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Parke DV, Ioannides C, Lewis DF. The Safety Evaluation of Drugs and Chemicals by the Use of Computer Optimised Molecular Parametric Analysis of Chemical Toxicity (COMPACT). Altern Lab Anim 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/026119299001800113.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The historical development of the safety evaluation of drugs and chemicals is critically reviewed, and failures of the present approach using experimental animals are examined. The roles of the cytochromes P450 in the detoxication of drugs and chemicals, and in their activation to mutagens, carcinogens and neoantigens, are described, and the importance of the selective induction of the cytochromes P450 in the manifestation of chemical toxicity/carcinogenicity is highlighted. The computer graphic procedure of COMPACT, which relates chemical structures to metabolism by individual cytochromes P450, and hence to their potential toxicity/carcinogenicity, is described, and the advantages and disadvantages of this method of safety evaluation, which does not use experimental animals, are considered.
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- Dennis V. Parke
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, UK
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Hrycay EG, Bandiera SM. Involvement of Cytochrome P450 in Reactive Oxygen Species Formation and Cancer. ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY (SAN DIEGO, CALIF.) 2015; 74:35-84. [PMID: 26233903 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apha.2015.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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This review examines the involvement of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes in the formation of reactive oxygen species in biological systems and discusses the possible involvement of reactive oxygen species and CYP enzymes in cancer. Reactive oxygen species are formed in biological systems as byproducts of the reduction of molecular oxygen and include the superoxide radical anion (∙O2-), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), hydroxyl radical (∙OH), hydroperoxyl radical (HOO∙), singlet oxygen ((1)O2), and peroxyl radical (ROO∙). Two endogenous sources of reactive oxygen species are the mammalian CYP-dependent microsomal electron transport system and the mitochondrial electron transport chain. CYP enzymes catalyze the oxygenation of an organic substrate and the simultaneous reduction of molecular oxygen. If the transfer of oxygen to a substrate is not tightly controlled, uncoupling occurs and leads to the formation of reactive oxygen species. Reactive oxygen species are capable of causing oxidative damage to cellular membranes and macromolecules that can lead to the development of human diseases such as cancer. In normal cells, intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species are maintained in balance with intracellular biochemical antioxidants to prevent cellular damage. Oxidative stress occurs when this critical balance is disrupted. Topics covered in this review include the role of reactive oxygen species in intracellular cell signaling and the relationship between CYP enzymes and cancer. Outlines of CYP expression in neoplastic tissues, CYP enzyme polymorphism and cancer risk, CYP enzymes in cancer therapy and the metabolic activation of chemical procarcinogens by CYP enzymes are also provided.
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- Eugene G Hrycay
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Cavalieri E, Rogan E. The molecular etiology and prevention of estrogen-initiated cancers: Ockham's Razor: Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. Plurality should not be posited without necessity. Mol Aspects Med 2014; 36:1-55. [PMID: 23994691 PMCID: PMC3938998 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2013.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2013] [Revised: 08/05/2013] [Accepted: 08/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Elucidation of estrogen carcinogenesis required a few fundamental discoveries made by studying the mechanism of carcinogenesis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). The two major mechanisms of metabolic activation of PAH involve formation of radical cations and diol epoxides as ultimate carcinogenic metabolites. These intermediates react with DNA to yield two types of adducts: stable adducts that remain in DNA unless removed by repair and depurinating adducts that are lost from DNA by cleavage of the glycosyl bond between the purine base and deoxyribose. The potent carcinogenic PAH benzo[a]pyrene, dibenzo[a,l]pyrene, 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene and 3-methylcholanthrene predominantly form depurinating DNA adducts, leaving apurinic sites in the DNA that generate cancer-initiating mutations. This was discovered by correlation between the depurinating adducts formed in mouse skin by treatment with benzo[a]pyrene, dibenzo[a,l]pyrene or 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene and the site of mutations in the Harvey-ras oncogene in mouse skin papillomas initiated by one of these PAH. By applying some of these fundamental discoveries in PAH studies to estrogen carcinogenesis, the natural estrogens estrone (E1) and estradiol (E2) were found to be mutagenic and carcinogenic through formation of the depurinating estrogen-DNA adducts 4-OHE1(E2)-1-N3Ade and 4-OHE1(E2)-1-N7Gua. These adducts are generated by reaction of catechol estrogen quinones with DNA, analogously to the DNA adducts obtained from the catechol quinones of benzene, naphthalene, and the synthetic estrogens diethylstilbestrol and hexestrol. This is a weak mechanism of cancer initiation. Normally, estrogen metabolism is balanced and few estrogen-DNA adducts are formed. When estrogen metabolism becomes unbalanced, more catechol estrogen quinones are generated, resulting in higher levels of estrogen-DNA adducts, which can be used as biomarkers of unbalanced estrogen metabolism and, thus, cancer risk. The ratio of estrogen-DNA adducts to estrogen metabolites and conjugates has repeatedly been found to be significantly higher in women at high risk for breast cancer, compared to women at normal risk. These results indicate that formation of estrogen-DNA adducts is a critical factor in the etiology of breast cancer. Significantly higher adduct ratios have been observed in women with breast, thyroid or ovarian cancer. In the women with ovarian cancer, single nucleotide polymorphisms in the genes for two enzymes involved in estrogen metabolism indicate risk for ovarian cancer. When polymorphisms produce high activity cytochrome P450 1B1, an activating enzyme, and low activity catechol-O-methyltransferase, a protective enzyme, in