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Effect of cigarette smoke on mutagenic activation of environmental carcinogens by cytochrome P450 2A8 and inactivation by glucuronidation in hamster liver.

Abstract
To elucidate the mechanism underlying suppression of N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP)-induced hamster pancreatic carcinogenesis by cigarette smoke (CS), hepatic levels of microsomal cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, mutagenic activation of environmental carcinogens and three types of uridine diphosphate-glucuronyltransferase (UDPGT) and sulphotransferase (ST) activities were assayed in male Syrian golden hamsters and F344 rats exposed to CS. Immunoblot analyses of microsomal CYP proteins revealed induction of constitutive CYP1A2 (2.6-fold increase) and 2A8 (4.0-fold increase) and induction of CYP1A1 and constitutive CYP1A2 (3.9-fold increase) in rats following exposure to CS for 4 weeks using a Hamburg type II smoking machine. CS exposure enhanced mutagenicities of four heterocyclic amines in the presence of liver S9 in both species, whereas the mutagenicities of aflatoxin B(1) (AFB(1)), 2-amino-3-methyl-9H-pyrido[2,3-b]indole (MeAαC) and 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) were significantly increased by CS in hamsters but not in rats. However, no CS-induced alterations in the mutagenic activities of other carcinogens, including BOP and other pancreatic carcinogens, were observed in either species. Application of several CYP inhibitors revealed that the mutagenic activities of MeAαC, AFB(1) and NNK in the hamster liver S9 were partly associated with CYP2A8, whereas those of the three pancreatic carcinogens were selectively associated with CYP2B. CS enhanced UDPGT activities towards 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) (1.9- to 2.0-fold) but did not affect those of bilirubin, testosterone UDPGTs and three STs in both species. Together with the previous findings that BOP does not induce tumourigenesis in rats and that the glucuronidation of β-oxypropylnitrosamines is higher in rats than in hamsters, suppression of BOP-induced pancreatic carcinogenesis by CS might be attributed to increased detoxification by 4-NP UDPGT and not decreased CYP2B activation. This is the first demonstration of the induction of CYP2A protein by CS; CYP2A protein polymorphisms have been associated with oral and pulmonary carcinogenesis in smokers.
AuthorsKenjiro Tatematsu, Akihiro Koide, Masao Hirose, Akiyoshi Nishikawa, Yukio Mori
JournalMutagenesis (Mutagenesis) Vol. 26 Issue 2 Pg. 323-30 (Mar 2011) ISSN: 1464-3804 [Electronic] England
PMID21059812 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Carcinogens, Environmental
  • Mutagens
  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases
  • CYP2A8 protein, Mesocricetus auratus
  • Cytochrome P-450 CYP2A6
  • Cytochrome P450 Family 2
  • Glucuronosyltransferase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases (antagonists & inhibitors, metabolism)
  • Carcinogens, Environmental (metabolism, pharmacology)
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cricetinae
  • Cytochrome P-450 CYP2A6
  • Cytochrome P450 Family 2
  • Glucuronosyltransferase (metabolism)
  • Humans
  • Liver (drug effects, metabolism)
  • Male
  • Mutagenicity Tests
  • Mutagens (metabolism, pharmacology)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred F344
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Smoking (adverse effects)

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