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Dupuy C, Galland C, Devaux A, Bony S, Loizeau V, Danion M, Pichereau V, Fournier M, Laroche J. Responses of the European flounder (Platichthys flesus) to a mixture of PAHs and PCBs in experimental conditions. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2014; 21:13789-13803. [PMID: 24504773 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2563-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 01/16/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A multibiomarker approach was developed to evaluate the juvenile European flounder responses to a complex mixture of 9 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and 12 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Exposure was performed through contaminated food pellets displaying: (1) PAH and PCB levels similar to those detected in the heavily polluted Seine estuary, respectively in sediments and in flatfish and (2) ten times these concentrations. Several biomarkers of the immune system (e.g., lysozyme concentration and gene expression of complement component C3 and TNF-receptor), DNA damage (e.g., Comet assay), energetic metabolism (e.g., activity of cytochrome C oxidase), detoxification process (e.g., cytochrome P450 1A1 expression level: CYP1A1; betaine homocysteine methyl transferase expression level: BHMT) were investigated after 14 and 29 days of contamination, followed by a 14-days recovery period. After 29 days of contamination, the detoxification activity (CYP1A1 expression level) was positively correlated with DNA damages; the increase of the BHMT expression level could also be related to the detoxification process. Furthermore, after the recovery period, some biomarkers were still upregulated (i.e., CYP1A1 and BHMT expression levels). The immune system was significantly modulated by the chemical stress at the two concentration levels, and the lysozyme appeared to be the most sensitive marker of the mixture impact.
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- Célie Dupuy
- UMR 6539 CNRS/UBO/IRD/Ifremer, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin LEMAR, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Université Européenne de Bretagne, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Plouzané, 29280, France,
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Rosenberg E, Kumar R. New methods for functionalizing biologically important molecules using triosmium metal clusters. Dalton Trans 2012; 41:714-22. [DOI: 10.1039/c1dt11173f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fleming AM, Kannan A, Muller JG, Liao Y, Burrows CJ. Copper/H2O2-Mediated Oxidation of 2′-Deoxyguanosine in the Presence of 2-Naphthol Leads to the Formation of Two Distinct Isomeric Adducts. J Org Chem 2011; 76:7953-63. [DOI: 10.1021/jo201423n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Aaron M. Fleming
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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DNA–carcinogen interaction: covalent DNA-adducts of benzo(a)pyrene 7, 8-dihydrodiol 9, 10-epoxides studied by biochemical and biophysical techniques. Q Rev Biophys 2009. [DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500002973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Exposure to various chemicals, either due to occupation or lifestyle, is considered to be a major contributing factor to tumour formation in man (Higginson, 1969; Doll and Peto, 1981). An important and prevalent class of potent carcinogenic compounds present in he environment is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are found in various petroleum and combustion products derived from heat and power generation and motor vehicle exhausts (Baum, 1978). Furthermore, since PAHs are generally formed by pyrolysis of organic matters such as tobacco smoking and certain procedures of food preparation, the PAH exposure to humans is extensive.
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DNA–carcinogen interaction: covalent DNA-adducts of benzo(a)pyrene 7, 8-dihydrodiol 9, 10-epoxides studied by biochemical and biophysical techniques. Q Rev Biophys 2009. [DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500003358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Exposure to various chemicals, either due to occupation or lifestyle, is considered to be a major contributing factor to tumour formation in man (Higginson, 1969; Doll & Peto, 1981). An important and prevalent class of potent carcinogenic compounds present in the environment is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are found in various petroleum and combustion products derived from heat and power generation and motor vehicle exhausts (Baum, 1978). Furthermore, since PAHs are generally formed by pyrolysis of organic matters such as tobacco smoking and certain procedures of food preparation, the PAH exposure to humans is extensive
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DNA–carcinogen interaction: covalent DNA-adducts of benzo(a)pyrene 7, 8-dihydrodiol 9, 10-epoxides studied by biochemical and biophysical techniques. Q Rev Biophys 2009. [DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500003802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Exposure to various chemicals, either due to occupation or lifestyle, is considered to be a major contributing factor to tumour formation in man (Higginson, 1969; Doll & Peto, 1981). An important and prevalent class of potent carcinogenic compounds present in the environment is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are found in various petroleum and combustion products derived from heat and power generation and motor vehicle exhausts (Baum, 1978). Furthermore, since PAHs are generally formed by pyrolysis of organic matters such as tobacco smoking and certain procedures of food preparation, the PAH exposure to humans is extensive.
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DNA–carcinogen interaction: covalent DNA-adducts of benzo(a)pyrene 7, 8-dihydrodiol 9, 10-epoxides studied by biochemical and biophysical techniques. Q Rev Biophys 2009. [DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500003152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Exposure to various chemicals, either due to occupation or lifestyle, is considered to be a major contributing factor to tumour formation in man (Higginson, 1969; Doll and Peto, 1981). An important and prevalent class of potent carcinogeniccompounds present in the environment is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs), which are found in various petroleum and combustion products derived from heat and power generation and motor vehicle exhausts (Baum, 1978). Furthermore, since PAHs are generally formed by pyrolysis of organic matters such as tobacco smoking and certain procedures of food preparation, the PAH exposure to humans is extensive.
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Orlow I, Park BJ, Mujumdar U, Patel H, Siu-Lau P, Clas BA, Downey R, Flores R, Bains M, Rizk N, Dominguez G, Jani J, Berwick M, Begg CB, Kris MG, Rusch VW. DNA damage and repair capacity in patients with lung cancer: prediction of multiple primary tumors. J Clin Oncol 2008; 26:3560-6. [PMID: 18640936 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2007.13.2654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Patients who survive one occurrence of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are at higher risk of a second malignancy. Capacity to repair damaged DNA may modulate individual susceptibility to develop lung cancer. Therefore, we evaluated constitutive and induced DNA damage, and repair capacity, in patients with multiple NSCLCs (cases) and compared the results to those obtained in patients with a single NSCLC (controls). PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred eight cases and 99 controls matched by age, sex, and time since diagnosis were studied. DNA damage was assessed on peripheral blood lymphocytes by the comet assay before and after exposing cells to a tobacco-derived carcinogen, using the tail moment and the tail intensity as measures to assess baseline damage, induced damage and repair capacity. RESULTS Constitutive DNA damage, benzo(a)pyrene diol epoxide-induced damage, and repair after BPDE-induced damage were all significantly higher in cases than in controls. These results were confirmed in regression analyses adjusted for potential confounders. CONCLUSION DNA damage as measured by the comet assay is associated with the development of multiple primary tumors in individuals with NSCLC.
