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MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY
卷 78, 期 5, 页码 886-894出版社
AMER SOC PHARMACOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
DOI: 10.1124/mol.110.065540
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- Hjarnfonden, Torsten och Ragnar Soderbergs Stiftelser [MT22/08]
- Swedish Research Council [K2008-66X05949-28-3]
- Danish Agency of Science, Technology and Innovation
- Lundbeck Foundation
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [SFRH/BPD/34152/2006]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/34152/2006] Funding Source: FCT
Cytochrome P4502C19 (CYP2C19) is an important drug-metabolizing enzyme involved in the biotransformation of, for example, proton pump inhibitors and antidepressants. Several in vivo studies have shown that the CYP2C19 activity is inhibited by oral contraceptives, which can cause important drug interactions. The underlying molecular mechanism has been suggested to be competitive inhibition. However, the results presented here indicate that estradiol derivatives down-regulate CYP2C19 expression via estrogen receptor (ER)alpha, which interacts with the newly identified ER-binding half site [estrogen response element (ERE)] at the position -151/-147 in the CYP2C19 promoter. In gene reporter experiments in Huh-7 hepatoma cells, the activity of the luciferase construct carrying a 1.6-kb long CYP2C19 promoter fragment cotransfected with ER alpha was down-regulated upon treatment with 17 beta-estradiol (EE) or 17 alpha-ethinylestradiol (ETE) at half-maximum concentrations of 10(-7) and 10(-8) M, respectively. Mutations introduced into the ERE half site -151/-147 significantly inhibited these ligand-dependent effects. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays and quantitative chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments revealed that estrogen receptor alpha binds to this element. A significant suppression of CYP2C19 transcription by female sex steroids was confirmed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction after hormonal treatment of human hepatocytes. Inhibition experiments using a stable human embryonic kidney 293 CYP2C19 cell line revealed competitive inhibition at much higher concentrations of EE and ETE compared with those required for transcriptional inhibition. These results indicate that both EE and ETE inhibit CYP2C19 expression via an ER alpha-dependent regulatory pathway, thus providing a new insight into the molecular mechanism behind the inhibitory effect of oral contraceptives on CYP2C19 activity.
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