) Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes and insulin resistance after exposure to high-fat diet (146, 147)

Mono-2-ethylhexyl (MEHP) Phthalates

PPARγ activator Increases adipogenesis and lipid accumulation in vitro, induces obesityin vivo (179, 180, 182, 184)

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) Food additive

(flavor enhancer)
Antagonizes androgen receptor action and/or impairs secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1 Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (125, 126)

Nonylphenol Product of microbial degradation of alkylphenol ethoxylate Induces hyperadrenalism and type 1 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase expression in adipose tissue, promotes expression of adipogenic genes

Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes

Induces obesity in vivo
(68, 128, 129)
P-80 Food additive

(dietary emulsifier)
PPARγ activator Induces adipogenesis in vitro, induces obesity in vivo, disrupts gut microbiome, promotes intestinal inflammation (114, 115, 118)

Parabens Cosmetics, food and pharmaceutical additive PPARγ activator Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and mesenchymal C3H10T12 cells, induces obesity and hyperphagia in vivo by hypermethylating POMC enhancer (72, 135, 136, 141)
Span-80 Food additive

(surfactant)
RXRα activator Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, induces obesity in vivo (116, 117, 118)

Tributyltin (TBT) Organotin PPARγ and RXRα activator

Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and MSCs into adipocytes, alters lipid metabolism, promotes transgenerational inheritance of obesity (77, 78, 79, 81, 82)

Triflumizole Pesticide PPARγ activator, promotes expression of adipogenic genes Induces adipogenesis in uncommitted mBMSCs, promotes differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, induces obesity in vivo

(76, 185)

Triphenyltin Organotin PPARγ activator, promotes expression of adipogenic genes Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (76)

cAMP, cyclic adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate; GLUT4, glucose transporter 4; PDK4, pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase isozyme 4; PPAR, peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor; RXR, retinoid X receptor.

Table 2

Potential obesogens with possible mechanisms of action and effects.

Potential obesogen EDC type Potential mechanisms Effects Reference
Alpha naphthoflavone Pollutant AhR antagonist, increased expression of hormone-sensitive lipase and the estrogen receptor Promotes lipid accumulation in adipocytes

(186)
BADGE Pesticide PPARγ activator Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and MSCs into adipocytes (187)

BBP Pesticide PPARγ activator Increased lipid accumulation in vitro (182, 188)
Bisphenol F (BPF) Plasticizer

(BPA analog)
PPARγ activator Induces differentiation of preadipocytes into adipocytes (149, 154, 155)

Bisphenol S (BPS) Plasticizer

(BPA analog)
PPARγ activator, upregulates adipogenic mRNA expression levels (i.e. Lipoprotein Lipase, CAAT/enhancer-binding proteins β (C/EBPβ) Induces differentiation of preadipocytes into adipocytes (149, 154, 155)

Diazinon

Pesticide PPARγ activator, activates CCAAT-enhancer binding protein CAAT/enhancer- binding proteins α (C/EBP α) Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (189)

Diclofop‐methyl Pesticide PPARγ activator Induces adipogenesis in human adipose-derived stromal cells (75)

Fentin hydroxide Pesticide PPARγ activator Increases adipogenesis and lipid accumulationin vitro (75, 78)

Forchlorfenuron Pesticide Promotes expression of adipogenic genes Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (76)

Fludioxonil

Pesticide PPARγ and RXRα activator, promotes expression of adipogenic genes Induces adipogenesis in uncommitted mBMSCs, promotes differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and MSCs into adipocytes (75, 76)

Flusilazole

Pesticide Promotes expression of adipogenic genes Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (76)

Halosulfuron‐methyl

Pesticide PPARγ activator Induces adipogenesis in human adipose-derived stromal cells (75)

Lactofen

Pesticide PPARγ activator Induces adipogenesis in human adipose-derived stromal cells (75)

Quinoxyfen Pesticide PPARγ activator Induces adipogenesis in uncommitted mBMSCs, promotes differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (76)
Quizalofop-p-ethyl Pesticide

(herbicide)
Currently unknown Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (148)
Spirodiclofen Pesticide PPARγ activator, promotes expression of adipogenic genes in vitro Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and mBMSCs into adipocytes (76)
Tebupirimfos Pesticide Promotes expression of adipogenic genes

Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes
(76)
Zoxamide Pesticide PPARγ activator Induces differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and mBMSCs into adipocytes (76)

mBMSCs, mouse bone marrow-derived stem cells; PPAR, peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor.

