title: Relationship of N-arylacetamide metabolism and macromolecular binding to oncogenic transformation of C3H10T1/2CL8 cells.
abstract: The C3H10T1/2CL8 mouse embryo oncogenic transformation bioassay system detects a wide variety of chemical carcinogens. However, one carcinogen that does not transform C3H10T1/2CL8 cells is the liver carcinogen N-2-fluorenylacetamide (FAA). Previous reports indicate that an activated form of FAA, N-acetoxy-FAA (N-OAc-FAA), transforms these fibroblasts. In an effort to understand these results, the metabolism and binding to cellular macromolecules of FAA and N-OAc-FAA using C3H10T1/2CL8 cells was investigated. C3H10T1/2CL8 cells metabolized FAA to 7-hydroxy-FAA, 2-fluorenylamine and N-hydroxy-FAA (N-OH-FAA) at rates of 5.03, 2.22 and 3.33 pmol/h/10(6) cells, respectively. N-O-Ac-FAA was bound to the DNA and RNA in C3H10T1/2CL8 cells to the extent of 10.6 and 3.6 FAA residues/10(6) nucleotides, respectively, and to protein at 21.9 pmol FAA residues/mg protein. However, binding of FAA to DNA and RNA at similar concentrations to N-OAc-FAA was less than 0.3 and 0.6 residues/10(6) nucleotides, respectively. These results strongly indicate that the inability of FAA to transform C3H10T1/2CL8 cells residues in the cells' inability to metabolize it sufficiently to the proximate carcinogen N-OH-FAA and not an inherent insensitivity to its activated forms.
mesh_terms: D015073:2-Acetylaminofluorene / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001711:Biotransformation; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects*; D051379:Mice; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding
chemical_list: D009696:Nucleic Acids; D015073:2-Acetylaminofluorene