AS WELL AS SERVING TO COMPLETE THE OXIDATION OF GLUCOSE TO CO2 & WATER, THE TRICARBOXYLIC ACID CYCLE ALSO PROVIDES INTERMEDIATES FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF SOME SECONDARY METABOLITES, INCL THE RUBRATOXINS... THE FIRST STEP INVOLVES CONDENSATION OF DECANOIC ACID WITH OXALOACETIC ACID IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO THE FORMATION OF CITRIC ACID. SUBSEQUENT DEHYDRATION, DECARBOXYLATION & OXIDATION LEAD TO AN INTERMEDIATE ANHYDRIDE WHICH DIMERIZES TO FORM, AFTER FURTHER OXIDATION, RUBRATOXIN A. AT WHAT STAGE THE OXYGEN FUNCTIONS ARE INTRODUCED IS NOT CLEAR, &, IN PARTICULAR, SUCH A HYPOTHESIS WOULD MEAN THAT THE CARBOXYL GROUP OF THE ALPHA,BETA-UNSATURATED GAMMA-LACTONE WOULD BE DERIVED FROM THE METHYL CARBON OF ACETATE. /RUBRATOXINS/
THE LIVER METABOLIZES RUBRATOXINS. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF METABOLITES. IN RATS, GLUCURONIDE & SULFATE CONJUGATES ARE EXCRETED IN BILE, APPARENTLY HYDROLYZED IN THE INTESTINE, & THE PARENT TOXIN MAY BE RESORBED IN AN ENTEROHEPATIC CYCLE. UNKNOWN METABOLITES ARE ALSO FORMED. /RUBRATOXINS/
Rubratoxin B is cytotoxic, hinders cell proliferation, and induces apoptosis. It also inhibits the activity of matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9. Rubratoxin B causes disaggregation of the polyribosome complex, likely by inhibiting an enzyme associated with the site of polyribosome binding to the membrane. It has also been shown to bind to some hepatic microsomes and inhibit Na+/K+-transporting ATPases. Rubratoxin B can inhibit protein phosphatase 2A, exerting antitumor and antimetastatic effects. Inhibition may cause the phosphorylation of CREB and subsequent activation of natural killer cells via the stimulation of interleukin-2 release from T cells, contributing to antimetastatic effects. Focal adhesion kinase phosphorylation and paxillin phosphorylation that interfere with cell adhesion could be another antimetastatic effect. Mycotoxins are often able to enter the liver and kidney by human organic anion transporters (hOATs) and human organic cation transporters (hOCTs). They can also inhibit uptake of anions and cations by these transporters, interefering with the secretion of endogenous metabolites, drugs, and xenobiotics including themselves. This results in increased cellular accumulation of toxic compounds causing nephro- and hepatotoxicity. (A2985, A2986, A2987, A3014)
来源:Toxin and Toxin Target Database (T3DB)
毒理性
致癌物分类
对人类不具有致癌性(未被国际癌症研究机构IARC列名)。
No indication of carcinogenicity to humans (not listed by IARC).
来源:Toxin and Toxin Target Database (T3DB)
毒理性
健康影响
Rubratoxin B 是肝脏毒性、肾脏毒性和脾脏毒性,可导致充血性、出血性和退行性病变。
Rubratoxin B is hepatotoxic, nephrotoxic, and splenotoxic, causing congestive, hemorrhagic and degenerative lesions. (A2985, A2986)
来源:Toxin and Toxin Target Database (T3DB)
毒理性
暴露途径
口服、皮肤、吸入和注射(污染药物)。
Oral, dermal, inhalation, and parenteral (contaminated drugs). (A3101)
来源:Toxin and Toxin Target Database (T3DB)
毒理性
副作用
职业性肝毒素 - 第二性肝毒素:在职业环境中的毒性效应潜力是基于人类摄入或动物实验的中毒案例。
Occupational hepatotoxin - Secondary hepatotoxins: the potential for toxic effect in the occupational setting is based on cases of poisoning by human ingestion or animal experimentation.
