title: Chloroform bioactivation leading to nucleic acids binding.
abstract: Chloroform was bound covalently to DNA, RNA and proteins of rat and mouse organs in vivo after i.p. injection. Covalent Binding Index values of rat and mouse liver DNA classify chloroform as a weak initiator. Labelings of RNA and proteins from various organs of both species were higher than that of DNA. In an in vitro cell-free system, chloroform was bioactivated by cytochrome P450-dependent microsomal fractions, by cytosolic GSH-transferases from rat and mouse liver, and particularly by the latter enzymes from mouse lung. This observation suggests that GSH plays a role in the binding of chloroform metabolites to DNA. The presence of both microsomal and cytosolic enzymatic systems in the standard incubation mixture generally led to an additive or synergistic bioactivating effect for rat and mouse, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, IST-Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Colacci
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bartoli
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bonora
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guidotti
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lattanzi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mazzullo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Niero
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Perocco
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Silingardi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grilli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001711:Biotransformation; D002725:Chloroform / Q000378:metabolism*; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D004249:DNA Damage; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D002725:Chloroform; D004247:DNA