title: Determination of the glucurono-conjugated position in bile alcohol glucuronides excreted in urine of a patient with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis by a nuclear magnetic resonance study.
abstract: This paper describes the determination of the glucurono-conjugated position in two bile alcohol glucuronides excreted in urine of a patient with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis by a nuclear magnetic resonance study. The urine sample was extracted with reversed-phase resin, and chromatographed on a reversed-phase partition column and a silica gel column to isolate glucurono-conjugates of 5 beta-cholestane-3 alpha, 7 alpha, 12 alpha, 25-tetrol and 5 beta-cholestane-3 alpha, 7 alpha, 12 alpha, 23,25- pentol. Proton and carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of the natural tetrol glucuronide were identical with those of the chemically synthesized tetrol glucuronide, 7 alpha, 12 alpha, 25-trihydroxy-5 beta-cholestane-3 alpha-O-beta-D- glucopyranosyluronic acid. Hence, the glucurono-conjugated position of the natural tetrol glucuronide was determined to be the C-3 position. By comparison of the 13C chemical shift data with that of the unconjugated pentol, 5 beta-cholestane-3 alpha, 7 alpha, 23,25-pentol, the glucurono-conjugated position of the natural pentol glucuronide was determined to be C-23. Thus the natural pentol glucuronide can be formulated as 3 alpha, 7 alpha, 12 alpha, 25- tetrahydroxy-5 beta-cholestane-23-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyluronic acid. The difference in the glucurono-conjugated position between the 25-tetrol glucuronide and the 23,25-pentol glucuronide indicates that the former is not the biosynthetic precursor of the latter.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Hiroshima University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuramoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohshima
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kihira
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hoshita
mesh_terms: D002777:Cholestanols / Q000737:chemistry*; D005965:Glucuronates / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000652:urine; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D014973:Xanthomatosis / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D002777:Cholestanols; D005965:Glucuronates