Fungal metabolism and detoxification of the nitropolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon 1-nitropyrene.
AUTOR(ES)
Cerniglia, C E
RESUMO
Nitropolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are ubiquitous environmental pollutants, many of which are potent mutagens in bacterial and mammalian cells and carcinogenic to rodents. In this study, we investigated the fungal metabolism of 1-nitropyrene and determined the mutagenic activity of the metabolites toward Salmonella typhimurium TA98, TA98NR, and TA100. Cunninghamella elegans metabolized 1-nitropyrene to form glucoside conjugates of 6-hydroxy-1-nitropyrene and 8-hydroxy-1-nitropyrene. The metabolites were isolated by reversed-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography and characterized by application of UV absorption, 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectroscopy. Mutagenicity assays performed on samples extracted from incubations of C. elegans with 1-nitropyrene indicated that mutagenic activity decreased with time. Consistent with the loss in mutagenic activity, the glucoside conjugates of 6- and 8-hydroxy-1-nitropyrene were nonmutagenic in the Salmonella reversion assay. The results indicate that the fungus C. elegans metabolizes 1-nitropyrene to detoxified products.
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