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- Irene Orlow
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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Mukherjee JJ, Gupta SK, Kumar S. Inhibition of benzopyrene diol epoxide-induced apoptosis by cadmium(II) is AP-1-independent: role of extracelluler signal related kinase. Chem Biol Interact 2007; 172:72-80. [PMID: 18093576 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2007.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2007] [Revised: 11/08/2007] [Accepted: 11/09/2007] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Cadmium, a major metal constituent of tobacco smoke, elicits synergistic enhancement of cell transformation when combined with benzo[a]pyrene (BP) or other PAHs. The mechanism underlying this synergism is not clearly understood. We observed that (+/-)-anti-benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide (BPDE), an ultimate carcinogen of BP, induces apoptosis in promotion sensitive mouse epidermal JB6 Cl41 cells at non-cytotoxic concentrations. BPDE also activates AP-1 several folds in AP-1 reporter JB6 cells. Cadmium at non-cytotoxic concentrations inhibits both AP-1 activation and apoptosis in response to BPDE. Since AP-1 is known to be involved in stress-induced apoptosis we investigated whether inhibition of AP-1 by cadmium has any role in the inhibition of BPDE-induced apoptosis. MAP kinases (particularly ERKs, p38 and JNKs) are known to have important role in DNA damage-induced AP-1 activation. We observed that ERK and JNK, but not p38 MAP kinase, are involved in BPDE-induced AP-1 activation. Effect of cadmium on MAP kinases and the effect of inhibition of above three MAP kinases on BPDE-induced AP-1 activation and apoptosis indicate that AP-1 is probably not involved in BPDE-induced apoptosis. Cadmium up-regulates BPDE-activated ERKs and ERK inhibition by U0126 relieves cadmium-mediated inhibition of BPDE-induced apoptosis. We suggest that cadmium inhibits BPDE-induced apoptosis not involving AP-1 but probably through a different mechanism by up-regulating ERK which is known to promote cell survival.
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- Jagat J Mukherjee
- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Laboratory, Great Lakes Center, State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA.
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Thielen S, Baum M, Hoffmann M, Loeppky RN, Eisenbrand G. Genotoxicity of glycidamide in comparison to (±)-anti-benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide and α-acetoxy-N-nitroso-diethanolamine in human blood and in mammalian V79-cells. Mol Nutr Food Res 2006; 50:430-6. [PMID: 16598810 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200500227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Genotoxic activity of glycidamide (GA) was investigated in comparison to that of the known carcinogens (+/-)-anti-benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide ((+/-)-BPDE) and alpha-acetoxy-N-nitroso-diethanolamine (alpha-A-NDELA), using the hypoxanthine-phosphoribosyl-transferase (hPRT) gene mutation assay with V79 mammalian cells and modified alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis (alkaline comet assay with and without treatment of cells with formamido-pyrimidine-DNA-glycosylase (FPG)) in lymphocytes from human whole blood. As shown earlier, GA induced significant DNA damage in lymphocytes from treated whole blood at > or = 300 microM (4 h) (Baum et al., Mutat. Res. 2005, 580, 61-69). In the present study, using the alkaline comet assay with FPG treatment, increased formation of DNA strand breaks was observed in lymphocytes treated with GA (10 microM; 4 h). alpha-A-NDELA and (+/-)-BPDE were genotoxic at 10-30 microM (1 h). Genotoxic activity of these compounds was not enhanced after FPG treatment. FPG treatment thus offers an enhanced sensitivity of DNA damage detection for genotoxic compounds with preference for N(7)- resp. N(3)-purine alkylation. In the hPRT assay with V79 cells, mutagenic activity of (+/-)-BPDE became significant at > or = 3 microM (24 h). For alpha-A-NDELA significant activity was observed at greater, not dbl 10 microM (24 h). As previously observed, GA was considerably less effective, inducing significant mutagenicity roughly at about 80-300-fold higher concentrations (800 microM; 24 h) (Baum et al., Mutat. Res. 2005, 580, 61-69).
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- Silke Thielen
- Department of Food Chemistry and Environmental Toxicology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Selective covalent binding of a positively charged water-soluble benzoheterocycle triosmium cluster to single- and double-stranded DNA. J Organomet Chem 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2004.08.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Akcha F, Vincent Hubert F, Pfhol-Leszkowicz A. Potential value of the comet assay and DNA adduct measurement in dab (Limanda limanda) for assessment of in situ exposure to genotoxic compounds. Mutat Res 2003; 534:21-32. [PMID: 12504752 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5718(02)00244-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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An in situ study of the relationship between marine contamination and genotoxic effects was performed on female dab (Limanda limanda) collected from different sites in the eastern English Channel (France) known to be contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs). DNA adducts in liver and DNA strand breaks in blood cells were determined respectively by the nuclease P1-enhanced post-labelling technique and an alkaline version of the comet assay. The extent of DNA base oxidation was also assessed for three of the six sampling sites in the study, using a comet assay in combination with a specific DNA repair enzyme, formamidopyrimidine glycosylase (Fpg).With Comet data, two groups of sites that seem in accordance with the pollution level have been distinguished. The extent of DNA strand breaks was higher in adult than juvenile female dab. From a technical point of view, comet assay sensitivity was affected by high intra-individual variability that accounted for nearly 70% of total variance (the site factor represented no more than 26%). The combined use of the comet assay and Fpg showed the presence of DNA oxidised bases in environmentally exposed dab.Although qualitative differences between the sampling sites were observed in DNA adduct profiles, no significant differences were found for total DNA adduct levels. DNA adducts did not appear to be associated with PAH exposure. Histopathological studies showed hepatic steatosis in most of the animals examined. Only one pre-cancerous lesion (an early stage of hyperplasia) was detected (associated frequency of 0.8%).
