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1. The metabolism and covalent binding of [3H/14C]bromobenzene has been investigated using liver microsomes from untreated and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats. A model has been developed to relate the observed 3H/14C ratios in the covalently bound residues to the type of metabolite (epoxide versus quinone) responsible for their formation. 2. With control microsomes metabolism was linear for 60 minutes, but with PB microsomes the time course showed a short-lived burst of rapid metabolism followed by a long phase with an overall rate comparable to control. With both types of microsomes covalent binding was synchronous with metabolism. 3. The normalized 3H/14C ratios of recovered substrate and water-soluble metabolites was 1.0, whereas that of the covalently bound material was only 0.5. Such extensive loss of tritium implies that a considerable portion of the covalent binding arises from bromobenzene metabolites more highly oxidized than an epoxide (e.g. quinones). 4. The normalized 3H/14C ratios for bromobenzene metabolites covalently bound to liver proteins in vivo (total and microsomal) was the same as with microsomes in vitro (0.5). However, for the lung and kidney the 3H/14C ratios were considerably higher (0.71 and 0.62), indicating that differences between tissues in vivo may be greater than between liver microsomes in vitro and in vivo.
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