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  • Title: Detection of acrolein and crotonaldehyde DNA adducts in cultured human cells and canine peripheral blood lymphocytes by 32P-postlabeling and nucleotide chromatography.
    Author: Wilson VL, Foiles PG, Chung FL, Povey AC, Frank AA, Harris CC.
    Journal: Carcinogenesis; 1991 Aug; 12(8):1483-90. PubMed ID: 1860170.
    Abstract:
    People are constantly being exposed to toxic and carcinogenic aldehydes. However, little is actually known about the mechanisms underlying the toxic and carcinogenic effects of these aldehydes on human cells. The DNA alkylating activities of two of the more toxic and environmentally prominent alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes, acrolein and crotonaldehyde, have been studied utilizing 32P-postlabeling and nucleotide chromatographic techniques. Several putative adducts were observed in DNAs isolated from acrolein- and crotonaldehyde-treated human fibroblasts. One of these acrolein-DNA adducts was tentatively identified as the cyclic 1,N2-hydroxypropanodeoxyguanosine product, 3-(2'-deoxyribosyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-8-hydroxypyrimido[1,2- a]purine-10-one, by co-chromatography with a chemical standard. The 1,N2-hydroxypropanodeoxyguanosine along with other possible adducts, was also found in DNA isolated from peripheral blood lymphocytes obtained from a dog 1 h after receiving a therapeutic dose of 6.6 mg/kg of cyclophosphamide. These results not only demonstrate the presence of acrolein and crotonaldehyde DNA adducts in treated human cells, but also suggest that these sensitive techniques may be useful to the study of the importance of acrolein to both the carcinogenic and antineoplastic activities of cyclophosphamide and other oxazaphosphorine mustards.
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