The Korean Journal of Pharmacology (대한약리학회지)
- Volume 29 Issue 1
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- Pages.131-137
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- 1993
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- 0377-9459(pISSN)
Inhibition of Human Neutrophil Elastase by Tetracyclines and Mechanism of the Inhibition
Tetracycline계 항균제에 의한 호중구 Elastase의 효소 활성도 억제 및 그 작용 기전
- Kim, Woo-Mi (Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Kosin University) ;
- Kang, Koo-Il (Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Kosin University)
- Published : 1993.06.30
Abstract
Human neutrophil elastase (HNE, EC 3,4,21, 11), a mediator of tissue breakdown, was inhibited by tetracycline, oxytetracycline and demeclocycline. Among them, oxytetracycline showed the most potent inhibitory effect on the activity of HNE. IC50 of this drug at our specific condition was less than 1 mM. Tetracycline inhibited human neutrophil elastase non-competitively, and oxytetracycline inhibited competitively. Ki values of tetracycline and oxytetracycline were 4.9 mM and 0.39 mM, respectively. Structural modified tetracycline, de-dimethylaminotetracycline, which showed no antibiotic activity since the active dimethylamino radical was removed from the position #4 of the tetracycline, showed similar inhibition effect on the activity of human neutrophil elastase to that of tetracycline. Thus, we speculated that inhibition of human neutrophil elastase by tetracyclines was not depended on the dimethylamino radical which is a critical active site for antibiotic effect, rather it was depended on the hydoxyl radical of tetracyclines. Therefore, the property of inhibiting elastase may be an additional molecular biochemical mechanism of action of these drugs at the inflammatory sites.
Tetracycline계 약제가, 류마치양 관절염을 비롯한 염증성 질환들의 주된 병인으로 알려지고있는 호중구 elastase의 활성도를 억제하였으며, 특히 oxytetracycline, demeclocycline, 그리고 tetracycline 등은 분자 구조적 차이에 따라 elastase의 효소 활성도에 대하여 다양한 억제율을 나타내었다. 측쇄 구조의 5번 위치에