Quantitative microspectrofluorimetry study of the "blocking effect" of 6-aminochrysene on benzo[a]pyrene metabolism using single living cells.
By microspectrofluorimetry on single living cells (murine fibroblasts 3T3), we have obtained monoexponential decreases of fluorescence intensity for benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) and 6-aminochrysene (6a-chrysene) metabolism. These kinetics are characteristics of B[a]P and 6a-chrysene metabolism and histograms can be drawn from the rate constants. We have studied the influence of 6a-chrysene on B[alpha]P metabolism. Using different methods of incubation, it has been observed that the presence of 6a-chrysene leads to modifications of the histogram profiles during B[a]P metabolism. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are used to induce B[a]P metabolism. Whatever the experimental conditions we never detected such a phenomenon with 6a-chrysene. On the contrary we have observed an inhibition of B[a]P metabolism by 6a-chrysene, which can reach 80% of the aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity when 6a-chrysene remains constant in the cells. Compared with the results previously observed "in vitro" which presented 50% mean inhibition) we show that inhibition acts in an all-or-nothing mechanism at the cellular level.[1]References
- Quantitative microspectrofluorimetry study of the "blocking effect" of 6-aminochrysene on benzo[a]pyrene metabolism using single living cells. Lahmy, S., Salmon, J.M., Viallet, P. Toxicology (1984) [Pubmed]
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