Dong Dong, Ako Roland, Hu Ming, Wu Baojian
Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Xenobiotica. 2012 Aug;42(8):808-20. doi: 10.3109/00498254.2012.663515. Epub 2012 Mar 2.
The UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzyme catalyzes the glucuronidation reaction which is a major metabolic and detoxification pathway in humans. Understanding the mechanisms for substrate recognition by UGT assumes great importance in an attempt to predict its contribution to xenobiotic/drug disposition in vivo. Spurred on by this interest, 2D/3D-quantitative structure activity relationships and pharmacophore models have been established in the absence of a complete mammalian UGT crystal structure. This review discusses the recent progress in modeling human UGT substrates including those with multiple sites of glucuronidation. A better understanding of UGT active site contributing to substrate selectivity (and regioselectivity) from the homologous enzymes (i.e. plant and bacterial UGTs, all belong to family 1 of glycosyltransferase (GT1)) is also highlighted, as these enzymes share a common catalytic mechanism and/or overlapping substrate selectivity.
尿苷二磷酸葡萄糖醛酸基转移酶(UGT)催化葡萄糖醛酸化反应,这是人体主要的代谢和解毒途径。了解UGT识别底物的机制对于预测其在体内对外源化合物/药物处置的贡献至关重要。受此兴趣的推动,在缺乏完整的哺乳动物UGT晶体结构的情况下,已经建立了二维/三维定量构效关系和药效团模型。本综述讨论了在模拟人类UGT底物方面的最新进展,包括那些具有多个葡萄糖醛酸化位点的底物。还强调了从同源酶(即植物和细菌UGT,均属于糖基转移酶家族1(GT1))中更好地理解有助于底物选择性(和区域选择性)的UGT活性位点,因为这些酶具有共同的催化机制和/或重叠的底物选择性。