Two aspects of the biological activity of N-nitrosamines were studied. First, the effect of ascorbate on the mutagenicity of N-nitrosopiperidines was studied in the Ames Salmanella/ mammalian microsome mutagenicity test. The addition of ascorbate significantly enhanced the mutagenicity of these compounds. This enhancement was selective for N-nitrosamines suggesting a possible role of ascorbate in N-nitrosamine induced carcinogenicity. Second, the technique of velocity sedimentation in alkaline sucrose density gradients was applied to the detection of N-nitrosamine induced DNA damage in Balb/c 3T3 cells. This technique detected N-nitrosamine induced DNA damage when the cells were made permeable before treatment. This technique compares favorably with other test systems used to evaluate N-nitrosamines and should be useful in further studies of N-nitrosamines.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1970. / Title from title page screen, viewed Sept. 2, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Herman Brockman, David Pittman (co-chairs), John Frehn, Edwin Willis, David Weber. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-82) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1970. / Title from title page screen, viewed Sept. 3, 2004. Dissertation Committee: H.E. Brockman (chair), D.D. Pittman, W. Daniel, D. Weber, E.R. Willis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-96) and abstract. Also available in print.

Nucleophiles react with the α-acetoxy derivative of α-hydroxybenzylbenzylnitrosamine at the carbonyl carbon of the acetoxy moiety followed by fragmentation to the very same intermediates formed by oxidative metabolism. Since α-acetoxybenzylbenzylnitrosamine has been shown to be able to acylate nucleophiles and since the nucleic acids are nucleophiles, then it is possible that this compound may cause mutations by an acylation pathway instead of or in addition to the more common alkylation pathway. The data in Part I of this dissertation should be considered in any further biological investigations of N,N-dialkylnitrosamine induced mutagenesis or carcinogenesis. The study of the synthesis, reactions, mutagenicity, and the possible correlation to compound liposolubility of cyclic N-nitrosamines was also investigated.

<p> 1-nitropyrene and 1,8-dinitropyrene are environmental pollutants and direct-acting mutagens in bacteria. Studies have shown that reduction of the nitro group is essential for the expression of the mutageneity of these compounds and the formation of covalent DNA adducts in Salmonella typhimurium. It has also been shown that the corresponding amino compounds are only slightly mutagenic. Since the reduction of nitro compounds to amino compounds must proceed via the nitroso and hydroxylamino intermediates, it has been proposed that the hydroxylamines derived from 1-nitropyrene and 1,8-dinitropyrene are the ultimate mutagens.</p> <p> 1-nitrosopyrene and 1-nitroso-8-nitropyrene were synthesized and reduced to their corresponding hydroxylamines with ascorbic acid. While 1-nitrosopyrene (50,226 rev/nmole) was 50X more potent than 1-nitropyrene (985 rev/nmole) in the Ames Test, 1-nitroso-8-nitropyrene (8,000 rev/nmole) was 10X less potent than 1,8-dinitropyrene (85,830 rev/nmole). The hydroxylamines derived from these compounds proved to be very labile species and could not be characterized.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

Although dialkylnitrosamines are environmentally significant carcinogens, the use of short-term bioassays to assess the mutagenic potential of these compounds remains problematic. The Ames test, a mutagenicity assay based on the reversion of Salmonella typhimurium histidine auxotrophs, is the most widely used bioassay in genetic toxicology, but the traditional Ames tester strains are largely insensitive to dialkylnitrosamine mutagenicity. I have constructed several mutagenicity tester strains that co-express combinations of full-length human cytochrome P450 2E1, rat cytochrome P450 reductase, and human cytochrome b5 in S. typhimurium lacking ogt and ada methyltransferases (YG7104ER, ogt-; and YG7108ER, ogt-, ada-). These new strains are susceptible to dialkylnitrosamine mutagenicity in the absence of an exogenous metabolic activating system (S9 fraction). Mutagenicity is dependent upon the coexpression of P450 2E1 with P450 reductase and is similar or greater than that obtained with the parental strains in the presence of S9 fraction from ethanol-induced rat liver. Coexpressing human cytochrome b5 with cytochrome P450 2E1 and cytochrome P450 reductase potentiates the mutagenicity observed with dialkylnitrosamines. These strains were sensitive to nitrosamines with varying alkyl side chains, including dimethylnitrosamine, diethylnitrosamine, dipropylnitrosamine, and dibutylnitrosamine. Mutagenicity decreased with alkyl chain length, consistent with the stringency of the ada-encoded enzyme for methyl and ethyl DNA adducts. These new strains may prove useful in the evaluation of nitrosamine contamination of food and environmental samples, and may serve as useful tools in investigating the molecular properties of proteins in the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase system.

