Aromatic amine metabolism: immunochemical relationships of N-acetyltransferase and N,O-acyltransferase
Mutagenic and carcinogenic aromatic amines are acetylated in most organisms. Acetyl CoA and arylhydroxamic acids can serve as acetyl donors for N-Acetylation of amines to yield stable amides, or by O-acetylation of hydroxylamine derivatives to produce reactive metabolites that can react covalently with nucleic acid. Polyclonal antibodies against rat arylhydroxamic acid, N,O-acyltransferase (AHAT) have been compared for their abilities to react with this enzyme and the acetyl CoA-dependent N-acetyltransferase (NAT) of the rat, rabbit, hamster, mouse and human. Liver cytosols were treated with increasing quantities of antibodies from immune or control rabbits. Immune complexes were removed by treatment with protein A-Sepharose before assay of nucleic acid adduct formation by AHAT activation of N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene and the acetylation of 2-aminofluorene by NAT. Both rat activities, the AHAT of the hamster and the NAT of the mouse and human were removed by this treatment. No decrease in NAT activity of hamster, or of either rabbit cytosol activity was observed. Neither mouse nor human liver has appreciable AHAT activity. These data support the idea that AHAT and NAT of rat, AHAT of hamster and NAT of mouse and human liver are immunochemically related, but that NAT of the hamster is an immunochemically distinct peptide.
- Research Organization:
- Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit
- OSTI ID:
- 5021304
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8606151-
- Journal Information:
- Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 45:6; Conference: 76. annual meeting of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, Washington, DC, USA, 8 Jun 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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