Species Used for Drug Testing Reveal Different Inhibition Susceptibility for 17beta-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1

PLoS One

Leszek Rychlewski¹  Dorota Kowalik²  Jerzy Adamski²  Gabriele Möller²  Leena Hirvelä³  Dariusz Plewczynski⁴  Josef Messinger⁵  Bettina Husen⁵  Hubert Thole⁵ 

[1] Bioinfobank Institute, Poznań, Poland;Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Neuherberg, Germany;Hormos Medical, Turku, Finland;Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland;Solvay Pharmaceuticals Research Laboratories, Hannover, Germany

关键词: Enzyme inhibitors;    Marmosets;    Molecular docking;    Rodents;    Steroids;    Enzyme metabolism;    Drug metabolism;    Enzymes;   

DOI  :  10.1371/journal.pone.0010969

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Public Library of Science

【 摘 要 】

Steroid-related cancers can be treated by inhibitors of steroid metabolism. In searching for new inhibitors of human 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (17β-HSD 1) for the treatment of breast cancer or endometriosis, novel substances based on 15-substituted estrone were validated. We checked the specificity for different 17β-HSD types and species. Compounds were tested for specificity in vitro not only towards recombinant human 17β-HSD types 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 but also against 17β-HSD 1 of several other species including marmoset, pig, mouse, and rat. The latter are used in the processes of pharmacophore screening. We present the quantification of inhibitor preferences between human and animal models. Profound differences in the susceptibility to inhibition of steroid conversion among all 17β-HSDs analyzed were observed. Especially, the rodent 17β-HSDs 1 were significantly less sensitive to inhibition compared to the human ortholog, while the most similar inhibition pattern to the human 17β-HSD 1 was obtained with the marmoset enzyme. Molecular docking experiments predicted estrone as the most potent inhibitor. The best performing compound in enzymatic assays was also highly ranked by docking scoring for the human enzyme. However, species-specific prediction of inhibitor performance by molecular docking was not possible. We show that experiments with good candidate compounds would out-select them in the rodent model during preclinical optimization steps. Potentially active human-relevant drugs, therefore, would no longer be further developed. Activity and efficacy screens in heterologous species systems must be evaluated with caution.

【 授权许可】

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