Abstract
The inhibition of CYP2A6 by decursinol angelate, a pyranocoumarin isolated from Angelica gigas roots, was examined in human liver microsomes and recombinant CYP2A6. Decursinol angelate moderately inhibited coumarin 7-hydroxylation, but a 20-min preincubation with microsomes and NADPH significantly increased its inhibitory effect (IC50; >20 versus 4.4 μM). A similar inhibition pattern was observed in nicotine C oxidation, which is also one of the prototype reactions of CYP2A6. Inactivation by decursinol angelate was selective for CYP2A6 and characterized by KI values of 0.99 and 2.42 μM and the kinact values of 0.136 and 0.053 min-1 in microsomes and recombinant CYP2A6, respectively. This inactivation was not protected or restored by nucleophiles, reactive oxygen scavengers, or extensive dialysis but was inhibited by the addition of a competitive CYP2A6 inhibitor, pilocarpine. Furthermore, incubation of CYP2A6 with decursinol angelate in the presence of NADPH resulted in a loss of the spectral CYP2A6 content. An in vitro metabolism study revealed that CYP2A6 oxidized decursinol angelate to the dihydrodiol metabolite, presumably via an epoxide intermediate that might be responsible for the inactivation of CYP2A6. These results collectively demonstrated that decursinol angelate inactivated CYP2A6 in a mechanism-based mode.
Footnotes
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This work was supported in part by Seoul Research and Business Development Program and in part by Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
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doi:10.1124/dmd.107.016584.
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ABBREVIATIONS: P450, cytochrome P450; HPLC, high-performance liquid chromatography; GSH, glutathione; NAC, N-acetylcysteine; MOA, methoxamine; LC, liquid chromatography; MS/MS, tandem mass spectrometry; MS, mass spectrometry; ESI, electrospray ionization.
- Received May 15, 2007.
- Accepted July 5, 2007.
- The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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