the same woman, she is almost six times more likely to have ovarian cancer. These results indicate that formation of estrogen-DNA adducts is a critical factor in the etiology of ovarian cancer. Significantly higher ratios of estrogen-DNA adducts to estrogen metabolites and conjugates have also been observed in men with prostate cancer or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, compared to healthy men without cancer. These results also support a critical role of estrogen-DNA adducts in the initiation of cancer. Starting from the perspective that unbalanced estrogen metabolism can lead to increased formation of catechol estrogen quinones, their reaction with DNA to form adducts, and generation of cancer-initiating mutations, inhibition of estrogen-DNA adduct formation would be an effective approach to preventing a variety of human cancers. The dietary supplements resveratrol and N-acetylcysteine can act as preventing cancer agents by keeping estrogen metabolism balanced. These two compounds can reduce the formation of catechol estrogen quinones and/or their reaction with DNA. Therefore, resveratrol and N-acetylcysteine provide a widely applicable, inexpensive approach to preventing many of the prevalent types of human cancer.
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- Ercole Cavalieri
- Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 986805 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-6805, USA; Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 984388 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4388, USA.
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- Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 986805 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-6805, USA; Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 984388 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4388, USA.
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Hrycay EG, Bandiera SM. The monooxygenase, peroxidase, and peroxygenase properties of cytochrome P450. Arch Biochem Biophys 2012; 522:71-89. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2012.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2011] [Revised: 12/22/2011] [Accepted: 01/04/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Lackner C. Hepatocellular ballooning in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: the pathologist's perspective. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2011; 5:223-31. [PMID: 21476917 DOI: 10.1586/egh.11.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an important complication of the metabolic syndrome. The increasing prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is paralleled by an increasing prevalence of NAFLD, which has become one of the most common chronic liver diseases. NAFLD comprises a morphological spectrum ranging from nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL), characterized by accumulation of fat in hepatocytes, to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The key histological features of NASH accepted by most pathologists include steatosis, hepatocellular ballooning and lobular inflammation, whereas, like in other chronic liver diseases, the presence of fibrosis is not considered a requirement for the diagnosis. The diagnosis of NASH and the distinction from NAFL carries important prognostic and therapeutic implications because NASH, in contrast to NAFL, is associated with an increased risk of progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatocellular ballooning is a key feature required for the diagnosis of NASH and a component of currently used histological grading and staging systems of NAFLD. However, it represents an ill-defined form of liver cell injury associated with cell swelling and rounding of the cytoplasm, the detection of which is prone to intra- as well as inter-observer variation. Some of the factors that may contribute to ballooning are the rearrangement of the intermediate filament cytoskeleton, accumulation of small-droplet fat in the cytoplasm and dilation of the endoplasmic reticulum. The rearrangement of the intermediate filament cytoskeleton can be demonstrated by the loss of keratin 8/18 immunostaining of the cytoplasm, and may thus be evaluated in the future as a marker for the more objective detection of hepatocellular ballooning in NASH.
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- Carolin Lackner
- Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 25, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
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Strnad P, Stumptner C, Zatloukal K, Denk H. Intermediate filament cytoskeleton of the liver in health and disease. Histochem Cell Biol 2008; 129:735-49. [PMID: 18443813 PMCID: PMC2386529 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-008-0431-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/14/2008] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Intermediate filaments (IFs) represent the largest cytoskeletal gene family comprising approximately 70 genes expressed in tissue specific manner. In addition to scaffolding function, they form complex signaling platforms and interact with various kinases, adaptor, and apoptotic proteins. IFs are established cytoprotectants and IF variants are associated with >30 human diseases. Furthermore, IF-containing inclusion bodies are characteristic features of several neurodegenerative, muscular, and other disorders. Acidic (type I) and basic keratins (type II) build obligatory type I and type II heteropolymers and are expressed in epithelial cells. Adult hepatocytes contain K8 and K18 as their only cytoplasmic IF pair, whereas cholangiocytes express K7 and K19 in addition. K8/K18-deficient animals exhibit a marked susceptibility to various toxic agents and Fas-induced apoptosis. In humans, K8/K18 variants predispose to development of end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure (ALF). K8/K18 variants also associate with development of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Mallory-Denk bodies (MDBs) are protein aggregates consisting of ubiquitinated K8/K18, chaperones and sequestosome1/p62 (p62) as their major constituents. MDBs are found in various liver diseases including alcoholic and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and can be formed in mice by feeding hepatotoxic substances griseofulvin and 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine (DDC). MDBs also arise in cell culture after transfection with K8/K18, ubiquitin, and p62. Major factors that determine MDB formation in vivo are the type of stress (with oxidative stress as a major player), the extent of stress-induced protein misfolding and resulting chaperone, proteasome and autophagy overload, keratin 8 excess, transglutaminase activation with transamidation of keratin 8 and p62 upregulation.
