Genotoxic activity in human faecal water and the role of bile acids: a study using the alkaline comet assay

Carcinogenesis
M VenturiIan Rowland

Abstract

Human faecal waters from 35 healthy non-smoking volunteers (23 from England and 12 from Sweden) consuming their habitual diet were screened for genotoxicity by the single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay using a human colon adenocarcinoma cell line (CACO-2) as the target. Hydrogen peroxide induced DNA damage was categorized as low, intermediate or high for tail moments greater than 5, 17 and 32, respectively: 11 samples were highly genotoxic, four were intermediate, one was low and 19 showed no activity. Endonuclease III treatment significantly increased DNA damage for all except the non-genotoxic faecal waters, suggesting that faecal water genotoxicity may be due, at least in part, to oxidative damage. Faecal water cytotoxicity has previously been attributed to the bile and fatty acid content. In the comet assay no DNA damage was induced by deoxycholate or lithocholate at normal physiological concentrations, suggesting that the genotoxicity of faecal water was due to other substances. Both bile acids induced DNA damage above 300 microM, levels often found in patients with colonic polyps and there was a significant increase in genotoxicity after endonuclease III treatment indicative of oxidative DNA damage.

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