| pubmed-article:7408035 | pubmed:abstractText | The reaction of glutathione (GSH) with metabolically-formed N-methyl-4-aminoazobenzene-N-sulfate (MAB-N-sulfate), a presumed ultimate carcinogenic metabolite of N,N-dimethyl-4-aminoazobenzene (DAB), was investigated using a hepatic sulfotransferase incubation mixture containing GSH and the proximate carcinogen, N-hydroxy-N-methyl-4-aminoazobenzene (N-HO-MAB). Under these conditions, 6--16% of the MAB-N-sulfate formed could be trapped as an aminoazo dye-GSH adduct. Upon subsequent purification, the adduct was shown to be chromatographically and spectrally identical to 3-(glutathion-S-yl)-N-methyl-4-aminoazobenzene (3-GS-MAB), a known biliary metabolite of DAB and a product of the reaction of the synthetic ultimate carcinogen, N-benzoyloxy-N-methyl-4-aminoazobenzene(N-BzO-MAB), with GSH. Neither 2'- nor 4'-GS-MAB, both products of the latter reaction, were detected in the sulfotransferase incubation mixture. GSH-S-transferases did not appear to be involved in the reaction of MAB-N-sulfate of N-BzO-MAB with GSH. The addition of triethyltin, a potent GSH-S-transferase inhibitor, had no effect on the yield of 3-GS-MAB in (N-HO-MAB sulfotransferase)-GSH incubations; and the addition of cytosol or purified GSH transferases A and B to a (N-BzO-MAB)-GSH reaction mixture did not increase the amount of 3-GS-MAB formed. | lld:pubmed |
