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Reaction of glutathione with a free radical metabolite of carbon tetrachloride

HD Connor, LB Lacagnin, KT Knecht, RG Thurman and RP Mason

Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.

Carbon tetrachloride and bromotrichloromethane are both metabolized by cytochrome P-450 in the presence of phenyl-N-t-butyl nitrone PBN) to the PBN/trichloromethyl (PBN/.CCl3) and the PBN carbon dioxide anion (PBN/.CO2-) radical adducts in the liver. The formation of the latter but not the former species in perfused liver was reduced markedly by prior depletion of hepatic glutathione with either diethyl maleate or buthionine sulfoximine treatments. In microsomal incubations, the PBN/.CO2- radical adduct was detected only upon the addition of cytosol. In microsomal incubations containing PBN, CCl4, and GSH, but no added cytosol, a novel radical adduct with distinctive coupling constants was detected. This radical adduct's ESR spectrum exhibited 13C isotope effects when it was formed in an incubation containing 13CCl4 or Br13CCl3. The presence of GSH in the radical adduct is postulated based on the radical adduct's hydrophilicity and slow rate of rotation in solution. The detection of this new radical adduct, PBN/[GSH-.CCl3], establishes the reaction of GSH with a CCl4-derived free radical as a significant event in the metabolism of CBrCl3 and CCl4. The cytosolic conversion of PBN/[GSH-.CCl3] into PBN/.CO2- has been demonstrated and characterizes the PBN/.CO2- radical adduct as the product of metabolism of PBN/[GSH-.CCl3], a primary radical adduct. Thus, it is concluded that GSH rather than oxygen is obligatory for the formation of PBN/.CO2- from .CCl3 in intact cells.

Volume 37, Issue 3, pp. 443-451, 03/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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