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Mechanism of Lower Genotoxicity of Toremifene Compared with Tamoxifen¹

Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8651 [S. S., A. R., I. T., N. S., Y. R. S. L.]; Pharmaceuticals Group, Nippon Kayaku Co. Ltd., Tokyo 115-8588, Japan [Y. K., M. S.]; and Division of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 [T. I. A., J. J. S., M. W. D.]

An increased incidence of endometrial cancer has been reported in breast cancer patients taking tamoxifen (TAM) and in healthy women participating in the TAM chemoprevention trials. Because TAM-DNA adducts are mutagenic and detected in the endometrium of women treated with TAM, TAM adducts are suspected to initiate the development of endometrial cancer. Treatment with TAM has been known to promote hepatocarcinoma in rats, but toremifene (TOR), a chlorinated TAM analogue, did not. TAM adducts are primarily formed via sulfonation of the -hydroxylated TAM metabolites. To explore the mechanism of the lower genotoxicity of TOR, the formation of DNA adducts induced by TOR metabolites was measured using ³²P-postlabeling/ high-performance liquid chromatography analysis and compared with that of TAM metabolites. When -hydroxytoremifene was incubated with DNA, 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, and either rat or human hydroxysteroid sulfotransferase, the formation of DNA adducts was two orders of magnitude lower than that of -hydroxytamoxifen. -hydroxytoremifene was a poor substrate for rat and human hydroxysteroid sulfotransferases. In addition, the reactivity of -acetoxytoremifene, a model activated form of TOR, with DNA was much lower than that of -acetoxytamoxifen. Thus, TOR is likely to have lower genotoxicity than TAM. TOR may be a safer alternative by avoiding the development of endometrial cancer.

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