Mutagenesis, Vol. 18, No. 1, 87-93,
January 2003
© 2003 UK Environmental Mutagen Society/Oxford University Press
Effects of cigarette smoke and a heterocyclic amine, MeIQx on cytochrome P-450, mutagenic activation of various carcinogens and glucuronidation in rat liver
Laboratory of Radiochemistry, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, 6-1 Mitahora-higashi 5-chome, Gifu 502-8585, Japan and 1 Division of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
In order to elucidate the mechanism underlying enhancement by cigarette smoke (CS) of 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx)-induced rat hepatocarcinogenesis, hepatic levels of cytochrome P-450 (CYP) enzymes, mutagenic activation of various carcinogens and UDP-glucuronyltransferase (UDPGT) activities were assayed in male F344 rats. Immunoblot analyses for microsomal CYP proteins revealed induction of CYP1A1 and constitutive CYP1A2 (2.3- to 2.7-fold), but not CYP2B1/2, 2E1 or 3A2, by CS exposure for 1, 12 or 16 weeks using a Hamburg type II smoking machine; the enhancement of CYP1A2 was 4.7–5.7 times that of CYP1A1. CS exposure also elevated the mutagenic activities of MeIQx and five other heterocyclic amines (HCAs) 1.4- to 3.7-fold, but not those of benzo[a]pyrene (BP) and aflatoxin B1 in strain TA98 and N-nitrosodimethylamine, N-nitrosopyrrolidine and 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone in strain TA100. In contrast, feeding 300 p.p.m. MeIQx in the diet for 1 or 16 weeks produced no significant alterations in the levels of these CYP species and mutagenic activities. However, i.g. administration of 50 or 100 mg/kg MeIQx in a single dose selectively increased CYP1A1 and 1A2 (2.6-fold) levels and mutagenic activities of five HCAs (1.7- to 3.3-fold), but not BP. On the other hand, feeding of MeIQx for 16 weeks enhanced UDPGT activities towards 4-nitrophenol and testosterone (2.9- and 1.5-fold, respectively), but not bilirubin, while CS exposure induced that towards 4-nitrophenol (1.6-fold); combined treatment with CS and MeIQx showed a summation effect on induction of UDPGT1A6 activity (3.5-fold). Consequently, these results demonstrate that CS and MeIQx have a bifunctional action, with similar induction patterns of specific CYP proteins, mutagenic activity and UDPGT activity. In conjunction with the finding of N-hydroxy-MeIQx being a poor substrate for rat liver UDPGT, our results clearly indicate that enhancement by CS of MeIQx-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in F344 rats can be attributed to an increase in metabolic activation of MeIQx by hepatic CYP1A2 during the initiation phase.
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