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Biology and Biotechnology Research Program and Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551-9900 [K. H. D., K. D. C., J. S. F., K. W. T.]; Surgery Service (112-LR), Little Rock Veterans Affairs Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 [S. N., N. P. L.]; and Arkansas Cancer Research Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 [N. P. L.]
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Dietary exposure to HCAs is considered to be a potential human cancer risk because these compounds are produced in relatively high concentrations during the cooking of red meats, poultry, and fish under normal household conditions (reviewed in Ref. 6
), with PhIP levels up to 480 ppb reported for very well done grilled/barbecued chicken (7)
. At present, 19 HCAs have been identified in cooked foods, 10 of which have been tested for carcinogenicity and have been found to induce tumors in rodents at multiple sites (reviewed in Ref. 8
). Of all of the HCAs, PhIP (Fig. 1)
is considered to be a significant colon cancer risk factor because it is usually the most mass-abundant in cooked meat (9)
, is a mutagen in bacteria and mammalian cell genotoxicity assays (10)
, and causes colon tumors in rats (11)
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The measurement of carcinogen adducts in human samples can be problematic, because it requires extremely sensitive techniques capable of accurately measuring subfemtomol (10-15 mol) levels of carcinogen-bound macromolecules. AMS is a highly sensitive technique capable of measuring attomol (10-18 mol) levels of a radiolabeled compound (20 , 21) . We have used AMS to study the bioavailability and macromolecular adduct formation following very low, environmentally relevant exposures of radiolabeled carcinogens (Refs. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 for examples). This allows more accurate assessment of biomarkers of exposure and metabolism, and perhaps, better assessment of the human cancer risk due to low-level chemical exposures. In the present study, we have used AMS to ascertain whether PhIP is a human colon cancer risk factor by determining bioavailability to the colon in humans and formation of adducts with DNA and protein in this tissue following a dietary-relevant dose. Furthermore, we have investigated adduct formation with albumin, Hb, and WBC DNA in peripheral blood as potential biomarkers for use in molecular epidemiology studies.
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Human Protocol.
The protocol for this study was approved by the human subjects review boards at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and at the University of Arkansas Medical School Hospital and the J. L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center in Little Rock, AR. Human volunteers were recruited at University of Arkansas Medical School Hospital and the J. L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center. All human volunteers participating in the study were undergoing surgery to remove colon carcinomas and gave informed consent prior to enrollment.
[14C]PhIP was packaged in gelatin capsules containing lactose filler and then administered p.o. to volunteers, who were not required to fast prior to capsule administration. Subjects 1 and 2 received a dose of 70 µg of [14C]PhIP per person (specific activity, 56.0 mCi/mmol), and subjects 35 received a dose of 84 µg [14C]PhIP (specific activity, 41.8 mCi/mmol). The differences in the amounts and the specific activities of [14C]PhIP given to the subjects are a result of preparing the capsules on two different occasions from two batches of [14C]PhIP. For reference, the dose of PhIP the subjects in this study received is approximately equivalent to eating 175 g of very well-done chicken (7) , and the radioactive dose was <1% of an individuals yearly exposure to background sources of radiation.
At various times up to 24 h after dosing, blood samples (30 ml) were collected and separated into plasma, RBCs, and buffy coat (consisting of WBCs and platelets) by centrifugation. Forty-eight to 72 h after dosing, the volunteers underwent surgery in which tissue samples not required for diagnosis or staging were collected and frozen. This dosing time was chosen so that blood sample collection would be completed prior to surgery and administration of associated medications, which could affect plasma kinetics. Control tissue samples were collected from subjects who were not dosed with [14C]PhIP.
Albumin Extraction.
Plasma was dialyzed for 48 h against two changes of 0.1 M KCl, 0.05 M Tris (pH 7; buffer A). To avoid any cross-contamination with carbon-14, each sample was dialyzed in a separate 250-ml disposable beaker. Albumin was extracted from dialyzed plasma using Affi-Gel Blue Gel columns packed with 5 ml gel/ml plasma to be purified. Columns were equilibrated with buffer A, the plasma was added to the columns, and then washed with two column volumes of buffer A. The albumin was eluted with 10 ml of 1.5 M KCl, 0.05 M Tris (pH 7.0), and samples were concentrated using centriplus concentrators. The albumin concentrations of the samples were determined using Bio-Rad protein assay reagent and BSA standards. Samples were then prepared for analysis by AMS.
