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FOOD ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS PART A-CHEMISTRY ANALYSIS CONTROL EXPOSURE & RISK ASSESSMENT
Volume 22, Issue -, Pages 75-87Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02652030500309400
Keywords
ochratoxin A; genotoxicity; DNA adduct; OTA metabolites
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Ochratoxin A (OTA) is nephrotoxic to all animal species, carcinogenic for rats and mice and probably implicated in human Balkan endemic nephropathy and the associated urothelial tract tumour. Controversial results concerning genotoxicity and biotransformation of OTA have been generated. By P-32 post-labelling technique, a dose- and timedependent DNA adduct formation is observed in vivo and in vitro. Use of several inducers or inhibitors of biotransforming enzymes (including cytochrome P 450, cyclooxygenase, lipoxygenase, glutathione-S-transferase), demonstrated that OTA is biotransformed into genotoxic derivatives damaging for DNA. Authentic C8dG-OTA standards have been synthesized by photo-oxidation. Both of them (C-C8 & O-C8) co-migrate on TLC with two adducts formed by in vitro incubation of OTA in the presence of kidney microsomes, and in vivo in kidney of pig or rodent fed OTA as well as in kidney and bladder rumour of humans exposed to OTA. Several OTA metabolites have been isolated from tissues or cells treated by OTA. The open ring lactone (OP-OTA) and quinone OTA (OTQ) are genotoxic.
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