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Kurogi K, Suiko M, Sakakibara Y. Evolution and multiple functions of sulfonation and cytosolic sulfotransferases across species. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2024; 88:368-380. [PMID: 38271594 DOI: 10.1093/bbb/zbae008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Organisms have conversion systems for sulfate ion to take advantage of the chemical features. The use of biologically converted sulfonucleotides varies in an evolutionary manner, with the universal use being that of sulfonate donors. Sulfotransferases have the ability to transfer the sulfonate group of 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate to a variety of molecules. Cytosolic sulfotransferases (SULTs) play a role in the metabolism of low-molecular-weight compounds in response to the host organism's living environment. This review will address the diverse functions of the SULT in evolution, including recent findings. In addition to the diversity of vertebrate sulfotransferases, the molecular aspects and recent studies on bacterial and plant sulfotransferases are also addressed.
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- Katsuhisa Kurogi
- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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Chen W, Zhao W, Wu L, Li J, Zhao H, Zhao Y, Song Y. Integrated post-acquisition data processing strategy for rapid steroid sulfate characterization in Toad gall-bladder. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2024; 240:115958. [PMID: 38198886 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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LC-MS serves as a workhorse for chemical profile characterization of Chinese medicinal materials (CMMs) attributing to the ability of measuring fruitful MS/MS spectral information. However, it is laborious to extract the information belonging to the compounds-of-interest from the massive data matrixes even employing those well-defined post-acquisition data processing strategies. Here, efforts were devoted to propose an integrated strategy allowing rapid chemical homologs-focused data filtering through integrating the fit-for-purpose existing strategies, such as molecular weight imprinting (MWI), diagnostic fragment ion filtering (DFIF), neutral loss filtering (NLF), and isotope pattern filtering (IPF). Homologs-focused chemical characterization of a precious CMM namely Toad gall-bladder (Chinese name: Chandan) that is rich of diverse effective steroid sulfates, particularly bufogenin sulfates, bile acid sulfates and bilichol sulfates, was employed as a proof-of-concept. Recombinant human SULT2A1-catalyzed in vitro metabolism was undertaken to generate eight bufogenin sulfates to facilitate summarizing MS/MS spectral behaviors. After in-house data library construction and MS1 and MS2 spectral acquisition, data filtering was conducted as follows: 1) MWI and IPF was utilized in combination to capture deprotonated molecular ions and the 34S isotopic ions for the sulfates of those reported steroids; 2) m/z 79.9568 (SO3-·) and 96.9596 (HSO4-) were applied to DFIF; and 3) SO3 (79.9568 Da) served as the feature to achieve NLF. Those captured MS/MS information subsequently participated in tentatively structural annotation through applying those empirical mass fragmentation rules. As a result, 71 compounds including 7 bufogenin sulfates, 17 bile acid sulfates, 13 bilichol sulfates and a C-23 steroid sulfate were detected from Toad gall-bladder and thereof, 39 ones received plausible identities assignment. Above all, the steroid sulfates in Toad gall-bladder were profiled in depth, and more importantly, the proposed strategy should be a meaningful option for, but not limited to, submetabolome characterization in CMMs.
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- Wei Chen
- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China; School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China; School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China; School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China; School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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Wei WL, Hou JJ, Wang X, Yu Y, Li HJ, Li ZW, Feng ZJ, Qu H, Wu WY, Guo DA. Venenum bufonis: An overview of its traditional use, natural product chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and toxicology. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2019; 237:215-235. [PMID: 30905791 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.03.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2018] [Revised: 03/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE The animal medicine of Venenum Bufonis (VB), a product of the secretions of Bufo gargarizans Cantor or B. melanostictus Schneider, has long been used as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of sunstroke and faint, acute filthy disease - abdominal pain or vomiting and diarrhea, etc. AIM OF THE REVIEW: This review is aimed at providing the comprehensive and up-to-date information of VB as regards its ethnopharmacological uses, constituents and their metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology and toxicology, all of which could be used as fundamental data for future research as well as development of new drugs. MATERIALS AND METHODS The information and data about the studies of VB were collected from scientific journals, material medica, historical documents, library, and electronic databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Researchgate, Web of Science and CNKI). RESULTS To date, about 142 bufadienolides and 16 indole alkaloids have been isolated from VB in total. The extract and isolated compounds showed a wide range of in vitro and in vivo pharmacologic effects, such as cardiotonic, anti-tumor, antinociceptive, anti-inflammatory, anesthetic and antimicrobial activities. Especially, bufadienolides have been extensively studied due to its powerful anti-tumor activities against various cancer cells. Furthermore, their metabolites and metabolic pathways were concluded in detail, and the main metabolic pathways of bufadienolides were hydroxylation, 3-isomerization, 3-keto, 16-hydrolyzation, 3-O-sulfate and 3-O-glucuronide. CONCLUSIONS Although VB possesses significant anti-tumor effect against various cancer cell lines, the development of new drugs still remains to be a challenge due to its pharmacodynamic effects in vivo, druggability and toxicology. The main problem lies in its side effects in vivo, poor bioavailability, fast metabolism, cardiotoxicity and neurovirulence. Besides, studies on its metabolism and toxicology in vitro and in vivo, as well as clinical trials should be further conducted for the new drug development and the establishment of optimal dosage of consumption of its administration.
