Subsequent Products After Antioxidant Actions of β-Carotene and α-Tocopherol Have No<i>Salmonella</i>Mutagenicity
作者:Mingzhou SUN、Ryo YAMAUCHI、Hitoshi ASHIDA、Kazuki KANAZAWA
DOI:10.1271/bbb.66.363
日期:2002.1
β-Carotene and α-tocopherol are important antioxidants biologically, but whether their oxidized products are toxic or not remains to be discovered. Here, we chromatographically separated 5 pure products or isomeric mixtures from reaction mixtures of β-carotene and reactive oxygens, and 17 lipid-radical scavenging products of α-tocopherol. The products were tested for mutagenicity using Salmonella typhimurium TA98, TA100, TA102, and TA104, in the presence and absence of S9. None showed mutagenicity against any of the four strains, or cytotoxicity that influenced the survival of the bacteria. Lipid-peroxides have been known to increase the formation of mutagens from dietary procarcinogens such as heterocyclic amines. So, we also measured the activity to increase 3-amino-1-methyl- 5H-pyrido[4,3-b]indole (Trp-P-2) mutagenicity. The products from β-carotene and α-tocopherol did not increase, but rather several of them suppressed, the mutagenicity of Trp-P-2. Thus, the products of β-carotene and α-tocopherol formed after the antioxidant actions were not genotoxic.
β-胡萝卜素和α-生育酚是重要的生物抗氧化剂,但其氧化产物是否具有毒性仍有待发现。在这里,我们从β-胡萝卜素和活性氧的反应混合物中分离出了5种纯产物或异构混合物,并从α-生育酚的反应混合物中分离出了17种清除脂质自由基的产物。在 S9 存在和不存在的情况下,使用鼠伤寒沙门氏菌 TA98、TA100、TA102 和 TA104 对这些产品进行了诱变性测试。结果表明,这四种产品对任何一种菌株都没有诱变作用,也没有影响细菌存活的细胞毒性。众所周知,脂质过氧化物会增加杂环胺等膳食致癌物质诱变剂的形成。因此,我们还测量了增加 3-氨基-1-甲基-5H-吡啶并[4,3-b]吲哚(Trp-P-2)致突变性的活性。β-胡萝卜素和α-生育酚的产物并没有增加,相反,其中几种产物抑制了 Trp-P-2 的致突变性。因此,β-胡萝卜素和α-生育酚在抗氧化作用后形成的产物不具有遗传毒性。