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- F Akcha
- IFREMER, Département des Polluants Chimiques, Nantes, France.
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Tran HP, Prakash AS, Barnard R, Chiswell B, Ng JC. Arsenic inhibits the repair of DNA damage induced by benzo(a)pyrene. Toxicol Lett 2002; 133:59-67. [PMID: 12076510 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4274(02)00088-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In order to study the effect of arsenic on DNA damage, Sprague-Dawley rats were dosed with sodium arsenite (10 mg/kg) with or without 800 microg of benzo(a)pyrene (BP) by intramammilary injection. The animals were sacrificed on day 1, 3, 5, 10 and 27 and the mammary gland tissues were collected for DNA adduct measurement using a (32)P post-labeling assay. Animals dosed with arsenic alone did not show any DNA adducts. DNA adduct levels in rats dosed with BP alone reached a maximum level by day 5, reducing to 13% of this level by day 27. Adduct levels in rats dosed with arsenic and BP also reached a maximum by day 5 but only 80% of the level observed in the BP group. However, 84% of this amount still remained by day 27. The First Nucleotide Change (FNC) technique was used for the screening of 115 samples of various tissues from mice that had been chronically exposed to sodium arsenate for over 2 years revealed that inorganic arsenic did not attack the two putative hotspots (codons 131 and 154) of the hOGG1 gene. These results support the hypothesis that arsenic exerts its biological activity through DNA repair inhibition.
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- Huu-Phuc Tran
- National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, 39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains, Brisbane, Qld 4108 Australia
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Patton WP, Routledge MN, Jones GD, Lewis SEM, Archer DB, Davies RJH, Chakravarthy U. Retinal pigment epithelial cell DNA is damaged by exposure to benzo[a]pyrene, a constituent of cigarette smoke. Exp Eye Res 2002; 74:513-22. [PMID: 12076095 DOI: 10.1006/exer.2001.1160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This study examined the effect of exogenous benzo[ a ]pyrene (BaP), an important constituent of cigarette smoke, on cultured bovine retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. Evidence is presented for its metabolic conversion into benzo[ a ]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE) and the consequent formation of potentially cytotoxic nucleobase adducts in DNA. Cultured RPE cells were treated with BaP at concentrations in the range of 0-100 microM. The presence of BaP was found to cause inhibition of cell growth and replication. BaP induced the expression of a phase I drug metabolizing enzyme which was identified as cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP 1A1) by RT-PCR and by Western blotting. Coincident with the increased expression of CYP 1A1, covalent adducts between the mutagenic metabolite BPDE and DNA could be detected within RPE cells by immunocytochemical staining. Additional support for their formation was afforded by nuclease P1 enhanced (32)P-postlabelling assays on cellular DNA. Single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assays showed that exposure of RPE cells to BaP rendered them markedly more susceptible to DNA damage induced by broad band UVB or blue light laser irradiation. In the case of UVB, this is consistent with the photosensitization of DNA cleavage by nucleobase adducts of BPDE. Collectively, these findings imply that BaP has a significant impact on RPE cell pathophysiology and suggest mechanisms whereby exposure to cigarette smoke might cause RPE dysfunction and cell death, thus possibly contributing to degenerative disorders of the retina.
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- William P Patton
- Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Prakash AS, Tran HP, Peng C, Koyalamudi SR, Dameron CT. Kinetics of DNA alkylation, depurination and hydrolysis of anti diol epoxide of benzo(a)pyrene and the effect of cadmium on DNA alkylation. Chem Biol Interact 2000; 125:133-50. [PMID: 10699573 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2797(00)00145-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Anti benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE) alkylates guanines of DNA at N7 in the major groove and at the exocyclic amino group in the minor groove. In this report we investigated the rates of BPDE hydrolysis, DNA alkylation and subsequent depurination of BPDE-adducted pBR322 DNA fragment using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Preincubation studies showed that it hydrolyzed completely in triethanolamine buffer in <2 min. The depurination kinetics showed that a fraction of the N7 alkylated guanine depurinated rapidly; however a significant amount of N7 guanine alkylation remained stable to spontaneous depurination over a 4-h period. Similar results were obtained for the hydrolysis and alkylation rates of syn isomer but it required nearly 500 times more concentration to induce similar levels of N7 guanine alkylation. Cadmium ion strongly inhibited the N7 guanine alkylation of both isomers. But the minor groove alkylation was not affected as demonstrated by postlabeling assay which confirmed the presence of heat-and cadmium-stable minor groove adducts in BPDE-treated calf thymus DNA. Based on these and our earlier findings, we propose a mechanism for the synergistic effect of cadmium in chemically induced carcinogenesis.
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- A S Prakash
- National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, 39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains, Australia.
