Protein Information

Name cytochrome P450 (protein family or complex)
Synonyms cytochrome P450; cytochrome P 450; CYP450; CYP 450

Compound Information

Name carbon disulfide
CAS carbon disulfide

Reference List

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
3127944 Snyderwine EG, Kroll R, Rubin RJ: The possible role of the ethanol-inducible isozyme of cytochrome P450 in the metabolism and distribution of carbon disulfide. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1988 Mar 30;93(1):11-21.
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3439888 Dalvi RR: Cytochrome P-450-dependent covalent binding of carbon disulfide to rat liver microsomal protein in vitro and its prevention by reduced glutathione. Arch Toxicol. 1987 Dec;61(2):155-7.
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755667 Dalvi RR, Howell CD: Interaction of parathion and malathion with hepatic cytochrome P-450 from rats treated with phenobarbital and carbon disulfide. Drug Chem Toxicol. 1978;1(2):191-202.
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237636 Dalvi RR, HUNTER AL, Neal RA: Toxicological implications of the mixed-function oxidase catalyzed metabolism of carbon disulfide. Chem Biol Interact. 1975 May;10(5):347-61.

The results of these studies have indicated that the decrease in the activity of the hepatic mixed-function oxidase enzyme system and the concentration of cytochrome P-450 seen on incubation of carbon disulfide (CS2) with rat liver microsomes in the presence of NADPH is the result of the binding of the sulfur atom released in the mixed-function oxidase catalyzed metabolism of CS2 to carbonyl sulfide (COS).
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7801330 Mizutani T, Nakahori Y, Yamamoto K: p-Dichlorobenzene-induced hepatotoxicity in mice depleted of glutathione by treatment with buthionine sulfoximine. Toxicology. 1994 Nov-Dec;94(1-3):57-67.

Treatment with inhibitors of hepatic cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenases, carbon disulfide, metyrapone and piperonyl butoxide also prevented the hepatotoxicity.
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3432735 Mizutani T, Nomura H, Nakanishi K, Fujita S: Effects of drug metabolism modifiers on pulegone-induced hepatotoxicity in mice. Res Commun Chem Pathol Pharmacol. 1987 Oct;58(1):75-83.

Treatments of mice with the cytochrome P-450 enzyme inhibitors, SKF-525A, metyrapone, piperonyl butoxide, and carbon disulfide (CS2), prevented or markedly alleviated the hepatotoxicity of pulegone.
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7712112 Mizutani T, Irie Y, Nakanishi K: Styrene-induced hepatotoxicity in mice depleted of glutathione. . Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 1994 Dec;86(3):361-74.

Treatment with inhibitors of hepatic cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenases such as carbon disulfide, methoxsalen, piperonyl butoxide, and SKF-525A prevented or tended to reduce the hepatotoxic effect of styrene given in combination with BSO.
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3778518 Masuda Y, Yasoshima M, Nakayama N: Early, selective and reversible suppression of cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenase of liver microsomes following the administration of low doses of carbon disulfide in mice. Biochem Pharmacol. 1986 Nov 15;35(22):3941-7.
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3390203 Masuda Y, Yasoshima M: Loss of 3-methylcholanthrene-inducible form of cytochrome P-450 in liver microsomes following administration of carbon disulfide in C57BL/6 Cr mice. Biochem Pharmacol. 1988 Jun 15;37(12):2363-71.
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7406873 Obrebska MJ, Kentish P, Parke DV: The effects of carbon disulphide on rat liver microsomal mixed-function oxidases, in vivo and in vitro. Biochem J. 1980 Apr 15;188(1):107-12.


An intraperitoneal dose of CS (2) (500mg/kg) to male rats resulted in loss of liver microsomal mixed-function-oxidase activity (85% loss of biphenyl 4-hydroxylase), followed by denaturation of liver cytochrome P-450 to cytochrome P-420, and degradative loss of both cytochromes (50% loss).
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3760457 Wronska-Nofer T, Klimczak J, Wisniewska-Knypl JM, Jajte J, Opalska B: Combined effect of ethanol and carbon disulphide on cytochrome P-450 mono-oxygenase, lipid peroxidation and ultrastructure of the liver in chronically exposed rats. J Appl Toxicol. 1986 Aug;6(4):297-302.

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7044288 Neal RA, Halpert J: Toxicology of thiono-sulfur compounds. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 1982;22:321-39.


These toxic effects of thiono-sulfur-containing compounds appear to be at least partially the result of their metabolism to reactive intermediates by the cytochrome P-450-containing monooxygenase enzyme systems.
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4082194 Borin C, Periquet A, Mitjavila S: Studies on the mechanism of nabam- and zineb-induced inhibition of the hepatic microsomal monooxygenases of the male rat. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1985 Dec;81(3 Pt 1):460-8.

