New metabolites from fungal biotransformation of an oral contraceptive agent: Methyloestrenolone
作者:Salman Zafar、Marium Bibi、Sammer Yousuf、M. Iqbal Choudhary
DOI:10.1016/j.steroids.2013.01.002
日期:2013.4
Fungal cell cultures were used for the first time for the biotransformation of methyloestrenolone (1), an oral contraceptive. Fermentation of I with Macrophomina phaseolina, Aspergillus niger, Gibberella fujikuroi, and Cunninghamella echinulata produced eleven metabolites 2-12, six of which 2-5, 11 and 12 were found to be new. These metabolites were resulted from the hydroxylation at C-1, C-2, C-6, C-10, C-1 1, and C-17 alpha-CH3, as well as aromatization of ring A of the steroidal skeleton of substrate 1. The transformed products were identified as 17 alpha-methyl-6 beta,17 beta-dihydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (2), 17 alpha-(hydroxymethyl)-11 beta,17 beta-dihydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (3), 17 alpha-methyl-2 alpha,11 beta,17 beta-trihydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (4), 17 alpha-methyl-1 beta,17 beta-dihydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (5), 17 alpha-methyl-11 alpha,17 beta-dihydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (6), 17 alpha-methyl-11 beta,17 beta-dihydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (7), 17 alpha-methyl-10 beta,17 beta-dihydroxyestr-4-en-3 -one (8), 17 alpha-( hydroxymethyl)-17 beta-hydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (9), 17 alpha-methylestr-1,3,5(10)-trien-3,17 B-diol (10), 17 beta-methyl-3,17 beta-dihydroxyestr-1,3,5(10)-trien-6-one (11), and 17 alpha-methyl-6 beta,10 beta,17 beta-trihydroxyestr-4-en-3-one (C). 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.