Monooxygenase Induction and Chlorobiphenyls in the Deep-Sea Fish Coryphaenoides armatus

Abstract
Inhibition of liver microsomal ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activities by α-naphthoflavone and by polyclonal antibodies to hydrocarbon-inducible cytochrome P-450E from teleost liver indicated a xenobiotic-induced origin of these activities in the deep-sea fish Coryphaenoides armatus. Specific recognition of a protein by antibodies to P-450E in an immunoblot assay further indicated xenobiotic-induced cytochrome P-450 in these animals. Levels of apparently induced cytochrome P-450 and monooxygenase activity correlated positively with the tissue content of chlorobiphenyls of known inducing activity, implicating such compounds in biochemical effects occurring in the deep ocean.

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