摘要:
18-Vinylprogesterone (18-VP) and 18-ethynylprogesterone (18-EP) have proved to be potent suicide inhibitors of P-450(11 beta), the last enzyme of aldosterone biosynthesis (Delorme, C.; Piffeteau, A.; Viger, A.; Marquet, A. fur. J. Biochem. 1995, 232, 247; Delorme, C.; Piffeteau, A.; Sobrio, F.; Marquet, A. fur. J. Biochem. 1997, 248, 252). This paper describes the synthesis of 18-vinyldeoxycorticosterone (18-VDOC), an analogue of deoxycorticosterone (DOC), the physiological substrate of the enzyme, and the evaluation of its reversible inhibiting properties for deoxycorticosterone and corticosterone oxidation by the bovine enzyme. 18-VDOC has been obtained by hydroxylation at C-21 of a 18-VP precursor. Its reversible K-i values are, respectively, 0.3 mu M for the 11 beta-hydroxylation and 0.8 mu M for the 18-hydroxylation. Hence, 18-VDOC is the strongest competitive inhibitor of bovine P-450(11 beta) described so far, but in contrast with 18-VP, it does not inhibit more efficiently the 18-hydroxylation than the 11-hydroxylation, (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.