The relationship between sister chromatid exchange, chromosome aberration and gene mutation induction by several reactive polycyclic hydrocarbon metabolites in cultured mammalian cells
✍ Scribed by Jane R. Connell
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 453 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The ability of three ultimate metabolites of benzo(a)‐pyrene and of 7‐bromomethylbenz(a)anthracene to induce 8‐azaguanine mutants, sister‐chromatid exchanges and chromosome aberrations has been investigated. 7β,8α‐dihydroxy‐9α,10α‐epoxy‐7,8,9,10‐tetrahydrobenzo(a)pyrene was shown to be an extremely efficient inducer of both mutants and sister‐chromatid exchanges at 100% survival, whereas its geometrical isomer, 7β,8α‐dihydroxy‐9β,10β‐epoxy‐7,8,9,10‐tetrahydro‐benzo(a) pyrene and benzo(a)pyrene‐4,5‐oxide were comparatively weak. The potency of this compound, as both a mutagen and a sister‐chromatid exchange inducer, gives further evidence that it may be the important carcinogenic metabolite of benzo(a)pyrene. 7‐Bromomethylbenz(a)anthracene was a moderate mutagen and inducer of sister chromatid exchanges. Comparisons of the relative potencies of these four chemicals as inducers of both mutations and sister chromatid exchanges have indicated that these two phenomena are not directly related. The induction of sister chromatid exchanges also appears to be independent of the induction of chromosome aberrations.