title: Inhibitory effects of sulfonated shale oils (ammonium bituminosulphonates, Ichthyols) on enzymes of polyenoic fatty acid metabolism.
abstract: The two commercial pharmaceutical preparations of ammonium bituminosulphonates, Leukichthol and Dark Ichthyol, were shown to inhibit the formation of 5S-hydroxy-6E,8Z,11Z,14Z-eicosatetraenoic acid (5-HETE) from external arachidonic acid by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes stimulated by ionophore A-23187 in a dose-dependent manner. Pure arachidonate 15-lipoxygenases from rabbit reticulocytes and soya beans, and the particulate prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase from sheep vesicular glands, were also inhibited. With the reticulocyte lipoxygenase, the Ichthyols suppressed the enzyme activity by two different mechanisms: (1) a prolongation of the lag period typical of lipoxygenase catalysis, and (2) by a lowering of the maximal enzymatic activity after the end of lag period. As expected, the first effect was reversed by the addition of the lipoxygenase product 13S-hydroperoxy-9Z,11E-octadecadienoic acid (13-HpODE). Ammonium bituminosulphonates are thus universal inhibitors of lipoxygenase activities, and the latter are of potential importance in inflammatory dermatoses.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, University Clinics Charité, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schewe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schewe
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rohde
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Diezel
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Czarnetzki
mesh_terms: D016718:Arachidonic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D003879:Dermatologic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006801:Humans; D006893:Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acids / Q000096:biosynthesis; D016859:Lipoxygenase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D003879:Dermatologic Agents; D006893:Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acids; D016859:Lipoxygenase Inhibitors; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; C022022:5-hydroxy-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid