Inhibitory effect of Rhus verniciflua Stokes extract on human aromatase activity; butin is its major bioactive component
- Authors
- Park, Myeong Hyeon; Kim, In Sook; Kim, Sun-A; Na, Chun-Soo; Hong, Cheol Yi; Dong, Mi-Sook; Yoo, Hye Hyun
- Issue Date
- 1-4월-2014
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Keywords
- Rhus verniciflua Stokes; Human aromatase; CYP19; Butin
- Citation
- BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, v.24, no.7, pp.1730 - 1733
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
- Volume
- 24
- Number
- 7
- Start Page
- 1730
- End Page
- 1733
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/98785
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.02.039
- ISSN
- 0960-894X
- Abstract
- Rhus verniciflua Stokes has been used as a traditional herbal medicine in Asia. In this study, the effect of R. verniciflua extract on human aromatase (cytochrome P450 19, CYP19) activity was investigated to elucidate the mechanism for the effect of R. verniciflua extract on androgen hormone levels. Androstenedione was used as a substrate and incubated with R. verniciflua extract in cDNA-expressed CYP19 supersomes in the presence of NADPH, and estrone formation was measured using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. R. verniciflua extract was assessed at concentrations of 10-1000 mu g/mL. The resulting data showed that R. verniciflua extract inhibited CYP19-mediated estrone formation in a concentration-dependent manner with an IC50 value of 136 mu g/mL. Subsequently, polyphenolic compounds from R. verniciflua extract were tested to identify the ingredients responsible for the aromatase inhibitory effects by R. verniciflua extract. As a result, butin showed aromatase inhibitory effect in a concentration-dependent manner with an IC50 value of 9.6 mu M, whereas the inhibition by other compounds was negligible. These results suggest that R. verniciflua extract could modulate androgen hormone levels via the inhibition of CYP19 activity and butin is a major ingredient responsible for this activity. (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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