title: Toxicological implications of enzymatic control of reactive metabolites.
abstract: Many foreign compounds are transformed into reactive metabolites, which may produce genotoxic effects by chemically altering critical biomolecules. Reactive metabolites are under the control of activating, inactivating and precursor sequestering enzymes. Such enzymes are under the long-term control of induction and repression, as well as the short-term control of post-translational modification and low molecular weight activators or inhibitors. In addition, the efficiency of these enzyme systems in preventing reactive metabolite-mediated toxicity is directed by their subcellular compartmentalization and isoenzymic multiplicity. Extrapolation from toxicological test systems to the human requires information of these variables in the system in question and in man. Differences in susceptibility to toxic challenges between species and individuals are often causally linked to differences in these control factors.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz, FRG.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oesch
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doehmer
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Friedberg
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Glatt
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oesch-Bartlomowicz
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Platt
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Steinberg
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Utesch
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004852:Epoxy Compounds / Q000378:metabolism*; D004988:Ethers, Cyclic / Q000378:metabolism*; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000378:metabolism; D008861:Microsomes / Q000201:enzymology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D004852:Epoxy Compounds; D004988:Ethers, Cyclic; D007527:Isoenzymes; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases