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. 1994 Oct;102(Suppl 6):75–81. doi: 10.1289/ehp.94102s675

Peroxidative metabolism of carcinogenic N-arylhydroxamic acids: implications for tumorigenesis.

D Malejka-Giganti 1, C L Ritter 1
PMCID: PMC1566852  PMID: 7889863

Abstract

Peroxidative oxidations of chemical carcinogens including N-substituted aryl compounds could result in their metabolic activation because the products react with cellular molecules and lead to cytotoxicity, mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity. In vivo, peroxidative activities are chiefly of neutrophilic leukocyte origin. Neutrophils may be attracted to the site(s) of exposure to carcinogen and, via phagocytosis and respiratory burst, release oxidants that catalyze carcinogen activation and/or cause DNA damage. Our studies, presented herein, concern oxidations of carcinogenic N-arylhydroxamic acids, N-hydroxy-N-2-fluorenylacetamide (N-OH-2-FAA), and N-hydroxy-N-2-fluorenylbenzamide (N-OH-2-FBA), by enzymatic and chemical systems simulating those of neutrophils, myeloperoxidase and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) +/- halide, and hypohalous acid and halide at the physiologic concentrations (0.1 M Cl- and/or 0.1 mM Br-) and the pH (4-6.5) of phagocytosis. Studies also concern oxidations of the hydroxamic acids by rat peritoneal neutrophils stimulated to undergo respiratory burst and release myeloperoxidase in medium-containing 0.14 M Cl- +/- 0.1 mM Br-. The metabolites formed in the presence of exogenous H2O2 are consistent with two peroxidative mechanisms: one electron-oxidation to a radical that dismutates to equimolar 2-nitrosofluorene (2-NOF) and the ester of the respective hydroxamic acid and halide-dependent oxidative cleavage, especially efficient in the presence of Br-, to equimolar 2-NOF and the respective acyl moiety. 2-NOF and the esters undergo further enzymatic and nonenzymatic conversions to unreactive products and/or may bind to cellular macromolecules. The results suggest that peroxidative metabolism of N-arylhydroxamic acids by neutrophils, yielding the potent direct mutagen 2-NOF and the electrophilic esters, occurs in vivo and is involved in the activation and thus local tumorigenicities of the hydroxamic acids at the site(s) of application.

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