title: Xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes and benzo[a]pyrene metabolism in the benzo[a]pyrene-sensitive mutant strain of Drosophila simulans.
abstract: Basal levels of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase, epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase enzyme activities, cytochrome P-450 content and inducibility of enzymes with phenobarbital were found to be similar in the microsomes of D. simulans mutant strain 364yv, which is sensitive to the toxic and mutagenic effects of benzo[a]pyrene (BP), and of the wild resistant Turku strain. In contrast, increases in the rate of BP turnover per molecule of cytochrome P-450, intensity of the hemoprotein band with apparent molecular weight 56,000 and the yield of BP 7,8-dihydrodiol and 9,10-dihydrodiol occurred only in microsomes of BP-pretreated 364yv flies but not of Turku ones. It is likely that BP induces an aberrant form of cytochrome P-450 in 364yv flies with a rare mutation in one of the P-450 regulating genes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Russian AMS, Moscow.
authors.lastname: Fuchs SYu
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Spiegelman
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Safaev
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Belitsky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001189:Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases / Q000378:metabolism*; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001711:Biotransformation; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism*; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008861:Microsomes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D016296:Mutagenesis; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology; D015262:Xenobiotics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D015262:Xenobiotics; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D001189:Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases; D010634:Phenobarbital