Estragole: A weak direct-acting food-borne genotoxin and potential carcinogen

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• 作者：Cé ; lia Martins^a ; Raquel Caç ; ã ; o^a ; Kathleen J. Cole^c ; David H. Phillips^c ; ¹ ; Antó ; nio Laires^a ; ^b ; José ; Rueff^a ; Antó ; nio S. Rodrigues^a ; ^{sebastiao.rodrigues@fcm.unl.pt}
• 关键词：Estragole ; Sister chromatid exchange ; DNA adducts ; Genotoxicity ; XRCC1 ; Apoptosis
• 刊名：Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：31_13835718
• 类别：pha
• 出版时间：30 August, 2012
• 卷：747
• 期：1
• 页码：86-92
• 文件大小：529 K

摘要

We evaluated the genotoxicity of the food-flavouring agent estragole in V79 cells using the sister chromatid exchange (SCE) assay and the alkaline comet assay. Unexpectedly, we observed an increase in SCE without an exogenous biotransformation system (S9) and a decrease in its presence. Positive results were also observed in the alkaline comet assay without S9, indicating DNA strand breakage. To ascertain repair of damage, we performed the comet assay in V79 cells after two hours of recovery, and observed a reduction of the genotoxic response. Estragole did not produce strand breaks in plasmid DNA in vitro. We then evaluated the formation of DNA adducts in V79 cells by use of the ³²P-postlabelling assay and detected a dose-dependent formation of DNA adducts, which may be responsible for its genotoxicity. We then assayed estragole in the comet assay with two CHO cell lines, a parental AA8 cell line, and an XRCC1-deficient cell line, EM9. Results confirmed the genotoxicity of estragole without biotransformation in both cell lines, although the genotoxicity in EM9 cells compared with that in AA8 cells was not significantly different, suggesting that the XRCC1 protein is not involved in the repair of estragole-induced lesions. Estragole induces apoptosis, but only with high doses (2000 渭M), and after long treatment periods (24 h). Overall, our results suggest that estragole, besides being metabolized to genotoxic metabolites, is a weak direct-acting genotoxin that forms DNA adducts.