Acrylamide

Acrylamide is found in foods and can be formed as an unintentional byproduct of frying, baking, or roasting; this is likely to be the most common source of human exposure (107). Acrylamide exposure was found to induce the accumulation of WAT in male mice but only after they were fed a high-fat diet (108). Mechanistic analysis revealed that acrylamide acted through the MAPK and AMPK-ACC pathways to promote adipogenesis (108). Crucially, similar effects have been found in human epidemiology studies. Findings from two longitudinal birth cohort studies from France (109) and Norway (110) proposed hemoglobin adducts of acrylamide (HbAA) and glycidamide (HbGA) as biomarkers of acrylamide exposure in humans. These studies found that children prenatally exposed to higher levels of acrylamide were more likely to be born small for gestational age and obese at 3 years of age. Cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data (2003–2006) demonstrated a negative association between HbAA and obesity but a positive association between HbGA levels and obesity (111). A different cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data (2003–2004) found a negative association to obesity for HbAA and no association with HbGA (112). While it is interesting and provocative that acrylamide has been associated with obesity, there are clearly confounding factors in these data sets that must be resolved to establish whether or not acrylamide exposure is linked with obesity. Considering the extensive exposure of the population to acrylamide from baked and fried foods, further exploration of these issues will be very important for public health.

Food additives

As noted above, increasing evidence has emerged linking components of the ‘Western dietary pattern’ to obesity, even finding that the total number of carbohydrate calories is less important than whether the calories come from whole or processed foods (5, 6). In this light, it is interesting that recent data showed that some commonly used food additives have obesogenic potential. Two common dietary emulsifiers, carboxylmethylcellulose and P-80 induced intestinal inflammation and disrupted the gut microbiome producing increased body weight, WAT depot weight and metabolic syndrome when administered either to young (4-week-old) mice for 12 weeks, or to old (16-week-old) mice for 8 weeks (113). Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DOSS) is also used as a dietary emulsifier, and as a major component of an over the counter stool softener (Colace/Docusate). DOSS was shown to bind PPARγ ligand-binding domain with an affinity comparable to that of pioglitazone and arachidonic acid, act as a PPARγ agonist in reporter assays and induce adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes (114). Moreover, male offspring of mice exposed to a clinically relevant dose of DOSS during pregnancy exhibited increased body mass, increased adiposity, glucose intolerance and hyperinsulinemia when fed standard diet (115). DOSS was used together with another surfactant, Span-80, in the COREXIT dispersants that were used in the clean-up of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 (116). Span-80 activated RXRα and induced 3T3-L1 preadipocytes to differentiate into adipocytes (117). When 3T3-L1 cells were treated with a combination of Span-80 and DOSS, adipogenic induction was greater than with either chemical individually (117).

In addition to surfactants and emulsifiers, the widely used food preservative 3-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole (3-BHA) induced adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes (118); moreover, 3-BHA exposure increased adiposity and lipid plasma levels in exposed mice (119). The flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG) is well-known for its action to induce obesity and metabolic abnormalities in mice by its toxic effects on the arcuate nucleus, a critical hypothalamic nucleus involved in body mass and energy metabolism regulation (120, 121, 122, 123). Notably, the central effects of MSG to promote obesity depend upon its entrance in the brain, which, in turn, is observed when it is administered centrally to adult mice or peripherally to neonate mice since the latter exhibit an immature blood-brain barrier allowing the passage of MSG (123, 124). More recently, it was shown that MSG might act by additional mechanisms that may mediate its obesogen effect. Such actions include impairment of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) secretion, an important hormone regulating appetite, by the enteroendocrine cell line STC-1, (125) and/or androgen receptor action antagonism (126). Considering these results together, it is perhaps not at all surprising that highly processed foods lead to more weight gain than the same number of calories from fresh foods (5, 6). This will be an important area for future laboratory and epidemiological studies.

