In order to understand the mechanism involved in the aromatase inactivation by androst-5-ene, 4, 7, 17-trione (4), a suicide substrate of aromatase, 5β, 6β-epoxyandrosta-4, 7, 17, 19-tetraone (6) was synthesized as a candidate for a reactive electrophile involved in irreversible binding to the active site of aromatase upon treatment of 19-oxo-5-ene steroid 5 with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of NaHCO3. The epoxide 6 was a competitive inhibitor of human placental aromatase (K1=34 μM); moreover, it inactivated the enzyme in an active-site-directed manner in the absence of NADPH (K1=36 μM, a rate constant for inactivation (kinact)=0.027 min-1). NADPH stimulated the inactivation rate, but the substrate androst-4-ene-3, 17-dione blocked the inactivation. A nucleophile, L-cysteine, did not cause a significant change in the inactivation. When both the epoxide 6 and its 19-methyl analog 7 were subjected separately to a reaction with N-acetyl-L-cycteine in the presence of NaHCO3, the 19-oxo compound 6 disappeared from the reaction mixture more rapidly (t/1/2=6.0 min) than the 19-methyl analog 7 (t1/2=16 min). On the basis of these results, it is suggested that the 5β, 6β-epoxy-19-oxo steroid 6 may be the reactive electrophile that alkylates a nucleophilic residue of the amino acid of the active site.
为了了解雄甾-5-烯-3,17-二酮(4)这种芳香化酶自杀底物对芳香化酶失活的作用机理,在NaHCO3存在下,将5β,6β-环氧雄甾-4,7,17,19-四酮(6)作为反应性亲电试剂的候选物进行合成,该试剂在19-氧代-5-烯类
固醇5与
过氧化氢反应时,会与芳香化酶的活性位点发生不可逆的结合。环氧物6是人体胎盘芳香化酶的竞争性
抑制剂(K1=34 μM);此外,它会在没有
NADPH的情况下以活性位点定向的方式使酶失活(K1=36 μM,失活速率常数(kinact)=0.027 min-1)。
NADPH会刺激失活速率,但底物
雄甾-4-烯-3,17-二酮会阻止失活。亲核试剂
L-半胱氨酸不会导致失活发生明显变化。当环氧物6及其19-甲基类似物7在NaHCO3存在下分别与
N-乙酰-L-半胱氨酸发生反应时,19-氧代化合物6从反应混合物中消失的速度(t/1/2=6.0 min)比