title: Metabolic activation and nucleic acid binding of acetaminophen and related arylamine substrates by the respiratory burst of human granulocytes.
abstract: Following stimulation with phorbol myristate acetate, human granulocytes were found to incorporate acetaminophen, p-phenetidine, p-aminophenol, and p-chloroaniline into cellular DNA and RNA. Phenacetin was not incorporated into nucleic acid or metabolized by such activated granulocytes. None of the substrates gave nucleic acid binding if the granulocyte cultures were not induced to undergo the respiratory burst. Additional studies on the binding of acetaminophen to DNA and RNA were made by use of both ring-14C-labeled and carbonyl-14C-labeled forms of this substrate. The finding that equivalent amounts of these two labeled acetaminophen substrates were bound to cellular DNA demonstrated that the intact acetaminophen molecule was incorporated into DNA. On the other hand, the finding that excess ring-14C-labeled acetaminophen was incorporated into cellular RNA implies partial hydrolysis of the acetaminophen substrate prior to RNA binding. Evidence was presented which strongly indicates that the nucleic acid binding of the substrates was covalent in nature. The inability of the respiratory burst to result in the binding of phenacetin to nucleic acid suggests that arylamides are not normally activated or metabolized by activated granulocytes. Acetaminophen is an exception to the recalcitrance of arylamides to such bioactivation processes because it also possesses the phenolic functional group, which, like the arylamine group, is oxidized by certain reactive oxygen species. Myeloperoxidase appears to be much more important in the binding of acetaminophen to DNA than it is in the DNA binding of arylamines in general. The role of the respiratory burst in causing the bioactivation of certain arylamines, which are not normally genotoxic via the more usual microsomal activation pathways, was extended to include certain amide substrates such as acetaminophen.
authors.affiliation: Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Corbett
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Corbett
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Hannothiaux
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Quintana
mesh_terms: D000082:Acetaminophen / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D000588:Amines / Q000378:metabolism; D001386:Azides / Q000494:pharmacology; D001711:Biotransformation; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004247:DNA / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D003956:Dialysis; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D009195:Peroxidase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D012313:RNA / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D016897:Respiratory Burst; D019810:Sodium Azide; D012995:Solubility; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000588:Amines; D001386:Azides; D000082:Acetaminophen; D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA; D019810:Sodium Azide; D009195:Peroxidase; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate