Add time:08/17/2019         Source:sciencedirect.com

The assays of several phase I and phase II xenobiotic-metabolizing enzyme activities, as well as CYP1A immunoblot analysis, were performed in liver microsomes and cytosol of male C57BL/6 mice (Ah receptor-responsive), of male DBA/2 mice (Ah receptor-low responsive) and of female Ah receptor gene knockout mice that were fed diets containing 300 mg/kg of a nonprovitamin A carotenoid, canthaxanthin, or a provitamin A carotenoid, β-apo-8″-carotenal for 14 days, or which were injected i.p. with 3-methylcholanthrene. Previous studies have shown that some carotenoids, such as canthaxanthin and β-apo-8″-carotenal, are strong inducers of liver CYP1A1 and 1A2 when given to rats. In this work, only canthaxanthin induced both CYP1A1 and 1A2 in C57BL/6 mice, whereas β-apo-8″-carotenal induced only CYP1A2 in this strain. Neither of the two carotenoids modified CYP1A1/2 protein contents or enzyme activities in Ah receptor-low responsive DBA/2 or in Ah receptor gene knockout mice. Cytosol prepared from C57BL/6 mice liver tissue was incubated with [3H]2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in the presence of canthaxanthin or β-apo-8″-carotenal and analyzed by sucrose density gradient sedimentation: neither of the carotenoids, even when present in large excess, competed with TCDD for the TCDD binding site of the cytosolic Ah receptor of C57BL/6 mice. In brief, the carotenoids canthaxanthin or β-apo-8″-carotenal induced Cyp1a genes in mice through an Ah receptor-dependent pathway, but did not bind to the Ah receptor.

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