Hb Extraction.
RBCs were lysed with an equal volume of distilled water and centrifuged at 3300 x g for 15 min. Samples were then dialyzed for 48 h against two changes of 0.25 M sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.25). To avoid cross-contamination of carbon-14 between samples, each sample was dialyzed in a separate disposable beaker. After dialysis, the lysate was added dropwise to 15 ml of ethanol with vortex mixing to precipitate Hb. The Hb was then sequentially washed with ethanol:ether (80:20 v/v), ethanol:ether (25:75 v/v), and ether. The Hb samples were air dried and analyzed by AMS. This procedure does not separate heme from globin; hence, binding detected using AMS may have occurred to either of these two components of Hb.
Extraction of WBC DNA.
DNA was extracted from the buffy coat samples using a Nucleon BACC2 kit, and the protocol was supplied by the manufacturers. Briefly, the buffy coat samples were resuspended in 1 ml of Reagent A and centrifuged at 1300 x g for 5 min, and the supernatant was discarded. Two ml of Reagent B were added to the pellets, and samples were incubated at 37°C for 12 h until they were completely dissolved. The samples were transferred to a 15-ml polypropylene centrifuge tube; 0.75 µg of RNaseT1 was added and then incubated at 37°C for 30 min. Five hundred µl of 5 M sodium perchlorate were then added to the samples and mixed, followed by the addition of 2 ml of chloroform. Samples were mixed again; 300 µl of Nucleon resin were added to the samples and then centrifuged at 1300 x g for 3 min. The upper aqueous phase was transferred to a centrifuge tube, and the DNA was precipitated with two volumes of ice-cold ethanol. Pellets were washed once with 70% (v/v) ethanol and dissolved in distilled water. The concentration of DNA was calculated by measuring the absorbance at 260 nm (A260 nm), assuming an absorbance value of 1.0 is equal to a DNA concentration of 50 µg/ml. DNA purity was determined from the A260 nm:A280 nm ratio. All DNA used in this study had a ratio of 1.71.8.
DNA and Protein Extraction from Tissue.
DNA was extracted from colon tissue using Qiagen DNA extraction columns, as described previously (23)
. The quantity of DNA and purity were calculated as described above. DNA with a A260 nm:A280 nm ratio of 1.71.8 was used in this study.
To extract protein from the colon tissue samples, 12-g aliquots of tissue were homogenized and added to tubes containing 5 ml of lysis buffer [4 M urea, 1% (v/v) Triton X-100, 10 mM EDTA, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), and 10 mM DTT]. Samples were placed in a 37°C shaking water bath overnight. To remove any incompletely lysed tissue, samples were centrifuged at 3000 x g for 15 min. Five hundred µl of 70% (v/v) perchloric acid were added to the supernatant to precipitate protein. Samples were vortexed and centrifuged at 3000 x g for 15 min. The resulting pellets were then washed with 5% (v/v) perchloric acid, twice with 50% (v/v) methanol, and twice with 1:1 (v/v) ether:ethanol. Pellets were left to air dry overnight. Two ml of 0.1 M potassium hydroxide were added to each sample prior to preparing the samples for AMS analysis.
AMS Analysis.
The carbon-14:carbon-13 ratios of tissue, protein, DNA, Hb, and albumin samples were determined by AMS, as described previously (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
. Before analysis, two mg of tributyrin were added to each DNA sample to provide the carbon content necessary for efficient graphitization. Aliquots of 210 mg of wet-weight tissue, tissue protein, albumin, or Hb were graphitized without addition of tributyrin. The carbon-14:carbon-13 ratios were converted to pg PhIP/g of tissue or protein or DNA adduct levels following the subtraction of the carbon-14 contribution from any added tributyrin and control samples.
Statistical Analysis.
Data represent the mean ± the greatest of the SD or the AMS measurement error. Each sample was independently prepared and measured up to six times, depending upon sample size. Mean values were compared using the Students t test, available with Microsoft Excel 5.0 (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), and were considered statistically different with P < 0.05.
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Adduct Formation with WBC DNA.
Adduct levels with WBC DNA extracted from buffy coat samples are shown in Fig. 4
. In all cases examined, adduct levels peaked 24 h after exposure to [14C]PhIP, with levels up to 1.4 adducts/109 nucleotides. However, after peak adduct levels were achieved, the adduct levels declined significantly over 24 h.
