The mechanism of aphidicolin bioinactivation by rat liver in vitro systems

Xenobiotica; the Fate of Foreign Compounds in Biological Systems
R E EdelsonT L MacDonald

Abstract

1. Aphidicolin is shown to undergo rapid metabolism by rat-liver microsomes resulting in its inactivation and loss of its DNA polymerase alpha/delta inhibition. Metabolism of aphidicolin was not observed with cytosolic enzymes of rat liver and was inconsistent with the involvement of microsomal 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductases. 2. Rates of aphidicolin inactivation as a function of microsomal enzyme induction (per nmol cytochrome P-450) followed the order: untreated microsomes greater than dexamethasone-induced greater than phenobarbital-induced greater than beta-naphthoflavone-induced greater than clofibrate-induced. 3. The principal metabolic process, constituting greater than 90% of the metabolic profile, produces 3-ketoaphidicolin 2, which exhibits approximately 10% of the activity of aphidicolin in inhibition of DNA polymerase alpha. This metabolic transformation, the oxidation of an alcohol to a ketone, is an unusual, but not unique conversion, for cytochrome P-450. 4. 3-Ketoaphidicolin 2 is an intermediate and ultimately undergoes 18-dehydroxymethylation to produce 18-noraphidicolinones 3, which are inactive in the inhibition of DNA polymerase alpha. 5. A specific constitutive cytochrome P-450 isozyme, involved in e...Continue Reading

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