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  • Title: Glutathione conjugates as metabolites of benz[a]anthracene.
    Author: Keysell GR, Booth J, Sims P.
    Journal: Xenobiotica; 1975 Jul; 5(7):439-48. PubMed ID: 239491.
    Abstract:
    1. [3H]Benz[a]anthracene is converted into water-soluble metabolites by microsomal plus soluble fractions of rat-liver in the presence of NADPH and glutathione. Chromatography on Sephadex G25 gave four radioactive peaks; the first contained hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon derivatives bound to soluble protein while the other three peaks contained glutathione conjugates of hydrocarbon metabolites. 2. Conjugates formed when either of the benz[a]anthracene metabolites, 5,6-dihydro-5,6-dihydroxybenz[a]anthracene or 8,9-dihydro-8,9-dihydroxybenz[a]anthracene, were similarly incubated were probably S-(5,6,8,9-tetrahydro-5,6,9-trihydroxybenz[a]anthracen-8-yl)glutathione and S-(5,6,8,9-tetrahydro-6,8,9-trihydroxybena[a]anthracen-5-yl)glutathione respectively. The corresponding peak obtained in the metabolism of benz[a]anthracene probably contains a mixture of these two isomers. 3. The third peak contained the conjugate, S-(5,6-dihydro-l-hydroxybenz-[a]anthracen-k-yl)glutathione, also formed by the conjugation of the "K-region" epoxide of benz[a]anthracene with glutathione. This was not formed in the metabolism of the dihydrodiols. 4. The fourth peak contained a new type of conjugate that is probably S-(8,9,10,11-tetrahydro-8,9,10-trihydroxybenz[a]anthracen-11-yl)glutathione. This conjugate is chromatographically similar to a product obtained from incubation of the 8,9-dihydrodiol, and is probably formed by microsomal oxidation of the 10,11-bond of the dihydrodiol, followed by conjugation of the resulting diol-epoxide with glutathione.
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