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Discussion
This is a pilot study using AMS to examine PhIP bioavailability, and adduct formation with DNA and protein in five human volunteers after the administration of a defined dietary-relevant dose of [14C]PhIP. Despite the fact that the subjects were undergoing surgery to remove tumors, the data presented are crucial to assess whether PhIP at dietary levels of exposure may be involved in the initiation of colon cancer in humans. Moreover, this study provides a means to validate biomarkers for use in molecular epidemiology studies.
PhIP adducts with protein and DNA were measured by AMS. Although AMS analyses offer no structural information, plasma samples were extensively dialyzed, Hb, and protein from tissues repeatedly solvent extracted and DNA extensively purified to ensure that only covalently bound PhIP was analyzed. Although the major DNA adduct formed by PhIP in laboratory animals and a minor adduct with albumin formed in vitro have been characterized (27, 28, 29) , investigations to determine the nature of the binding detected in the human samples were beyond the scope of this study and is presently under way.
In a previous human study with the HCA MeIQx, we demonstrated that adducts with albumin provide a useful biomarker of exposure and bioactivation (25) . However, studies conducted with PhIP in vitro with rat serum albumin and in vivo in rats after high-dose exposures have indicated that PhIP-protein adducts in blood are unstable and therefore unlikely to be useful biomarkers (29 , 30) . However, laboratory animal and in vitro models may not accurately predict the human response. Fortunately, the technique of AMS has allowed us to conduct low-dose studies in humans.
Our results indicate that in humans PhIP forms adducts with both albumin and Hb in the peripheral blood within 30 min of exposure. In four of five of the subjects, albumin adduct levels did not decline but increased steadily, reaching a plateau within 1224 h. In contrast, albumin adduct levels of subject 1 showed an initial peak of binding, with the adduct level declining by 65% by 24 h. A similar trend was also seen in Hb adduct formation in three of five of the subjects, in which the mean adduct level 24 h after dosing was
50% of the peak adduct levels. This initial peak of binding may be due to unstable adducts or the presence of noncovalently bound PhIP in high-affinity binding sites. Although the blood samples were collected prior to surgery and administration of anesthetics, it is also possible that it may be the result of the preoperative treatment and medications taken by the subjects. Twenty-four h after exposure, PhIP-albumin adduct levels were
50-fold higher than Hb adduct levels. These results indicate that albumin adducts provide a more sensitive biomarker of exposure to PhIP than Hb adducts and is similar to data obtained in humans after exposure to [14C]MeIQx (25)
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Analysis of DNA extracted from WBCs demonstrated that PhIP also formed high levels of DNA adducts in the blood. Previous studies conducted at high dose in rats demonstrated that PhIP forms DNA adducts in WBCs, although peak adduct levels were measured 2 days after dosing (31) . In this human study, the highest DNA adduct levels in WBCs were attained within 4 h of exposure; however, in all of the subjects examined, the adduct levels declined rapidly over 24 h. Although these results suggest that DNA adducts in the blood may not be suitable biomarkers, they indicate that genotoxic metabolites are rapidly formed and enter the circulation. These bioactive metabolites may include HNOH-PhIP and/or the acetate ester of HNOH-PhIP, which have been shown in rats to be transportable in the bloodstream, resulting in DNA adduct formation in extrahepatic sites, such as the colon (32) .
Analysis of tissue samples removed during surgery demonstrated that [14C]PhIP and its metabolites could be detected in colon, cecum, and ileum tissue up to 72 h after exposure. Although the number of samples is small, there was no significant difference measured in the tissue available doses either between colon, cecum, and ileum or between tissue from normal colon and colon tumor. Interindividual variation was seen in the levels of bioavailability in the colon samples. However, in some cases, replicate analysis of up to six separate aliquots of whole tissue revealed large variation due to unequal distribution of PhIP within the specimens.
