Abstract
Radioactive carcinogens have provided most of our present knowledge about the chemistry of interactions between carcinogens and biological systems. The requirement of radioactive carcinogens has restricted carcinogen-DNA binding studies to chemicals that are readily available in isotopically labeled form, i.e., a minute fraction of all potentially mutagenic or carcinogenic chemicals. To extend the scope of carcinogen-DNA binding studies, an alternative method, which does not require radioactive test chemicals, has been developed. In this approach, radioactivity (32P) is being incorporated into DNA constituents by polynucleotide kinase-catalyzed [32P]phosphate transfer from [gamma-32P]ATP after exposure of the DNA in vitro or in vivo to a nonradioactive, covalently binding chemical, and evidence for the alteration of DNA nucleotides is provided by the appearance of extra spots on autoradiograms of thin-layer chromatograms of digests of the chemically modified DNA. Quantitation of adduct levels is accomplished by scintillation counting. The sensitivity of the technique depends on the experimental conditions for 32P-labeling and on the chemical structure of the adducts. Greater sensitivity may be achieved if adducts can be separated as a class from the normal nucleotides. This is the case for an estimated 80% of all carcinogens, giving rise to bulky and/or aromatic substituents in DNA. Under the present conditions, one such adduct in 10(9) to 10(10) normal nucleotides can be detected. A total of approximately 80 compounds has been studied thus far Binding to DNA of rodent tissues was readily detected by the 32P-postlabeling assay for all known carcinogens among these compounds, and adducts were detected in DNA from human placenta of smokers.
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