Mani, Monica Shirley and Kunnathully, Vidya and Rao, Chaitra and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada and Joshi, Manjunath B and D’Souzaa, Herman Sunil (2019) Modifying e ects of -Aminolevulinate dehydratase ff δ polymorphism on blood lead levels and ALAD activity. Toxicology Letters, 295. pp. 351-356. ISSN 0378-4274

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Abstract

Lead is an environmental hazard with great public health concern and has been known to inhibit delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase (ALAD) activity involved in the heme biosynthetic pathway. The study aimed to investigate the influence of ALAD polymorphism (G177C) on retention of Pb-B levels and ALAD activity on occupationally exposed lead workers. In the present study, we enrolled 561 lead exposed and 317 nonoccupationally exposed subjects and performed a comprehensive analysis of Pb-B levels along with ALAD activity and genotyping. The frequency of ALAD variants observed in the total subjects (n = 878) was 70.04% for ALAD 1-1, 27.44% for heterozygous ALAD 1–2 and 2.5% for homozygous mutant ALAD 2 2. Our study revealed that ALAD 1–2 carriers presented higher Pb-B levels compared to wild type ALAD 1-1 carriers. Further, a significant difference was observed in the activity of ALAD between ALAD 1–2/ 2-2 and ALAD 1-1 carriers of nonoccupationally exposed group indicating that the polymorphic nature of the enzyme may contribute to altered activity of ALAD irrespective of lead exposure. Hence, ALAD 2 allele might contribute to increased susceptibility to high Pb-B retention, and genotyping of ALAD in lead exposed subjects might be used as a prediction marker to impede tissue/organ damage due to lead toxicity

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