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Primary cultured human urothelial cells derived from ureter specimens of urological patients were used to evaluate induction of DNA-damage by OTA in the alkaline single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay. With the cultured cells from each donor a separate comet assay was performed and tail length of the damaged DNA was measured. A broad spectrum of effects was detected between the individual cell cultures with effects reaching from tail lengths on control level up to strongly enhanced tail lengths.
All donors of urothelial tissue were additionally genotyped for several xenobiotic metabolising enzymes (cytochrome P450 1A2, glutathione S-transferases T1, M1, and P1, N-acetyltransferase 2) in lymphocyte DNA. The genotype was then correlated with the genotoxic effects obtained in the comet assay.
No correlation was found with CYP1A2, GSTT1, and GSTM1 genotypes whereas for GSTP1 stronger genotoxic effects were found in cells from donors with hetero-and homozygously mutated (w/m, m/m) genotypes compared to homozygous wildtypes. The strongest hint for a correlation was found for NAT2, as cells from donors with homozygous mutated alleles (m/m), known as slow acetylators, displayed a higher susceptibility to OTA in the comet assay than cells from donors with the heterozygously mutated or wildtype alleles (rapid acetylators).
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Lebrun, S., Golka, K., Föllmann, W. et al. Is there an influence of enzyme polymorphisms on ochratoxin A genotoxicity?. Mycotox Res 18 (Suppl 2), 173–177 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02946090
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