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Rat mammary epithelial cells grown in primary culture contain the microsomal enzyme, aryl hydrocarbon (benzo[a]pyrene) hydroxylase (AHH), which catalyses the oxidative conversion of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) to more polar derivatives. Constitutive AHH activity, measured with an established fluorometric method, was 46 pmol/mg protein/h in homogenates of rat mammary epithelial cells after 5 days in culture. The addition of dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA), benz[a]anthracene (BA), or 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC) to the cell culture medium increased AHH activity 5.3-, 4.7- and 2.4-fold, respectively. Kinetic studies revealed that maximal hydroxylase induction occurred 16 h after 1 micro M DMBA was added to the culture medium. The decay of the DMBA-induced hydroxylase was biphasic: one component had a t1/2 of 15--30 min and another a t1/2 of 4 h. Norepinephrine, 17 beta-estradiol and 5,6-benzoflavone also increased AHH activity in mammary epithelial cells in vitro, however, sodium phenobarbital had no effect. Fetal bovine serum (FBS), previously shown to be a potent in vitro inducer of AHH activity, had no effect on either constitutive or DMBA-induced mammary epithelial hydroxylase activities following treatment with 1% activated charcoal. Metyrapone and 7,8-benzoflavone, inhibitors of microsomal mixed function oxidase activity, reduced both constitutive and DMBA-induced AHH activities when added to homogenates of untreated and DMBA-treated mammary epithelial cells. The addition of 7,8-benzoflavone reduced both constitutive and DMBA-induced hydroxylase activities by approx. 80%, whereas metyrapone addition inhibited these activities by 20%. The study demonstrates several in vitro factors which alter AHH activity in primary cultures of rat mammary epithelial cells.  相似文献   

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X-irradiation (500 rads) was found to enhance the aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity of three cell lines. Radiation followed by induction with benz (a) anthracene (5–15 μg/ml) produced a synergistic effect on AHH. These effects were highly significant and were observed most dramatically with a hamster tumor cell line, A(Tl)Cl-3,a nd to a lesser extent in secondary hamsters embryo cells and mouse C3H/10T12 CL8 cells.  相似文献   

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Cultured human fetal aortic smooth muscle cells derived from the abdominal aorta converted benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) and 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) via cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenation to metabolites detectable by both a highly sensitive radiometric assay and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). Cells incubated with 3H-BaP transformed this substrate primarily to phenols. 14C-DMBA was converted to metabolites that cochromatographed with 12-hydroxymethyl-7-methylbenz[a]anthracene, 7-hydroxymethyl-12-methylbenz-[a]anthracene, 7,12-dihydroxymethylbenz[a]anthracene, and trans-8,9-dihydrodiol-7,12-DMBA. Exposure of cells in culture to 13 μM 1,2-benz[a]anthracene resulted in increased oxidative metabolism of both BaP and DMBA. In the case of BaP, total phenol formation was increased, while with DMBA all metabilities detected by HPLC were increased. Support for the potential role of metabolism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by aortic smooth muscle cells in the etiology of atherosclerosis was obtained.  相似文献   

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Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) was present in explant cultures of human prostate obtained from surgery of benign prostatic hyperplasia and was inducible by benz[a]anthracene (BA). The induction of AHH ranged from 14- to 150-fold when compared with control values and 10-fold variation of AHH inducibility among individuals was observed. Epithelial cells grown from human prostate tissue also contained measurable AHH activity and AHH was inducible by BA and 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA). Inducibility of AHH by BA ranged from 2- to 63-fold. The inducibility of AHH by DMBA was always less than that by BA. In cells treated with N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), there were no changes in AHH activity. These findings support the view that the human prostate is susceptible to environmental polycyclic hydrocarbon carcinogens and that environmental and occupational factors might contribute to the etiology of human prostatic carcinoma.  相似文献   

