The enzyme-catalysed conversion of anti-benzo[alpyrene-7,8-diol 9,10-oxide into a glutathione conjugate

Abstract
Anti-BP-7, 8-diol 9,10-oxide (r-7, t-8-dihydroxy-t-9,10-oxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[alpyrene) was converted in the presence of a rat-liver supernatant fraction and glutathione into a water-soluble metabolite that was identified as a glutathione conjugate. The formation of the glutathione conjugate appears to be catalysed by glutathione S-transferases, present in the rat-liver supernatant, because the amount of conjugate formed was reduced considerably when anti-BP-7,8-diol 9,10-oxide was incubated with glutathione either in the absence of the supernatant fraction or in the presence of heat-denatured supernatant fraction.

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