Benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide I modification of DNA in human skin xenografts.

Human skin xenografts were established on the subscapular area of skin of nude (nu/nu NIH-Swiss background) mice. When treated with benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide I (BPDE I), specific carcinogen-DNA adducts were formed. Separation and identification of these adducts by the 32P-postlabeling technique indicated that the 7R- and 7S-BPDE I-dpGp adducts were the major adducts.

Cytotoxicity, cellular transformation and DNA adducts in normal human diploid fibroblasts exposed to 1-nitrosopyrene, a reduced derivative of the environmental contaminant, 1-nitropyrene.

Treatment of normal human diploid fibroblasts with 0.3-22 microM 1-nitrosopyrene resulted in a dose-dependent decrease in relative cloning efficiency and an increase in anchorage-independent growth in soft agar. When compared to previous experiments, 1-nitrosopyrene was 10- to 20-fold more cytotoxic and 5- to 10-fold more potent at inducing morphological transformation than 1-nitropyrene.

Specific BPDE I modification of replicating and parental DNA from early S phase human foreskin fibroblasts.

Replicating DNA was modified by BPDE I to a greater extent than parental DNA when human fibroblast cells were treated with the carcinogen for 30 min in early S phase. Synchronized cells were exposed to 5-bromodeoxyuridine and treated with non-radioactive BPDE I and [methyl-3H]thymidine in early S phase. The density- and tritium-labeled, replicated DNA was separated from parental DNA in a CsCl gradient.

Labeled 1,N6-ethenoadenosine and 3,N4-ethenocytidine in hepatic RNA of mice given[ethyl-1,2(-3)H or ethyl-1(-14)C]ethyl carbamate (urethan).

Injection of a single dose of[ethyl-1,2(-3)H]or[ethyl-1(-14C]- ethyl carbamate into 12-day old male[C57BL/6 x C3H/He]F1 mice or of[ethyl-1,2(-3H]ethyl carbamate into adult male A/Jax mice resulted in the formation of labeled 1,N6-ethenoadenosine and 3,N4-ethenocytidine adducts in the hepatic RNA. These adducts were characterized by comigration on h.p.