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Aerobic incubations of bleomycin, FeCl3, DNA, NADPH, and isolated liver microsomal NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase resulted in NADPH and oxygen consumption and malondialdehyde formation, indicating that the deoxyribose moiety of DNA was split. All parameters measured depended on the active enzyme, bleomycin and FeCl3. In the absence of oxygen malondialdehyde formation was very low.
When bleomycin, FeCl3 and the reductase were incubated with methional ethene (ethylene) was formed, suggesting that during the enzyme-catalyzed redox cycle of bleomycin-Fe(III/II) hydroxyl radicals were formed. Ethene formation also depended on oxygen, NADPH, the enzyme, bleomycin, and FeCl3.
During aerobic incubations of bleomycin, FeCl3, NADPH, and isolated liver nuclei oxygen and NADPH were consumed and malondialdehyde was formed. Oxygen and NADPH consumption and malondialdehyde formation depended on bleomycin and FeCl3. In the absence of oxygen malondialdehyde was not formed. These results indicate that nuclear NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase redox cycles the bleomycin-Fe(III/II) complex and that the reduced complex activates oxygen, whereby hydroxyl radicals are formed which damage the deoxyribose of nuclear DNA.
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Dedicated to Professor Dr. med. Herbert Remmer on the occasion of his 65th birthday
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Mahmutoglu, I., Scheulen, M.E. & Kappus, H. Oxygen radical formation and DNA damage due to enzymatic reduction of bleomycin-Fe(III). Arch Toxicol 60, 150–153 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00296969
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