title: Mutagenic activities of fecapentaene derivatives in the Ames/Salmonella test system.
abstract: The direct mutagenic activities of a pair of naturally-occurring and several synthetic fecapentaenes were measured in the Ames/Salmonella test system. We found that strain TA100 with preincubation was the most sensitive procedure for the naturally-occurring fecapentaene-12 (FP-12). Its natural analog, FP-14, and the synthetic isomer, cis-FP-12, yielded similar mutagenic activities to FP-12 in the range of 1000-2000 TA100 revertants per microgram of compound. The synthetic analogs of FP-12 and FP-14, MFP-12 and MFP-14, wherein the glycerol moiety was replaced by methoxy, exhibited consistently higher mutagenic activities than their parent fecapentaenes (MFP-12 was about 20 times more potent than FP-12; MFP-14 was about twice the potency of FP-14). The standard rat liver metabolizing system (S9) reduced the activities of all the fecapentaenes in a dose-related manner.
authors.affiliation: Life Sciences Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Riccio
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Reist
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D009153:Mutagens / Q000378:metabolism; D011090:Polyenes / Q000633:toxicity*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D009153:Mutagens; D011090:Polyenes; C037358:1-(1-glycero)tetradeca-1,3,5,7,9-pentaene; C037357:1-(1-glycero)dodeca-1,3,5,7,9-pentaene