Discovery of inhibitors of soluble epoxide hydrolase: a target with multiple potential therapeutic indications.
Discovery of inhibitors of soluble epoxide hydrolase: a target with multiple potential therapeutic indications.
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DOI:
10.1021/jm201468j
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发表时间:
2012-03-08
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
Hammock, Bruce D.
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作者:
Shen, Hong C.;Hammock, Bruce D.
1. INTRODUCTION Epoxide hydrolases have been detected in prokaryotes and eukaryotes ranging from plants to mammals. 1− 3 In mammals these include the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH), cholesterol epoxide hydrolase, and leukotriene A4 (LTA4) hydrolase. These enzymes mediate the addition of water to both exogenous and endogenous epoxides, leading to the corresponding vicinal diols except for LTA4 hydrolase, and they display different substrate selectivity. For example, the mammalian sEH is selective for aliphatic epoxides and particularly fatty acid epoxides, whereas mEH is more selective for cyclic and arene epoxides. Studies on the mEH have focused on its role in xenobiotic metabolism, but its distribution, particularly in the brain and adrenal gland, suggests a possible endogenous role. 4 Although its catalytic activity on fatty acid epoxides is low, the high level of the mEH in some brain regions may contribute to their hydrolysis. The catalytic activity of the sEH on arene oxides and other cyclic epoxides is so low that its contribution appears insignificant compared to the mEH as well as for chemical and glutathione S-transferase catalyzed conjugation of reactive epoxides. Although the sEH can metabolize some aliphatic natural products, the sEH is thought to be involved largely in the metabolism of regulatory epoxy lipids, particularly those of the arachidonic acid cascade (Figure 1). Titers of free arachidonic acid are very low, but when it is released, it is converted to a wide variety of biologically active metabolites. Most research has focused on the cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways, but increasing attention is being paid to the cytochrome P450 branch of the cascade. One set of P450 enzymes carry out allylic and ω and ω-1 oxidation. Another set of P450 enzymes form regioisomeric epoxides of arachidonic acid and other unsaturated lipids. In the arachidonate series these epoxides are called epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs). The EETs are metabolized by incorporation into phospholipids, chain shortening, chain elongation, hydroxylation, and other pathways. 5 However, the dominant pathway is hydration of the epoxides to the corresponding 1, 2-diols by sEH. It is noted that multiple drugs have already been discovered to act on the cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase branches of the arachidonic acid metabolic cascade. For example, numerous nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). 6 In addition, montelukast is a leukotriene (LT) receptor antagonist blocking the action of LTD4 and secondary ligands LTC4 and LTE4. 7 Zileuton inhibits 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme of the eicosanoid synthesis pathway for the production of LTs. 8 Both montelukast and zileuton are effective therapies for treatment of asthma. Lastly, laropiprant, an antagonist of the DP1 receptor of prostaglandin D2, is used in combination with niacin to suppress the niacin-induced vasodilation. 9As shown in Figure 2, sEH in human (hsEH, EPHX2, EC 3.3. 2.10) is a bifunctional homodimeric enzyme located in both cytosol and peroxisomes with both epoxide hydrolase and phosphatase activity. 1 Specifically, the C-terminus epoxide hydrolase motif of sEH transforms four regioisomers of EETs, namely, 5, 6-, 8, 9-, 11, 12-, and 14, 15-EETs, which are the endogenous chemical mediators derived from arachidonic acid by cytochrome P450 epoxygenases, to the corresponding dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acids (DHETs), whereby the biological effects of EETs are diminished, eliminated, or altered. 10 Recent work has shown that some fatty acid diols have …
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