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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 267, Issue 1, Pages 80-84Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.1935
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To investigate whether sulfation, a major Phase II detoxification pathway in vivo can be employed as a means for the inactivation/disposal of environmental estrogens, recombinant human cytosolic sulfotransferases were prepared and tested for enzymatic activities with bisphenol A, diethylstilbestrol, 4-octylphenol, p-nonylphenol, and 17 alpha-ethynylestradiol as substrates. Of the seven recombinant enzymes examined, only SULT1C sulfotransferase #1 showed no activities toward the environmental estrogens tested. Among the other six sulfotransferases, the simple phenol (P)-form phenol sulfotransferase and estrogen sulfotransferase appeared to be considerably more active toward environmental estrogens than the other four sulfotransferases. Metabolic labeling experiments revealed the sulfation of environmental estrogens and the release of their sulfated derivatives by HepG2 human hepatoma cells. Moreover, sulfated environmental estrogens appeared to be incapable of penetrating through the HepG2 cell membrane. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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