Intracellular localization and metabolism of the phenanthridinium trypanocide, ethidium bromide, by isolated rat hepatocytes

J. N. A. TETTEY Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, OE Bioengineering Unit and Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 ONR, UK

G. G. SKELLERN Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, OE Bioengineering Unit and Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 ONR, UK

J. M. MIDGLEY Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, OE Bioengineering Unit and Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 ONR, UK

M. H. GRANT Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, OE Bioengineering Unit and Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 ONR, UK

R. WILKINSON Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, OE Bioengineering Unit and Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 ONR, UK

A. R. PITT Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, OE Bioengineering Unit and Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 ONR, UK

Abstract

1. Confocallaser scanning microscopy (CLSM) has shown that ethidium (3,8-diamino5-ethyl-6-phenylphenanthridinium) bromide, an aromatic phenanthridinium trypanocide, is taken up rapidly into the nucleoli and nuclear membranes of isolated rat hepatocytes. 2. It is biotransformed by the hepatocytes and at least five metabolites have been detected by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). 3. Two new metabolites, 3- and 8-N-glucuronosylethidium, have been identified by HPLC-electrospray mass spectrometry and they represent the major pathway of metabolism, accounting for 6.4±0.7 and 19.5±1.2% respectively of total recovered drug after incubation. A third metabolite, 3,8-diacetylethidium, is formed in trace quantities. 4. The other two metabolites, 3-acetylethidium and 8-acetylethidium, have been reported previously.

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