Incubation of nabam and zineb with hepatic microsomes, without NADPH, leads to an inhibition of the metabolism of aminopyrine and aniline and to a denaturation of cytochrome P-450 into cytochrome P-420; in addition nabam causes the destruction of cytochrome P-450.
We studied the in vitro effects of three of the chief breakdown products of these fungicides: ethylene bis-isothiocyanate sulfide (EBIS), ethylene thiourea (ETU), and carbon disulfide (CS2).
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3175344 Chengelis CP: Paradoxical effect of cobaltous chloride on carbon disulfide induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Res Commun Chem Pathol Pharmacol. 1988 Jul;61(1):83-96.

CS2 caused an approximate 50% decrease in hepatic cytochrome P-450 when given alone, but an approximate 85% decrease when given with CoCl2.
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3109439 Furukawa N, Nakamura H, Sato M, Suzuki Y: Induction of the hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 system by trialkyl phosphorothioates in rats. Biochem Pharmacol. 1987 Apr 15;36(8):1291-6.

Triethyl phosphate, the oxygen analog of OOO-Et (S), also caused an increase of the reductase activity, but carbon disulfide had no influence on this activity.
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7717875 Kivisto H, Elovaara E, Riihimaki V, Aitio A: Effect of cytochrome P450 isozyme induction and glutathione depletion on the metabolism of CS2 to TTCA in rats. Arch Toxicol. 1995;69(3):185-90.

Analysis of 2-thiothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (TTCA), a metabolite of carbon disulfide (CS2), is used in the biological monitoring exposure to CS2 at work.
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3841135 Wilkie IW, Seawright AA, Hrdlicka J: The hepatotoxicity of carbon disulphide in sheep. J Appl Toxicol. 1985 Dec;5(6):360-7.


At 24 h after dosing with CS2 there was an increase in total liver water, sodium and potassium ions but without an increase in the concentration of these cations in total liver water, and a 50% reduction in microsomal cytochrome P450 levels.
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1489528 Yang M, Luo Y, Liu Y: Potential use of luminol-dependent chemiluminescence for estimation of free radicals produced in hepatic microsomes and reconstituted cytochrome P-450 systems. Biomed Environ Sci. 1992 Dec;5(4):336-48.

The study of CL in detecting free radicals formed by biotransformation of 44 xenobiotics suggested that some of the compounds known as free radicals producing agents by bioactivation increased the light emission in cytochrome P-450 enzyme system, such as carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, tetrachloroethylene etc., the others forming toxic metabolites by biotransformation induced the CL in some cases, such as carbon disulfide, benzene, methyldursban, methylparathion etc. or decreased the light emission, such as parathion, aniline and polychlorinated byphenyls etc., and still others whose toxic effects have no relationship with their biotransformation had no influence or an inhibitory effect on the CL, such as aminopyrine, TOCP, and acrylamide.
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5084788 Atkin SD, Palmer ED, English PD, Morgan B, Cawthorne MA, Green J: The role of cytochrome P-450 in cholesterol biogenesis and catabolism. . Biochem J. 1972 Jun;128(2):237-42.

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4035665 Green EC, Hunter A: Toxicity of carbon disulfide in developing rats: LD50 values and effects on the hepatic mixed-function oxidase enzyme system. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1985 Mar 30;78(1):130-8.

Twenty-four hours after administration of CS2 (375 mg/kg, ip) to 1-, 5-, 10-, 20-, 30-, and 40-day-old rats, significant inhibition of cytochrome P-450 and aniline hydroxylation was observed in rats of all ages studied except the 1-day-old rats.
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3005542 Nakayama N, Masuda Y: Suppression of phenacetin-induced methemoglobinemia by diethyldithiocarbamate and carbon disulfide and its relation to phenacetin metabolism in mice. J Pharmacobiodyn. 1985 Oct;8(10):868-76.

The suppression of methemoglobinemia by DTC and CS2 may result from an inhibition of metabolic conversion of p-phenetidine to methemoglobin-forming substances such as N-hydroxy-p-phenetidine which is of most importance, p-aminophenol and 2-hydroxy-p-phenetidine by the microsomal cytochrome P-450-containing monooxygenase system in the liver.
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6315019 Masuda Y, Nakayama N: Protective action of diethyldithiocarbamate and carbon disulfide against renal injury induced by chloroform in mice. Biochem Pharmacol. 1983 Nov 1;32(21):3127-35.

DTC and CS2 per se markedly decreased kidney microsomal aniline hydroxylase and p-nitroanisole demethylase activities at 1 hr after oral administration, accompanying a moderate loss of cytochrome P-450 content, in both normal and CCl4-treated mice.
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4693833 Magos L, Butler WH, White IN: Hepatotoxicity of CS 2 in rats: relation to postexposure liver weight and pre-exposure cytochrome P-450 level. Biochem Pharmacol. 1973 Apr 15;22(8):992-4.

