Original Article

Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1990) 94, 86–93; doi:10.1111/1523-1747.ep12873939

Levels of Cytochrome P-450-Mediated Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylase (AHH) are Higher in Differentiated than in Germinative Cutaneous Keratinocytes

Jin-feng Guo, Raya Brown, Charles E Rothwell and Isadore A Bernstein1

  1. Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
  2. 1Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Received 21 June 1988; Accepted 19 June 1989.

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Abstract

Induction of microsomal aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase and cytochrome P-450 was observed in epidermal cells obtained from the skin of newborn rats exposed to benz(a)anthracene by topical exposure and in submerged cultures exposed to the procarcinogen in vitro. The level of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity was increased 2.5-fold in vivo and six- to sevenfold in vitro when the measurements were made on the entire epidermis or the entire culture, respectively. However, separate measurement on germinative (basal) and on differentiated cells revealed that AHH was sevenfold higher in differentiated cells as compared with basal cells in the skin of both unexposed animals and animals exposed in vivo. Similar results were obtained in cultured cells exposed in vitro. Immunocytochemical staining of sections of skin from animals exposed to benz(a)anthracene in vivo with a monoclonal antibody generated against cytochrome P-450c showed a higher binding of the antibody in lower spinous cells than in basal cells in the epidermis. Although more stained cells were observed in exposed cultures than in untreated cultures, the antibody, which inhibits at least 85% of the hydroxylase activity in the skin, inhibited only 6% – 16% of the activity in culture. These observations support the interpretations that a) differentiated keratinocytes have a higher capacity in the metabolic activation of PAH than do germinative cells, although both types of cell are susceptible to induction of cytochrome P-450 by exposure to BA, and b) the cytochrome P-450 induced by exposure of epidermis to benz(a)anthracene in vivo exhibits some differences from the one induced upon exposure of keratinocytes to this procarcinogen in vitro.

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