Carcinogenesis, Vol. 21, No. 8, 1601-1609,
August 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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7H-benzo[c]fluorene: a major DNA adduct-forming component of coal tar
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 160 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020,
1 Environment Sector, Electric Power Research Institute, 3412 Hillview Avenue, PO Box 10412, Palo Alto, CA 94303,
2 Petrotec Inc., 527 East Ravine Avenue, Langhorn, PA 19047 and
3 Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 6027, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Coal tar is a complex mixture that exhibits high carcinogenic potency in lungs of animals when administered in the diet. Studies have noted that lung tumor induction does not correlate with the benzo[a]pyrene content of coal tar, suggesting that other hydrocarbons may be involved in the observed tumorigenicity. Our previous studies have demonstrated that a major `unknown' chemical–DNA adduct is formed in the lung of mice exposed to coal tar. We have used an in vitro rat microsomal activation system to generate the `unknown' adduct with neat coal tar and fractions of coal tar obtained by chemical fractionation and HPLC. Chemical–DNA adduct formation was evaluated by 32P-postlabeling using both multi-dimensional TLC and HPLC. GC–MS analysis of the coal tar fractions obtained from HPLC, which produced the `unknown' adduct in vitro, demonstrated that the adducting hydrocarbon had a mass of 216. A careful evaluation of candidate hydrocarbons led to the conclusion that a benzofluorene derivative may be responsible for forming the `unknown' chemical–DNA adduct. Comparative in vitro and in vivo studies on the adducting properties of all three isomers of benzofluorene indicated that 7H-benzo[c]fluorene is responsible for producing the `unknown' adduct observed in the lung of mice ingesting coal tar. Animal feeding studies also demonstrated that 7H-benzo[c]fluorene formed considerably more lung DNA adducts than 11H-benzo[a]fluorene and 11H-benzo[b]fluorene. These data indicate that the four-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon 7H-benzo[c]fluorene, a hydrocarbon not previously shown to form DNA adducts in lung, is in fact a potent lung DNA adductor and is a candidate PAH for causing lung tumors in animals treated with coal tar.
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