The main aim of this study was to determine whether PhIP-DNA adducts could be detected in human colon tissue following defined dietary-relevant PhIP exposures. Previous work by Friesen et al. (33) , in which human tissue DNA was analyzed by gas chromatography/electron capture mass spectrometry and 32P-postlabeling, demonstrated that PhIP-DNA adducts are formed in human colon, although levels were only detectable in two of six samples examined. Consistent with this finding, AMS analysis of DNA extracted from the colon tissue samples demonstrated the presence of covalently bound [14C]PhIP up to 72 h after exposure. The mean DNA adduct level per unit dose at the time of surgery in the normal colon tissue was 1.13 ± 0.67 fmol PhIP/g DNA per pmol dose/kg body weight, which was significantly lower than the tumor tissue (P = 0.05). These data indicate that the tumor tissue may either have a greater capacity for metabolic activation of PhIP, decreased capacity for detoxification of bioactive metabolites, or decreased DNA repair capacity. Although it is difficult to determine the consequence of PhIP-DNA adduct formation in the colon, we have demonstrated that in humans, bioactive PhIP metabolites reach the DNA in the colon, a target site for PhIP carcinogenesis in rats (11) . However, adduct levels in the colon were not significantly different from the cecum and ileum samples analyzed. Similarly, high PhIP-DNA adduct levels were measured in these organs in rats dosed with PhIP (30 , 31) . Although the cecum and small intestine have not been reported as targets for PhIP-induced carcinogenicity in long-term bioassays in normal rats, chronic PhIP administration resulted in the induction of tumors in these organs in Nagase analbuminemic mutant strain rats devoid of albumin (34) .
Consistent with the formation of DNA adducts, protein adducts were also detected in the tissue samples. Protein adducts are normally used as a surrogate marker of DNA adduct formation, because protein adducts are not subject to repair and protein is more plentiful than DNA. However, it is not known whether protein and DNA adducts of PhIP are formed via common metabolic pathways. Extraction of DNA and protein from separate aliquots of tissue and comparison of DNA and protein adduct levels did not show a correlation, as might be expected if they were formed via common reactive metabolites. However, PhIP was not homogeneously distributed in the tissues, and the samples were collected many hours after exposure. In this time, the cell turnover and DNA repair may have significantly reduced the adduct levels detected, making interpretation difficult.
The data collected in this study show interindividual variation in PhIP bioavailability in the tissue, as well as protein and DNA adduct formation in the tissue and blood after exposure to the dietary carcinogen PhIP. Such variation did not appear related to differences in body weight but may be due to the health status of the subjects, medications, or linked to metabolic polymorphisms in enzymes thought to be involved in the metabolic activation of PhIP.
Studies have indicated considerable interindividual variability in the CYP1A2-mediated metabolic activation step in humans (35) , with apparent fast, intermediate, and slow phenotypes (36) . Although genetic polymorphisms affecting enzyme activity have not been reported, CYP1A2 can be induced by cigarette smoking (37) and meat cooked at high temperature (38) and may be modulated by cytochrome P450 1A1 and glutathione S-transferase M1 genotypes (39) . Polymorphisms affecting enzyme activity have also been identified for phenol sulfotransferases (40) , NAT1 and NAT2 (reviewed in Ref. 41 ). Therefore, as a result of PhIP exposure, people with rapid phenotypes should form higher PhIP-adduct levels and might be at greater risk of developing cancer than people with slow phenotypes (4) . This hypothesis is supported by epidemiological evidence that shows that people with fast CYP1A2 and fast NAT2 phenotypes who are exposed to dietary heterocyclic amines are at greater risk of colon cancer (4) . Phenotyping of CYP1A2 and NAT2 was performed on the five subjects in this study (data not shown). Thus far, the CYP1A2 and NAT2 phenotypes do not appear to relate to the PhIP-DNA or protein adduct levels in either the blood or colon, although presently the sample population is too small to perform any meaningful correlations.
In summary, this study has shown for the first time that a well-defined dietary-relevant dose of [14C]PhIP is bioavailable to the colon tissue and forms DNA and protein adducts in the colon and blood. The extremely low level of detection of carbon-14-labeled compounds afforded by AMS makes such human work possible and is leading us to a better understanding of the risks posed by exposure to environmental carcinogens.
| Acknowledgments |
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1 The studies described were performed under the auspices of the United States Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (W-7405-ENG-48) and partially supported by NIH Grants CA55861, CA58697, CA55751, EPA R825280, and NIA AG15722, and the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MM4559FLB). ![]()
2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, L-452, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94551-9900. E-mail: turteltaub2{at}llnl.gov ![]()
3 The abbreviations used are: HCA, heterocyclic amine; PhIP, 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine; HNOH-PhIP, 2-N-hydroxyamino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine; CYP1A2, cytochrome P-450 1A2; Hb; hemoglobin; AMS, accelerator mass spectrometry; MeIQx, 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline; NAT, N-acetyltransferase. ![]()
Received 12/23/98; revised 3/19/99; accepted 3/25/99.
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