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Keohavong P, Shukla R, Melacrinos A, Day BW, Reha-Krantz L. Effects of bulky polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon adducts on DNA replication by exonuclease-deficient T7 and T4 DNA polymerases. DNA Cell Biol 1998; 17:541-9. [PMID: 9655247 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1998.17.541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In vitro DNA replication by exonuclease-deficient T7 DNA polymerase (Sequenase) and an exonuclease deficient T4 DNA polymerase was examined on a 244-nucleotide DNA template treated with three electrophilic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) metabolites: racemic trans-7,8-dihydroxy-anti-9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene (BaPDE), trans-2,3-dihydroxy-anti-1,10b-epoxy-10b,1,2,3-tetrahydrofluoranthene (FADE), or 3,4-epoxy-3,4-dihydrocyclopenta[cd]pyrene (CPPE). The DNA replication terminated opposite template guanines and, to a lesser extent, at template adenines, as expected, as purines were modified preferentially by the chemical treatments. Analysis of the products synthesized on the damaged templates indicated that bypass replication by Sequenase proceeded in three steps: (1) replication first terminated one base 3' to each adduct; (2) a nucleotide was then incorporated opposite the PAH-modified base; and (3) replication continued at some sites to give full bypass of the lesions. The rate of lesion bypass was affected by the type of chemical adduct, the sequence context of the adduct, and the concentration of deoxynucleoside triphosphates. Short DNA repeats appeared to facilitate translesion replication.
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- P Keohavong
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15238, USA
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Prakash AS, Rao KS, Dameron CT. Cadmium inhibits BPDE alkylation of DNA in the major groove but not in the minor groove. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 244:198-203. [PMID: 9514908 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cadmium, a constituent of tobacco, has the potential to act in synergy with other carcinogens in tobacco smoke. Working on the hypothesis that cadmium interactions with DNA enhances the mutagenic lesions induced by tobacco carcinogens, we investigated the site and sequence selectivity of DNA binding by cadmium using DNA reactive chemical probes. Our results show that this divalent cation binds to N7 guanines with a great preference for those occurring in runs of G's. Further, cadmium considerably diminishes N7 guanine alkylation by the tobacco carcinogen metabolite BPDE; however, the biologically relevant guanine alkylation in the minor groove by BPDE was not affected. The relevance of our findings to cadmium's role in the tobacco carcinogenesis is discussed.
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- A S Prakash
- National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, Queensland, Australia
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Ho YS, Lin JK. Preferential promutagenic lesions at exons 7-8 of human p53 genomic DNA induced by the direct-acting hepatocarcinogens N-nitroso-2-acetylaminofluorene and N-acetoxy-2-acetylaminofluorene. Cancer Lett 1995; 95:39-47. [PMID: 7656242 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(95)03863-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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DNA polymerase fingerprint analysis (DPFA) was employed for identifying DNA-carcinogen adduct formation in the human p53 and lac gene sequence. Two 'hot regions' at codons 223-250 and 257-283 of the p53 gene were easily attacked by nitroso-2-acetylaminofluorene or acetoxy-2-acetylaminofluorene. However, the promutational lesions in lac gene were rather randomly distributed. The chemical treated plasmid (pUC 19) which contains lac gene were transfected into Escherichia coli JM109 cells and the induced lac gene mutants were selected with X-Gal plate as indicated by the appearance of white colonies. No mutational hot regions were found in the lac gene.
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- Y S Ho
- Institute of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China
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Cherpillod P, Amstad PA. Benzo[a]pyrene-induced mutagenesis of p53 hot-spot codons 248 and 249 in human hepatocytes. Mol Carcinog 1995; 13:15-20. [PMID: 7766306 DOI: 10.1002/mc.2940130104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Human tobacco-related cancers show a high frequency of G-to-T transversions in several mutation hot-spot regions of the p53 tumor suppressor gene, probably the result of specific mutagens in tobacco smoke, most notably benzo[a]pyrene. To gain insight into the mechanism of formation of these G-to-T transversions in tobacco-associated carcinogenesis, we studied the mutagenesis of p53 codons 247-250 by benzo[a]pyrene in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells by restriction fragment length polymorphism-polymerase chain reaction genotypic analysis. Benzo[a]pyrene preferentially induced G-to-T transversion in the second and third positions of codon 248 and C-to-A transversion in the first position of codon 248. However, benzo[a]pyrene did not induce base-pair changes in codon 249, which is a mutational hot-spot in aflatoxin-related hepatocarcinogenesis, in which predominantly G-to-T transversion in the third position of codon 249 is observed. The benzo[a]pyrene-induced G-to-T transversion in the middle position of codon 248, in which arginine is changed into leucine, is frequently observed in tumors of the lung. The other two benzo[a]pyrene-induced base-pair changes in codon 248, namely the C-to-A transversion in the first position and G-to-T transversion in the third position, do not lead to a change in the amino-acid composition of the p53 protein. These mutations are silent and therefore are not selected in tumors. It follows that benzo[a]pyrene-induced mutability on the DNA level in p53 codons 247-250 correlates well with the type of mutation found in tumors of the lung. Therefore, our results support the hypothesis that benzo[a]pyrene is the etiological agent in tobacco-related cancers.
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- P Cherpillod
- Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201-1192, USA
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Muller JG, Paikoff SJ, Rokita SE, Burrows CJ. DNA modification promoted by water-soluble nickel(II) salen complexes: a switch to DNA alkylation. J Inorg Biochem 1994; 54:199-206. [PMID: 8027741 DOI: 10.1016/0162-0134(94)80013-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Reaction of a 17-base hairpin-forming oligonucleotide with [N,N'-bis(salicylaldehyde)-meso-1,2-bis(4- trimethylaminophenyl)ethylenediimino]nickel(II) perchlorate, 2, and KHSO5 produced two types of high molecular weight products, an alkaline-labile species and a nonalkaline-labile species, which co-migrated on gel electrophoresis. Upon treatment with piperidine, the base-labile derivative led to strand scission products only at accessible guanine residues that were not part of a Watson-Crick duplex. The formation of higher molecular weight species is proposed to occur via a highly reactive ligand-centered radical acting as a DNA alkylating agent.
