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Moore MM, Pottenger LH, House‐Knight T. Critical review of styrene genotoxicity focused on the mutagenicity/clastogenicity literature and using current organization of economic cooperation and development guidance. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2019; 60:624-663. [PMID: 30786062 PMCID: PMC6767453 DOI: 10.1002/em.22278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Styrene is an important high production volume chemical used to manufacture polymeric products. In 2018, International Agency for Research on Cancer classified styrene as probably carcinogenic to humans; National Toxicology Program lists styrene as reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen. The genotoxicity literature for styrene and its primary metabolite, styrene 7,8-oxide (SO), begins in the 1970s. Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently updated most genotoxicity test guidelines, making substantial new recommendations for assay conduct and data evaluation for the standard mutagenicity/clastogenicity assays. Thus, a critical review of the in vitro and in vivo rodent mutagenicity/clastogenicity studies for styrene and SO, based on the latest OECD recommendations, is timely. This critical review considered whether a study was optimally designed, conducted, and interpreted and provides a critical assessment of the evidence for the mutagenicity/clastogenicity of styrene/SO. Information on the ability of styrene/SO to induce other types of genotoxicity endpoints is summarized but not critically reviewed. We conclude that when styrene is metabolized to SO, it can form DNA adducts, and positive in vitro mutagenicity/clastogenicity results can be obtained. SO is mutagenic in bacteria and the in vitro mouse lymphoma gene mutation assay. No rodent in vivo mutation studies were identified. SO is clastogenic in cultured mammalian cells. Although the in vitro assays gave positive responses, styrene/SO is not clastogenic/aneugenic in vivo in rodents. In addition to providing updated information for styrene, this review demonstrates the application of the new OECD guidelines for chemicals with large genetic toxicology databases where published results may or may not be reliable. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 2019. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Martha M. Moore
- Ramboll124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1605, Little RockArkansas
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Koskinen M, Vodička P, Vodičkova L, Hemminki K. (32)P-postlabelling/HPLC analysis of various styrene-induced DNA adducts in mice. Biomarkers 2013; 6:175-89. [PMID: 23886274 DOI: 10.1080/13547500010006017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Styrene oxide (SO), a reactive metabolite of styrene, modifies DNA at several nucleophilic sites. In the present work we have determined the SO-DNA adducts in vitro and in vivo by two different versions of (32)P-postlabelling/HPLC assays. When anionexchange cartridges were used for adduct enrichment the β-isomer of 7-substituted guanines was detected in in vitro SO-treated DNA as well as in mice lungs exposed to styrene at 750 and 1500 mg m(-3) for 21 days (6 h day(-1), 7 days week(-1)). In the lungs, the adduct levels were 6.5 and 23 per 10(8) nucleotides for the two doses, respectively. When the nuclease P1 resistant adducts were studied by the (32)P-postlabelling/HPLC assay involving nuclease P1/prostatic acid phosphatase hydrolysis, the main adducts in in vitro-treated DNA were the α-isomer of N(2)-substituted guanine, β-isomers of 1-substituted adenine and 3-substituted uracil. β1-SO-adenine adduct was detected in the mice lung tissues after conversion of the 1-substituted adduct to the βN(6)-SO-adenine adduct by the Dimroth rearrangement. The 1-adenine adduct levels for the two doses were found to be 0.17 and 0.51 per 10(8) nucleotides. The current results show the potential of using the 7-guanine and 1-adenine adducts as biomarkers in biomonitoring of styrene exposure.
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- M Koskinen
- Center for Nutrition and Toxicology, Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, SE-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden. e-mail:
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Gaikwad NW, Bodell WJ. Formation of DNA adducts in HL-60 cells treated with the toluene metabolite p-cresol: a potential biomarker for toluene exposure. Chem Biol Interact 2003; 145:149-58. [PMID: 12686491 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2797(02)00249-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We have examined DNA adduct formation in myeloperoxidase containing HL-60 cells treated with the toluene metabolite p-cresol. Treatment of HL-60 cells with the combination of p-cresol and H(2)O(2) produced four DNA adducts 1: (75.0%), 2: (9.1%), 3: (7.0%) and 4: (8.8%) and adduct levels ranging from 0.3 to 33.6 x 10(-7). The levels of DNA adducts formed by p-cresol were dependent on concentrations of p-cresol, H(2)O(2) and treatment time. In vitro incubation of p-cresol with myeloperoxidase and H(2)O(2) produced three DNA adducts 1: (40.5%), 2: (28.4%) and 3: (29.7%) with a relative adduct level of 0.7x10(-7). The quinone methide derivative of p-cresol (PCQM) was prepared by Ag(I)O oxidation. Reaction of calf thymus DNA with PCQM produced four adducts 1: (18.5%), 2: (36.4%), 3: (29.0%) and 5: (16.0%) with a relative adduct level 1.6x10(-7). Rechromatography analyses indicates that DNA adducts 1-3 formed in HL-60 cells treated with p-cresol and after myeloperoxidase activation of p-cresol were similar to those formed by reaction of DNA with PCQM. This observation suggests that p-cresol is activated to a quinone methide intermediate in each of these activation systems. Taken together, these results suggest PCQM is the reactive intermediate leading to the formation of DNA adducts in HL-60 cells treated with p-cresol. Furthermore, the DNA adducts formed by PCQM may provide a biomarker to assess occupational exposure to toluene.
