Reply to the letter to the Editor: “N‐Acetyltransferases and the susceptibility to benzidine‐induced bladder carcinogenesis”
Tania CarreónFred F. KadlubarAvima M. RuderPaul A. SchulteRichard B. HayesMartha A. WatersDelores J. GrantRobert BoissyDouglas A. BellGeorge P. HemstreetSongnian YinGrace K. LeMastersNathaniel Rothman
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We thank Drs. Wang and King for their interest in our article on NAT2 acetylation and bladder cancer risk in workers exposed to benzidine.1 In their letter to the editor,2 Drs. Wang and King indicated that our results contradict the conclusion reached by Cartwright et al.3 As we noted in our article,1 the apparent contradiction is explainable, at least in part, by the fact that workers in that report are likely to have been exposed to 2-naphthylamine, a monoarylamine, as well as to benzidine, a diarylamine (unpublished findings).3 In contrast, workers in the factories we studied were exposed primarily to benzidine and related compounds.1 Cartwright et al. were aware of the implications of studying NAT2 acetylation and bladder cancer among workers exposed to more than one aromatic amine, as they noted in their initial report that “…different aromatic amines have different activation pathways despite close molecular similarities.”3 Drs. Wang and King question our comments on the role of peroxidatic activity of prostaglandin H synthase (PHS) in benzidine carcinogenesis. They state that mono N-acetylation of benzidine effectively precludes the activation of benzidine by PHS. However, Zenser and colleagues have demonstrated that the peroxidatic activity of PHS converts N-acetylbenzidine (ABZ) to N′-hydroxy-N-acetylbenzidine (N'HA)4 and that in the presence of dGMP N′-(3′-monophospho-deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-N-acetylbenzidine (dGp-ABZ) is formed.5 Drs. Wang and King have suggested that N′-hydroxy-N′-glucuronide-N-acetylbenzidine is likely to play a central role in benzidine bladder carcinogenesis, based on their findings in the rat heterotopic bladder model.6 Rothman et al.7 demonstrated that acidic urine pH increased the level of both free ABZ and the dGp-ABZ adduct in exfoliated urothelial cells of workers exposed to benzidine and benzidine-based dyes, and that ABZ strongly correlated with adduct levels. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that N-acetylbenzidine-glucuronide may have an important role in benzidine carcinogenesis, as Zenser et al. have shown that this compound is extremely acid labile with its half-life reduced to several minutes under acidic conditions in urine.8, 9 In contrast, it is unlikely that DNA adduct formation would have been influenced by urine acidity if N′OHN-acetylbenzidine-N′-glucuronide was the only adduct forming agent, because this glucuronide is much more stable under acidic pH conditions, with a long half-life.8, 9 As such, the observations of Drs. Wang and King, based on the heterotopic bladder model, may not be generalizable, as this model does not mimic urine flow and urine pH, key components of aromatic amine carcinogenesis in human [a substantial proportion of humans have urine pH at or below pH 6.0 (N. Rothman, unpublished data)].10 Also, the lower relative carcinogenicity of N′-hydroxy-N-acetylbenzidine in this model may be explained by the relatively high pH (7.1–7.4) of the fluid in the heterotopic bladder, conditions under which N-hydroxy arylamines are known to be unstable. In addition, N′-hydroxy-N-acetylbenzidine itself may be excreted unconjugated in urine and it is known to react rapidly with DNA at acidic pH to form dGp-ABZ (this is how this adduct was originally characterized).11 Thus, N′-hydroxy-N-acetylbenzidine could be formed not only from PHS but also in liver from ABZ metabolism, then enter the circulation, and be filtered into the urinary bladder lumen, where it could be rapidly absorbed and further activated by NAT1 in the urinary bladder epithelium. Accordingly, we agree with Drs. Wang and King that other enzyme systems may also contribute to N-acetylbenzidine carcinogenicity and that it is possible that N′-hydroxy-N-acetylbenzidine can lead to bladder carcinogenesis through the formation of an N′-acetoxy ester. Thus, Figure 2 in our article, which summarized and compared key pathways in the metabolism of monoarylamines and diarylamines, has been revised as shown in Figure 1. Comparison of key pathways in the metabolism of monoarylamines and diarylamines. CYP1A1/CYP1A2, cytochrome P-450 1A1/1A2; NAT1/NAT2, N-acetyltransferase 1/2; UGT, UDP-glucuronosyltransferase; PHS, prostaglandin H-synthase. We would like to respond to their comment that we failed to report the identification of N′-hydroxy-acetylbenzidine-N′-glucuronide in human urine. Our study was an observational case-control study of bladder cancer patients and controls, who had worked previously in factories where benzidine was