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- J G Muller
- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-3400
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Jernström B, Gräslund A. Covalent binding of benzo[a]pyrene 7,8-dihydrodiol 9,10-epoxides to DNA: molecular structures, induced mutations and biological consequences. Biophys Chem 1994; 49:185-99. [PMID: 8018817 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(93)e0087-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Optical spectroscopic techniques have been used to characterize adducts formed upon reaction of the (+)- and (-)-enantiomers of 7R,8S-dihydroxy 9S,10R-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene (anti-BPDE) to DNA or synthetic oligonucleotides. The reaction yields preferentially adducts in which the exocyclic aminogroup of deoxyguanosine is bound to the C10 position of the diol epoxide either cis (BPDEc-N2-G adduct) or trans (BPDEt-N2-G adduct) relative to the hydroxyl group at the C9 position. The BPDEc-N2-G and BPDEt-N2-G adducts fall into the categories of type I and type II complexes, respectively. Two-dimensional NMR in conjunction with energy minimization computation have provided detailed information on the solution structure of single adducts localized in oligonucleotides. The results demonstrate that the pyrenyl chromophores of both the (+)- and (-)-BPDEt-N2-G adduct are located in a widened minor groove and directed towards the 5'-end [(+)-BPDEt-N2-G] or the 3'-end [(-)-BPDEt-N2-G] of the modified strand. The chromophore of the (+)-BPDEc-N2-G adduct is quasi-intercalated into the oligonucleotide and associated with a displacement of the deoxyguanosine ring into the minor groove. Replication of racemic or (+)-anti-BPDE modified DNA in mammalian cells leads predominantly to single point mutations of transversion type (GC-->TA). The mutagenic specificity however, appears to be determined by the base sequence context and local conformation at the adduct site. Cooperative adduct formation at certain base sequences is suggested by excimer fluorescence, most probably derived from two closely located (+)-BPDEt-N2-G adducts in adjacent base pairs on opposite DNA-strands.
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- B Jernström
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Bigger CA, Cheh A, Latif F, Fishel R, Canella KA, Stafford GA, Yagi H, Jerina DM, Dipple A. DNA strand breaks induced by configurationally isomeric hydrocarbon diol epoxides. Drug Metab Rev 1994; 26:287-99. [PMID: 8082571 DOI: 10.3109/03602539409029798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- C A Bigger
- Chemistry of Carcinogenesis Laboratory, NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Maryland 21702
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Celotti L, Ferraro P, Furlan D, Zanesi N, Pavanello S. DNA repair in human lymphocytes treated in vitro with (+)-anti- and (+/-)-syn-benzo[a]pyrene diolepoxide. Mutat Res 1993; 294:117-26. [PMID: 7687004 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(93)90020-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Human PBL were treated in vitro with the ultimate reactive metabolites of BaP anti- and syn-BaPDE and DNA damage and repair were measured. The incorporation of radioactivity into DNA due to UDS was higher after treatment with anti-BaPDE. Radioactive DNA adduct dosimetry applied to PBL treated with tritiated syn- and anti-BaPDE demonstrated that anti-BaPDE gave more DNA adducts, which were more efficiently removed than syn adducts in the 24 h following the treatment. HPLC analysis of deoxynucleosides obtained from the enzymatic digestion of DNA showed that in treated PBL the major DNA adduct involved deoxyguanosine. DNA strand breaks, detected by FADU, were induced at comparable levels by anti- and syn-BaPDE (0.1-0.4 micrograms/ml), and persisted after 20 h of post-treatment incubation. Only in the case of syn-BaPDE did the percentage of double-stranded DNA tend to increase with time after the treatment.
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Drouin EE, Loechler EL. AP sites are not significantly involved in mutagenesis by the (+)-anti diol epoxide of benzo[a]pyrene: the complexity of its mutagenic specificity is likely to arise from adduct conformational polymorphism. Biochemistry 1993; 32:6555-62. [PMID: 7687146 DOI: 10.1021/bi00077a009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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In previous work, mutations induced by the (+)-anti diol epoxide of benzo[a]pyrene [(+)-anti-B[a]PDE] were scored in the supF gene of the Escherichia coli plasmid pUB3 [Rodriguez & Loechler (1993) Biochemistry 32, 1759]. pUB3 was reacted with (+)-anti-B[a]PDE and then either (1) transformed immediately into E. coli or (2) heated at 80 degrees C for 10 min prior to transformation. Heating only released a small fraction of adducts (approximately 5%) and did not significantly affect the mutagenic pattern at most sites in supF. However, at the major base substitution hotspot, G115, principally G-->T mutations (87%) were obtained prior to heating, while after heating, G-->T mutations decreased (45%) and G-->A (21%) and G-->C (33%) mutations became more prevalent. One model for this result is that prior to heating a heat-labile adduct at G115 causes one pattern of mutagenesis, but after heating the labile adduct is hydrolyzed to an apurinic site (AP site), which causes a second mutational pattern. To test this, a role for AP sites generated from labile adducts by heating at 80 degrees C for 10 min is investigated. It is shown that when plasmid pUB3 contains 22 (+)-anti-B[a]PDE adducts, 0.6% (or fewer) are converted to AP sites as determined in an assay based upon the action of an AP-endonuclease. In a separate line of investigation not involving (+)-anti-B[a]PDE adducts, mutation frequency (MF) per AP site is estimated. (In these experiments, AP sites were introduced into pUB3 by the classic procedure of heating at 70 degrees C/pH 5.0 to hydrolyze purines.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- E E Drouin
- Department of Biology, Boston University, Massachusetts 02215
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Moran MF, Ebisuzaki K. In vivo benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-induced alkali-labile sites are not apurinic sites. Mutat Res 1991; 262:79-84. [PMID: 1705661 DOI: 10.1016/0165-7992(91)90111-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We have used endonuclease IV from Escherichia coli as a probe for apurinic sites in the DNA of HeLa cells following treatment with an activated diol epoxide derivative of benzo[a]pyrene. DNA strand breaks and alkali-labile sites were observed that were repaired following exposure to the carcinogenic alkylating agent. The alkali-labile sites were not substrates for the apurinic site-specific endonuclease IV. We conclude that the alkali-labile sites formed in vivo by benzo[a]pyrene derivatives are not apurinic sites and probably arise as a consequence of rearrangement of the abundant N2-guanine adducts. This finding questions the involvement of apurinic sites in the mutagenic activity of benzo[a]pyrene.