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Basal aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity and its kinetic properties were studied as a function of proliferation in C3H mouse embryo 10T12 CL8 cells. Activity was low in freshly plated cells, increased during exponential growth, peaked at confluency, and then declined. The apparent Km-values for benzo[a]pyrene (BP) and NADPH were less in proliferating (approx. 0.37 μM BP, 3.3 nM NADPH) than in confluent cells (0.74–1.39 μM BP, 33.4–53.4 nM NADPH). Cells at different growth states responded differently to benz[a]anthracene (BA) and aminophylline, an inhibitor of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases. When cells were harvested at the mid log phase of growth, 12 h of exposure to aminophylline caused maximum induction, while 24 h of BA treatment were required. In contrast, at early confluence, 12 h of BA treatment gave the greatest levels of activity, while exposure to aminophylline did not induce AHH. In fact, decreases in activity were observed. These differences are indicative of different regulatory mechanisms for BA and aminophylline induction. They also suggest the regulation of basal AHH by cyclic nucleotides changes during growth. The exposure times giving maximum activity were used to determine the kinetic properties of BA-induced activity. As with basal AHH, the Km-value for BP was less in log phase (0.2–0.4 μM BP) than in confluent cells (0.64–1.05 μM BP). Moreover, the Km-values for BP and NADPH in control cultures at confluency (0.10–0.14 μM BP, 15.4–23.2 nM NADPH) were less than those for BA-treated cells (0.64 μM BP, 37.9–54.8 nM NADPH) under the same nutritional conditions. The finding that the Km-value for BP is lower in rapidly dividing cells than in confluent cells may help to explain why proliferating cells are more susceptible to transforming agents.  相似文献   

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The activity of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) and/or epoxide hydratase (EH) is induced in primary fetal rat liver cell culture by benz[a]anthracene (BA), phenobarbital (PB), cigarette smoke condensate (CSC), 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and trans-stilbene oxide (TSO). The response of the two enzymes to the different chemicals varies as follows: (a) AHH is induced by lower concentrations of BA, PB and CSC than those required to significantly induce EH; (b) AHH is selectively induced by TCDD and by low BA concentrations; (c) the kinetics of AHH induction by BA, PB and CSC are faster than that of EH; (d) TSO is a selective inducer of EH. As described earlier for AHH, RNA and protein synthesis and the continuous presence of the inducer are required in the early phases of EH induction. Later, when the EH activity has reached a plateau, intact RNA and protein synthesis is not necessary to maintain the enzyme at its optimal value. The removal of the inducer determines a decay of the EH activity, allowing the estimation of a biological t12 of about 72 h. TSO prevents the AHH induction by PB, but not that mediated by BA and CSC. Added together with PB, BA, CSC or PB plus BA, TSO induces the EH activity in a more than additive manner. This effect is only seen after 6 days of continuous treatment. These results indicate that in this tissue culture model, the mechanism of AHH and EH induction can clearly be dissociated.  相似文献   

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It is thought that environmental pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), contribute to human breast tumorigenesis, yet their roles remain incompletely elucidated. The prototypical PAH 7,12-dimethylbenz(alpha)anthracene (DMBA) specifically and effectively induces mammary tumor formation in rodent models. In an attempt to explore the molecular mechanisms by which PAH initiates and promotes mammary tumorigenesis, we examined the expression of several cell cycle regulators in rat mammary tumors induced by DMBA. Expression of cyclin D1, murine double minute-2 (MDM2), and Akt was up-regulated in tumors in comparison to normal mammary glands, as indicated by RT-PCR, Western blot analysis, and immunohistochemical staining. Expression of p27Kip1 protein was also elevated in the tumors with increased cytoplasmic localization. However, RB protein remained hyperphosphorylated. To directly test the effects of DMBA, the MCF-7 human breast cancer cells were treated. DMBA induced MDM2 expression in a dose- and time-dependent fashion in the MCF-7 cells, and this activation appeared to be p53 dependent. These data suggest that activation of cyclin D1, MDM2, and AKT as well as increased expression and cytoplasmic localization of p27Kip1 may play a role in this model of environmental pollutant-induced mammary tumorigenesis.  相似文献   

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S Abe 《Mutation research》1986,173(1):55-60
Arachidonic acid (AA), a prostaglandin precursor, significantly potentiated sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) induction in vitro by benzo[a]pyrene (BP) and 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) in the aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH)-inducible human hepatoma C-HC-4 cells, and to a lesser extent in the non-inducible rat tumor AH66-B and R1 and Chinese hamster Don-6 cells, all of which were less sensitive to these compounds than C-HC-4 cells. Indomethacin (IM), an inhibitor of prostaglandin endoperoxide synthetase (PES), moderately suppressed SCE induction by BP or DMBA in AH66-B and R1 cells, but it exerted no such effect in C-HC-4 and Don-6 cells. In C-HC-4 cells, however, IM completely eliminated the potentiating effect of AA on SCE induction by both BP and DMBA. The above findings suggest that PES in prostaglandin biosynthesis may also be involved in the metabolic activation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to genotoxic forms capable of inducing SCEs, in addition to AHH system.  相似文献   