present but who were not exposed to benzidine at the time of our study; therefore, benzidine metabolites would not have been present in their urine.1 The Rothman et al. study7 enrolled workers exposed to benzidine and benzidine-based dyes at the time of the study and measured benzidine, and mono- and diacetylated benzidine, but did not measure N′-hydroxy-N′-acetylbenzidine-glucuronide. We agree that analysis of additional benzidine metabolites and their respective glucuronides, and the exploration of their correlation with DNA adducts in this study, would have been of interest, although as pointed out by Drs. Wang and King, some of these compounds may be so unstable that it is not feasible to measure them. The Rothman et al. analysis of benzidine, ABZ and DABZ before and after acid treatment provided an indirect measurement of the N-glucuronides of benzidine and ABZ, demonstrating their importance and presence in vivo.7 We agree with Drs. Wang and King's statement that benzidine and monoamino aromatics may be carcinogenic through similar pathways. Published evidence12, 13, 14 suggests that the second amino group of benzidine is still susceptible to N′-oxidation and N′-glucuronidation; therefore, the metabolic fate of mono- and diarylamines may not be that different, with the major difference being that a monoacetylated benzidine derivative can still be bound to DNA. Studies in rodents suggest that N-acetylbenzidine is an “active” metabolite (i.e., given that it can be further metabolized into reactive metabolites that can alter DNA), while N,N′-diacetylbenzidine is most likely a detoxified metabolite.15 Finally, we maintain that the revised figure does not change our conclusions that slow N-acetylation by NAT2 decreases the risk for benzidine-induced bladder cancer. As indicated in our article, these results suggest the existence of key differences in the metabolism of mono- and diarylamines, and their interaction with genotype, to affect individual susceptibility to bladder cancer. Yours sincerely, The authors wish to thank Terry Zenser for his helpful comments to this response. Tania Carreón, Fred F. Kadlubar, Avima M. Ruder, Paul A. Schulte, Richard B. Hayes, Martha Waters, Delores J. Grant, Robert Boissy, Douglas A. Bell, George P. Hemstreet III, Songnian Yin, Grace K. Lemasters, Nathaniel RothmanKeywords:
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The interaction of montmorillonite(non pillared clay) and alumina pillared montmorillonite(Al PILC) with benzidine results in the formation of colored complexes of benzidine blue and benzidine yellow. The amount of adsorbed benzidine from an aqueous solution of benzidine dihydrochloride was measured quantitatively on the clay and the Al PILC.Under conditions of controlled pH, the amount of adsorbed benzidine by both substrates increases as the pH of the solution and the amount of added benzidine increase. The amount of adsorbed benzidine by the pillared clay is less than that on the non pillared clay under the same reaction conditions.The thermal properties of the colored complexes of benzidine with the clay and the pillared clay were measured by TGA, and their structural characteristics were examined by DRIFT spectra. From these data, the differences between benzidine blue and benzidine yellow complexes were discussed.
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Epidemiological studies have established the carcinogenic risk of occupational exposure to aromatic amines such as benzidine, beta-naphthylamine, and 4-aminobiphenyl. Metabolic activation of these chemicals to reactive, genotoxic electrophiles, via enzymatic N-oxidation and subsequent conjugation reactions, is necessary for their carcinogenic potential to be realized. Many aromatic amines are mutagenic in prokaryotic test systems, in the presence of exogenous mammalian activating enzymes such as those contained in hepatic 9000 x g supernatant. However, in the Ames (Salmonella typhimurium) assay, induction of mutations by aromatic amines and nitroarenes is also almost completely dependent upon the activity of the endogenous bacterial enzyme, N-acetyltransferase/O-acetyltransferase. The relevance of this assay to the prediction of the carcinogenic potential of aromatic amines in humans is thus restricted by the likelihood that the bacterial and human enzymes possess different substrate specificities. In this paper we report the construction and use of new tester strains of S. typhimurium that express high levels of functional human arylamine N-acetyltransferases, NAT1 and NAT2, retaining characteristic arylamine substrate specificities that are distinct from those of the bacterial enzyme. These new strains support the mutagenic activation of benzidine, 2-aminofluorene and 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline in the Ames test and may provide a new tool for evaluating the carcinogenic potential of aromatic amines.
