Abstract
Eighteen hours after intraduodenal administration of C14Cl4, 85% had been excreted in the expired air unaltered and 1% had been converted to C14O2. After administration of C14HCl3, 70% had appeared in the expired air unchanged and 4% as C14O2. Liver slices also formed CO2 more rapidly from CHCl3 than from CCl4. The metabolism of CCl4 and CHCl3 is greatly diminished if the tissues are homogenized. The production of CO2 from chloromethanes by liver slices is stimulated by citrate and acetate, inhibited by iodoacetate, fluoride arsenate, cyanide and by acid, alkali or heat treatment of the liver slices. Succinate stimulated the metabolism only of CCl4, not of CHCl3. Neither reduced glutathione nor cysteine increases CO2 production from CCl4.
Some CCl4 is converted to CHCl3in vivo and in vitro. No evidence of the formation of other chloromethanes from either CHCl3 or CCl4 was obtained. It is concluded that CCl4 and CHCl3 are converted to CO2 by enzyme-catalyzed reactions and that CHCl3 probably is an intermediate in the metabolism of CCl4.
Footnotes
- Received January 1, 1963.
- Accepted May 7, 1963.
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