Jiang Yongying, Ortiz de Montellano Paul R
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California-San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158-2517, USA.
Chembiochem. 2009 Mar 2;10(4):650-3. doi: 10.1002/cbic.200800772.
The timing of the beta-thujone radical clock (see scheme) can be specifically altered by an allosteric effector. Progesterone, a well-documented CYP3A4 allosteric effector, was found to increase the yield of the unrearranged, C4-derived product of beta-thujone oxidation at the expense of the combined yields of all the rearranged C4-oxidized metabolites. The results demonstrate that the apparent radical recombination rate in the CYP3A4 hydroxylation of beta-thujone is accelerated by the progesterone heterotropic cooperativity.
β-侧柏酮自由基时钟的计时(见方案)可通过变构效应剂进行特异性改变。孕酮是一种有充分文献记载的CYP3A4变构效应剂,已发现它能提高β-侧柏酮氧化未重排的C4衍生产物的产率,代价是所有重排的C4氧化代谢产物的总产率。结果表明,孕酮的异源协同作用加速了CYP3A4催化β-侧柏酮羟基化过程中的表观自由基重组速率。