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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2-3
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-12-26
pubmed:abstractText
Rat liver microsomal enzyme(s) that catalyze mutagenic activation of a carcinogenic aminoazo dye, 3-methoxy-4-aminoazobenzene (3-MeO-AAB), was studied by virtue of the Salmonella typhimurium TA98 assay using o-aminoazotoluene (OAT) as the control. Male Wistar rats were pretreated with phenobarbital (PB), 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) or polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), and the liver microsomal activities for mutagenic activation of 3-MeO-AAB and OAT were examined. In agreement with the reported results on several carcinogenic aromatic amines, MC pretreatment resulted in greater activation of microsomal activity in the OAT mutagenesis (about a 4-fold increase as compared to the untreated control) than did PB (1.5-fold increase). By contrast, the mutagenic activation of 3-MeO-AAB is found to be more efficiently catalyzed by those enzyme(s) that are induced by PB pretreatment (4-fold increase) than by those that are induced by MC (1.8-fold increase). The induced enzymes that principally mediate the mutagenic activation of these azo dyes are indicated to be cytochrome P-450s, because the mutagenic activation was strongly inhibited by addition of cytochrome P-450 inhibitors such as 2-diethylaminoethyl-2,2-diphenylvalerate (SKF 525A) and 7,8-benzoflavone. These data suggest that 3-MeO-AAB is a unique carcinogenic aromatic amine as a substrate for mutagenic activation via catalysis of those cytochrome P-450s that are induced by PB pretreatment.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0027-5107
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
152
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
125-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
3-Methoxy-4-aminoazobenzene, a unique carcinogenic aromatic amine as a substrate for cytochrome-P-450-mediated mutagenesis.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't