Nonylphenol

Nonylphenol is the main microbial degradation product of alkylphenol ethoxylate, a nonionic surfactant used to manufacture a wide range of products, such as plastics, pesticides, and cosmetics (127). In vitro, nonylphenol induces the differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes (69, 128). Prenatal exposure to nonylphenol induced increased body weight, fat mass, and fasting serum glucose and total cholesterol levels (68). The obese phenotype was more pronounced in the female offspring than in males and occurred at lower exposure concentrations (68). A similar finding was reported in the male offspring of rats exposed to nonylphenol during pregnancy (129). Despite its well-known estrogenic activity (130), estrogenic receptor signaling has not been directly linked to its obesogenic action. Nonylphenol was shown to induce hyperadrenalism and increase type 1 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in adipose tissue in vivo, which could be linked to the obese phenotype (129). However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the obesogenic effect of nonylphenol remain elusive.

Although nonylphenol is considered a persistent and ubiquitous environment contaminant (131, 132) with obesogenic properties, very few human studies have addressed its association with body mass. A cross-sectional study from Taiwan involving 270 adolescents found no association between urinary nonylphenol levels and anthropometric measures of overall or abdominal obesity (133). Therefore, further studies will be necessary to establish whether this chemical is associated with obesity in humans and the mechanisms underlying its effects.

Parabens

Parabens are used as preservatives in pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetic products due to their antimicrobial and antifungal properties. Cosmetic and personal care products seem to be a significant source of human exposure since parabens are found in most rinse-off or leave-on products (134). Parabens were shown to promote adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes (72, 135) and mesenchymal C3H10T1/2 cells (136) by activating PPARγ (72, 136). Accordingly, parabens reduced osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation of C3H10T1/2 cells (136).

Previous cross-sectional and longitudinal human studies addressed exposure to parabens during adulthood (137) or after the early postnatal period (137, 138, 139, 140) and found an inconsistent association with overweight and obesity. More recently, a longitudinal study involving 496 mother–children pairs of the German LINA cohort (Lifestyle and Environmental Factors and their Influence on Newborns Allergy Risk) reported that maternal exposure to butyl paraben at the third trimester of pregnancy was associated with child overweight during the first 8 years of life, with a stronger trend among girls (141). The authors reproduced the human findings in mice exposed to butyl paraben during fetal life and reported that exposure of female human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells to butyl paraben did not induce adipogenesis (141). Mechanistic analysis using the in vivo model revealed that early-life exposure to butyl paraben induced higher food intake in the female offspring (141). This finding was accompanied by reduced hypothalamic mRNA expression of the gene encoding proopiomelanocortin (POMC) due to hypermethylation of POMC enhancer nPE1, which positively regulates POMC transcription (141). Given the broad human exposure to parabens, further efforts to expand this investigation to other parabens and populations are warranted.

Pesticides

In addition to food additives, agrochemicals that contaminate food have been linked to obesity in animals and in humans. This topic has been intensively reviewed elsewhere (67) and will be summarized here. One very important example is the well-known organochlorine pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). DDT was shown to be obesogenic in rodent models, and its effects were dependent upon the timing of exposure and gender. Perinatal exposure of mice to DDT reduced energy expenditure and transiently increased body fat content in female offspring (142). Moreover, ancestral exposure to DDT lead to obesity and metabolic abnormalities in male and female rats from the F3 generation, characterizing a transgenerational obese phenotype (98). Human studies have also reported that perinatal exposure to DDT is associated with increased obesity risk during childhood (143) and adult life (144). The major breakdown product of DDT, p,p-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene DDE was associated with weight gain in multiple human studies (145). The use of DDT was banned under the Stockholm Convention but it persists in the environment and continues to be used for malaria control in Africa. Methoxychlor was intended to replace DDT, but was shown to induce obesity in rats (100). Several other pesticides have been identified as being actually, or potentially obesogenic. The neonicotinoid insecticide, imidacloprid induced 3T3-L1 preadipocytes to differentiate into adipocytes (146) and promoted obesity in mice exposed to a high-fat diet (147). The widely used and controversial herbicide, glyphosate, induced obesity in F2 and F3 offspring of F0 female rats exposed during gestation (101). Many other agrochemicals induced adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and in mouse and human MSCs (75, 76, 148). While the potential of these chemicals to promote obesity, in vivo, remains unexplored at present, the next chemical found to induce adipogenesis in cell models but that fails to promote obesity, in vivo, will be the first. The intensive use of agrochemicals worldwide and the ubiquitous human exposure via food consumption indicates that it will be important to undertake appropriate studies in human cohorts and in animal models to understand the magnitude of the potential risk posed by these chemicals.

