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MUTATION RESEARCH-GENETIC TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS
Volume 494, Issue 1-2, Pages 115-134Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(01)00189-9
Keywords
mutagenicity; direct-acting; electronic effects; hydrophobic effects; QSAR; electrophilic amides
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N-acyloxy-N-alkoxybenzamides are mutagenic in TA100 without the need for metabolic activation with S9, Electronic effects of substituents on both the benzamide ring in N-acetoxy-N-butoxybenzamides or the benzyloxy ring in N-acetoxy-N-benzyloxybenzamides do not influence mutagenicity levels. For N-benzoyloxy-N-benzyloxybenzamides, mutagenicity levels are inversely related to the electron-withdrawing effect of substituents on the benzoyloxy leaving group. Since reactivities increase with increasing electron-withdrawing effects, mutagenicity correlates with stability rather than reactivity of these mutagens. Hydrophobicity is the dominant factor controlling mutagenicity levels and data for all mutagens correlate with computed log P values with a lower dependence (h = 0.22) than that recorded for indirect mutagens (h = 1.0), except where a sterically demanding p-tert-butyl substituent or a naphthyl group is present. N-acetoxy-N-butoxynaphthamide exhibits a much higher level of mutagenicity than predicted by its log P value and activity may be ascribed to an intercalative binding process with DNA rather than straightforward hydrophobic binding in the major or minor groove. Since these are direct-acting mutagens, structural factors influence binding and reactivity towards DNA. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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