来源:Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
EXCRETION PATTERNS OF (14)C DERIVED FROM RADIOLABELED RUBRATOXIN B...IN MICE & RATS...EXCRETED 40-50% OF THE ADMIN RADIOACTIVITY DURING THE INITIAL 24 HR. A MAJOR EXCRETORY ROUTE WAS RESP CO2 WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 30% OF THE ADMIN (14)C IN MICE & 35% IN RATS. 6 TO 9% WAS EXCRETED IN THE URINE; LESS RADIOACTIVITY WAS PRESENT IN FECES. RADIOACTIVITY DERIVED FROM RUBRATOXIN WAS PRESENT AT MAX LEVELS IN LIVER & KIDNEYS ONE HR AFTER ADMIN; SMALLER AMT WERE FOUND IN OTHER ORGANS. THE CONCN OF RADIOACTIVITY WAS GREATEST IN LIVER TISSUE.
EXCRETION PATTERNS OF (14)C DERIVED FROM RADIOLABELED RUBRATOXIN B...IN MICE & RATS. ...ALL DETECTABLE RADIOACTIVITY PRESENT IN THE LIVER 1/2 HR AFTER INJECTION WAS IN THE MICROSOMAL SUPERNATANT FLUID. WITHIN THE FIRST 2 HR, INCR AMT OF RADIOACTIVITY WERE FOUND IN THE MITOCHONDRIA WITH A CONCOMITANT DECR IN THE MICROSOMAL SUPERNATANT FLUID. AT 24 HR, THE MITOCHONDRIAL FRACTION CONTAINED APPROX 14% OF THE LIVER RADIOACTIVITY WITH 80% REMAINING IN THE SOL FRACTION. THE MICROSOMAL FRACTION CONTAINED 4 TO 10% OF THE LIVER RADIOACTIVITY DURING THE 24-HR PERIOD.
EXCRETION, TISSUE CONCN IN KIDNEY & LIVER, & PHARMACOKINETIC PARAMETERS ESTIMATED FROM PLASMA BLOOD CONCN WERE DETERMINED FOR RATS GIVEN A SINGLE IP DOSE OF (14)C-RUBRATOXIN B (0.05 MG DISSOLVED IN PROPYLENE GLYCOL). BY 7 DAYS, 80% OF ADMIN RADIOACTIVITY WAS EXCRETED INTO THE URINE (41.7%) & FECES (38.7%). URINARY EXCRETION WAS PRIMARILY AS THE PARENT COMPOUND, ACCOUNTING FOR 75% OF RADIOACTIVITY EXCRETED BY 7 DAYS. ELIMINATION OF RADIOACTIVITY FROM KIDNEYS WAS MONOPHASIC WITH T/2 OF 97.35 HR. ELIMINATION OF RADIOACTIVITY FROM LIVER WAS BIPHASIC, WITH T/2 OF 13.66 HR FOR THE SLOW PHASE. ELIMINATION OF RUBRATOXIN B & (14)C-RUBRATOXIN B-DERIVED RADIOACTIVITY (RADIOACTIVITY DERIVED FROM BOTH THE PARENT COMPOUND & METABOLITES) FROM PLASMA WAS BIPHASIC. THE RAPID PHASES OF ELIMINATION HAD T/2 OF 2.57 & 1.08 HR, & SLOW PHASES HAD T/2 OF 60.80 & 100.46 HR FOR RUBRATOXIN B & (14)C-RUBRATOXIN B-DERIVED RADIOACTIVITY RESPECTIVELY. THE LONG PLASMA T/2 IS SUGGESTIVE OF ENTEROHEPATIC CIRCULATION. THE CONCN OF RADIOACTIVITY WAS GREATEST AT 1 HR IN LIVER & 2 HR IN PLASMA. EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST FEW HR FOLLOWING INJECTION, THE CONCN OF RADIOACTIVITY IN LIVER NEVER EXCEEDED SIGNIFICANTLY THAT IN THE PLASMA, SUGGESTING A PASSIVE ABSORPTION PROCESS.