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Ploemen JH, Wormhoudt LW, van Ommen B, Commandeur JN, Vermeulen NP, van Bladeren PJ: Polymorphism in the glutathione conjugation activity of human erythrocytes towards ethylene dibromide and 1,2-epoxy-3-(p-nitrophenoxy)-propane. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1995 Apr 13;1243(3):469-76.
In this study a polymorphism in the conjugating activity of human erythrocyte cytosol towards the dihaloethane, ethylene dibromide (EDB; 1,2-dibromoethane) was found. Two out of 12 human erythrocyte cytosols did not catalyze the formation of glutathione (GSH) conjugates of [1,2-14C] EDB. Ten cytosols formed the S,S'-ethylenebis (GSH) conjugate at a rate ranging from 0.5 to 3.2 (mean 1.76 +/- 0.95) pmol min-1 (mg protein)-1. The activity of the cytosols towards EDB was compared with the activity towards 1,2-epoxy-3-(p-nitrophenoxy)-propane (EPNP) and 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB). The GSH conjugates formed from EDB, EPNP and CDNB were all quantified by HPLC. Every cytosol was active with the classical GST substrate CDNB (2.04 +/- 0.74 nmol min-1 (mg protein)-1). The two samples not showing any detectable activity towards EDB were also inactive towards EPNP: The activity towards EDB correlated significantly with EPNP (rs = 0.90, P < 0.005; Spearman's rank correlation), but not with CDNB (rs = 0.36, P > 0.10). In the incubations with EPNP, the alpha-, mu-, and pi- class glutathione S-transferase (GST) inhibitor S-hexyl (GSH) was included, indicating that the class-theta GST is the principal GST class conjugating EDB in erythrocyte cytosol. The apparent polymorphism of GST-theta which has recently been recognized to be crucial for several mono- and dihalomethanes, will thus also have considerable implications for the risk assessment of EDB. |
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