title: Structure-dependent induction of bilirubin glucuronidation and lauric acid 12-hydroxylation by arylcarboxylic acids chemically related to clofibrate.
abstract: The inductive potency of carboxylic acids, structurally related to clofibrate, on bilirubin UDPglucuronosyltransferase was investigated in the rat. For this purpose, structure-induction relationships were established using ten different arylcarboxylic or chlorophenoxycarboxylic acids. 4'-Chlorophenoxyacetic, -propionic and -isobutyric (clofibric) acids progressively increased hepatic glucuronidation of bilirubin (17%, 43%, 60% greater than controls, respectively) after a 5-day treatment in rat (100 mg/kg per day). 2-Phenylpropionic acid also enhanced bilirubin UDPglucuronosyltransferase activity (50%) in contrast to phenylacetic acid. The other compounds did not, or only slightly, affect this parameter. These results indicate that specific structural features are required for the induction property. Moreover, a good correlation (r = 0.962) was found between the extent of induction and the physiochemical descriptors which characterize the electronic state of the molecules, when analysed by multidimensional regression. Fluorescence polarization revealed that the compounds tested, especially clofibric acid, did not affect, in vivo or in vitro, the anisotropy of two different probes embedded in the microsomal membranes. Finally, since the interaction of the carboxylic acids with the membranes did not modify the latency state of bilirubin UDPglucuronosyltransferase, it was concluded that the increase in enzyme activity was due more to a real induction than to activation of bilirubin UDPglucuronosyltransferase. A close linkage was established between bilirubin UDPglucuronosyltransferase induction and that of cytochrome P-452, as shown by enhanced omega-oxidation of lauric acid. This led to the hypothesis that both processes could be under coordinate regulation and mediated by a molecular interaction depending on the physicochemical properties of the carboxylic acids.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001663:Bilirubin / Q000378:metabolism*; D002994:Clofibrate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D004790:Enzyme Induction; D005965:Glucuronates / Q000378:metabolism; D014453:Glucuronosyltransferase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006900:Hydroxylation; D007700:Kinetics; D007850:Lauric Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D005965:Glucuronates; D007850:Lauric Acids; C030358:lauric acid; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D014453:Glucuronosyltransferase; D002994:Clofibrate; D001663:Bilirubin