Abstract
Recently we reported that resveratrol (trans-3,4′,5-trihydroxystilbene) showed selective inhibition of recombinant human cytochrome P450 (P450) 1A1 in a concentration-dependent manner. The inhibition of recombinant human P450 1A1, 1A2, or 1B1 by various hydroxystilbene compounds having a similar structure to resveratrol was investigated using bacterial membranes from a human P450/NADPH-P450 reductase bicistronic expression system to find new candidates for cancer chemopreventive agents. Of seven compounds tested, rhapontigenin (3,3′,5-trihydroxy-4′-methoxystilbene) exhibited a potent and selective inhibition of human P450 1A1 with an IC50 value of 0.4 μM. Rhapontigenin showed 400-fold selectivity for P450 1A1 over P450 1A2 and 23-fold selectivity for P450 1A1 over P450 1B1. Rhapontigenin did not show any significant inhibition of ethoxyresorufinO-deethylation (EROD) activity in human liver microsomes, the other human P450s such as P450 2E1, P450 3A4, P450 2D6, P450 2C8, and P450 2C9, or human NADPH-P450 reductase. We have further investigated the inhibition kinetics of P450 1A1 by rhapontigenin. Rhapontigenin inhibited EROD activity of expressed human P450 1A1 in a competitive manner. The loss of EROD activity was time- and concentration-dependent. The values for Kiand kinactivation were 0.09 μM and 0.06 min−1, respectively. The loss was not blocked by the trapping agents glutathione, N-acetylcysteine, or dithiothreitol. These results suggest that rhapontigenin is a potent mechanism-based inactivator of human P450 1A1 and may be considered as a good candidate for a cancer chemopreventive agent in humans.
Footnotes
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Send reprint requests to: Young Jin Chun, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy, Chungang University, 221, Huksuk-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-756, Korea. E-mail: yjchun{at}chungang.edu
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This work was supported by a research grant from Chungang University, Seoul, Korea (1999).
- Abbreviations used are::
- P450
- cytochrome P450
- EROD
- ethoxyresorufin O-deethylation
- IPTG
- isopropyl-1-thio-β-d-galactopyranoside
- Received October 3, 2000.
- Accepted December 13, 2000.
- The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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