Spindler K D, Spindler-Barth M, Turberg A, Adam G
Institut für Zoologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Z Naturforsch C J Biosci. 1992 Mar-Apr;47(3-4):280-4. doi: 10.1515/znc-1992-3-418.
The two brassinosteroids, 22 S,23 S-homobrassinolide and 22 S,23 S-homocastasterone are weak competitors of the binding of [3H]ponasterone A to the intracellular ecdysteroid receptor from the epithelial cell line from Chironomus tentans. The relative affinities to the ecdysteroid receptor are 0.001 for both brassinosteroids as compared to 20-OH-ecdysone and 0.1 in comparison to ecdysone. Both substances exert morphological effects similar to those observed with 20-OH-ecdysone. Like moulting hormones both brassinosteroids inhibit chitin synthesis. However, these effects were observed only at rather high concentrations (10(-5) to 10(-4) M) which were cytotoxic for 22 S,23 S-homobrassinolide.
