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标题：Inhibitory Effects of Catechin Gallates on o-Methyltranslation of Protocatechuic Acid in Rat Liver Cytosolic Preparations and Cultured Hepatocytes
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作者：Masaaki Kadowaki ; Emi Ootani ; Narumi Sugihara 等
期刊名称：Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：0918-6158
电子版ISSN：1347-5215
出版年度：2005
卷号：28
期号：8
页码：1509-1513
DOI：10.1248/bpb.28.1509
出版社：The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
摘要：Flavonoids including tea catechins and gallic acid esters were characterized for their ability to inhibit o -methyltranslation of protocatechuic acid (PCA) to form vanillic acid (VA) in rat liver cytosolic preparations and cultured hepatocytes. Flavonols and flavones exhibited different behaviors in inhibiting the formation of VA between the cell-free enzymatic preparations and the intact cells. The underlying mechanism of the inhibitory effects of flavonols and flavones on PCA o -methylation in cultured hepatocytes may not be due to the inhibition of the enzyme activity of catechol o -methyl transferase (COMT). Catechin gallates inhibited PCA o -methylation in liver cytosolic preparations with markedly higher potency than other flavonoids. As compared with catechin gallates, ungallated catechins had two to three orders of magnitude lower efficiency in inhibiting cytosolic PCA o -methylation. Gallic acid esters inhibited cytosolic PCA o -methylation with strong potency almost equal to that of catechin gallates. These results suggest that the COMT-inhibitory activity of catechin gallates is derived from the presence of the galloyl moiety at the C3 position in the C-ring. Catechin gallates and gallic acid esters inhibited PCA o -methylation in cultured hepatocytes with two orders of magnitude lower efficacy than that in cytosolic preparations. The inhibitory effects of catechin gallates and gallic acid esters on cellular PCA o -methylation appear to be due to the direct inhibition of COMT activity.
关键词：catechol o-methyl transferase;flavonoid;catechin;gallic acid ester