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Two fat soluble vitamins, Vitamins E and K, when added into culture medium, were found to increase aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity in human cultured cells. The extent of induction in a hepatoma-derived cell line (Hep G2) by these vitamins is of similar magnitude to those cells receiving benz[a]anthracene; whereas in a mammary tumor-derived cell line (MCF-7), benz[a]anthracene is the best inducer for the hydroxylase activity. The increase of the hydroxylase activity is associated with increased levels of a specific mRNA coding for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons-induced form of cytochrome P-450 with Vitamins E and K treatment. The size of the induced mRNA is 3.3 kilobase which is the same as that of benz[a]anthracene treatment.  相似文献   

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Effect of snuff extract (SE) on cell proliferation as measured by 3H thymidine (TdR) uptake, induction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) was studied in primary embryonal mouse tongue cultures. Cultures treated with SE in combination with 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) showed inhibition of cell proliferation and decrease of ODC and AHH activities, compared to control, DMBA, and DMBA + 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate treated cultures.  相似文献   

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Latent collagenase activity was detected in the media of a well-characterized line of human breast carcinoma cells maintained for over two years in culture. The media also contained sufficient plasminogen activator to convert extrinsically added plasminogen to plasmin which in turn activated the collagenase. During culture of the breast carcinoma in serum-free medium, collagenase activity was maximum on day 12 whereas plasminogen activator activity changed little with time. Using type I collagen as a substrate, the activated breast tumor collagenase produced 34 ? 14 fragments consistent with a mammalian collagenase. These findings suggest a pathologic role of plasminogen activator in the activation of latent collagenase during tumor invasion.A number of investigators have postulated that proteases may play a role in tumor invasion (1–5). Collagenase is one such protease which is active at neutral pH and specifically cleaves triple helical collagen into two (34 ? 14 fragments (6). Secretion of collagenase by tumor cells migrating from the primary mass provides an attractive hypothesis for the mechanism of tumor invasion of surrounding host connective tissue—since the local environment would likely be at neutral pH. Consequently, a number of investigators have reported significant levels of collagenase activity in a wide variety of tumors (7–14). Abramson (13) has correlated aggressive in vivo growth in carcinomas of the head and neck with collagenase activity, and Kuettner et al. (14) have postulated that inhibitors of collagenase may prevent tumors from invading cartilage.Collagenase is produced in both latent and active forms (6). The latent form can be activated with brief protease treatment (15). Since one of the proteases capable of activating collagenase is plasmin (15), the possibility arose that tumor cells could activate collagenase through plasminogen activator. Plasminogen activator secreted by tumor cells (4, 5) could convert plasminogen zymogen to plasmin which would in turn activate latent tumor collagenase. Testing this hypothesis in vitro was the subject of the present study.Previous studies on collagenase from human carcinoma (7, 13, 14) have suffered from the drawback that contaminating inflammatory cells and fibroblasts may have been the source of the collagenase. Therefore, we have studied collagenase production from cultured human breast carcinoma cells which have been well characterized to be mammary epithelial in origin, malignant in karyotype, and able to grow in nude mice. Production of collagenase from these cells is therefore unequivocally of human carcinoma origin. The time course of latent collagenase and plasminogen activator secretion by these cultured tumor cells was studied following withdrawal of serum. To test whether plasminogen activator was secreted in sufficient amounts to indirectly activate latent collagenase, collagenase activity of the culture media was studied after the extrinsic addition of plasminogen. Finally, to verify that the tumor-secreted collagenase cleaved type I collagen at a single locus, enzyme degradation products were studied by gel electrophoresis.  相似文献   

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The 1- and 2-positions of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) were thought not to be involved in biotransformation to 1,2-epoxide and 1,2-dihydrodiol because of steric hindrance from the 12-methyl group (Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 85: 357–362, 1978). However, we have identified four 2-phenols as rat liver microsomal metabolites of DMBA and its methyl-hydroxylated metabolites, 7-hydroxymethyl-12-methylbenz[a]anthracene, 7-methyl-12-hydroxymethylbenz[a]-anthracene, and 7,12-dihydroxymethylbenz[a]anthracene. Our findings suggest that neither the 12-methyl group nor the 12-hydroxymethyl group blocks the microsomal oxygenations of the 1,2 positions of DMBA or its methyl-hydroxylated derivatives. The 2-phenols may be formed as nonenzymatic rearrangement products of the 1,2-epoxide intermediates, although their formations by a direct hydroxylation mechanism cannot be ruled out.  相似文献   