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Corantes são utilizados na coloração de diferentes substratos, incluindo papel, couro e plásticos, mas o uso mais importante é o têxtil e 1 a 5% destes corantes podem ser descartados no ambiente. Em geral, os corantes do tipo azo são tóxicos para os organismos aquáticos e alguns tipos de corantes podem ser mais tóxicos que outros. Mas, embora estes compostos e seus produtos de transformação reduzidos e/ou clorados podem ser encontrados no ecossistema aquáticos, não existem dados sobre genotoxicidade em organismos aquáticos até o momento. Muitos estudos têm demonstrado que avaliar danos ao DNA representa um biomarcador de exposição muito sensível em espécies aquáticas, que pode ser estudado utilizando ensaios in vivo e in vitro, como no caso das linhagens de células de peixe. Os objetivos deste trabalho foram: avaliar a ocorrência de corantes dispersos em amostras ambientais; avaliar a mutagenicidade dessas amostras utilizando o ensaio de Salmonella/microssoma com as linhagens TA98 e YG1041, e a genotoxicidade com o ensaio do cometa em culturas celulares de peixe RTL-W1. HPLC-MS/MS foi utilizada para verificar a ocorrência de corantes em amostras do Rio Piracicaba à montante e à jusante do Ribeirão Quilombo e do descarte de uma Estação de Tratamento de Efluentes (ETE), localizados no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Foram detectados seis corantes dispersos nas amostras de águas superficiais e efluentes. O corante Disperse Red 1 foi o composto mais frequente, detectado em 8 das 16 amostras, porém sua contribuição para a mutagenicidade total foi baixa; os corantes Disperse Blue 373 e Disperse Violet 93 foram os que mais contribuíram. A genotoxicidade do Rio Piracicaba, avaliada pelo ensaio de Salmonella/microssoma e ensaio do cometa, aumentou após o lançamento do Ribeirão Quilombo e do efluente ETE, mostrando uma possível contribuição destes na genotoxicidade do Rio Piracicaba. / Dyes are used in the coloration of different substrates, including paper, leather and plastics, but the most important use is on textiles and 1 to 5% of these dyes might be lost into the environment. Azo dyes are the most important class, accounting for over 50% of all commercial dyes, and this class has been the most studied. In general, azo dyes are toxic to aquatic organisms and some types of dyes are more toxic than others. But although these compounds as well as their reduced/chlorinated transformation products can be found in aquatic ecosystems, no mutagenicity data are available until now in aquatic organisms. This remark remains of value, as well, regarding genotoxicity potential of such dyes towards aquatic organisms. Many studies have demonstrated that DNA damage measurement represents a very sensitive biomarker of exposure in aquatic species that can be studied both in vivo and in vitro using for example fish cell lines. The objectives of this work were evaluate the occurrence of disperse dyes in environmental samples; evaluate the mutagenicity of this samples using the Salmonella/microsome assay with strains TA98 and YG1041; evaluate the genotoxicity using the comet assay with fish cell lines RTL-W1. HPLC-MS/MS was used to verify the occurrence of dyes in samples of Piracicaba River upstream and downstream the discharge of Quilombo River and Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) effluent, located in São Paulo State, Brazil. Six dyes were detected in samples of water and effluents. Disperse Red 1 dye was detected in 8 of 16 samples, but its contribution for the mutagenicity was low. Disperse Blue 373 and Disperse Violet 93 were the major contributors for the mutagenicity found in the samples. The genotoxicity of Piracicaba River, evaluated with Salmonella/microsome assay and comet assay, increased after the discharges of Quilombo River and the effluent of WWTP, showing a contribution of this discharges on the river genotoxicity.