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6291543 Masuda Y, Nakayama N: Protective effect of diethyldithiocarbamate and carbon disulfide against liver injury induced by various hepatotoxic agents. Biochem Pharmacol. 1982 Sep 1;31(17):2713-25.

DTC and SC, alone, given orally, decreased microsomal metabolism of several substrates (aniline, p-nitroanisole, hexobarbital, zoxazolamine, aminopyrine and 3,4-benzopyrene), CC14-induced lipid peroxidation, and cytochrome P-450 content.
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7447701 Tucker SP, Lovell DP, Seawright AA, Cunningham VJ: Variation in the hepatotoxic effects of carbon disulphide between different strains of rat. Arch Toxicol. 1980 Oct;45(4):287-96.


Analysis of variance of the accompanying changes in liver weight and water content and in total liver cytochrome P450 content gave statistical confirmation of a strain effect in the response to carbon disulphide.
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929623 Vacha J, Seifert J: Biosynthesis of cytidine nucleotides and level of cytochrome P-450 in rat liver after administration of carbon tetrachloride. Toxicology. 1977 Oct;8(2):157-64.

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3814176 Chengelis CP, Neal RA: Oxidative metabolism of carbon disulfide by isolated rat hepatocytes and microsomes. Biochem Pharmacol. 1987 Feb 1;36(3):363-8.

These data are consistent with the hypothesis that CS2 is oxidized predominantly by the cytochrome P-450 containing monooxygenase system, and the product of this reaction is an unstable intermediate which reacts with water to form monothiocarbonate and reactive sulfur species.
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6087497 Masuda Y, Nakayama N: Prevention of butylated hydroxytoluene-induced lung damage by diethyldithiocarbamate and carbon disulfide in mice. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1984 Aug;75(1):81-90.

CS2 also reduced various drug metabolizing enzyme activities and the cytochrome P-450 content of the lung microsomal fraction.
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7184939 Freundt KJ, Romer KG, Kamal AM: The inhibitory action of dithiocarbamates and carbon disulphide on malondialdehyde formation resulting from lipid peroxidation in rat liver microsomes. J Appl Toxicol. 1981 Aug;1(4):215-9.


In parallel with the inhibition of MDA formation, oxidative destruction of microsomal cytochrome P-450 was delayed with increasing concentrations of the DTCs.
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3798451 Mizutani T, Nomura H, Nakanishi K, Fujita S: Hepatotoxicity of butylated hydroxytoluene and its analogs in mice depleted of hepatic glutathione. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1987 Jan;87(1):166-76.

As judged by the observation of normal serum GPT, drug metabolism inhibitors such as SKF-525A, piperonyl butoxide, and carbon disulfide prevented the hepatotoxic effect of BHT given in combination with BSO.
These results suggest that BHT is activated by a cytochrome-P-450-dependent metabolic reaction and that the hepatotoxic effect is caused by inadequate rates of detoxification of the reactive metabolite in mice depleted of hepatic GSH by BSO administration.
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2047567 Mizutani T, Satoh K, Nomura H, Nakanishi K: Hepatotoxicity of eugenol in mice depleted of glutathione by treatment with DL-buthionine sulfoximine. Res Commun Chem Pathol Pharmacol. 1991 Feb;71(2):219-30.

Drug metabolism inhibitors such as carbon disulfide, methoxsalen, and piperonyl butoxide prevented or significantly reduced the hepatotoxic effect of eugenol given in combination with BSO.
These results suggest that eugenol is activated by a cytochrome-P-450-dependent metabolic reaction and that the liver injury is caused by inadequate rates of detoxification of the resulting metabolite in mice depleted of hepatic GSH by BSO treatment.
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3953292 Dalvi RR, Deoras DP: Metabolism of a dithiocarbamate fungicide thiram to carbon disulfide in the rat and its hepatotoxic implications. Acta Pharmacol Toxicol. 1986 Jan;58(1):38-42.

Furthermore, measurement of the activities of hepatic microsomal and serum enzymes at 5 hrs and 24 hrs following thiram treatment indicated that thiram caused significant loss of cytochrome P-450 and benzphetamine N-demethylase activity only at 24 hrs interval whereas there was significant elevation of sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH) and serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (SGOT) activity at 5 and 24 hrs after treatment.
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402793 Jarvisalo J, Savolainen H, Elovaara E, Vainio H: The in vivo toxicity of CS2 to liver microsomes: binding of labelled CS2 and changes of the microsomal enzyme activities. Acta Pharmacol Toxicol. 1977 Feb;40(2):329-36.


The level of hepatic cytochrome P-450, the activities of epoxide hydratase and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase were analyzed in the same animals.
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3175345 Chengelis CP: Changes in hepatic glutathione concentrations during carbon disulfide induced hepatotoxicity in the rat. Res Commun Chem Pathol Pharmacol. 1988 Jul;61(1):97-109.

These results support the hypothesis that the hepatotoxicity of CS2 requires metabolism by the cytochrome P-450 containing monooxygenase system.
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