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Title: | Oleoyl-estrone is a precursor of an estrone-derived ponderostat signal |
Author: | Vilà Pont, Ruth Cabot, Cristina Villarreal, Laura Monegal, Ana Ayet Galcerà, Eva Romero Romero, María del Mar Grasa Martínez, Maria del Mar Esteve Ràfols, Montserrat Fernández López, José Antonio Remesar Betlloch, Xavier Alemany, Marià, 1946- |
Keywords: | Oleat d'estrona Teixit adipós Oleoyl-estrone Adipose tissues |
Issue Date: | Apr-2011 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd |
Abstract: | Oleoyl-estrone (OE) is a powerful anti-obesity compound that decreases food intake, decreases insulin resistance and circulating cholesterol. OE stimulates a severe loss of body fat by decreasing adipose tissue lipid synthesis and maintaining lipolysis. Therefore, the body economy loses lipid energy because energy expenditure is maintained. This study analyses the discrepancy between OE effects and the distribution of labelled OE in plasma. Estrone radioimmunoassay of organic solvent plasma extracts of rats treated with OE showed the massive presence of acyl-estrone, but. saponification did not release estrone, but containing similar unknown compound. Analysis of label distribution in plasma after oral gavages of 3H-OE showed the presence of a more hydrophilic compound than OE or any estrogen as well as 3H2O, formed from 3H-OE in the acidic stomach medium. OE was not attached toa specific transporter in plasma. Through serum HPLC analysis we found W, a labelled derivative more hydrophilic than OE or estrone. The results were confirmed using 14C-OE. HPLC-MS/MS studies showed that plasma OE levels were one order of magnitude lower than those of W. When liver cell cytosols from rats laden with 3H-OE were incubated with nuclei from untreated rats, the OE-derived label (i.e., W's) was found attached to nuclear DNA. Neither estradiol nor estrone interfered with its binding. W is a fairly hydrophilic compound of low molecular weight containing the estrone nucleus, but it is not an ester because saponification or esterases do not yield estrone as OE does. It is concluded that OE acts through its conversion to W, its active form; which binds to a nuclear receptor different from that of estrogen. The estimated W serum levels are proportional to the pharmacological OE effects in vivo. We postulate W as a new type of hormone that exerts the full range of in vivo effects thus far attributed to OE. The full identification of W is anticipated to open the way for the development of new OE-like anti-obesity drugs. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2011.01.017 |
It is part of: | Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2011, vol. 124, num. 3-5, p. 99-111 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/130564 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2011.01.017 |
ISSN: | 0960-0760 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular) |
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