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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-4-13
pubmed:abstractText
Estrogen can be hydroxylated at both 2- and 16alpha-positions. These two reactions are mutually exclusive. The 2-hydroxylated estrogen is relatively inactive compared with the 16alpha-derivative; hence, one approach in anti-estrogenic therapy is to look for drugs that can induce the 2-hydroxylation pathway. In the present study, using Balb/c and C57B/6 mice as the animal models, the induction effect of several isoprenyl compounds on estradiol-2-hydroxylase and ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase activities was studied. The compounds examined included 2'- and 3'-methylbutadienyl-indoles and their respective acid condensation products, isopropyl indolocarbazole and yuehchukene; positional isomers of indole carbinols and carboxyaldehydes, as well as 3-methylcholanthrene, the prototype inducer of cytochrome P450 1A1. Our results demonstrated that while all of them were capable of inducing cytochrome P450 1A1-mediated ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase activity, only the 3' isomers could induce estradiol-2-hydroxylase activity. The induction of these two activities did not show any direct correlation, suggesting that cytochrome P450 1A1 was not the same enzyme catalyzing both ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylation and estradiol-2-hydroxylation. Nevertheless, both inductions were mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. Among the compounds tested, yuehchukene showed competitive binding to estrogen receptor. This, together with the induction of estradiol-2-hydroxylase activity, may account for the anti-estrogenic effect of yuehchukene.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0014-2999
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
362
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
87-93
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Induction of estradiol-2-hydroxylase and ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase by 3-substituted indole compounds.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't