A facile assay for 2-hydroxylation of estradiol by liver microsomes.
A facile assay for 2-hydroxylation of estradiol by liver microsomes.
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肝微粒体对雌二醇 2-羟基化的简便测定。
DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(81)90317-1
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Bulger,WH
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作者:
Kupfer,D;Miranda,GK;Bulger,WH
Various studies have demonstrated that hydroxylation at C-2 is a major pathway of metabolism of estrogens in man and rat (l-4, 38-40). Among the tissues examined in the rat, the liver was found to contain the highest 2-hydroxylating activity, followed by the brain, with other tissues having lower activity (5). 2-Hydroxylase activity was also observed in benign and malignant human breast tumors (3 1). The major portion of the 2-hydroxylase activity in the liver and brain (6, 7, 30) and kidney (27) was found to be present in the microsomal fraction. By contrast, 2-hydroxylase in the lung was highest in the mitochondrial fraction (27). Additionally, though the liver and brain 2-hydroxylase appears to be cytochrome P-450 mediated (17, 29, 30), it does not respond significantly to certain typical inducers of monooxygenase such as 3-methylcholanthrene and phenobarbital (5, 7). Recent findings also showed the presence of 2-hydroxyestrogens in adult rat brain and in human fetus brain, pituitary, and liver (5, 8, 9). Certain findings (IO-17) on the biological activity of catechol estrogens have suggested that 2-hydroxylation is probably not entirely a catabolic pathway and that catechol estrogens may be biologically active. IJntil recently, the assessment of 2-hydroxylation in animal tissues has involved relatively laborious procedures, among these, thin-layer chromatography (18), radioimmunoassays