TY - JOUR
T1 - 3-methylcholanthrene-inducible liver cytochrome(s) P450 in female sprague-dawley rats
T2 - Possible link between P450 turnover and formation of DNA adducts and i-compounds
AU - Moorthy, Bhagavatula
AU - Chen, Shuo
AU - Li, Donghui
AU - Randerath, Kurt
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr Theodore Wensel, Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, for providing spectrofluorometric facilities used in this study. We also thank Dr Erika Randerath for helpful advice. This work was supported in part by USPHS grants R37 CA32157 awarded by the National Cancer Institute and P42 ES04917 awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
PY - 1993/5
Y1 - 1993/5
N2 - The hepatic cytochrome P450s are mixed-function oxidases which metabolize a wide variety of xenobiotics and endobiotics, and also bioactivate carcinogens such as 3-methyl-cholanthrene (MC) to reactive metabolites capable of forming DNA adducts. To investigate possible relationships between cytochrome P450 induction and covalent DNA modifications (adducts and I-compounds), female Sprague-Dawley rats were i.p. treated with MC (25 mg/kg) in corn oil (CO), once daily for 4 days. Controls received CO only. Animals were euthanized at 1, 8, 15, 28 and 45 days after the last MC treatment, and liver microsomal cytochrome P450, ethoxy-coumarin O-deethylase (ECD) and ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) activities were determined. Liver DNA adducts and I-compounds were analyzed by 32P-postlabeling. A significant induction of the levels of P450, ECD and EROD activities was noted in MC-treated rats, and elevated enzyme levels persisted for about 6 weeks after cessation of MC administration. Linear decay of total P450, ECD and EROD activities as a function of time was observed. MC induced 11 DNA adducts in liver, which were resolved by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and persisted at high levels throughout the study. On the other hand, MC elicited a significant depletion of both non-polar and polar I-compounds (age-dependent DNA modifications detectable by 32P-postlabeling in rodent tissues without known exposure to carcinogens). Level of most I-compounds returned to normal at 45 days, and this paralleled the return of P450-related activities to normal. These results suggest a possible link between P450 turnover, DNA adduct formation, and I-compound depletion.
AB - The hepatic cytochrome P450s are mixed-function oxidases which metabolize a wide variety of xenobiotics and endobiotics, and also bioactivate carcinogens such as 3-methyl-cholanthrene (MC) to reactive metabolites capable of forming DNA adducts. To investigate possible relationships between cytochrome P450 induction and covalent DNA modifications (adducts and I-compounds), female Sprague-Dawley rats were i.p. treated with MC (25 mg/kg) in corn oil (CO), once daily for 4 days. Controls received CO only. Animals were euthanized at 1, 8, 15, 28 and 45 days after the last MC treatment, and liver microsomal cytochrome P450, ethoxy-coumarin O-deethylase (ECD) and ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) activities were determined. Liver DNA adducts and I-compounds were analyzed by 32P-postlabeling. A significant induction of the levels of P450, ECD and EROD activities was noted in MC-treated rats, and elevated enzyme levels persisted for about 6 weeks after cessation of MC administration. Linear decay of total P450, ECD and EROD activities as a function of time was observed. MC induced 11 DNA adducts in liver, which were resolved by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and persisted at high levels throughout the study. On the other hand, MC elicited a significant depletion of both non-polar and polar I-compounds (age-dependent DNA modifications detectable by 32P-postlabeling in rodent tissues without known exposure to carcinogens). Level of most I-compounds returned to normal at 45 days, and this paralleled the return of P450-related activities to normal. These results suggest a possible link between P450 turnover, DNA adduct formation, and I-compound depletion.
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U2 - 10.1093/carcin/14.5.879
DO - 10.1093/carcin/14.5.879
M3 - Article
C2 - 8504481
AN - SCOPUS:0027287445
SN - 0143-3334
VL - 14
SP - 879
EP - 886
JO - Carcinogenesis
JF - Carcinogenesis
IS - 5
ER -