Binding of nickel(II) and copper(II) to the N-terminal sequence of human protamine HP2.

abstract：:The metabolic fates of the nigrostriatal toxin 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and its two-electron oxidation product, the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-2,3-dihydropyridinium species (MPDP+), have been examined in mouse brain and liver tissue fractions. Incubations of MPTP (50 microM and 1 mM) with mouse brain...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Wu E,Shinka T,Caldera-Munoz P,Yoshizumi H,Trevor A,Castagnoli N Jr

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hemorrhagic proteases, Lachesis hemorrhagic toxins a and b (LHTa and LHTb), were isolated from the venom of Lachesis muta, which is distributed in Central and South America. One protease showed strong hemorrhagic action, while the other showed weak hemorrhagic activity even though the two enzymes are very similar ...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Ran YL,Zheng SD,Tu AT

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain definitive information about the mechanisms of urinary calculus formation and the structural characteristics of the calculi induced by biphenyl administration in rats, with a focus on the sex dependency, the constituents of the urinary calculi were analyzed by HPLC, inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy (I...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Ohnishi M,Yajima H,Yamamoto S,Matsushima T,Ishii T

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Lapachone (β-lap) is a promising antitumoral agent. DNA base oxidation and alkylation are among the expected damages by β-lap. Herein, we have explored the role that the homologous recombination pathway (HR), a critical DNA repair process in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has in the cytotoxic profile of β-lap. We have fu...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Quevedo O,García-Luis J,Lorenzo-Castrillejo I,Machín F

更新日期：2011-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, many studies have linked maternal smoking to an increased risk of preterm birth. As a result, the scientific community has long hypothesized that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), commonly referred to as second-hand smoke, is also associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. Multiple s...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Elkin ER,O'Neill MS

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduced transcriptomic approach allows full dose range testing of hundreds of chemicals or mixtures using human cells or zebrafish embryos. Points of departure of genes and pathways can be used for potency ranking and to classify chemicals by disrupted biological pathways. ...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Dai J

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Available studies, while limited in number, suggest that e-cigarette vaping induces oxidative stress, with one potential mechanism being the direct formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in e-vapor. In the present studies, we measured the formation of hydroxyl radical (•OH), the most destructive ROS, in e-vapor un...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Son Y,Mishin V,Laskin JD,Mainelis G,Wackowski OA,Delnevo C,Schwander S,Khlystov A,Samburova V,Meng Q

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2'-deoxyguanosine adduct of the dietary mutagen 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) has been synthesized and incorporated into DNA using solid state synthesis technology. The key step to obtaining the C8-dG adduct is a palladium (Xantphos-chelated)-catalyzed N-arylation (Buchwald-Hartwig reactio...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Bonala R,Torres MC,Iden CR,Johnson F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial step in the genesis of neuromelanin, a black polymeric pigment normally found in the cytoplasm of dopaminergic cell bodies in the substantia nigra (SN), is the autoxidation of dopamine (DA) to DA-o-quinone (1). In this investigation, it is demonstrated that in the presence of L-cysteine (CySH) o-quinone 1 ...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Shen XM,Dryhurst G

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the biological effects of the O(2)-alkylthymidines induced by the tobacco-specific nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), we have replicated a plasmid containing O(2)-methylthymidine (O(2)-Me-dT) or O(2)-[4-(3-pyridyl-4-oxobut-1-yl]thymidine (O(2)-POB-dT) in Escherichia coli w...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Jasti VP,Spratt TE,Basu AK

更新日期：2011-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of CuO nanoparticles (NPs) to human lung epithelial (A549) cells was investigated in this study. CuO NPs (10-100 mg/L) had significant toxicity to A549 cells, whereas CuO bulk particles (BPs) showed much lower toxicity (24 h IC(50), 58 and 15 mg/L for CuO BPs and NPs, respectively). Transmission electron ...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Wang Z,Li N,Zhao J,White JC,Qu P,Xing B