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MCF-10F is a spontaneously immortalized nontransformed human breast epithelial cell line which does not grow in soft agar or form tumors in nude mice. Though the presence of estrogen receptors has not been found in these cells, they can metabolize estradiol very efficiently. The present study describes the endocrine characteristics of this cell line with respect to growth response to estradiol and its metabolites, estradiol metabolism and aromatase activity. MCF-10F cells were growth stimulated by 16alpha-hydroxyestrone and estriol, whereas, estradiol and other estradiol metabolites did not affect cell proliferation. The constitutive level of 16alpha-hydroxyestrone, a metabolite of estradiol biotransformation that has been associated with enhanced carcinogenesis in several animal, cell and tissue culture models, was a hundredfold higher in the non-transformed MCF-10F cells than in the transformed MCF-7 cells. Treatment with the carcinogen, dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA), however, did not upregulate 16alpha-hydroxylation as was observed in transformed MCF-7 cells. MCF-10F cells also had no detectable aromatase activity though the level of 17-oxidation was unusually high as compared with MCF-7 cells. Our results using the non-transformed MCF-10F cells as a model system suggests that the presence of high level of 16alpha-hydroxyestrone, a metabolite previously shown to be associated with malignant phenotype, may not be sufficient for breast cancer transformation.  相似文献   

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The effects of benzoflavones on skin tumor initiation by polycyclic hydrocarbons and epidermal aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase were investigated. 7,8-Benzoflavone (7,8-BF) was found to be a potent inhibitor of the inhibition of skin tumors by 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) as well as 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA). 5,6-Benzoflavone(5,6-BF) inhibited tumor initiation by MC and DMBA, but to a lesser degree than 7,8-BF. Dose-response studies of the capacity of 7,8-BF to inhibit DMBA tumor initiation revealed that 7,8-BF was an effective inhibitor at 2.5 microgram and a maximum inhibition of 90% occurred at 100 microgram of 7,8-FB. The tumor initiating ability of 7-hydroxymethyl-12-methylbenz(a)anthracene (7-OHMe-12MeBA) was not inhibited by 7,8-BF. Epidermal aryl hydrocarbon(benzo(a)pyrene hydroxylase(AHH) was increased by 5,6-BF and either had no effect or was slightly inhibited by 7,8-BF when given either topically or i.p. Both flavones when added directly to the assay tubes inhibited the in vitro epidermal AHH activity from control and MC pretreated mice by greater than 75%. When added in vitro, 7,8-BF and 5,6-BF inhibited epidermally mediated covalent binding of radioactive DMBA and dibenz(a,h)anthracene to DNA by 50% or more. The inhibition of skin tumor initiation by 7,8-BF and 5,6-BF appears to be partially related to its ability to inhibit the formation of electrophilic intermediates.  相似文献   

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The bioactivity of retinol (vitamin A) is in part dependent on its metabolism to retinoic acid (RA). We investigated the ability of breast epithelial cells to synthesize RA when challenged with a physiological retinol dose (2 microM). Normal human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC) cultured from reduction mammoplasties were competent in RA synthesis and the ability to synthesize RA was retained by immortal, nontumorigenic breast epithelial cell lines (MTSV1.7, MCF-10F, and 184B5). In contrast, most (five of six) breast cancer cell lines could not synthesize RA or did so at low rates relative to normal cells. A notable exception was the MDA-MB-468 cell line, which was fully competent in RA synthesis. Most (>/=68%) of the RA synthesized by breast cells was recovered from the culture medium. Cellular retinol binding protein and cellular RA binding protein II, both expressed in HMEC, had various expression patterns in the cell lines that did not correlate with the observed differences in RA synthesizing ability. Strong RA induction of the RA hydroxylase P450RAI (CYP26) was confined to ERalpha-positive T47D and MCF-7 breast cancer cells and did not appear to explain the lack of detectable RA levels in these cells since RA remained undetectable when the cells were treated with 5-10 microM liarozole, a P450RAI inhibitor. We hypothesize that retinol bioactivity is impaired in breast cancer cells that cannot synthesize RA. In preliminary support of this hypothesis, we found that retinol (0.5-2 microM) inhibited MCF-10F but not T47D or MCF-7 cell growth.  相似文献   

