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An alternatively spliced cytochrome P4501A1 in human brain fails to bioactivate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to DNA-reactive metabolites.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 Aug 2007
Kommaddi Reddy P, Turman Cheri M, Moorthy Bhagavatula, Wang Lihua, Strobel Henry W, Ravindranath Vijayalakshmi
Abstract excerpt
CYP1A1, a cytochrome P450 enzyme, metabolizes polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to genotoxic metabolite(s) that bind to DNA and initiate carcinogenesis. RT-PCR amplification of the complete open reading frame of CYP1A1 generated an amplicon of 1593 bp having deletion of 87 bp of exon-6 that translated into functional P450 enzyme. Unlike wild type CYP1A1, exon 6 del CYP1A1 did not metabolize polycyclic aromatic...
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