title: Fluorescence detection of benzo[a]pyrene--DNA adducts in human lung.
abstract: Improved techniques are described for the specific identification of benzo[a]pyrene-diolepoxide (BPDE)--DNA adducts in human tissues. Immunoaffinity chromatography, synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy and second-derivative synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy have previously been used to detect BPDE-DNA adducts in human placenta. Here we report how these methods, together with HPLC and the generation of complete fluorescence excitation--emission matrices, have been used to identify unequivocally BPDE-DNA adducts in samples of human lung. BPDE nucleotide adducts were isolated with immunoaffinity chromatography columns bearing antibodies raised against the (+/-)anti-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide-deoxyguanosine adduct of benzo[a]pyrene. These adducts were hydrolyzed to tetrahydrotetrols and the hydrolysis products subjected to HPLC. The major product isolated by HPLC, benzo[a]-pyrene-7,10/8,9-tetrahydrotetrol, was determined by fluorescence spectroscopy. Using this method, levels of BPDE-DNA adducts in the range of 1-40 in 10(8) nucleotides were measured in 6 out of 25 samples, with a lower detection limit of one adduct in 10(8) nucleotides. The data may also indicate that adduct levels show regional variation in different parts of the same lung.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weston
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Bowman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene / Q000032:analysis*; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis*; D018736:DNA Adducts; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008168:Lung / Q000737:chemistry*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D018736:DNA Adducts; C056612:benzo(a)pyrene-DNA adduct; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene; D004247:DNA