Other bisphenols

As a result of public demand for BPA-free plastics, industry has responded by producing a variety of BPA relatives for use in plastics and in thermal papers. These include over 20 chemicals, such as bisphenol S (BPS), bisphenol F (BPF), bisphenol B, bisphenol E, bisphenol AF, bisphenol Z among others. These are coming into widespread use as industry strives to produce products with similar physicochemical properties to BPA-based plastics while not totally disrupting current manufacturing processes (149). Much less is known about the potential EDC effects of these BPA analogs, although some of them have been described as obesogens in vitro and in animal models, and associated with increased body mass in humans (150). Some evidence shows that BPS and BPF have similar endocrine-disrupting properties to BPA (151, 152, 153). Halogenated BPA analogs as well as BPS were more potent activators of PPARγ (154) and were stronger promoters of adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes than BPA (155). Perinatal exposure to BPS also elicited obesity in mice (156). A longitudinal birth cohort study revealed that BPS and BPF were significantly associated with obesity in children (ages 6–19), whereas BPA and total bisphenol levels were not significantly associated (157). In contrast, levels of BPA have been significantly associated with obesity incidence, whereas levels for BPS and BPF were not linked with obesity in a cross-sectional study of adults after adjusting for lifestyle and socioeconomic factors (149). Clearly more studies are needed, but the data indicated that BPS and BPF may be ‘regrettable substitutes’ for BPA in that they may not actually reduce the hazards of bisphenol exposure to humans.

More organotins

While it is clear that TBT exposure can lead to obesogenic effects, it remains unclear to what extent the human population is exposed. However, there is no question that humans are widely exposed to organotins, in general. Dibutyltin (DBT) is more prevalent in the environment than TBT due to its presence in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics at substantial concentrations (up to 3% w/w) (158). DBT leaches into drinking water from PVC pipes and, therefore, may produce a hazard to humans (159). DBT is the major breakdown product of TBT in vivo. DBT activated the same receptors as does TBT and induced 3T3-L1 preadipocytes (160) and human and mouse MSCs to differentiate into adipocytes (161). Perinatal exposure to DBT, albeit at a higher dose than TBT, led to increased WAT weight in mice comparable to that of the model obesogen TBT (161). Unexpectedly, while TBT does not elicit changes in glucose homeostasis, the offspring of DBT-exposed dams were insulin resistant (161). Thus, while DBT can activate similar nuclear receptors as does TBT, it clearly engages additional or alternative cellular mechanisms to elicit insulin resistance.

Future directions

While the obesogen hypothesis was initially controversial when first proposed in 2006 (162), studies around the world have supported the model and it is becoming evident that obesity is considerably more complex than a simple function of energy balance. Much has been learned about the number and types of obesogens but we need to know much more to assess their overall significance in obesity susceptibility. For example, relatively little is known about how obesogen exposure interacts with macro and micro-nutrients in the diet to promote obesity. Obesogens can affect composition of the microbiome (163, 164) and transfer of an obese microbiome itself can cause obesity (21). Very little is known about how obesogen-elicited changes in the microbiome can contribute to obesity. A combination of mechanistic studies in cell and animal models together with longitudinal epidemiological and biomonitoring studies in humans will be required for a full assessment of the risks and costs of EDC and obesogen exposures to public health. While current estimates only consider a few chemicals for which adequate data sets are available, the costs are predicted to be substantial (165, 166).

