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N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (AAF) processing in adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture occurs by high-affinity low-velocity and low-affinity high-velocity AAF metabolite-forming systems

K.S. Koch, T. Moran, W.T. Shier, H.L. Leffert
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/209072
K.S. Koch
*Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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T. Moran
*Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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W.T. Shier
‡Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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H.L. Leffert
*Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Abstract

N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (AAF) is a procarcinogen used widely in physiological investigations of chemical hepatocarcinogenesis. Its metabolic pathways have been described extensively, yet little is known about its biochemical processing, growth cycle expression and pharmacological properties inside living hepatocytes ‒ the principal cellular targets of this hepatocarcinogen. In this report, primary monolayer adult rat hepatocyte cultures and high specific-activity [ring G-3H]-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene were used to extend previous observations of metabolic activation of AAF by highly differentiated, proliferation-competent hepatocytes in long-term cultures. AAF metabolism proceeded by zero-order kinetics. Hepatocytes processed significant amounts of procarcinogen (≈12 μg AAF/106 cells/day). Five ring-hydroxylated and one deacylated species of AAF were secreted into the culture media. Extracellular metabolite levels varied during the growth cycle (days 0-13), but their rank quantitative order was time invariant: 5-OH-AAF > 7-OH-AAF > 3-OH-AAF > N-OH-AAF > aminofluorene (AF) > 1-OH-AAF. Lineweaver-Burk analyses revealed two principal classes of metabolism: System I (high-affinity and low-velocity), Km[APPARENT] = 1.64 × 10−7 M and VMAX[APPARENT] = 0.1 nmols/106 cells/day; and, System II (low-affinity and high-velocity), Km[APPARENT] = 3.25 × 10−5 M and VMAX[APPARENT] = 1000 nmols/106 cells/day. A third system of metabolism of AAF to AF, with Km[APPARENT] and VMAX[APPARENT] constants of 9.6 × 10−5 M and 4.7 nmols/106 cells/day, was also observed. Evidence provided in this report and its companion paper suggests selective roles and intracellular locations for System I- and System II-mediated AAF metabolite formation during hepatocarcinogenesis, although some of the molecules and mechanisms responsible for multi-system processing remain to be fully defined.

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N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (AAF) processing in adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture occurs by high-affinity low-velocity and low-affinity high-velocity AAF metabolite-forming systems
K.S. Koch, T. Moran, W.T. Shier, H.L. Leffert
bioRxiv 209072; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/209072
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N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (AAF) processing in adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture occurs by high-affinity low-velocity and low-affinity high-velocity AAF metabolite-forming systems
K.S. Koch, T. Moran, W.T. Shier, H.L. Leffert
bioRxiv 209072; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/209072

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