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HERO ID
2746746
Reference Type
Technical Report
Title
Mutagenicity of the O-esters of Nacylhydroxylamines for Salmonella typhimurium
Author(s)
Wang, CY; Linsmaier-Bednar, EM; Lee M-S
Year
1981
Report Number
HEEP/81/11661
Volume
BIOL INTERACT
Issue
3
Page Numbers
267-278
Abstract
HEEP COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. Several hydroxamic acids, RCONHON, are direct-acting mutagens for Salmonella. Hydroxamic acids may be metabolically converted to O-sulfonate and O-acetate derivatives by mammals. Thus, the O-sulfonate, O-formate, O-acetate and O-propionate esters of 2-naphthohydroxamic acid and 4-n-butoxyphenylacetohydroxamic acid were synthesized as model compounds and examined in S. typhimurium TA98 for mutagenicity to elucidate the activation mechanisms of hydroxamic acids. The mutagenicity of N-methyl-2-naphthohydroxamic acid and of 2-naphthylisocyanate, a rearrangement product of the O-sulfonate, were also tested. Among these chemicals tested, only 2-naphthohydroxamic acid and its O-formate, O-acetate and O-propionate were mutagenic. The O-acetate and O-propionate were more mutagenic than the O-formate, which was as mutagenic as 2-naphthohydroxamic acid. Addition of rat liver cytosol or microsomes greatly decreased the mutagenicity of the O-acetate and O-propionate, but not that of the O-formate or 2-naphthohydroxamic acid. An examination of the chemical stability of these compounds showed that the O-sulfonate ester of 2-naphthohydroxamic acid underwent the Lossen rearrangement in a neutral solution to form 2-naphthylisocyanate, which subsequently formed 2-aminonaphthalene and N,N'-di-2-naphthylurea. The O-formate simply underwent hydrolysis to form 2-naphthohydroxamic acid. Neither the O-acetate nor the O-propionate was readily hydrolyzed in neutral solution, but both of them were hydrolyzed to form 2-nephthohydroxamic acid in the presence of rat liver cytosol and microsomes. Rat liver cytosol also catalyzed the transfer of the acyl group from the O-acetate, but not from the O-propionate, derivative of 2-naphthohydroxamic acid to 4-aminoazobenzene. The NH group of 2-naphthohydroxamic acid apparently is essential to the mutagenicity; the O-esterification may be an activation pathway for the mutagenicity of hydroxamic acids. The activation of hydroxamic acids may not be similar to that of N-arylhydroxamic acids whose mutagenicity in Salmonella has been known to be enhanced by rat liver cytosolic and microsomal enzymes. (This study is applicable to humans.)
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