heres my homework for; made sure to check it throughly to this time
Metabolism of steroid hormones with anabolic properties was studied in vitro using human recombinant CYP3A4, CYP2C9 and 2B6 enzymes. The enzyme formats used for CYP3A4 and CYP2C9 were insect cell microsomes expressing human CYP enzymes and purified recombinant human CYP enzymes in a...
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"CYP3A4 enzyme formats incubated with anabolic steroids, testosterone, 17alpha-methyltestosterone, metandienone, boldenone and 4-chloro-1,2-dehydro-17alpha-methyltestosterone, produced 6beta-hydroxyl metabolites identified as trimethylsilyl (TMS)-ethers by a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method"
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We suggest that the electronic effects of the 3-keto-4-ene structural moiety contribute to the selectivity within the active site of CYP3A4 enzyme resulting in selective 6beta-hydroxylation.
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Kinetics of testosterone 6beta-hydroxylation were determined using a reconstituted system that consisted of CYP3A4, cytochrome b5 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (OR) with similar ratios as those seen in human liver microsomes and compared with those determined using human liver...
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"6beta-hydroxylation obtained from the reconstituted systems with high and low OR/CYP3A4 ratios were 29.3 and 35.2 microM, respectively, which were similar to that of the corresponding human liver microsomal samples (23.2 and 40.0 microM, respectively). However, Vmax values obtained from the reconstituted systems (3.7 and 0.8 pmol/min/pmol CYP3A4) were much lower than those from the human liver microsomes (44.2 and 31.1 pmol/min/pmol CYP3A4). The results suggest that the interaction between substrate and CYP3A4 in the reconstituted systems appear to be similar to human liver microsomes but that the velocity of the substrate metabolism in the reconstituted systems is different from that in human liver microsomes"
everything from this study is relevant:
Comparison of Steroid Hormone Hydroxylations by and Docking to Human Cytochromes P450 3A4 and 3A5 - PubMed
study i've linked before:
Testosterone metabolism by cytochrome P-450IIA1 results in four metabolites: 6 alpha-hydroxytestosterone; 7 alpha-hydroxytestosterone; 17 beta-hydroxy-4,6-androstadiene-3-one (delta 6-T); and 17 beta-hydroxy-4,6-androstadiene-3-one-6,7-oxide. The epoxide is formed upon further oxidation of delta...
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if you have any studies you think ill find relevant please link them so we can look at it together. im by no means a chemist you could probably help me learn or understand this even better