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- M F Moran
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Benzopyrene diol epoxide (BPDE; (+)-7R,8S-dihydroxy-9S,10R-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene), the ultimate carcinogen derived from the polycyclic hydrocarbon benzo[a]pyrene, reacts principally with the guanine bases in DNA. Nineteen double stranded, self-complementary oligonucleotides, containing deoxyguanosine in various sequence contexts, were each treated with tritium labelled BPDE. The extent of reaction was determined by releasing the BPDE-guanine adduct with acid, isolating it by chromatography on a reverse-phase column, and estimating it by its radioactivity. Oligonucleotides containing an isolated guanine, such as AAGTACTT, were little affected by BPDE. Reactivity was increased where the guanine was flanked by another guanine on the same strand (e.g. TACCTAGGTA) or on the complementary strand (e.g. TATTCGAATA), and was highest in mixed G-C sequences such as ATCCGGAT. The results should help predict major sites of attack of BPDE on cellular proto-oncogenes.
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- M R Osborne
- Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratory, London, U.K
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Sage E, Le Doan T, Boyer V, Helland DE, Kittler L, Helene C, Moustacchi E. Oxidative DNA damage photo-induced by 3-carbethoxypsoralen and other furocoumarins. Mechanisms of photo-oxidation and recognition by repair enzymes. J Mol Biol 1989; 209:297-314. [PMID: 2479751 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(89)90278-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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DNA photosensitization by several furocoumarins (including 3-carbethoxypsoralen (3-CPs), 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP), 5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP) and angelicin was investigated by using DNA sequencing methodology. 3-CPs induces photo-oxidation of guanine residues leading to alkali-labile sites in DNA (revealed by hot piperidine), whereas 8-MOP, 5-MOP and angelicin do not. There is a preferential photo-oxidation of G when located on the 5' side of GG doublets, likely to reflect a better accessibility of the G moiety in such a context. Mechanisms operating via both radicals (type I) and singlet oxygen (type II) are involved in the photo-oxidation of G residues by 3-CPs. Photo-oxidized G residues are produced independently of the formation of photoadducts, and scavengers of singlet oxygen or radicals do not inhibit photobinding of 3-CPs to DNA. This leads us to propose that covalent photoadducts arise from the intercalated excited sensitizer molecules, whereas G photo-oxidations are produced either by electron transfer reactions involving bound 3-CPs or by energy transfer to molecular oxygen, thereby producing singlet oxygen that subsequently reacts with guanine bases. Quantification of both types of DNA lesions indicated that in vitro photo-oxidized G residues are produced in DNA by 3-CPs plus ultraviolet light at least to the same extent as photoadducts, under our conditions. A calf thymus redoxyendonuclease, equivalent to the endonuclease III of Escherichia coli, specific for oxidative DNA damages, recognizes and cleaves DNA at sites of photo-oxidized G residues. The extent of the cleavage by this enzyme was close to that observed by hot piperidine and followed the amount of photo-oxidized G residues produced when the lifetime of excited oxygen species is modified. The redoxyendonuclease did not incise DNA treated with 8-MOP, 5-MOP or angelicin plus ultraviolet light. The exonuclease III and endonuclease IV of E. coli also involved in the repair of oxidative DNA damage, convert the replicative form I of 3-CPs-treated DNA to replicative form II. This suggests that the lesions recognized by these enzymes are apurinic-like lesions. In view of the low toxicity and mutagenicity of 3-CPs, DNA photo-oxidation products induced by the photodynamic effect of 3-CPs are likely to be efficiently taken care of by the DNA repair system(s). It is clear that 3-CPs photo-induces several classes of DNA damage, including oxidative damage.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- E Sage
- CNRS UA 1292, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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Loechler EL. Adduct-induced base-shifts: a mechanism by which the adducts of bulky carcinogens might induce mutations. Biopolymers 1989; 28:909-27. [PMID: 2742984 DOI: 10.1002/bip.360280502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Most carcinogens have been shown to be mutagens, and DNA adducts are formed when mutagenic/carcinogenic substances react with DNA. It is generally believed these adducts (or their derivatives) induce misreplication events that result in mutations. Many of the more potently mutagenic substances are bulky and three-dimensionally complex, such as the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic amines, and aflatoxins; little is known about the mechanisms by which they induce mutations. Several theories exist and herein an additional mechanism is proposed by which bulky adducts might induce mutations at GC base pairs. Molecular modeling in conjunction with molecular mechanical calculation is used to assess if the mutagen/carcinogen moiety of the adduct might be able to shift the position of the base moiety of the adduct in such a way that misreplication events might be facilitated. This mechanism is referred to as adduct-induced base-shift, and two classes appeared possible; adduct-induced base-wobble and adduct-induced base-rotation. The latter has been proposed previously. By adduct-induced, base-wobble, the mutagen/carcinogen moiety of the adduct induces a shift in the position of the base moiety of the adduct with respect to the helix axis, which might facilitate mispairing events that are reminisent of non-Watson/Crick pairing that occurs at the wobble base of tRNA during translation. For example, in some guanine adducts, the guanine appears more thymine-like, which might facilitate G.A mispairing and thereby ultimately GC to TA transversion mutations. Adduct-induced base-rotation involves the rotation of the adducted base from the anti to the syn conformation and a variety of mispairing events might result.