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:30:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T21:01:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 fernandes_tcc_dr_rcla.pdf: 2200644 bytes, checksum: 409c85d73c03ec2d26288cc8ef322eaa (MD5) / O ramnolipídio é um biossurfactante da classe dos glicolipídios, produzido pela bactéria Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Estudos têm mostrado que, mesmo com um grande potencial de uso do ramnolipídio na indústria cosmética e na área da saúde, este composto é, principalmente, promissor para uso na indústria do petróleo. Apesar dos biossurfactantes serem considerados menos tóxicos e mais biodegradáveis que os surfactantes sintéticos, estes compostos ainda não foram investigados quanto a sua ação genotóxica direta ou indireta sob o material genético de organismos expostos. Desta maneira, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar os possíveis danos celulares promovidos pela ação do biossurfactante ramnolipídio e suas implicações no material genético quando utilizado como agente biorremediador de águas impactadas por petróleo, por meio dos bioindicadores Allium cepa, Oreochromis niloticus e as células humanas mantidas em cultura - HepG2. Para a realização da investigação, o biossurfactante ramnolipídio foi produzido em condições de laboratório e a partir da concentração indicada para o uso em processos de biorremediação (1g/L), foram estabelecidas as concentrações utilizadas no estudo. Para avaliar o potencial tóxico, genotóxico e mutagênico das concentrações de ramnolipídio, assim como seu feito sinérgico com o petróleo, foram realizados os testes de germinação de sementes, aberrações cromossômicas e teste do micronúcleo em A. cepa; teste do micronúcleo em eritrócitos circulantes, ensaio do cometa com sangue periférico e células de brânquias e análise ultraestruturais de eritrócitos circulantes em O. niloticus; e teste do MTT, teste do micronúcleo e ensaio do cometa em células HepG2. Nossos resultados mostraram que as concentrações 1g/L e 2g/L de ramnolipídio são tóxicas para A. cepa. No entanto, quando as concentrações 1g/L e 10g/L... / Rhamnolipids belong to the glycolipid class of biosurfactants, which are produced by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Studies have shown that, even being potentially used in the cosmetics industry, this compound is especially promising in the petroleum industry. Although the biosurfactants are considered less toxic and more biodegradable than the synthetic surfactants, these compounds have not yet been investigated when it comes to their either direct or indirect genotoxic action upon the genetic material of exposed organisms. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the possible cell damage promoted by the action of rhamnolipid biosurfactants and their implications for the genetic material when they are used as a bioremediation agent of petroleum-impacted water, by using Allium cepa, Orechromis niloticus and human cells kept in culture – HepG2. In order to carry out this investigation, the rhamnolipid biosurfactant was produced under laboratory conditions, and the recommended concentration for use in bioremediation processes (1g/L) was also used; the concentrations used in the study were established. To assess the toxic, genotoxic and mutagenic potential of rhamnolipid concentrations, as well as their synergy with petroleum, seed germination, chromosome aberration tests and micronucleus test in A. ceppa; micronucleus test in circulating red blood cells, comet assay in the peripheral blood and gill cells, and ultrastructural analysis of circulating blood cells in O. niloticus; and MTT test, micronucleus test and comet assay in HepG2 cells. Our studies showed that the 1 g/L and 2 g/L rhamnolipid concentrations are toxic to A. cepa. However, when 1 g/L and 10 g/L concentrations were used in the bioremediation process, these concentrations did not cause toxic, genotoxic or mutagenic damage besides the ones observed for the cells exposed to soluble petroleum... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)