title: The conversion of benzo(alpha)pyrene 4,5-oxide into 4-hydroxybenzo(alpha)pyrene in the presence of polyriboguanylic acid.
abstract: Incubation of benzo[alpha] pyrene 4,5-oxide with poly(G) in neutral aqueous ethanol resulted in the formation of covalent adducts and in the production of free 4-hydroxybenzo[alpha]pyrene. This phenol, which was identified by its UV spectral properties and by its chromatographic characteristics, was also formed but at a much slower rate when the epoxide was incubated with DNA or with GMP. Phenol formation was not detected when benzo[alpha]-pyrene 4,5-oxide was incubated for prolonged periods in the presence of poly(A), poly(C) or poly(U) or in the absence of nucleic acid. Formation of 4-hydroxybenzo[alpha] pyrene from the epoxide in the presence of poly(G) was not accompanied by detectable base modifications or by breakage of phosphodiester linkages.
mesh_terms: D001580:Benzopyrenes / Q000378:metabolism; D001665:Binding Sites; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D004247:DNA; D007700:Kinetics; D010087:Oxides / Q000378:metabolism; D011068:Poly G / Q000378:metabolism; D011131:Polyribonucleotides / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001580:Benzopyrenes; D010087:Oxides; D011131:Polyribonucleotides; D011068:Poly G; D004247:DNA