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Dixon K, Roilides E, Hauser J, Levine AS. Studies on direct and indirect effects of DNA damage on mutagenesis in monkey cells using an SV40-based shuttle vector. Mutat Res 1989; 220:73-82. [PMID: 2538742 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1110(89)90012-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We are using an SV40-based shuttle vector, pZ189, to study mechanisms of mutagenesis in mammalian cells. The vector can be treated with mutagens in vitro and replicated in animal cells; resulting mutants can be selected and amplified in bacteria for DNA sequencing. This versatile vector system has allowed us to explore several different questions relating to the mutagenic process. We have studied the direct effects of template damage caused by UV or benzo[a]pyrene diolepoxide by treating vector DNA with these agents and then replicating the damaged DNA in monkey cells. Mutational mechanisms were deduced from the spectrum of mutations induced in the supF target gene of the vector DNA. To study the role of indirect effects of DNA damage on mutagenesis in mammalian cells, we have treated the cells and the vector DNA separately with DNA-damaging agents. We find that pretreatment of cells with DNA-damaging agents, or with conditioned medium from damaged cells, causes an enhancement of mutagenesis of a UV-damaged vector. Thus, DNA damage can act indirectly to enhance the mutagenic process. We also have preliminary evidence that pZ189 can be used in an in vitro DNA replication system to study the process of mutation fixation on the biochemical level. We believe that the pZ189 vector will prove to be as useful for in vitro studies of mutational mechanisms as it has been for in vivo studies.
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- K Dixon
- Section on Viruses and Cellular Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Kootstra A, Lew LK, Nairn RS, MacLeod MC. Preferential modification of GC boxes by benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide. Mol Carcinog 1989; 1:239-44. [PMID: 2506885 DOI: 10.1002/mc.2940010406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The distribution of binding sites for the ultimate carcinogen anti-benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide (BPDE-l) in the 5' region of the Chinese hamster ovary aprt gene has been determined. A plasmid (pGAL) containing the entire hamster aprt gene including the 3' and 5' flanking regions was inserted into the BamHI site of the multiple cloning site of pGEM so that the T7 promoter was 5' to the aprt gene. In vitro transcription of BPDE-I-modified pGAL, using the T7 RNA polymerase, revealed two prominent transcriptional stop sites. One of these sites was located in the first exon of the aprt gene, whereas the second transcriptional stop was located approximately 150 bp upstream from the translational start site. This latter region contains two perfect GC-box consensus sequences that are potential Sp1 binding sites. Using a specific laser cutting technique to map BPDE-I DNA binding sites in the 5' flanking region of the aprt gene, we found that the DNA region containing the GC-box consensus sequences was indeed a hot spot for BPDE-I modification.
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- A Kootstra
- Department of Carcinogenesis, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville
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Mazur M, Glickman BW. Sequence specificity of mutations induced by benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide at endogenous aprt gene in CHO cells. SOMATIC CELL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS 1988; 14:393-400. [PMID: 3041622 DOI: 10.1007/bf01534647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We have determined the spectrum of mutations induced by +/--trans-7,8-dihydroxy-9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a] pyrene (BPDE) at the endogenous aprt locus in an hemizigous Chinese hamster ovary cell line exposed to 0.7 microM BPDE. Southern analysis of 59 independent mutants revealed no major genomic alterations, indicating that gene inactivation was the result of a point mutation. This conclusion was confirmed by the cloning and sequencing of 21 of these mutants. The predominant mutation, the G:CT----T:A transversion, comprised 62% of the spectrum, but other base pair substitutions and frameshifts were recovered. An examination of the target sequences for BPDE mutation revealed that mutations were localized within runs of G:C base pairs. However, approximately half of these G:C runs involved a particular sequence--a run of guanines flanked by adenine residues. Of seven such sites within the coding sequence of aprt, mutations were clustered within five of them. This class of sequence occurs at codon 61 of the human C-Ha-ras 1 protooncogene and may account for the selective activation of this codon by BPDE.
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- M Mazur
- Biology Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Carothers AM, Urlaub G, Grunberger D, Chasin LA. Mapping and characterization of mutations induced by benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide at dihydrofolate reductase locus in CHO cells. SOMATIC CELL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS 1988; 14:169-83. [PMID: 2831629 DOI: 10.1007/bf01534402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Chinese hamster ovary cells were mutagenized with benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE), an aromatic hydrocarbon carcinogen, and mutants at the dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) locus were isolated. Of 15 mutants analyzed by Southern blotting, one contained a large deletion that spanned all six exons of the 25-kb dhfr gene; the remaining mutants exhibited no detectable changes. Three of these putative point mutations were localized by the loss of a restriction site: a SacI site in exon III, an MspI site in exon III, and a KpnI site in exon VI. The affected regions in two of these mutants were cloned and sequenced. The SacI- mutant was caused by a G:C----T:A transversion resulting in an amber termination codon. In the MspI- mutant, the deletion of a single C:G resulted in a frameshift and a downstream ochre termination codon. On the basis of overlapping restriction site sequences, the KpnI- mutant was deduced to be a splicing mutant involving the most 3' G in intron V. The location of these and the remaining 11 putative point mutations was sought using RNA heteroduplex mapping. Mismatched bases between riboprobes complementary to wild-type dhfr mRNA and mutant mRNA molecules were detected in 10 of the 14 mutants analyzed. These mutations mapped to four of the six exons or exon splice sites. Surprisingly, over half of these mutants exhibited greatly reduced (approximately 10-fold) steady-state levels of dhfr mRNA.
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- A M Carothers
- Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032
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Krolewski B, Little JB, Reynolds RJ. Effect of duration of exposure to benzo(a)pyrene diol-epoxide on neoplastic transformation, mutagenesis, cytotoxicity, and total covalent binding to DNA of rodent cells. TERATOGENESIS, CARCINOGENESIS, AND MUTAGENESIS 1988; 8:127-36. [PMID: 2905079 DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1770080302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We examined the effect of different durations of exposure (20 sec to 24 hr) to (+/-) 7-beta,8 alpha-dihydroxy-9 alpha, 10 alpha -epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo(a)pyrene (BPDE I) on the induction of transformation in C3H/10T 1/2 cells and of mutations to 6-thioguanine resistance in Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO), as well as on BPDE I-DNA binding in these two cell lines. A 20-sec exposure of the cells to BPDE I was sufficient to induce mutations and morphological transformation in vitro. However, the transformation frequency in CH3 mouse-embryo-derived 10T 1/2 cells increased twofold and the frequency of mutations in CHO cells sixfold when the exposure time to BPDE I was increased from 20 sec to 8 h. Cytotoxicity increased under similar conditions. A large number of BPDE I-DNA adducts were formed in both cell lines within the first 15-min of exposure of the cells to this ultimate carcinogen. The total covalent binding did not increase with longer than 15-min incubation times. These results suggest that in addition to its covalent binding to DNA, BPDE I may influence other cellular mechanism(s) that are responsible for the initiation of transformation and mutagenesis.