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- Nilesh W Gaikwad
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Research Center, Box 0555, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0555, USA
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Gaikwad NW, Bodell WJ. Formation of DNA adducts by microsomal and peroxidase activation of p-cresol: role of quinone methide in DNA adduct formation. Chem Biol Interact 2001; 138:217-29. [PMID: 11714480 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2797(01)00274-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We have investigated the activation of p-cresol to form DNA adducts using horseradish peroxidase, rat liver microsomes and MnO(2). In vitro activation of p-cresol with horseradish peroxidase produced six DNA adducts with a relative adduct level of 8.03+/-0.43 x 10(-7). The formation of DNA adducts by oxidation of p-cresol with horseradish peroxidase was inhibited 65 and 95% by the addition of either 250 or 500 microM ascorbic acid to the incubation. Activation of p-cresol with phenobarbital-induced rat liver microsomes with NADPH as the cofactor; resulted in the formation of a single DNA adduct with a relative adduct level of 0.28+/-0.08 x 10(-7). Similar incubations of p-cresol with microsomes and cumene hydroperoxide yielded three DNA adducts with a relative adduct level of 0.35+/-0.03 x 10(-7). p-Cresol was oxidized with MnO(2) to a quinone methide. Reaction of p-cresol (QM) with DNA produced five major adducts and a relative adduct level of 20.38+/-1.16 x 10(-7). DNA adducts 1,2 and 3 formed by activation of p-cresol with either horseradish peroxidase or microsomes, are the same as that produced by p-cresol (QM). This observation suggests that p-cresol is activated to a quinone methide intermediate by these activation systems. Incubation of deoxyguanosine-3'-phosphate with p-cresol (QM) resulted in a adduct pattern similar to that observed with DNA; suggesting that guanine is the principal site for modification. Taken together these results demonstrate that oxidation of p-cresol to the quinone methide intermediate results in the formation of DNA adducts. We propose that the DNA adducts formed by p-cresol may be used as molecular biomarkers of occupational exposure to toluene.
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- N W Gaikwad
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Research Center, Box-0555, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0555, USA
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Koskinen M, Vodicka P, Hemminki K. Adenine N3 is a main alkylation site of styrene oxide in double-stranded DNA. Chem Biol Interact 2000; 124:13-27. [PMID: 10658899 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2797(99)00137-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Styrene 7,8-oxide (SO), a major metabolite of styrene, is classified as a probable human carcinogen. In the present work, salmon testis DNA was reacted with SO and the alkylation products were analysed after sequential depurination in neutral or acidic conditions followed by HPLC separation and UV-detection. A novel finding was that the N-3 position of adenine was the next most reactive alkylation site in double-stranded DNA, comprising 4% of the total alkylation, as compared to alkylation at the N-7 position of guanine, 93% of the total alkylation. Both alpha- and beta-products of SO were formed at these two sites. Other modified sites were N2-guanine (1.5%, alpha-isomer), 1-adenine (0.4%, both isomers) and N6-adenine (0.7%, both isomers) as well as 1-hypoxanthine (0.1%, alpha-isomer), formed by deamination of the corresponding 1-adenine adduct. The results indicated that in double-stranded DNA N-7 of guanine and N-3 of adenine account for 97% of alkylation by SO. However, these abundant adducts are not stable, the half-life of depurination in DNA for 3-substituted adenines being approximately 10 and approximately 20 h, for alpha- and beta-isomers, respectively, and 51 h for both isomers of 7-substituted guanines.
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- M Koskinen
- Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden.
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Hemminki K, Vodicka P. Styrene: from characterisation of DNA adducts to application in styrene-exposed lamination workers. Toxicol Lett 1995; 77:153-61. [PMID: 7618130 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4274(95)03285-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Styrene oxide, a metabolite of styrene, reacts with many centres in nucleosides but in DNA N-7-, N2- and O6-guanine are the main sites. A 32P-postlabelling method was developed for the detection of O6-styrene oxide DNA adducts from white blood cells. The method involved use of nuclease P1 and magnet transfer. The O6 adducts were detected at a fmol range with about 10% labelling efficiency. In lamination workers the O6 adducts, adjusted for adduct recovery, were detected at a level of 5 adducts/10(8) nucleotides.
