N-Glucuronidation of N-hydroxy aromatic amines: A mechanism for their transport and bladder-specific carcinogenicity

Autor: Jack L. Radomski, William Lee Hearn, Jay M. Poupko
Rok vydání: 1979
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Zdroj: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 50:479-484
ISSN: 0041-008X
DOI: 10.1016/0041-008x(79)90401-0
Popis: Glucuronide conjugates of carcinogenic N -hydroxy metabolites of the primary aromatic amines, 4-aminobiphenyl (4-ABP), 2-naphthylamine (2-NA), and 1-naphthylamine (1-NA) were isolated from the urine of dogs administered the respective primary amine and from the in vitro incubation of N -hydroxy metabolites with uridine-5′-disphosphoglucuronic acid-fortified dog liver microsomes. The urinary and microsomal conjugates were purified by several sequential chromatographic procedures, including Sephadex G-15, Amberlite XAD-2, and cellulose CF-11 chromatography for microsomal conjugates and Sephadex G-10, DEAE, and Amberlite XAD-2 chromatography for urinary conjugates. The infrared spectra of purified urinary and microsomal conjugates of these three N -hydroxy aromatic amines were identical to spectra of authentic NC glucuronides prepared by two different synthetic procedures. The urinary and microsomal conjugates comigrated with synthetic NC glucuronides in two solvent systems. These observations in conjunction with previous studies provide evidence that NC glucuronidation represents a general metabolic reaction of carcinogenic N -hydroxy aromatic amines which provides the means of transport of these compounds to their site of action in the bladder.
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