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- P Strnad
- Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Strabe 8, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
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Hlavica P. Functional interaction of nitrogenous organic bases with cytochrome P450: A critical assessment and update of substrate features and predicted key active-site elements steering the access, binding, and orientation of amines. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2006; 1764:645-70. [PMID: 16503427 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2006.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2005] [Revised: 01/12/2006] [Accepted: 01/12/2006] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The widespread use of nitrogenous organic bases as environmental chemicals, food additives, and clinically important drugs necessitates precise knowledge about the molecular principles governing biotransformation of this category of substrates. In this regard, analysis of the topological background of complex formation between amines and P450s, acting as major catalysts in C- and N-oxidative attack, is of paramount importance. Thus, progress in collaborative investigations, combining physico-chemical techniques with chemical-modification as well as genetic engineering experiments, enables substantiation of hypothetical work resulting from the design of pharmacophores or homology modelling of P450s. Based on a general, CYP2D6-related construct, the majority of prospective amine-docking residues was found to cluster near the distal heme face in the six known SRSs, made up by the highly variant helices B', F and G as well as the N-terminal portion of helix C and certain beta-structures. Most of the contact sites examined show a frequency of conservation < 20%, hinting at the requirement of some degree of conformational versatility, while a limited number of amino acids exhibiting a higher level of conservation reside close to the heme core. Some key determinants may have a dual role in amine binding and/or maintenance of protein integrity. Importantly, a series of non-SRS elements are likely to be operative via long-range effects. While hydrophobic mechanisms appear to dominate orientation of the nitrogenous compounds toward the iron-oxene species, polar residues seem to foster binding events through H-bonding or salt-bridge formation. Careful uncovering of structure-function relationships in amine-enzyme association together with recently developed unsupervised machine learning approaches will be helpful in both tailoring of novel amine-type drugs and early elimination of potentially toxic or mutagenic candidates. Also, chimeragenesis might serve in the construction of more efficient P450s for activation of amine drugs and/or bioremediation.
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- Peter Hlavica
- Walther-Straub-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Goethestrasse 33, D-80336 München, Germany.
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Yasui H, Hayashi S, Sakurai H. Possible involvement of singlet oxygen species as multiple oxidants in p450 catalytic reactions. Drug Metab Pharmacokinet 2005; 20:1-13. [PMID: 15770070 DOI: 10.2133/dmpk.20.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cytochrome P450 (P450) constitutes a superfamily of enzymes which activate dioxygen and carry out monooxygenation reactions of large numbers of endogenous and xenobiotic compounds. Drug metabolism is a particularly important P450 function, and, therefore, elucidating the metabolic products and pathways of drugs is essential for drug development. To explain the substrate selectivity of P450 reactions, it is necessary to understand the formation of multiple activated oxygen species to determine the type of catalyzed reactions, in addition to conducting structure analyses of P450s. Although an oxo-Fe(IV)-porphyrin-pi-cation radical is regarded as an activated oxygen species in P450 reactions, a nucleophilic Fe(III)-peroxo species has also been proposed as another oxidant. In the past decade, various studies indicated that P450-catalyzed oxygenations are complex, and that a single reaction pathway cannot explain all of the experimental results. In addition, the microsomal P450 system is known to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, the contribution of ROS to P450 reactions remains unclear. We recently found that singlet oxygen (1O2) was involved in both several rat liver microsomal P450 reactions and four human CYP subfamily activities, as confirmed by the ESR spin-trapping method. In this review, we describe the studies that have been conducted on the detection and characterization of ROS in P450 reactions related to drug metabolism that involve the possibility of 1O2 in the P450 catalytic cycle. Gaining an understanding of the activated oxygen species that determine the type of drug metabolism will help us to predict the important metabolites formed.
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- Hiroyuki Yasui
- Department of Analytical and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan
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Hu J, Eriksson L, Bergman A, Jakobsson E, Kolehmainen E, Knuutinen J, Suontamo R, Wei X. Molecular orbital studies on brominated diphenyl ethers. Part II--reactivity and quantitative structure-activity (property) relationships. CHEMOSPHERE 2005; 59:1043-1057. [PMID: 15823338 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.11.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2003] [Revised: 09/21/2004] [Accepted: 11/12/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are widely used as flame retardants and are increasingly turning up in the environment. Their structural similarities to polychlorinated biphenyls and thyroid hormones suggest they may be a risk to human health. The present study examines the reactivity of brominated diphenyl ethers (BDEs) on the basis of the electronic structures as calculated by semiempirical AM1 self-consistent field molecular orbital (SCF-MO) method. Frontier orbital energies were used to elucidate the reactivity of BDEs in electrophilic, nucleophilic and photolytic reactions. From an examination of the frontier electron densities, the regioselectivity, or orientation, of metabolic reactions of BDEs was predicted. Furthermore, satisfactory quantitative structure-activity (property) relationship (QSAR and QSPR) models were derived to calculate gas chromatographic and ultraviolet spectral properties and luciferase induction activities from the AM1-computed electronic parameters.
