de Rezende Alexandre Azenha Alves, Graf Ulrich, Guterres Zaira da Rosa, Kerr Warwick Estevam, Spanó Mário Antônio
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Instituto de Genética e Bioquímica, Laboratório de Mutagênese, Av. Pará 1720, Campus Umuarama, 38400-902 Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.
Food Chem Toxicol. 2009 Jul;47(7):1466-72. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.03.031. Epub 2009 Mar 31.
Proanthocyanidins (PAs), also known as condensed tannins, are naturally occurring oligomers and polymers of flavan-3-ol monomer units widely found in the leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, nuts and barks of many plants. Grape seed proanthocyanidins (GSPs) have been used as nutritional supplements, as antioxidants, in preventing atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, and for dislipidemy treatment. The anthracycline antibiotic adriamycin (Doxorubicin, DXR) is a cancer chemotherapeutic agent that interferes with the topoisomerase II enzyme and generates free radicals. In the present study, GSPs (1.680, 3.375, or 6.750 mg/mL) alone were examined for genotoxicity, and combined with DXR (0.125 mg/mL) for antigenotoxicity, using the standard (ST) and high bioactivation (HB) versions of the wing somatic mutation and recombination test in Drosophila melanogaster. The results observed in both crosses were rather similar. GSPs themselves did not show genotoxicity at the doses used. GSPs suppressed the DNA damage induced by DXR in a dose-dependent manner. Comparison of the frequencies of wing spots in the marker-heterozygous (MH) flies and balancer-heterozygous (BH) flies from both crosses, indicated that induced recombination was the major response for the treatments with DXR alone. The co-treatments demonstrated that GSPs have some anti-mutagenic activity; however, anti-recombinagenic activity was the major response.
原花青素(PAs),也被称为缩合单宁,是天然存在的黄烷 - 3 - 醇单体单元的低聚物和聚合物,广泛存在于许多植物的叶子、花朵、果实、种子、坚果和树皮中。葡萄籽原花青素(GSPs)已被用作营养补充剂、抗氧化剂,用于预防动脉粥样硬化和心血管疾病以及治疗血脂异常。蒽环类抗生素阿霉素(多柔比星,DXR)是一种癌症化疗药物,它会干扰拓扑异构酶II并产生自由基。在本研究中,使用黑腹果蝇翅膀体细胞突变和重组试验的标准(ST)和高生物活化(HB)版本,单独检测了GSPs(1.680、3.375或6.750 mg/mL)的遗传毒性,并与DXR(0.125 mg/mL)联合检测其抗遗传毒性。在两个杂交组合中观察到的结果相当相似。在所使用的剂量下GSPs本身未显示出遗传毒性。GSPs以剂量依赖的方式抑制了DXR诱导的DNA损伤。对两个杂交组合中标记杂合(MH)果蝇和平衡子杂合(BH)果蝇翅膀斑点频率进行比较,表明单独用DXR处理时,诱导重组是主要反应。联合处理表明GSPs具有一定的抗诱变活性;然而,抗重组活性是主要反应。