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  • Title: Developmental aspects of 2-acetamidofluorene metabolism and mutagenic activation in the chick.
    Author: Haug LT, Dybing E, Thorgeirsson SS.
    Journal: Xenobiotica; 1980 Dec; 10(12):863-72. PubMed ID: 7210699.
    Abstract:
    1. Oxidative metabolism and mutagenic activation of 2-acetamidofluorene (AAF) in the Salmonella test system were studied with liver subfractions from untreated and beta-naphthoflavone (BNF)-pretreated chicks during the first 10 days after hatching. 2. Newly hatched chicks had high liver microsomal mono-oxygenase activities, and these were markedly increased by BNF-pretreatment. 3. The mutagenic activation of AAF with control liver subfractions was highest on day 1 after hatching and declined towards day 10. 4. BNF-pretreatment caused decreases in the mutagenicity of AAF at high protein concentrations in the test system, but led to increases in mutagenic activity when low protein concentrations were applied. 5. N-Hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene was activated to a mutagen by microsomal metabolism, and this reaction was blocked by the deacetylase inhibitor paraoxon. 6. SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of liver microsomes from BNF-pretreated chicks showed an increase in a band with mol. wt. of approx. 55,000. The increase in the 55,000 mol. wt. band following BNF-pretreatment was associated with increases in benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase and AAF N-hydroxylase activities in the chick liver microsomes.
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