Sarcoid granulomas metabolize 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 in vitro.

Sarcoid granulomas metabolized 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 to two unidentified metabolites during in vitro incubation. A two-step high pressure liquid chromatography system revealed two unique elution positions of these sarcoid-derived metabolites that exactly comigrated with the elution positions of 5(Z)-19-nor-10-oxo-25(OH)D3 and 5(E)-19-nor-10-oxo-25(OH)D3, respectively. These unique metabolites did not bind specifically to a protein receptor for 1,25(OH)2D3.