YAKUGAKU ZASSHI
Online ISSN : 1347-5231
Print ISSN : 0031-6903
ISSN-L : 0031-6903
グリセオフルビンの生合成と微生物変換, 及びエストロゲンの発がんと制がん
佐藤 良博
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1995 年 115 巻 11 号 p. 892-908

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In the biosynthetic study of griseofulvin by Penicillium urticae and microbial transformation of (-)- and (+)-dehydrogriseofulvin and their derivatives by Streptomyces cinereocrocatus excellent informations were obtained from 2H-NMR spectroscopy. In the reduction of (-)-dehydrogriseofulvin into (+)-griseofulvin by a partially purified enzyme system of S. cinereocrocatus, the origin of the 6'α-hydrogen of (+)-griseofulvin was a hydride ion donated by pro-4R-hydrogen of NADPH. In connection with the study of carcinogenesis, diethylstilbestrol (DES) was proved to disrupt microtubules in vitro. The other synthetic estrogens, E, E-dienestrol, meso-hexestrol, and dl-hexestrol were inhibitors of microtubule assembly in vitro, and induced twisted ribbon structures or ribbon-sheet-microtubules from microtubule proteins. Next, the effects of DES and its methyl ethers on the chromosome of and the cellular microtubule architecture, revealed by fluorescent anti-tubulin antibody, of Chinese hamster V79 cells were examined, and further estradiol-17β was proved to exhibit higher microtubule-disruptive activity than DES in V79 cells. Furthermore, cytoplasmic microtubules in the human breast cancer cell lines MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231, estrogen receptorpositive and -negative cell lines, respectively, were disrupted equally by estradiol-17β. Then, natural estrogens and their derivatives comprising 30 compounds in total were tested in Chinese hamster V79 cells, proving that 2-methoxyestradiol showed the strongest activity (EC50 : 2μM) to disrupt microtubules. Further, in the assay of indenestrol A, a metabolite of DES, indenestrol B and their monomethyl ethers, the 4'-methyl ether of [(-)-3S]-indenestrol B exhibited both the strongest cytotoxicity in, and greatest disruption of the cellular microtubules of V79 cells, and no correlation with the affinity for estrogen receptors was shown.

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