title: Mutagenic activation of environmental carcinogens by microsomes of gastric mucosa with intestinal metaplasia.
abstract: Coexpression of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs) and reductase was found in human gastric mucosa with intestinal metaplasia. Immunohistochemistry showed reactivity to P450 reductase in metaplastic epithelial cells and in pyloric gland cells in glands showing intestinal metaplasia. These cells exhibit NADPH-diaphorase activity. Reverse transcription-PCR analysis and Western blotting showed that CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 were expressed in specimens with intestinal metaplasia. Tissue distribution of CYP1A1 coincided with that of P450 reductase. However, immunoreactivity to CYP1A2 protein was localized only in the pyloric gland cells near the intestinal metaplastic gland. Salmonella typhimurium mutagen assay definitively revealed that microsomes prepared from gastric mucosa with intestinal metaplasia, in particular in the pyloric gland, functionally activated benzo(a)pyrene and 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f]quinoline. These results indicate that carcinogen activation by CYP enzymes expressed in the gastric mucosa may contribute to carcinogenesis of the stomach.
authors.affiliation: Investigative Treatment Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute East, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tatemichi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sone
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Esumi
mesh_terms: D002274:Carcinogens, Environmental / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000633:toxicity; D019363:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D019388:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008679:Metaplasia; D008861:Microsomes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002274:Carcinogens, Environmental; D019363:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1; D019388:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A2