It has been proposed that benfuracarb must be converted to a toxic metabolite. The purpose of this study was to understand a role of cytochrome P_(450) and GST/GSH which was assummed to participate in the bioactivation of benfuracarb.
1. The bimolecu...
It has been proposed that benfuracarb must be converted to a toxic metabolite. The purpose of this study was to understand a role of cytochrome P_(450) and GST/GSH which was assummed to participate in the bioactivation of benfuracarb.
1. The bimolecular inhibition rate constants(k_(i) of benfuracarb and the carbofuran to acetylcholinesterase(AChE) were l.lx10^(3)M^(-1) · min^(-1) and 7.7x10^(5)M^(-1) · min^(-1) and those to butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) were 3.2x10^(5)M^(-1) · min^(-1) and 3.4x10^(4)'M^(-1) · min^(-1) , respectively.
Benfuracarb inhibited AChE about seven hundred times slower than carbofuran did. However, benfuracarb was more effective than carbofuran to the inhibition of BuChE.
2. The potency of benfuracarb as an inhibitor of AChE was in creased in 10 fold when the benfuracarb and AChE were incubated with microsomes fortified with NADPH compared with microsome alone. Piperonyl butoxide(PB) addition to these coupled systems reduced the inhibition of target enzymes by blocking bioactivation process. However, this bioactivation effect couldn't be observed to BuChE. When the benfuracarb, glutathione-s-transferase(GST) and glutathione(GSH) were incubated together, the potency of benfura-carb as an inhibitor of AChE was increased more than 50 % compared with GST alone or without GST and GSH.
3. I_(50) of benfuracarb to the mouse brain AChE was 22.7mg/kg. When PB was pretreated, the inhibition of brain AChE was decreased significantly. This result showed that cytochrome Pwo. must be an important enzyme for the toxicity of benfuracarb in a biological system.
4. In the MFO system, the conversion of benfuracarb to carbofuran was increased more than 50% compared with that in microsome alone, while decreased when PB was treated. In the GST/GSH system, the amount of carbofuran was increased more than 80% compared with that in no GST/GSH system. In MFO and GST/GSH combination systems, the amount of carbofuran was mostly increased compared with the others.
5. In vitro inhibition of benfuracarb to the mouse liver cytosolic esterases was not observed in a native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
6. When benfuracarb was treated intraperitoneally to mice at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100mg/kg, mouse of liver cytosolic esterase and α,β-esterase were ininhibited largely in over 50mg/kg treatments and slightly even in 100mg/kg, respectively.
7. This study showed that the bioactivation processes of benfuracarb by the action of cytochrone P_(450) and GST/GSH system must be essential for showing its toxicity. And it has been confirmed that carbofuran could be a major toxic metabolite in the biological systems.