更新日期：2012-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO(•); nitrogen monoxide) is known to be a critical regulator of cell and tissue function through mechanisms that utilize its unique physicochemical properties as a small and uncharged free radical with limited reactivity. Here, the basic chemistry and biochemistry of NO(•) are summarized through the des...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Toledo JC Jr,Augusto O

更新日期：2012-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugation of reactive drug metabolites to GSH is considered an important detoxification mechanism that can be spontaneous and/or mediated by glutathione S-transferases (GSTs). In case GSTs play an important role in GSH conjugation, genetically determined deficiencies in GSTs may be a risk factor for adverse drug...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Dragovic S,Boerma JS,van Bergen L,Vermeulen NP,Commandeur JN

更新日期：2010-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA alkylating mechanism of PNU-159682 (PNU), a highly potent metabolite of the anthracycline nemorubicin, was investigated by gel-electrophoretic, HPLC-UV, and micro-HPLC/mass spectrometry (MS) measurements. PNU quickly reacted with double-stranded oligonucleotides, but not with single-stranded sequences, to form...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Scalabrin M,Quintieri L,Palumbo M,Riccardi Sirtori F,Gatto B

更新日期：2017-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:S-(1,2-Dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine (DCVC), a mutagenic and nephrotoxic metabolite of trichloroethylene, is bioactivated to S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine sulfoxide (DCVCS) and chlorothioketene and/or 2-chlorothionoacetyl chloride by cysteine conjugate S-oxidase (S-oxidase) and cysteine conjugate beta-lyase (beta-lyase...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Barshteyn N,Elfarra AA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With CO2 present in excess, ONOO- reacts to form an adduct in solution and in the solid state, most likely ONOOCO2-. In solution, the adduct appears within 2 ms and absorbs at 300 with an extinction coefficient, which is either 50% or 100% (preferred) of that of ONOO-, 1.70 × 103 M-1 cm-1, and at 685 nm with an extinc...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Serrano-Luginbuehl S,Kissner R,Koppenol WH

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrabromobisphenol A, a brominated flame retardant, is increasingly prevalent worldwide and presents a potential health risk. Adjusted animal biomonitoring equivalents of tetrabromobisphenol A after orally administered doses in humanized-liver mice were scaled up to humans using known species allometric scaling facto...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Miura T,Uehara S,Shigeta K,Yoshizawa M,Kamiya Y,Murayama N,Shimizu M,Suemizu H,Yamazaki H

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens and their oxidative metabolites, the catechol estrogens, have been implicated in the development of breast cancer; yet, relatively little is known about estrogen metabolism in the breast. To determine how the parent hormone, 17 beta-estradiol (E(2)), is metabolized, we used recombinant, purified phase I enzy...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Dawling S,Hachey DL,Roodi N,Parl FF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen replacement therapy has been correlated with an increased risk of developing breast or endometrial cancer. 4-Hydroxyequilenin (4-OHEN) is a catechol metabolite of equilenin which is a minor component of the estrogen replacement formulation marketed under the name of Premarin (Wyeth-Ayerst). Previously, we sho...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Chen Y,Liu X,Pisha E,Constantinou AI,Hua Y,Shen L,van Breemen RB,Elguindi EC,Blond SY,Zhang F,Bolton JL

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is considered to be an attractive target for the development of novel anticancer molecules. This paper reports for the first time that a small molecule, antrocin (MW = 234), from Antrodia camphorata was a potent antagonist in various cancer types, being highest in metastatic breast cancer MDA...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Rao YK,Wu AT,Geethangili M,Huang MT,Chao WJ,Wu CH,Deng WP,Yeh CT,Tzeng YM