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- B Krolewski
- Laboratory of Radiobiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Autrup H, Seremet T. Excretion of benzo[a]pyrene-Gua adduct in the urine of benzo[a]pyrene-treated rats. Chem Biol Interact 1986; 60:217-26. [PMID: 3791489 DOI: 10.1016/0009-2797(86)90030-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A benzo[a]pyrene(BP)-Gua adduct was extracted in the urine of rats treated with BP. Some (0.15%) of the administered dose of BP was excreted as BP-Gua within 48 h. A double labelling experiment demonstrated that the excreted product contained both a BP and a Gua moiety. Partially hepatectomized rats treated with [14C]Gua during the regenerative phase were injected with [3H]BP and the urine collected and processed by chromatographic procedures. The adduct had similar chromatographic properties to the adduct released from human PLC/5 cells treated with 7,8-dihydroxy-9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene (BPDE) and co-chromatographed with 7-BPDE-Gua released from BPDE-adducted DNA under aqueous conditions. Detection and quantitation of BP-Gua offers an alternative, non-invasive method of monitoring individuals exposed to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
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Morita J, Ueda K, Kobayashi S, Komano T. Sequence-specific modification of DNA by 6-hydroxybenzo[a]pyrene. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1986; 868:87-90. [PMID: 2944542 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(86)90090-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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6-Hydroxybenzo[a]pyrene cleaved phi X174 supercoiled DNA to open circular DNA in the presence of heavy metal ions. It induced an alkali-labile modification in DNA via an oxygen-radical-mediated reaction; the most frequent alkali-labile sites were on the 3' side of the pyrimidine residues of the pyrimidine cluster.
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Ochi T, Ishiguro T, Ohsawa M. Induction of alkaline-labile sites in DNA by benzo [a]pyrene and the repair of those lesions in cultured Chinese hamster cells. Mutat Res 1986; 165:31-8. [PMID: 3941669 DOI: 10.1016/0167-8817(86)90006-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Formation of alkaline-labile sites in DNA by S9-activated benzo [a]pyrene (B [a]P) and the repair of those lesions were investigated using the technique of alkaline elution in cultured Chinese hamster V79 cells. When the cells were treated with B [a]P (1-5 micrograms/ml) there was negligible increase in DNA elution at pH 12.1 as compared to untreated controls. However, the elution of DNA increased at pH 12.6 with a concentration dependency, thereby indicating formation of alkaline-labile sites in DNA by B [a]P. After 4 h of repair incubation the elution of DNA at pH 12.6 of B [a]P (5 micrograms/ml) treated cells returned to the control levels. The half-life of alkaline-labile sites formed by B [a]P was approximately 1.5 h. Inhibitors of DNA-repair synthesis, hydroxyurea (HU) and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl cytosine (ara-C) when added simultaneously with S9-activated B [a]P for 3 h showed an increase in elution of DNA at pH 12.1, indicating that a population of B [a]P-induced DNA lesions could be removed by a rapid DNA-repair process. These results indicate that at least two kinds of DNA lesions, repairable alkaline-labile sites and rapidly repairable DNA single-strand breaks, are detected after B [a]P treatment by the use of the alkaline elution procedure, by changing elution pH.
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Loeb LA, Preston BD, Snow ET, Schaaper RM. Apurinic sites as common intermediates in mutagenesis. BASIC LIFE SCIENCES 1986; 38:341-7. [PMID: 3741336 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-9462-8_37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Abstract
The chemistry and molecular biology of DNA adducts is only one part of the carcinogenic process. Many other factors will determine whether a particular chemical will exert a carcinogenic effect. For example, the size of particles upon which a carcinogenic may be adsorbed will influence whether or not, and if so where, deposition within the lung will occur. The simultaneous exposure to several different agents may enhance or inhibit the metabolism of a chemical to its ultimate carcinogenic form (Rice et al., 1984; Smolarek and Baird, 1984). The ultimate carcinogenic metabolites may be influenced in their ability to react with DNA by a number of factors such as internal levels of detoxifying enzymes, the presence of other metabolic intermediates such as glutathione with which they could react either enzymatically or non-enzymatically, and the state of DNA which is probably most heavily influenced by whether or not the cell is undergoing replication or particular sequences being expressed. Replicating forks have been shown to be more extensively modified than other areas of DNA. Another critical factor which can influence the final outcome of the DNA damage is whether or not the modifications can be repaired. If this occurs with high fidelity and the cell has not previously undergone replication then the effect of the damage by the carcinogen is likely to be minimal. The major area in which progress is needed is an understanding of what this damage really does to the cell such that after an additional period of time, which may be as long as twenty or more years, these prior events are expressed and cell proliferation occurs. Clearly additional stimulatory factors, for example tumor promoting agents such as the phorbol esters or phenobarbital, are often needed. After such prolonged periods it seems likely that the DNA adducts would no longer be present. However, the way in which their earlier presence is remembered is not clear. Simple mutations do not explain all the characteristics of tumor progression and, when it occurs, regression. Even if a specific site mutation does occur then its expression must be under other types of control. Any explanation of the action of DNA modification at the molecular level also requires that account be taken of the diverse nature of the DNA adducts from simple modifications such as methylation to bulkier adducts such as benzo[a]pyrene, aflatoxin or aromatic amines.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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