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- Wen-Long Wei
- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China.
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- Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China.
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Tian X, Wang C, Dong P, An Y, Zhao X, Jiang W, Wang G, Hou J, Feng L, Wang Y, Ge G, Huo X, Ning J, Ma X. Arenobufagin is a novel isoform-specific probe for sensing human sulfotransferase 2A1. Acta Pharm Sin B 2018; 8:784-794. [PMID: 30245965 PMCID: PMC6146385 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2018.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2018] [Revised: 05/20/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Human cytosolic sulfotransferase 2A1 (SULT2A1) is an important phase II metabolic enzyme. The detection of SULT2A1 is helpful for the functional characterization of SULT2A1 and diagnosis of its related diseases. However, due to the overlapping substrate specificity among members of the sulfotransferase family, it is difficult to develop a probe substrate for selective detection of SULT2A1. In the present study, through characterization of the sulfation of series of bufadienolides, arenobufagin (AB) was proved as a potential probe substrate for SULT2A1 with high sensitivity and specificity. Subsequently, the sulfation of AB was characterized by experimental and molecular docking studies. The sulfate-conjugated metabolite was identified as AB-3-sulfate. The sulfation of AB displayed a high selectivity for SULT2A1 which was confirmed by in vitro reaction phenotyping assays. The sulfation of AB by human liver cytosols and recombinant SULT2A1 both obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics, with similar kinetic parameters. Molecular docking was performed to understand the interaction between AB and SULT2A1, in which the lack of interaction with Met-137 and Tyr-238 of SULT2A1 made it possible to eliminate substrate inhibition of AB sulfation. Finally, the probe was successfully used to determine the activity of SULT2A1 and its isoenzymes in tissue preparations of human and laboratory animals.
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- Xiangge Tian
- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
- Institute of Functional Materials and Molecular Imaging, College of Emergency and Trauma, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 571199, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Institute of Functional Materials and Molecular Imaging, College of Emergency and Trauma, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 571199, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
- Institute of Functional Materials and Molecular Imaging, College of Emergency and Trauma, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 571199, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
- Corresponding author at: College of Pharmacy, Research Institute of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Western 9 Lvshun South Road, Dalian 116044, China. Tel./fax: +86 411 86110419.
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- Academy of Integrative Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medical Science, Second Affliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
- Institute of Functional Materials and Molecular Imaging, College of Emergency and Trauma, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 571199, China
- Corresponding author at: College of Pharmacy, Research Institute of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Western 9 Lvshun South Road, Dalian 116044, China. Tel./fax: +86 411 86110419.
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Feng Y, Wang C, Tian X, Huo X, Feng L, Sun C, Ge G, Yang L, Ning J, Ma X. In vitro phase I metabolism of gamabufotalin and arenobufagin: Reveal the effect of substituent group on metabolic stability. Fitoterapia 2017; 121:38-45. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2017.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Revised: 06/25/2017] [Accepted: 06/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Dixit VA, Lal LA, Agrawal SR. Recent advances in the prediction of non‐
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‐mediated drug metabolism. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Vaibhav A. Dixit
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy & Technology Management (SPTM)Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal's (SVKM's), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)ShirpurIndia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy & Technology Management (SPTM)Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal's (SVKM's), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)ShirpurIndia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy & Technology Management (SPTM)Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal's (SVKM's), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)ShirpurIndia
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