ENDOGENOUSLY FORMED N-NITROSO COMPOUNDS AND NITROSATING AGENTS IN HUMAN CANCER ETIOLOGY

被引：98

作者：

BARTSCH, H

OHSHIMA, H

PIGNATELLI, B

CALMELS, S

机构：

[1] Unit of Environmental Carcinogens and Host Factors, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon

来源：

PHARMACOGENETICS | 1992年 / 2卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1097/00008571-199212000-00005

中图分类号：

Q81 [生物工程学（生物技术）]; Q93 [微生物学];

学科分类号：

071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;

摘要：

Humans are exposed to preformed N-nitroso compounds (NOC), but also to a wide range of precursors and nitrosating agents which can react in vivo to form potentially carcinogenic NOC and diazo compounds. Nitrite, nitrate and nitrosating agents can also be synthesized endogenously in enzymic reactions mediated by bacteria, activated macrophages and neutrophils. The latter two cell types generate, via the enzyme nitric oxide synthase, the nitric oxide radical that is involved in cytotoxicity, and is believed to be involved in formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines, DNA base deamination and oxidative damage. Thus endogenous NOC formation, DNA damage and gene mutations in humans could occur at various sites of the body such as the stomach and chronically infected or inflamed organs. Sensitive procedures to estimate the exposure of humans to NOC have been developed and applied in ecological and cross-sectional studies. These have shown that inhabitants of high-risk areas for stomach and esophageal cancer, patients with urinary tract infections (at risk for bladder cancer) and Thai subjects infected with liver fluke (at risk for cholangiocarcinoma) had significantly higher exposure to endogenous NOC. Clinical studies have examined the model of stomach carcinogenesis based on intragastric nitrosation, but the precise roles of bacterial overgrowth and of Helicobacter pylori infection in NOC synthesis and/or inducing oxidative stress in stomach mucosa remain to be clarified. Together these results support the role of NOC and other nitrite-derived mutagens in human cancer etiology, in particular when exposure starts early in life and persists over a long period. In various human tumours, C to T transition mutations have been frequently detected in the tumour-suppressor gene p53. Whether this type of mutation is mediated by nitric oxide synthase (via deamination of 5-methylcytosine to T at CpG islands) is now being examined in molecular pathology and epidemiological studies.

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