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Sclerotium rolfsii lectin (SRL) isolated from the phytopathogenic fungus Sclerotium rolfsii has exquisite binding specificity towards O-linked, Thomsen-Freidenreich (Galβ1-3GalNAcα1-Ser/Thr, TF) associated glycans. This study investigated the influence of SRL on proliferation of human breast cancer cells (MCF-7 and ZR-75), non-tumorigenic breast epithelial cells (MCF-10A) and normal mammary epithelial cells (HMECs). SRL caused marked, dose-dependent, inhibition of proliferation of MCF-7 and ZR-75 cells but only weak inhibition of proliferation of non-tumorigenic MCF-10A and HMEC cells. The inhibitory effect of SRL on cancer cell proliferation was shown to be a consequence of SRL cell surface binding and subsequent induction of cellular apoptosis, an effect that was largely prevented by the presence of inhibitors against caspases -3, -8, or -9. Lectin histochemistry using biotin-labelled SRL showed little binding of SRL to normal human breast tissue but intense binding to cancerous tissues. In conclusion, SRL inhibits the growth of human breast cancer cells via induction of cell apoptosis but has substantially less effect on normal epithelial cells. As a lectin that binds specifically to a cancer-associated glycan, has potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent.  相似文献   

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The neutral red in vitro cytotoxicity assay was adapted for use with the human hepatocellular tumor cell line HepG2 to detect the cytotoxic potencies of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Using benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) as the representative PAH, it was determined that a 3-day exposure was the most suitable for detecting cytotoxic potency and that preexposure to S g/ ml Arochlor enhanced the sensitivity of the HepG2 cells to the toxicant. Such enhanced sensitivity probably reflected increased metabolic conversion of the B[a]P to active metabolites after culturing the cells in the presence of Arochlor. This was shown by a 3-fold increase in the activity of 7-ethoxycoumarin deethylase, an indicator of mixed-function oxygenase activity. Furthermore, a reduction in sensitivity to B[a]P occurred when the cells were cultured in the presence of -napthoflavone, an inhibitor of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity. When Arochlor-induced cells were transferred to medium lacking Arochlor, the level of 7-ethoxycoumarin deethylase quickly declined to basal levels. Arochlor-induced cells were also able to detect the cytotoxic potencies of benzo[k]fluoranthene, benzo[b]-fluoranthene, chrysene, benzo[a]anthracene pyrene, phenanthrene, and fluoranthene, whereas fluorene, anthracene, acenaphthene, and acenaphthylene were not cytotoxic.Abbreviations AHH aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase - 7-EDase 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase - 3-MC 3-methylcholanthrene - MFO mixed function oxidase - NR neutral red - PAH polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon  相似文献   

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Metformin (MET) is a clinically used anti-hyperglycemic agent that shows activities against chemically-induced animal models of cancer. A study from our laboratory showed that MET protectes against 7, 12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced carcinogenesis in vitro human non-cancerous epithelial breast cells (MCF10A) via activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). However, it is unclear whether MET can prevent the initiation of breast carcinogenesis in an in vivo rat model of AhR-induced breast carcinogenesis. Therefore, the main aims of this study are to examine the effect of MET on protecting against rat breast carcinogenesis induced by DMBA and to explore whether this effect is medicated through the AhR pathway. In this study, treatment of female rats with DMBA initiated breast carcinogenesis though inhibiting apoptosis and tumor suppressor genes while inducing oxidative DNA damage and cell cycle proliferative markers. This effect was associated with activation of AhR and its downstream target genes; cytochrome P4501A1 (CYP1A1) and CYP1B1. Importantly, MET treatment protected against DMBA-induced breast carcinogenesis by restoring DMBA effects on apoptosis, tumor suppressor genes, DNA damage, and cell proliferation. Mechanistically using in vitro human breast cancer MCF-7 cells, MET inhibited breast cancer stem cells spheroids formation and development by DMBA, which was accompanied by a proportional inhibition in CYP1A1 gene expression. In conclusion, the study reports evidence that MET is an effective chemopreventive therapy for breast cancer by inhibiting the activation of CYP1A1/CYP1B1 pathway in vivo rat model.  相似文献   

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