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Many studies have investigated the effects of glutathioneS-transferase (GST) polymorphisms on cancer incidence in people exposed to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The basis for this is that the carcinogenic bay region diol epoxide metabolites of several PAH are detoxified by GSTs inin vitrostudies. However, there are no reports in the literature on the identification in urine of the mercapturic acid metabolites that would result from this process in humans. We addressed this by developing a method for quantitation in human urine of mercapturic acids which would be formed from angular ring diol epoxides of phenanthrene (Phe), the simplest PAH with a bay region, and a common environmental pollutant. We prepared standard mercapturic acids by reactions ofsyn- oranti-Phe-1,2-diol-3,4-epoxide andsyn- oranti-Phe-3,4-diol-1,2-epoxide withN-acetylcysteine. Analysis of human urine conclusively demonstrated that the only detectable mercapturic acid of this type—N-acetyl-S-(r-4,t-2,3-trihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-c/t-1-phenanthryl)-L-cysteine (anti-PheDE-1-NAC)—was derived from the ‘reverse diol epoxide’,anti-Phe-3,4-diol-1,2-epoxide, and not from the bay region diol epoxides,syn- oranti-Phe-1,2-diol-3,4-epoxide. Levels ofanti-PheDE-1-NAC in the urine of 36 smokers were (mean ± SD) 728 ± 859 fmol/ml urine. The results of this study provide the first evidence for a mercapturic acid of a PAH diol epoxide in human urine, but it was not derived from a bay region diol epoxide as molecular epidemiologic studies have presumed, but rather from a reverse diol epoxide, representative of metabolites with little if any carcinogenic activity. These results demonstrate the need for integration of genotyping and phenotyping information in molecular epidemiology studies.

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Analysis of phenanthrene diol epoxide mercapturic acid detoxification products in human urine: relevance to molecular epidemiology studies of glutathione               S              -transferase polymorphisms