更新日期：2011-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of genistein (4',5,7-trihydroxyisoflavone), a phytoestrogen derived from soy products, was investigated using rat and human liver microsomes and recombinant human cytochrome P450 enzymes. Metabolism of genistein by microsomes obtained from rats treated with pyridine, phenobarbital, beta-naphthoflavone, ...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Roberts-Kirchhoff ES,Crowley JR,Hollenberg PF,Kim H

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organic sulfides (mono-, di-, and polysulfides) are present in our environment. Simple derivatives are produced by some plants and animals, while complex sulfides are secondary metabolites of several genera of bacteria and fungi. Sulfides play an important role in the smell and taste of food, and many such compou...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Munday R

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, human glutathione transferases (GSTs) of alpha class have been assayed with the ultimate carcinogenic (-)-anti- and (+)-syn-diol epoxides (DEs) derived from the nonplanar dibenzo[a,l]pyrene (DBPDE) and the (+)-anti-diol epoxide of the planar benzo[a]pyrene [(+)-anti-BPDE] in the presence of glutathione ...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Dreij K,Sundberg K,Johansson AS,Nordling E,Seidel A,Persson B,Mannervik B,Jernström B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary products of one-electron oxidation of clozapine and olanzapine, very effective atypical antipsychotic drugs, have been spectroscopically characterized. The oxidation process has been studied under glassy matrix conditions and by a pulse radiolysis technique in aqueous solution. The rate constants for the o...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Sikora A,Adamus J,Marcinek A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugars and sugar degradation products react in vivo readily with proteins (glycation) resulting in the formation of a heterogeneous group of reaction products, which are called advanced glycation end products (AGEs). AGEs notably change the structure and function of proteins so that extended protein-AGE formation is l...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Schneider M,Thoss G,Hübner-Parajsz C,Kientsch-Engel R,Stahl P,Pischetsrieder M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental contaminant benzo[c]phenanthrene (B[c]Ph) has weak carcinogenic activity in rodent bioassays; however, the fjord region diol epoxides of B[c]Ph, B[c]Ph-3,4-diol 1,2-epoxides (B[c]PhDE), are potent carcinogens. To determine the role of cytochrome P450 isozymes in the activation of B[c]Ph in MCF-7 cell...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Einolf HJ,Story WT,Marcus CB,Larsen MC,Jefcoate CR,Greenlee WF,Yagi H,Jerina DM,Amin S,Park SS,Gelboin HV,Baird WM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of powerful analytical technologies to detect endogenous carbonyls formed as byproducts of oxidative cell injury has revealed that these species contribute to many human diseases. As electrophiles, they are attacked by reactive centers in cell macromolecules to form adducts, the levels of which serve as useful...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Burcham PC

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse cytochrome P450 2A5 (CYP2A5) is upregulated in various pathophysiological liver diseases and induced by structurally variable hepatotoxic chemicals. A putative common feature for all of these conditions is altered cellular redox status. Nuclear factor erythroid 2-like 2 (Nrf2) is a transcription factor that is p...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Lämsä V,Levonen AL,Leinonen H,Ylä-Herttuala S,Yamamoto M,Hakkola J

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (OdG) is an abundant DNA lesion produced during oxidative damage to DNA. It can form relatively stable base pairs with both dC and dA that mimic natural dG:dC and dT:dA base pairs, respectively. Thus, when in the template strand, OdG can direct the insertion of either dCTP or dATP during replic...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Hamm ML,Crowley KA,Ghio M,Lindell MA,McFadden EJ,Silberg JS,Weaver AM

更新日期：2012-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical reactivities of the optically-pure fjord-region syn- and anti-benzo[g]chrysene 11,12-dihydrodiol 13,14-epoxides (B[g]CDEs) toward DNA in vitro have been compared with those of the optically-pure fjord-region syn- and anti-benzo[c]phenanthrene 3,4-dihydrodiol 1,2-epoxides (B[c]PhDEs), using the standard 32...

journal_title：Chemical research in toxicology

authors： Giles AS,Seidel A,Phillips DH

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00