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A recent publication entitled “NAT2 slow acetylation and bladder cancer in workers exposed to benzidine”1 reported that individuals with higher levels of N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) are more susceptible to benzidine. Although this conclusion contradicts Cartwright et al.2 who first reported an association between slow NAT and bladder cancer in workers exposed to benzidine; the data are in agreement with prior studies on how aromatic amines are believed to induce tumors.3 However, the mechanisms proposed in the present paper are inconsistent with those of previous studies as detailed below. An association between acetylation and the susceptibility to aromatic amines was first proposed by Lower and Bryan.4 This assertion was based on the observation that the dog, which is very susceptible to the monoamino bladder carcinogens 4-aminobiphenyl and 2-aminonaphthalene, does not carry out N-acetylation. In contrast, rodents, that are acetylators, are not susceptible to bladder carcinogenesis by these amines.4 Benzidine, a diamino compound, is at best a very weak carcinogen for the dog but it induces bladder tumors in humans and tumors of other organs in rodents,5i.e. in species that are capable of N-acetylation. Moreover, we demonstrated, in a heterotopic bladder system in the rat, that N′OH-acetylbenzidine and N′OHN′-glucuronide-N-acetylbenzidine induced a high incidence of bladder tumors in bladders that had been directly exposed to these carcinogens.6 No bladder tumor was induced by benzidine itself. These are the only experimental data reported thus far that have clearly demonstrated the bladder carcinogenicity of benzidine derivatives. Induction of bladder tumors by the N-hydroxy compounds is consistent with the observation that N′-acetylbenzidine-N-C8-guanine is a major DNA adduct in rats that have been exposed in vivo to benzidine.7 It is worthwhile noting that the DNA adduct formed on activation of benzidine by prostaglandin H synthase (PHS) in vitro has been reported.8 On the basis of these data, we proposed that exposure to N′OHN′-glucuronide-N-acetylbenzidine is a critical requirement for bladder carcinogenesis by benzidine. This hypothesis is consistent with the mechanism, first proposed for 4-aminobiphenyl and 2-aminonaphthalyene by Kadlubar et al.3 that their NOHN-glucuronide metabolites are responsible for bladder carcinogenesis. Neither studies by Carreon et al.,1 nor Rothman et al.,9 have reported the identification of N′OHN′-glucuronide-N-acetylbenzidine in human urine. However, the instability of this putative metabolite may have precluded its identification. The suggestion by Carreon et al.1 that PHS is directly involved in the alteration of DNA by benzidine in vivo is improbable. Although the activation of benzidine and acetylbenzidine by PHS was discussed, benzidine is a much better substrate than acetylbenzidine for PHS.10 In fact, mono or di, N-acetylation of benzidine effectively precludes the activation of benzidine by PHS. Also, the idea that PHS is involved is inconsistent with our observation that benzidine can not be activated by intact rat bladder or intact rat and human bladder epithelial cells.6 These studies are in agreement with experiments in Salmonella that have shown the mutagenicity of monoacetylbenzidine is far greater than for benzidine11 and with the observation that dogs are refractory to benzidine. An additional interesting point related to the finding that slow NAT2 phenotype/genotypes protect humans from carcinogenesis by benzidine is that NAT2 is involved in the conversion of benzidine to acetylbenzidine, by N-acetylation, and the subsequent activation of N′OH-acetylbenzidine by O-acetylation.12 As reported by Zenser et al.,13 both NAT1 and NAT2 are able to N-acetylate benzidine to acetylbenzidine, but neither effectively acetylates acetylbenzidine to diacetylbenzidine. Additionally, both human NAT1 and NAT2 can activate hydroxylamines by the production of reactive O-acetoxyarylamines that, on reaction with DNA, produce the major type of adduct that has been identified in prior studies.12 It is important to recognize that, in most species, the carcinogenic effects of both benzidine and monoamino aromatics may well proceed through similar pathways, i.e. by the production of reactive O-acetylated arylhydroxamines. Thus, the mechanism of action of benzidine may be differentiated from that of monoamino aromatics only by the need for the second amino group of benzidine to be stabilized through metabolic conversion to a product that will minimize interference with the generation of the reactive O-acetoxy derivatives. That this, stabilization and the production of reactive metabolites most frequently involved in the generation of acetylated derivatives greatly complicates attempts to relate oncogenesis with acetylator phenotype and/or genotype. On the other hand, it is not appropriate to indicate that N-acetylation is an activation as stated by Carreon et al.1 if activation is meant to describe the generation of reactive metabolites that can alter DNA. Further complicating this question is the recognition that, when studied adequately, virtually all enzymes that are capable of acetylating aromatic amines have been shown to be capable of generating reactive O-acetoxyarylhydroxylamines.14 Thus, to attribute key reactions to NAT1 or NAT2 would seem to require buttressing these conclusions with experimental data. Of particular importance is how the various mutations responsible for “slow” acetylators affect the catalytic abilities to generate reactive O-acetoxy products—relative to their abilities to carry out N-acetylation. This consideration reflects the confusion that persists as a consequence of the use of NAT, i.e.N-acetyltransferase, to name these enzymes. The use of NAT deemphasizes the actual participation of these enzymes in the activation of N-hydroxyarylamines through O-acetylation, the reaction believed to be critical to their carcinogenic properties. To ignore this relationship makes the quest for elucidation of these metabolic events more difficult and diverts attention from the reactions believed to be most crucial to the carcinogenic process. Yours sincerely, Ching Y. Wang*, Charles M. King , * Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 5009 Kelsie Court, Florence, OR.
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