Carcinogenesis, Vol. 21, No. 10, 1851-1858,
October 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Major inter-species differences in the rates of O-sulphonation and O-glucuronylation of 
-hydroxytamoxifen in vitro: a metabolic disparity protecting human liver from the formation of tamoxifen–DNA adducts
1 Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX and
2 MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK
Tamoxifen is a hepatic genotoxin in rats and mice but a hepatocarcinogen only in rats. It is not associated with DNA adducts and liver tumours in patients. The proposed major pathway for its bioactivation in rats involves 
-hydroxylation, O-sulphonation and generation of a carbocation that reacts with DNA. Rat liver microsomes catalyse -hydroxylation at ~2- and 4-fold the rate achieved by human and murine liver microsomes, respectively. O-glucuronylation will deactivate -hydroxytamoxifen and compete with sulphonation. Rates of O-sulphonation of -hydroxytamoxifen in hepatic cytosol have been determined by a HPLC assay of substrate-dependent 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate production. The rank order of O-glucuronylation in hepatic microsomes was estimated by HPLC–mass spectrometry. The rate of sulphonation of trans--hydroxytamoxifen (25 µM) in cytosol from adult female Sprague–Dawley rats and CD1 mice was 5.3 ± 0.8 and 3.9 ± 0.5 pmol/min/mg protein (mean ± SD, n = 3), respectively. In cytosol fractions from women aged 40–65 years, the rate was 1.1 ± 0.4 pmol/min/mg protein (mean ± SD, n = 6). The Km for trans--hydroxytamoxifen in rat, mouse and human cytosol was 84.6 ± 3.8, 81.4 ± 4.6 and 104.3 ± 5.6 µM (mean ± SD, n = 3), respectively; the corresponding Vmax values were 22.4 ± 3.4, 17.1 ± 3.1 and 6.3 ± 1.9 pmol/min/mg protein. These Km were similar to a value obtained by others using purified rat liver hydroxysteroid sulphotransferase a. Turnover of the cis epimer was too slow for accurate determination of rates. Sulphonation of trans--hydroxytamoxifen in human uterine cytosol was undetectable. The rank order of O-glucuronylation of trans--hydroxy- tamoxifen in liver microsomes was human > > mouse > rat. In combination, lower rates of -hydroxylation and O-sulphonation and a higher rate of O-glucuronylation in human liver would protect patients from the formation of tamoxifen–DNA adducts.
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