Nearly all studied obesogens exert sexually dimorphic effects. For example, prenatal exposure of pregnant F0 dams to TBT produced increased fat mass in both sexes of the F1 generation, but obesity was only found in males of F2–F4 generations (96, 102, 161). The synthetic estrogen, diethylstilbestrol, the first chemical to be reported as an obesogen, in vivo, elicited obesity after perinatal exposure adult female but not male mice (167). Many examples of obesogen exposure producing sexually dimorphic effects in animal models exist (reviewed in 17). Relatively little is known about the etiology of these sexual dimorphisms beyond some indications that effects of environmental estrogens may be expected to be more pronounced in females. Notably, while the incidence of obesity is increasing in both sexes in human populations, obesity is significantly more prevalent in females, particularly in the USA (168). Appropriate strategies for intervention and prevention will require a deeper understanding of what cellular pathways mediate obesogen action.

A persistent difficulty in the EDC field is to understand the effects of mixtures. For example, Will exposure to combinations of obesogens result in additive or synergistic effects? ,Or Will they instead interfere with each other’s actions? Since many obesogens appear to induce a variety of effects other than obesity, they may be acting through multiple mechanisms. For example, TBT binds to and activates PPARγ and RXR, but it also induces epigenetic modifications and changes to chromatin architecture (102, 103). Some evidence suggests that these changes in chromatin architecture can be transmitted across generations, but the mechanisms remain obscure. A handful of chemicals are known to elicit transgenerational effects on obesity, but we know relatively little about how these effects may be transmitted across generations (reviewed in 104, 106). Nuclear receptor activation can lead to epigenetic alterations (169, 170), but there is currently no evidence that nuclear receptor activation is a key component of the mechanism through which obesogens act across generations. It is possible that exposure to a combination of obesogens, each of which may act through a different pathway, will be required to explain the obesity pandemic. In support of this possibility, it is well-known that chemical mixtures can induce higher receptor activation or stronger phenotypes (171, 172, 173, 174). Moreover, the potential of many other obesogens to induce transgenerational obesity remains to be explored.

While much has been revealed about the number and nature of obesogens and some inroads have been made on mechanisms of action, we still know little about the entire spectrum of possible obesogens, how they act and who is exposed to what degree. Understanding how obesogens act will facilitate the identification of other obesogens that may have similar mechanisms of action. It will be crucial to develop and deploy screening assays that are sensitive and reliable enough to identify potential EDCs and obesogens before widespread exposure and adverse outcomes occur, as has been previously discussed (64). The US EPA has developed ToxCast and the National Toxicology Program (in collaboration with EPA) has developed Tox21. These are widely and frequently touted as the future of such screening studies but evidence is growing that the assays may not be sensitive or reliable enough to make effective predictions (76). The European Union has adopted a different approach. Under its Horizon 2020 grant program, the EU has funded eight international consortia that aim to establish standardized, internationally harmonized screening methods for EDCs. Three of these consortia are focused on developing methods to identify metabolism disrupting chemicals, including obesogens. Since the assays to identify EDCs will be developed by experts in the field, rather than using repurposed screening assays from the pharmaceutical industry, it is likely that these efforts will bear fruit. Identifying the full spectrum of obesogens and understanding their mechanisms of action will reveal how we can best prevent exposure or reduce the effects of exposure.

Currently, little is known about the magnitude of the obesogen effect in humans, and to what extent it contributes to the obesity pandemics. This would require understanding the effects of obesogens on a ‘real life scenario’, including exposure to a mixture of chemicals and their interaction with other factors affecting obesity risk, such as genetics, diet, stress, disrupted circadian rhythms combined with a longitudinal study design. Although there is much more to be discovered about obesogens, the advances on the field over the last 15 years have provided enough evidence to support the implementation of the ‘precautionary principle’ both on a public health and personnel perspective, to protect ourselves and future generations from their harmful impacts.

Declaration of interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of this review.

Funding

Supported by grants from the United States National Institutes of Health (R01 ES023316, R01 ES021832, R01 ES031139) to B B, and from the University of Brasilia and the Foundation for Research Support from the Federal District (DGP/UnB 05/2018) to A A A. B B is a named inventor on patents related to PPARγ and other nuclear receptors, none of which presents and actual or apparent conflict. A A A and H B W have nothing to declare.

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