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MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS
Volume 617, Issue 1-2, Pages 90-97Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2007.01.002
Keywords
yeast; Ames test-negative carcinogen; aneuploidy; O-phenyl phenol; phenyl hydroquinone
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Ortho-phenyl phenol (OPP) is broad-spectrum of fungicides and antibacterial agents. OPP tested negative in an Ames system and positive with respect to the formation of tumors in the urinary bladder in rats when administered in diet, showing attributes of an Ames test-negative carcinogen. It has also been demonstrated that OPP does not bind or cleave DNA in vivo or in vitro, rather dose-dependent protein binding in OPP-treated rats was observed. OPP, however, generates chromosomal aberrations including aneuploidy. Thus, the steps by which Ames test-negative carcinogens exert their effects need to be elucidated. Here, we used an assay of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in Saccharom-yces cerevisiae to determine the biological effects of OPP and its hepatic metabolite pheryl hydroquinone (PHQ). LOH was found to be induced by OPP and PHQ because of a functional chromosome loss: aneuploidy. PHQ bound to and interfered with the depolymerization of tubulin in vitro and arrested the cell-cycle at M and Gl. These results indicate that OPP and PHQ damaged tubulin to cause mis-segregation of chromosome by delaying cell-cycle progression through mitosis, and as a consequence caused aneuploidy. (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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