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Carcinogenesis, Vol 18, 739-744, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press

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Increased gene expression in human promyeloid leukemia cells exposed to trans,trans-muconaldehyde, a hematotoxic benzene metabolite

TY Ho and G Witz
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA.

The hematotoxicity of benzene, a human leukemogen, has been postulated to be mediated by reactive metabolites and involve cell damage caused by reactive oxygen species. Because expression of the transcription factors AP-1 and NF-kappaB is sensitive to the redox state in eukaryotic cells, the DNA binding activity of AP-1 and NF-kappaB was examined in HL-60 promyeloid leukemia cells exposed to trans,trans- muconaldehyde, a microsomal hematotoxic metabolite of benzene. There was little AP-1 binding activity in nuclear extracts from control HL-60 cells based on electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Exposure to 0.1 microM MUC for 4 h resulted in significantly increased levels of nuclear protein with high sequence specificity for the consensus AP-1 sequence. In addition, electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed a strong increase in the binding of a factor to the NF-kappaB site. The latter was highest in nuclear extracts from HL-60 cells treated with 1.0 microM muconaldehyde and cultured for 4 h. Exposure of HL-60 cells to muconaldehyde resulted in an increase in c-fos and c-jun mRNA levels. Western blot analysis showed that the protein levels of c-jun increased in HL-60 cells treated with 1 microM muconaldehyde and cultured for 4-6 h and subsequently decreased gradually. Increased AP-1 binding was observed in bone marrow cells from B6C3F1 mice 2 h after administration of 440 mg/kg benzene. We suggest that increased gene expression of NF-kappaB and AP-1 binding activity and up-regulation of c-fos and c-jun may play a role in the mechanism of benzene leukemogenesis.
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