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4-Monochlorobiphenyl (PCB3) is found in small amounts in commercial PCB mixtures, indoor and outdoor air, and in food. In contrast to highly chlorinated congeners that are more resistant to metabolic attack, PCB3 is more readily converted by xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes to monohydroxy-PCBs and further to dihydroxy-metabolites, which can be oxidized to quinones. Our recent studies demonstrated the initiating action of PCB3 in the livers of male rats. Therefore we hypothesized that PCB3 and/or its metabolite(s) are mutagenic in rat liversin vivo. To investigate the mutagenicity and the types of mutations generated by PCB3, male Fischer 344 BigBlue® rats, transgenic for thelacIgene, were injected intraperitoneally with PCB3 (600 μmol/kg), 4-hydroxy-PCB3 (4-HO-PCB3, 400 μmol/kg), 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC, 300 μmol/kg, positive control) and corn oil (negative control) once per week, for 4 weeks. Animals were killed 17 days after the last injection and the mutant frequency of the liverlacIgene determined. 3-MC induced a 4-fold increase of the mutant frequency of thelacIgene in the liver. The mutant frequency in PCB3-treated animals was also significantly elevated. In contrast, 4-HO-PCB3 induced a non-significant doubling of the mutant frequency. The mutation spectrum of solvent control mutants was characterized by transitions, whereas in 3-MC-animals, transversion and frameshift mutations predominated. The PCB3-induced mutation spectrum was similar to that of the 3-MC-induced mutants. In contrast, the mutation spectrum of the 4-HO-PCB3 group hardly differed from that of the control animals. This study demonstrates for the first time the mutagenicity of a PCBin vivo.

4-Monochlorobiphenyl (PCB3) induces mutations in the livers of transgenic Fisher 344 rats