GENOTOXIC ACTIVITIES OF 2-NITRONAPHTHOFURANS AND RELATED MOLECULES
GENOTOXIC ACTIVITIES OF 2-NITRONAPHTHOFURANS AND RELATED MOLECULES
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DOI:
10.1093/mutage/1.3.217
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发表时间:
1986-05-01
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影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
HOFNUNG, M
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作者:
ARNAISE, S;BOEUF, H;HOFNUNG, M
The genotoxic activities of 63, 2-nitronaphthofurans and related molecules were examined using two bacterial short-term tests, the Salmonella mammalian microsome assay test or Mutatest, a mutagenesis assay, and/or the SOS Chromotest, an assay for induction of an SOS function in Escherichia coli. Seven compounds were also investigated in the Chinese hamster ovary cells/hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (CHO/HGPRT) test, a mammalian gene mutation assay. Our main conclusions are the following: (a) Simple empirical rules relating structure of mutagenic activity in the Mutatest can be derived for some of the compounds. In particular, they account for the extremely high Mutagenic Potency of 7-methoxy-1-methyl-2-nitronaphtho[2,1-b]furan (R7372), .apprx. 2 .times. 106 mutants/nmol on strain TA100. (b) There is a good quantitative correlation between the Mutagenic Potency in the Salmonella/mammalian microsomes assay and the SOS-inducing potency in the SOS Chromotest. This, and previous evidence, suggests strongly that the 2-nitronaphthofurans derivatives are essentially recA and thus probably umuDC-dependent mutagens. (c) Four out of seven compounds tested in the CHO/HGPRT assay gave responses correlated with the bacterial responses. One of them, 7-methoxy-2-nitronaphtho[2,1-b]furan (R7000), is among, or is the strongest mutagen described for mammalian cells. We briefly discuss the practical and theoretical implications of these results.