The enzyme-catalysed conversion of anti-benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-diol 9,10-oxide into a glutathione conjugate.
Anti-BP-7,8-diol 9,10-oxide (r-7,t-8-dihydroxy-t-9, 10-oxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene) was converted in the presence of a rat-liver supernatant fraction and glutathione into a water-soluble metabolite that was identified as a glutathione conjugate. The formation of the glutathione conjugate appears to be catalysed by glutathione S-transferases, present in the rat-liver supernatant, because the amount of conjugate formed was reduced considerably when anti-BP-7,8-diol 9,10-oxide was incubated with glutathione either in the absence of the supernatant fraction or in the presence of heat-denatured supernatant fraction.
Chester Beatty Research Institute, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
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D015123:7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001711:Biotransformation; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D018736:DNA Adducts / Q000096:biosynthesis; D004249:DNA Damage; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism*; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D051381:Rats; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013237:Stereoisomerism
D018736:DNA Adducts; C043931:benzo(a)pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide-DNA; D015123:7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide; D004247:DNA; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D005978:Glutathione