title: Alterations of microsomal monooxygenase system and carcinogen metabolism by streptozotocin-induced diabetes in rats.
abstract: The effects of diabetes on the liver microsomal monooxygenase enzymes and carcinogen metabolism have been studied in rats. Treatment with streptozotocin causes a marked enhancement in microsomal N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) demethylase activity. The enhancement is due mainly to the induction of a high affinity NDMA demethylase (Km, approximately 0.05 mM) which is accompanied by the induction of a protein species with mol. wt. of 50,000. The treatment also induces aniline hydroxylase whose activity is in parallel with NDMA demethylase. Streptozotocin-induced diabetes also increases the metabolism of N-nitrosomethylethylamine but not that of N-nitrosomethylaniline or N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine. On the other hand, diabetes decreases the metabolism of benzo[a]pyrene, benzphetamine, and ethylmorphine. The result suggest that diabetes causes an alteration of the composition of cytochrome P-450 isozymes; the forms efficient in metabolizing NDMA are increased while certain other forms of cytochrome P-450 are decreased.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene; D001580:Benzopyrenes / Q000378:metabolism; D001589:Benzphetamine / Q000378:metabolism; D019392:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism*; D005036:Ethylmorphine / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010089:Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating / Q000378:metabolism; D010105:Oxygenases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D001580:Benzopyrenes; D001589:Benzphetamine; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D010105:Oxygenases; D019392:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1; D010089:Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating; D005036:Ethylmorphine