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- Jiwei Hu
- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, PR China
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Saxena PN, Gupta VD. Role of molecular geometry, valence charge distribution and vibrational modes in bioactivity of cyclodiene insecticides. J Appl Toxicol 2005; 25:39-46. [PMID: 15669032 DOI: 10.1002/jat.1016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Fourier transform infrared spectral measurement and complete normal mode calculations have been carried out for heptachlor and wedge modes have been identified. In addition, valence charge distributions have been obtained for aldrin, endrin, heptachlor, beta-endosulfan, cis-chlordane, trans-chlordane, photo-cis-chlordane and photo-trans-chlordane using CNDO/2 (complete neglect of differential overlap) molecular orbital calculations. A toxicity parameter has been defined as the product of the charge distribution and surface area of the corresponding active wedges, depending on the interacting structural features. The variation of this toxicity parameter is generally in order and in agreement with the reported measurements based on the corresponding order of observed LD50 values. Because of the structural features, the toxicity in these cases is a surface phenomenon rather than a volume effect as in the case of Gammexane, wherein the insecticide binds itself to membrane channels. Because the biological activity is a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon, it is expected that the normal modes involving the wedge atoms play an important role.
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- P N Saxena
- Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India
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Lewis DFV. Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) within the cytochrome P450 system: QSARs describing substrate binding, inhibition and induction of P450s. Inflammopharmacology 2004; 11:43-73. [PMID: 15035734 DOI: 10.1163/156856003321547112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) within substrates, inducers and inhibitors of cytochromes P450 involved in xenobiotic metabolism are reported, together with QSARs associated with induction, inhibition and metabolic rate. The importance of frontier orbitals and shape descriptors, such as planarity (estimated by the area/depth(2) parameter) and rectangularity (estimated by the length/width parameter) is discussed, particularly in the context of the COMPACT system which discriminates between several P450 families associated with the activation and detoxication of xenobiotics. The use of parameters, particularly those derived from homology modelling of mammalian (especially human) P450s that are involved in exogenous metabolism, in generating QSARs for P450 substrates is discussed in the context of explaining differences in the binding affinities of human P450 substrates which are pharmacologically active.
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- David F V Lewis
- School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK.
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Yasui H, Deo K, Ogura Y, Yoshida H, Shiraga T, Kagayama A, Sakurai H. Evidence for Singlet Oxygen Involvement in Rat and Human Cytochrome P450-dependent Substrate Oxidations. Drug Metab Pharmacokinet 2002; 17:416-26. [PMID: 15618693 DOI: 10.2133/dmpk.17.416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Recently, we proposed that singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)) plays an essential role in microsomal cytochrome P450 (P450)-dependent p-hydroxylation of aniline and O-deethylation of 7-ethoxycoumarin. We then examined whether the role of (1)O(2) is general in the P450-dependent substrate oxidations. In the present study, we examined omega- and (omega-1)-hydroxylations of lauric acid, O-demethylation of p-nitroanisole, and N-demethylation of aminopyrine in rat liver microsomes. The addition of beta-carotene and NaN(3) significantly suppressed these reactions in a concentration-dependent manner, and (1)O(2) during the reactions was detected by ESR spin-trapping using 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidone (TMPD) as a (1)O(2)-spin trapping reagent, where the addition of (1)O(2) quenchers, SKF-525A as a P450 inhibitor, or p-nitroanisole decreased ESR signal intensities due to TMPD-(1)O(2) adduct. Next, we examined the effect of (1)O(2) quenchers on P450-dependent reactions in the human liver microsomes, and (1)O(2) was also indicated to be an active species in substrate hydroxylations and dealkylations such as nifedipine oxidation by CYP3A4. On the basis of the results, we concluded that (1)O(2) is an essentially important active oxygen species in both rat and human P450-dependent substrate oxidations.
