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  • Title: Aflatoxin B1 hydroxylation by the pregnenolone-16 alpha-carbonitrile-inducible form of rat liver microsomal cytochrome P-450.
    Author: Halvorson MR, Safe SH, Parkinson A, Phillips TD.
    Journal: Carcinogenesis; 1988 Nov; 9(11):2103-8. PubMed ID: 3141079.
    Abstract:
    The effects of treating rats with various pregnenolone-16 alpha-carbonitrile (PCN)-type inducers of cytochrome P-450p on the liver microsomal metabolism of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) were investigated. Treatment of male rats with PCN resulted in a 6-fold increase in the 9-hydroxylation of AFB1 to aflatoxin Q1 (AFQ1). Treatment of female rats with PCN resulted in a 16-fold increase in the formation of AFQ1. The age-dependent decline in constitutive cytochrome P-450p levels in female but not male rats resulted in a sex difference in the formation of AFQ1 in liver microsomes from untreated rats (male:female approximately 3:1). The formation of AFQ1 was stimulated up to 5.4-fold when liver microsomes from triacetyloleandomycin (TAO)-treated rats were treated with potassium ferricyanide, which dissociates the complex between cytochrome P-450p and TAO. Treatment of male rats with the cytochrome P-450p inducer, dexamethasone, increased (approximately 7-fold) the 9-hydroxylation of AFB1 to AFQ1 by liver microsomes, and also enhanced (approximately 2-fold) the microsomal activation of AFB1 to metabolites that were mutagenic to Salmonella typhimurium TA98 and TA100. These results indicate that the 9-hydroxylation of AFB1 to AFQ1 is catalyzed by rat liver microsomal cytochrome P-450p.
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