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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
Volume 11, 1981 - Issue 2
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Research Article

Daunorubicin reduction mediated by aldehyde and ketone reductases

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Pages 131-136 | Received 02 Aug 1980, Published online: 22 Sep 2008
 

Abstract

1. The cancer chemotherapeutic antibiotic, daunorubicin, is metabolized in rabbit liver by two distinct cytoplasmic reductases, with pH optima at 6.0 and 8.5.

2. A comparison of inhibition and activation of these two enzymes provides evidence of biochemical and kinetic differences, and suggests that the enzymes belong to different classes of carbonyl reductases; the pH 8.5 optimum reductase activity is classified as an aldehyde reductase, whereas the pH 6.0 optimum reductase is a ketone reductase.

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