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- Hiroyuki Yasui
- Department of Analytical and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan
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Noordermeer MA, Veldink GA, Vliegenthart JF. Fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase: a plant cytochrome p450 enzyme involved in wound healing and pest resistance. Chembiochem 2001; 2:494-504. [PMID: 11828481 DOI: 10.1002/1439-7633(20010803)2:7/8<494::aid-cbic494>3.0.co;2-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Plants continuously have to defend themselves against life-threatening events such as drought, mechanical damage, temperature stress, and potential pathogens. Nowadays, more and more similarities between the defense mechanism of plants and that of animals are being discovered. In both cases, the lipoxygenase pathway plays an important role. In plants, products of this pathway are involved in wound healing, pest resistance, and signaling, or they have antimicrobial and antifungal activity. The first step in the lipoxygenase pathway is the reaction of linoleic or linolenic acids with molecular oxygen, catalyzed by the enzyme lipoxygenase. The hydroperoxy fatty acids thus formed are highly reactive and dangerous for the plant and therefore further metabolized by other enzymes such as allene oxide synthase, hydroperoxide lyase, peroxygenase, or divinyl ether synthase. Recently, these enzymes have been characterized as a special class of cytochrome P450 enzymes. Hydroperoxide lyases cleave the lipoxygenase products, resulting in the formation of omega-oxo acids and volatile C6- and C9-aldehydes and -alcohols. These compounds are major contributors to the characteristic "fresh green" odor of fruit and vegetables. They are widely used as food flavors, for example, to restore the freshness of food after sterilization processes. The low abundance of these compounds in nature and the high demand make it necessary to synthesize them on a large scale. Lipoxygenase and hydroperoxide lyase are suitable biocatalysts for the production of "natural" food flavors. In contrast to lipoxygenase, which has been extensively studied, little is yet known about hydroperoxide lyase. Hydroperoxide lyases from different organisms have been isolated, and a few genes have been published lately. However, the structure and reaction mechanism of this enzyme are still unclear. The identification of this enzyme as a cytochrome P450 sheds new light on its structure and possible reaction mechanism, whereas recombinant expression brings a biocatalytic application into sight.
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- M A Noordermeer
- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Noordermeer MA, Veldink GA, Vliegenthart JF. Spectroscopic studies on the active site of hydroperoxide lyase; the influence of detergents on its conformation. FEBS Lett 2001; 489:229-32. [PMID: 11165255 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02107-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Expression of high quantities of alfalfa hydroperoxide lyase in Escherichia coli made it possible to study its active site and structure in more detail. Circular dichroism (CD) spectra showed that hydroperoxide lyase consists for about 75% of alpha-helices. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra confirmed its classification as a cytochrome P450 enzyme. The positive influence of detergents on the enzyme activity is paralleled by a spin state transition of the heme Fe(III) from low to high spin. EPR and CD spectra showed that detergents induce a subtle conformational change, which might result in improved substrate binding. Because hydroperoxide lyase is thought to be a membrane bound protein and detergents mimic a membrane environment, the more active, high spin form likely represents the in vivo conformation. Furthermore, the spin state appeared to be temperature-dependent, with the low spin state favored at low temperature. Point mutants of the highly conserved cysteine in domain D indicated that this residue might be involved in heme binding.
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- M A Noordermeer
- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Department of Bio-organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, NL-3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Hatch FT, Lightstone FC, Colvin ME. Quantitative structure-activity relationship of flavonoids for inhibition of heterocyclic amine mutagenicity. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2000; 35:279-299. [PMID: 10861947 DOI: 10.1002/1098-2280(2000)35:4<279::aid-em3>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The mutagenic/carcinogenic heterocyclic amines formed during the cooking of protein foods have been determined to be a potential risk to human health. Therefore, mitigation measures are beginning to be studied. A recent finding is that the induction of mutation in Salmonella by these amines can be inhibited by the addition of flavonoids to the assay. This study combines data on the inhibitory process with structural, ab initio quantum chemical, hydropathic, and antioxidant factors to develop a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) database and statistical analysis. For 39 diverse flavonoids the inhibitory potency varied approximately 100-fold. Three predictive variables, in order of decreasing contribution to variance, are: (1) a large dipole moment; (2) after geometric minimization of energy, a small departure from planarity (i.e., small dihedral angle between the benzopyran nucleus and the attached phenyl ring), and a low rotational energy barrier to achieving planarity; and (3) fewer hydroxyl groups on the phenyl ring. However, these variables account for less than half of the variance in inhibitory potency of the flavonoids. Frontier orbital energies and antioxidant or radical scavenging properties showed little or no relationship to potency. We conclude that interference by the flavonoids with cytochrome P450 activation of the promutagens is the probable mechanism for inhibition of mutagenesis, and suggest avenues for further research. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 35:279-299, 2000 Published 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Lewis DF, Ioannides C, Parke DV. Further evaluation of COMPACT, the molecular orbital approach for the prospective safety evaluation of chemicals. Mutat Res 1998; 412:41-54. [PMID: 9508363 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5718(97)00145-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The molecular dimensions and electronic structures of the first group of 100 US NCI/NTP miscellaneous chemicals, evaluated for potential carcinogenicity by computer-optimized molecular parametric analysis for chemical toxicity (COMPACT) have been re-determined. Using improved criteria for cytochrome P450 (CYP) substrate specificity, re-defined for CYP1 as having a COMPACT radius [square root of (deltaE - 9.5)2 + (a/d(2) - 7.8)2] of < 6.5, and for CYP2E as having a collision diameter of 6.5 angstroms or less and deltaE < 15.5, the likely substrates of CYP1 and CYP2E, which are regarded as potential carcinogens, have been identified. In addition, log P values have been taken into account; those chemicals with log P < 0 are non-lipophilic substrates unlikely to reach the activating cytochrome enzymes, and have been regarded as non-carcinogens. The second group of 100 US NCI/NTP chemicals have also now been categorized by COMPACT into CYP1 and CYP2E substrates, and their potential carcinogenicities evaluated. Of the 203 chemicals in the 2 groups, those positive in the rodent two-species life-span carcinogenicity study (rodent assay) were 53%, those positive in the Ames test (mutagenicity) were 48%, and those positive in the COMPACT programme (carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, cytotoxicity) were 54%. Concordance between the COMPACT prediction of carcinogenicity/cytotoxicity and rodent two species life-span carcinogenicity data for the 203 chemicals is 69%, and correlation of COMPACT with Ames test data is 61%. The sensitivity of COMPACT for predicting rodent carcinogenicity is 72%, whereas the sensitivity of the Ames test for predicting carcinogenicity for the 203 chemicals was only 57%. The degree (severity) of rodent carcinogenicity also showed correlation with the COMPACT predictive evaluations of the chemicals.
