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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
Volume 50, 2020 - Issue 8
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General Xenobiochemistry

In vitro sulfonation of 7-hydroxycoumarin derivatives in liver cytosol of human and six animal species

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Pages 885-893 | Received 26 Nov 2019, Accepted 01 Jan 2020, Published online: 08 Jan 2020
 

Abstract

  1. Sulfonation is an important high affinity elimination pathway for phenolic compounds.

  2. In this study sulfonation of 7-hydroxycoumarin and 13 its derivatives were evaluated in liver cytosols of human and six animal species. 7-hydroxycoumarin and its derivatives are strongly fluorescent, and their sulfate conjugates are nonfluorescent at excitation 405 nm and emission 460 nm. A convenient fluorescence based kinetic assay of sulfonation was established.

  3. The sulfonation rate of most of the 7-hydroxycoumarin derivatives was low in liver cytosol of human and pig, whereas it was high with most compounds in dog and intermediate in rat, mouse, rabbit, and sheep. Sulfonation of the 7-hydroxycoumarin derivatives followed Michaelis-Menten kinetics with Km values of 0.1–12 µM, Vmax of 0.005–1.7 µmol/(min * g protein) and intrinsic clearance (Vmax/Km) of 0.004–1.9 L/(min * g cytosolic protein).

  4. Fluorescence based measurement of sulfonation of 7-hydroxycoumarin derivatives provides a sensitive and convenient high-throughput assay to determine sulfonation rate in different species and tissues and can be applied to evaluate sulfonation kinetics and inhibition.

Acknowledgements

We thank Ms Hannele Jaatinen for excellent expertise in laboratory work. We thank PhD Elina Toropainen for providing liver samples of rabbits, professor Juha Räsänen for providing liver samples of sheep and PhD Masahiko Negishi supporting this study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Academy of Finland [grant no. 137589] and by the Sigrid Juselius Foundation [grant no. 4704583]. The dog samples have been provided earlier by the Roche Postdoc Fellowship (RPF) program.

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