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  • Title: Activation of 6-aminochrysene to genotoxic products by different forms of rat liver cytochrome P450 in an O-acetyltransferase-overexpressing Salmonella typhimurium strain (NM2009).
    Author: Yamazaki H, Shimada T.
    Journal: Biochem Pharmacol; 1992 Sep 01; 44(5):913-20. PubMed ID: 1530660.
    Abstract:
    Metabolic activation of a potent mutagen, 6-aminochrysene, to genotoxic products in a newly developed tester strain, Salmonella typhimurium NM2009, was studied in a rat liver microsomal monooxygenase system containing cytochrome P450 (P450). Since the tester strain was constructed by introducing an O-acetyltransferase gene into the original strain S. typhimurium TA1535/pSK1002, it is highly sensitive toward the reactive metabolites of carcinogenic arylamines. DNA-damaging activities of 6-aminochrysene were detected at very low concentrations of substrate (between 0.01 and 0.2 microM) and liver microsomes (from 0.2 to 2 micrograms protein/mL) in the S. typhimurium NM2009 strain. Thus, the potency of genotoxic activities induced by 6-aminochrysene was about 10- to 20-times greater than those induced by the well-known mutagens 2-aminoanthracene and 2-amino-3,5-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline. Liver microsomes isolated from rats treated with phenobarbital (PB) and a polychlorinated biphenyl mixture, Kanechlor 500, catalyzed very efficiently the activation of 6-aminochrysene to genotoxic metabolites. Treatment of rats with beta-naphthoflavone (BNF) and with dexamethasone also caused moderate induction of the microsomal activation of 6-aminochrysene. Studies employing immunoinhibition of microsomal catalytic activities and reconstitution with purified P450 enzymes suggested that the most important enzymes involved in the activation of 6-aminochrysene were P450 2B1 and 2B2; other enzymes including P450 1A1 and 1A2 participated to some extent. We also found that the microsomal activation of 6-aminochrysene was catalyzed more effectively in an acetyltransferase-overexpressing strain (NM2009) than in the original TA1535/pSK1002 strain and that these activities could be inhibited by an acetyltransferase inhibitor, pentachlorophenol, in liver microsomes from PB-treated rats, but not in those from BNF-treated rats. These results suggest that the P450/acetyltransferase system is one of the most important catalysts for the activation of 6-aminochrysene in liver microsomes of PB-treated rats, and that activation by BNF-induced P450 enzymes occurs by different mechanisms, probably through the ring oxidation pathway.
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