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- D F Lewis
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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De Groot MJ, Vermeulen NP. Modeling the active sites of cytochrome P450s and glutathione S-transferases, two of the most important biotransformation enzymes. Drug Metab Rev 1997; 29:747-99. [PMID: 9262946 DOI: 10.3109/03602539709037596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- M J De Groot
- Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Department of Pharmacochemistry, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lewis DF. Quantitative structure-activity relationships in substrates, inducers, and inhibitors of cytochrome P4501 (CYP1). Drug Metab Rev 1997; 29:589-650. [PMID: 9262943 DOI: 10.3109/03602539709037593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- D F Lewis
- Molecular Toxicology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Benigni R, Richard AM. QSARS of mutagens and carcinogens: two case studies illustrating problems in the construction of models for noncongeneric chemicals. Mutat Res 1996; 371:29-46. [PMID: 8950348 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1218(96)90092-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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There is a strong motivation to develop QSAR models for toxicity prediction for use in screening, for setting testing priorities, and for reducing reliance on animal testing. Decisions must be made daily by toxicologists in governments and industry to direct limited testing to the most urgent public health problems, and to direct the types of chemical synthesis and product development efforts undertaken. This need has motivated attempts to construct general QSAR models (e.g., for rodent carcinogenicity), not tailored to congeneric series of chemicals. These various attempts have provided interesting and important scientific evidence; however, they have also shared a limited overall performance. The goal of this paper is to illustrate, by two unrelated actual examples of QSARs for mutagens and carcinogens, some fundamental problems relative to the application of general QSAR approaches to noncongeneric chemicals. Both examples consider data sets that are noncongeneric in a chemical structure and mechanism of action sense: in the first case, a mean mutagenic potency defined as an average over multiple genetic toxicity endpoints, and, in the second case, the NTP two-sexes, two species rodent carcinogenicity bioassay results for 280 carcinogens and noncarcinogens. The problems encountered with the QSAR analyses of these two cases indicate that a successful approach to the problem of QSAR modeling of noncongeneric data will need to consider the multidimensional nature of the problem in both a chemical and a biological sense. Since different chemical classes represent largely independent action mechanisms, some means for extracting local QSARs for constituent classes will be necessary. Alternatively, a general QSAR derived for a noncongeneric data set will need to be scrutinized and decomposed along chemical class lines in order to establish boundaries for application and confidence levels for prediction.
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- R Benigni
- Laboratory of Comparative Toxicology and EcoToxicology, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Rome, Italy
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Hatch FT, Colvin ME, Seidl ET. Structural and quantum chemical factors affecting mutagenic potency of aminoimidazo-azaarenes. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 1996; 27:314-330. [PMID: 8665874 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2280(1996)27:4<314::aid-em6>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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A set of 16 mutagenic aminoimidazo-azaarenes, including four that have been isolated from cooked foods and identified as bacterial mutagens and rodent carcinogens, was selected from a larger series previously published [Hatch et al. (1991): Environ Mol Mutagen 17:4-19] for an in-depth structure-activity study using computational methods. Structural features believed to affect mutagenic potency were tabulated. Molecular orbital energies and other electronic properties of these compounds were calculated using Huckel, semiempirical AM1, and ab initio quantum mechanical methods. Factor interrelationships were studied by multiple linear regression and canonical correlation analyses. Our goal was an improved understanding of the chemical basis of mutagenicity for this class of heterocyclic amines. The major findings were as follows: 1) mutagenic potency is related to the size of the aromatic ring system; 2) potency is enhanced by the presence and location of an N-methyl group; 3) potency is enhanced by addition of ring nitrogen atoms in pyridine, quinoline, and quinoxaline configurations; 4) potency is inversely related to the energy of the LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) of the parent amines; 5) potency is directly, though weakly, related to the LUMO energy of the derived nitrenium ions; and 6) the calculated thermodynamic stability of the nitrenium ions (relative to the parent amine) is directly correlated with nitrenium LUMO energy and with the negative charge on the exocyclic nitrogen atom. Although this study raises several intriguing issues relating mutagenicity to chemical properties, further study will be required to determine the plausibility of the nitrenium ion as the ultimate mutagen for binding to DNA.
