title: Interaction of the tobacco-specific nitrosamines, methylethylnitrosamine and N-nitrosonornicotine, with DNA and guanosine.
abstract: In vitro binding of the tobacco-specific nitrosamines, methylethylnitrosamine (MEN) and nitrosonornicotine (NNN), to exogenous DNA and guanosine was studies in a rat liver microsome-catalyzed system. MEN (N-[ethyl-1-14C]) binds covalently to calf thymus DNA whereas NNN (N'-[pyrrolidine-2-14C]) binds only to guanosine but not to DNA. Pretreatment of the rats with either phenobarbital (PB) or 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) greatly diminishes the binding of 14C-MEN to DNA. Both MEN-demethylase and -deethylase activities are stimulated by PB pretreatment and inhibited by MC pretreatment, but the degree of stimulation and inhibition of the two dealkylases are not the same. Addition of cytosol to the incubation system does not enhance but suppresses the binding of 14C-MEN to DNA. Inclusion of mitochondria in the system has no effect on the binding. Addition of benzylamine (250 microM), which is a potent inhibitor of dimethylnitrosamine-demethylase, however totally abolishes the binding of 14C-MEN catalyzed by microsomes. The data suggest that ethylcarbonium ion may be the metabolically activated intermediate of MEN that binds to DNA.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001596:Benzylamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D004128:Dimethylnitrosamine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D006151:Guanosine / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008748:Methylcholanthrene / Q000494:pharmacology; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D009538:Nicotine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D009602:Nitrosamines / Q000378:metabolism*; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D051381:Rats; D014026:Nicotiana
chemical_list: D001596:Benzylamines; D009602:Nitrosamines; C017510:methylethylnitrosamine; D006151:Guanosine; D008748:Methylcholanthrene; D009538:Nicotine; D004247:DNA; D004128:Dimethylnitrosamine; C008655:N'-nitrosonornicotine; D010634:Phenobarbital