title: Metabolism of dinitrobenzenes by rat isolated hepatocytes.
abstract: The metabolism of radiolabeled dinitrobenzene (DNB) isomers was compared in hepatocytes and hepatic subcellular fractions isolated from male Fischer-344 rats. Under aerobic conditions, reduction was the major metabolic pathway for m- and p- DNB in hepatocytes with m- and p-nitroaniline accounting for 74.0 +/- 1.2 and 81.0 +/- 0.6% (mean +/- SE, n = 4), respectively, of the radioactivity present after a 30-min incubation. The major metabolite of o-DNB in similar incubations was S-(2-nitrophenyl)glutathione which represented 48.1 +/- 5.5% of the total radioactivity; o-nitroaniline accounted for 29.5 +/- 2.1% of the radioactivity. Incubations of DNBs with microsomes produced nitroanilines as well as nitrosonitrobenzenes and nitrophenylhydroxylamines. Reduction of o- and m-DNB by microsomes was NADPH-dependent. Reduction of p-DNB could be supported by NADH as well as NADPH, although the rate of reduction was slower with NADH. o- and p-DNB were reduced to nitroanilines 3-5 times faster than m-DNB in hepatocyte and microsomal incubations. Conjugation of o- and p-DNB, but not m-DNB, with glutathione occurred in cytosol incubations although only o-DNB formed the glutathione conjugate in intact hepatocytes. Thus, there are substantial isomeric differences in the aerobic metabolism of the DNBs by rat hepatic enzymes.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Cossum
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Rickert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004136:Dinitrobenzenes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005966:Glucuronidase / Q000378:metabolism; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D009578:Nitrobenzenes / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344
chemical_list: D004136:Dinitrobenzenes; D009578:Nitrobenzenes; C040234:1,2-dinitrobenzene; C017906:3-dinitrobenzene; D005966:Glucuronidase; D005978:Glutathione