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- F T Hatch
- Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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The pathogenesis of inflammatory disease: Surgical shock and multiple system organ failure. Inflammopharmacology 1995. [PMCID: PMC7101736 DOI: 10.1007/bf02674919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Goeptar AR, Scheerens H, Vermeulen NP. Oxygen and xenobiotic reductase activities of cytochrome P450. Crit Rev Toxicol 1995; 25:25-65. [PMID: 7734059 DOI: 10.3109/10408449509089886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The oxygen reductase and xenobiotic reductase activities of cytochrome P450 (P450) are reviewed. During the oxygen reductase activity of P450, molecular oxygen is reduced to superoxide anion radicals (O2-.) most likely by autooxidation of a P450 ferric-dioxyanion complex. The formation of reactive oxygen species (O2-., hydrogen peroxide, and, notably, hydroxyl free radicals) presents a potential toxication pathway, particularly when effective means of detoxication are lacking. Under anaerobic conditions, P450 may also be involved in the reduction of xenobiotics. During the xenobiotic reductase activity of P450, xenobiotics are reduced by the ferrous xenobiotic complex. After xenobiotic reduction by P450, xenobiotic free radicals are formed that are often capable of reacting directly with tissue macromolecules. Unfortunately, the compounds that are reductively activated by P450 have little structural similarity. The precise molecular mechanism underlying the xenobiotic reductase activity of P450 is, therefore, not yet fully understood. Moreover, description of the molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic and oxygen reduction reactions by P450 is limited by the lack of knowledge of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the mammalian P450 proteins.
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- A R Goeptar
- Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
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Magdó I, Ferenczy GG, Bencz Z. Prediction of carcinogenicity from molecular structure; modification and reinvestigation of the method. Cancer Lett 1994; 81:201-7. [PMID: 8012938 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(94)90203-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The method of Lewis and coworkers for predicting the affinity of molecules for cytochrome P448 is studied. Parameters are modified to clarify their meaning and to simplify their calculation. Additional molecules are involved in the study. Geometric requirements for obtaining reliable parameters and the possibility of predicting carcinogenicity are discussed.
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- I Magdó
- Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter Ltd., Budapest, Hungary
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Ackland MJ. Correlation between site specificity and electrophilic frontier values in the metabolic hydroxylation of biphenyl, di-aromatic and CYP2D6 substrates: a molecular modelling study. Xenobiotica 1993; 23:1135-44. [PMID: 8259695 DOI: 10.3109/00498259309059428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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1. A series of biphenyl, di-aromatic and CYP2D6 substrates known to undergo metabolic aromatic hydroxylation was derived from the literature, several animal species were represented. 2. Molecular orbital calculations were performed on the substrates using the AM1 semi-empirical force field and the electrophilic frontier values (f(E)) plotted for each available aromatic site. 3. A qualitative correlation was observed between the sites of oxidation and high f(E) values, suggesting the role of frontier orbitals in the metabolic hydroxylation of these substrates. 4. The mechanistic implications for the involvement of frontier orbitals in aromatic hydroxylation are discussed. It is proposed that electron abstraction occurs in the region of high electron density to form a radical cation. Hydrogen abstraction by Fe++O- then occurs followed by oxygen rebound. 5. The method can be helpful in indicating regio-specificity in the metabolic hydroxylation of bi-phenyls, related di-aromatic compounds and possibly CYP2D6 aromatic substrates.
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- M J Ackland
- Upjohn Laboratories-Europe, Upjohn Ltd, Fleming Way, Crawley, UK
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Lewis DF, Ioannides C, Parke DV. Validation of a novel molecular orbital approach (COMPACT) for the prospective safety evaluation of chemicals, by comparison with rodent carcinogenicity and Salmonella mutagenicity data evaluated by the U.S. NCI/NTP. Mutat Res 1993; 291:61-77. [PMID: 7678916 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1161(93)90018-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The molecular dimensions and electronic structures of 100 chemicals of structural diversity have been determined from molecular orbital calculations and molecular mechanics. From these parameters of molecular structure, those chemicals that are likely substrates of cytochromes P4501 and P4502E have been identified by the computer-optimized molecular parametric analysis of chemical toxicity (COMPACT) programme, and their potential toxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity evaluated. The degree of correlation between COMPACT prediction of toxicity and rodent two species life-span carcinogenicity data is estimated to be 92%, and between COMPACT and Salmonella mutagenicity (Ames test) data is 64%. Anomalous rodent carcinogens are rationalized on the basis of biochemical mechanisms of metabolism, genotoxicity and carcinogenicity. Correlation of the Ames test data with rodent carcinogenicity data was 64%, but correlation of COMPACT plus Ames data versus rodent carcinogenicity data provided the highest correlation of 94%.
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- D F Lewis
- Molecular Toxicology Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Koymans L, Donné-op den Kelder GM, Koppele Te JM, Vermeulen NP. Cytochromes P450: their active-site structure and mechanism of oxidation. Drug Metab Rev 1993; 25:325-87. [PMID: 8404461 DOI: 10.3109/03602539308993979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- L Koymans
- Department of Pharmacochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The use of food preservatives, such as benzoic acid, nitrites, and sulphites, as antimicrobials, and butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), ascorbic acid and tocopherols, as antioxidants, has probably changed food production patterns and eating habits more than has the use of any other class of food additive. These food preservative chemicals confer substantial benefits on man, not only by the preservation and increased palatability of food, but also by affording protection against the pathological effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which are associated with cancer, cardiovascular disease and aging. Nevertheless, although most preservatives are now considered to be without potential adverse effects and are classified as GRAS, there have been problems concerning the safety of some of these chemicals, including the possibility of allergies from benzoic acid and sulphites, the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines from nitrites, and the possible rodent carcinogenicity of BHA and BHT. The mechanisms of this toxicity at high dosage, the roles of the cytochromes P450, and the generation and scavenging of ROS in the toxicity of these chemicals, are reviewed and discussed.
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- D V Parke
- Division of Molecular Toxicology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Molecular pathology of drug-disease interactions in chronic autoimmune inflammatory diseases. Inflammopharmacology 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02735459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Singlet oxygen, 1O2 (1 delta g), fulfills essential prerequisites for a genotoxic substance, like hydroxyl radicals and other oxygen radicals: it can react efficiently with DNA and it can be generated inside cells, e.g. by photosensitization and enzymatic oxidation. As might be anticipated from the non-radical character of singlet oxygen, the pattern of DNA modifications it produces is very different from that caused by hydroxyl radicals. While hydroxyl radicals produce DNA strand breaks and sites of base loss (AP sites) in high yield and react with all four bases of DNA, singlet oxygen generates predominantly modified guanine residues and few strand breaks and AP sites. There is now convincing evidence that a major product of base modification caused by singlet oxygen is 8-hydroxyguanine (7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine). Indeed, the recently reported miscoding properties of 8-hydroxyguanine can explain the predominant type of mutations observed when DNA modified by singlet oxygen is replicated in cells. There are also strong indications that singlet oxygen generated by photosensitization can act as an ultimate DNA modifying species inside cells. However, indirect genotoxic mechanisms involving other reactive oxygen species produced from singlet oxygen are also possible and appear to predominate in some cases. The cellular defense system against oxidants consists of effective singlet oxygen scavengers such as carotenoids. The observation that carotenoids can inhibit neoplastic cell transformation when administered not only together with but also after the application of chemical or physical carcinogens might indicate a role of singlet oxygen in tumor promotion that could be independent of the direct or indirect DNA damaging properties.
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- B Epe
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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Kühn-Velten WN. A microcompartmentation analysis of intermediate leakage response to substrate excess in a membrane-bound bifunctional enzyme: local control of hydroxyprogesterone channeling efficiency during cytochrome P450XVII-catalysed androgen biosynthesis. J Cell Biochem 1990; 43:149-59. [PMID: 2380260 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240430206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Evidence is presented for the first time that the cytochrome P450XVII-catalysed androgen formation from progesterone (P) in rat testicular microsomal membranes represents a metabolic sequence that exhibits the ability of intrinsic regulation of intermediate transfer and product formation efficiency. Exposure of this system, which catalyses a hydroxylation and oxidative cleavage reaction sequence, to increasing P concentration results in a decreased specific retention of the putative intermediate, 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone (HP) in the membrane compartment, and in a decreased HP conversion to androgens in favour of increasing HP transfer into the extramembrane space. This behaviour results in a decreased ratio of product vs. intermediate formation rates, which is interpreted as a partial "uncoupling" of the normal hydroxylation and cleavage reaction sequence catalysed by P450XVII. A similar pattern can likewise be observed in isolated testicular Leydig cells after exposure to increasing P concentrations under more physiological continuous-flow conditions. Further calculations indirectly indicate that the specific retention of HP in the membrane compartment can partially be attributed to its specific association with the P450XVII during catalysis. The results strongly suggest the existence of a local "channel" that becomes more leaky and therefore less effective if loaded with high influx rates. This pattern may be related to significant but incomplete competition of exogenously entering P and endogenously formed and transiently bound HP for oxygen attack at the P450XVII active site.
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- W N Kühn-Velten
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Gribble GW. Chapter 7 Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Ellipticine Alkaloids and Related Compounds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0099-9598(08)60169-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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