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- K Hemminki
- Center for Nutrition and Toxicology, Karolinska Institute, Novum, Huddinge, Sweden
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Janning P, Schrader W, Linscheid M. A new mass spectrometric approach to detect modifications in DNA. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 1994; 8:1035-1040. [PMID: 7696699 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.1290081226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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A new approach is described for the enzymatic digestion of DNA yielding oligonucleotides ranging from dinucleoside monophosphates to octanucleoside heptaphosphates. DNA was digested by means of the benzon nuclease, an unspecific nuclease, and alkaline phosphatase to remove the terminal phosphate. The mixture of oligonucleotides was separated using capillary-zone electrophoresis with a buffer system, yielding a rather strong electro-osmotic flow. The oligomers are separated into groups with nucleotides of the same chain length. The separation capillary was used as the innermost capillary of an electrospray spraying system. Negative molecular ions of the nucleotides were recorded using a home-built interface and ion source for a sector-field mass spectrometer. This approach allows the facile detection of DNA modifications since they lead not only to differences in mass, but also can possess altered electrophoretic mobility. For modifying reactions which exhibit sequence specificity, the information is retained in the oligomers. Thus, reactions of DNA with electrophiles can be evaluated at different levels, since in longer chains, even complex sequence specificity may be apparent. Results from calf thymus DNA digests and preliminary experiments with DNA adducts with styrene oxide are discussed.
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- P Janning
- ISAS Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie, Dortmund, Germany
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Phillips DH, Farmer PB. Evidence for DNA and protein binding by styrene and styrene oxide. Crit Rev Toxicol 1994; 24 Suppl:S35-46. [PMID: 7818770 DOI: 10.3109/10408449409020139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Styrene is metabolized to styrene oxide, a direct-acting mutagen and carcinogen. Styrene oxide reacts with DNA mainly at the N-7 position in guanine, but also at other sites and with other bases. Substitution occurs at both the alpha- and beta-positions of the styrene molecule. Experiments with radiolabeled styrene and styrene oxide demonstrate that both have a low level of DNA binding activity in experimental animals. 32P-Postlabeling studies have demonstrated the potential of the technique to detect styrene-DNA adducts. Styrene oxide alkylates several nucleophilic sites in proteins, particularly cysteine sulfydryl, histidine imidazole, lysine amino, aspartic, and glutamic carboxylic groups, and the N-terminal position. In experimental animals, styrene oxide treatment results in cysteine adducts in hemoglobin and albumin, valine adducts in hemoglobin, and carboxylic acid adducts in hemoglobin. The extent of alkylation is low compared with that produced by ethylene oxide. The available evidence indicates, therefore, that styrene and styrene oxide have low DNA and protein binding activities in vivo. There is preliminary evidence for the presence of DNA adducts and for adducts in hemoglobin and albumin in blood cells of styrene-exposed workers. Nevertheless, the applicability and sensitivity of DNA and protein adduct detection methods for monitoring human exposure to styrene remain to be determined.
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- D H Phillips
- Haddow Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, U.K
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Frenkel K, Klein CB. Methods used for analyses of "environmentally" damaged nucleic acids. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY 1993; 618:289-314. [PMID: 8227261 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4347(93)80039-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In this review, we present various techniques, currently applied in many laboratories, which are useful in the detection of "environmentally"-induced damage to DNA. These techniques include: (a) chromatographic methods, which allow determination of chemical changes within DNA, be they formation of adducts with or oxidation of bases in DNA; (b) electrophoretic methods, which facilitate finding the site(s) in DNA where that chemical modification occurred; and (c) immunological assays, which help to detect DNA damage using externally produced antibodies that recognize the specific chemical changes in DNA or its fragments, as well as by detection of autoantibodies that develop in response to environmental exposures of animals and humans.
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- K Frenkel
- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University Medical Center, NY 10016-6451
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Steinbrecher T, Wameling C, Oesch F, Seidel A. Die Aktivierung der C-2-Position von Purin durch die Trifluormethansulfonatgruppe: Synthese von N2-alkylierten Desoxyguanosinen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.19931050310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Sepai O, Anderson D, Street B, Bird I, Farmer PB, Bailey E. Monitoring of exposure to styrene oxide by GC-MS analysis of phenylhydroxyethyl esters in hemoglobin. Arch Toxicol 1993; 67:28-33. [PMID: 8452476 DOI: 10.1007/bf02072031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Styrene oxide, which is the genotoxically active metabolite of styrene, reacts in vivo with carboxylic acid residues in hemoglobin forming phenylhydroxyethyl esters. Mild alkali hydrolysis cleaves these ester adducts, yielding styrene glycol, which in human blood labelled in vitro with 14C-styrene oxide accounted for 15% of the total radioactivity covalently bound to the protein. A quantitative assay procedure has been developed for measuring the base released styrene glycol in globin. The method utilizes solvent extraction followed by trimethylsilyl ether derivatization and separation and quantitation by capillary gas chromatography with selective ion recording mass spectrometry. Globin labelled in vitro with d8-styrene oxide was used as the internal standard. The method was used to establish a dose-response relationship in rats given single i.p. doses of styrene oxide (83.3-833 mumol/kg body wt). The method, which allows quantitation of the adducts down to levels of 15 pmol/g globin, has the potential to act as a dosimeter for industrial workers exposed to styrene or styrene oxide.
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- O Sepai
- MRC Toxicology Unit, Carshalton, Surrey, UK
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