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Title: Oxidative metabolism of spironolactone: Evidence for the involvement of electrophilic thiosteroid species in drug-mediated destruction of rat hepatic cytochrome P450

Journal Article · · Biochemistry; (USA)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00438a033· OSTI ID:5443427

In a preliminary paper, the authors have shown that the antimineralocorticoid spironolactone (SPL) preferentially inactivates dexamethasone (DEX) inducible rat hepatic cytochrome P450p isozymes in a suicidal manner. These findings are now confirmed, and the kinetic characteristics of such a process are detailed. In an effort to elucidate the mechanism of SPL-mediated inactivation of cytochrome P450, they have examined the metabolism of SPL in vitro. Incubation of ({sup 14}C)SPL and NADPH with liver microsomes prepared from DEX-pretreated rats results in the formation of several polar metabolites separable by HPLC with UV detection. This process is found to be dependent on NADPH, O{sub 2}, SPL, and enzyme concentration, as well as temperature. Furthermore, metabolite formation was significantly attenuated by P450 inhibitors CO and n-octylamine. Mass metabolites indicated that these compounds had molecular weights that corresponded to the sulfinic and sulfonic acid derivatives of deacetyl-SPL (SPL-SH). These finding document the formation of previously unreported polar metabolites of SPL by rat liver microsomes enriched in cytochrome P450p and implicate a role for this isozyme in the oxidation of the thiol moiety of deacetyl-SPL. The detection of such metabolites also implicates a catalytic trajectory that includes the thiyl radical and/or sulfenic acid species as a plausible protagonist in drug-mediated inactivation of cytochrome P450p.

OSTI ID:
5443427
Journal Information:
Biochemistry; (USA), Vol. 28:12; ISSN 0006-2960
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English