Identification of crotonaldehyde as a hepatic microsomal metabolite formed by alpha-hydroxylation of the carcinogen N-nitrosopyrrolidine.

Crotonaldehyde (2-butenal), which reacts with DNA and is mutagenic and carcinogenic, was identified as a hepatic microsomal metabolite of the hepatocarcinogen N-nitrosopyrrolidine. Incubation mixtures of N-nitrosopyrrolidine, cofactors, and hepatic microsomes from Aroclor pretreated or control F344 rats were derivatized with (2,4-dinitrophenyl)hydrazine reagent and the resulting mixtures analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography. Crotonaldehyde (2,4-dinitrophenyl)hydrazone was identified by its retention time in two different systems and by its ultraviolet and mass spectrum. The ratio of 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde, which has previously been identified as a metabolite of NPYR, to crotonaldehyde was 1.5-2 over a range of substrate concentrations. The approximate values of Km and nu max for crotonaldehyde were 5.8 mM and 0.6 nmol/min/mg of protein and for 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde 14.1 mM and 1.7 nmol/min/mg of protein, for substrate concentrations between 1 and 8 mM, with microsomes from Aroclor pretreated rats. The ratio of 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde to crotonaldehyde was 1.9 upon esterase-catalyzed solvolysis of alpha-acetoxy-N-nitrosopyrrolidine, a stable precursor to the initial product of N-nitrosopyrrolidine alpha-hydroxylation. These results demonstrate that crotonaldehyde is formed upon metabolic alpha-hydroxylation of N-nitrosopyrrolidine and suggest that it may be involved in N-nitrosopyrrolidine-macromolecule interactions.

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