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Interactions of rutaecarpine alkaloids with specific binding sites for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in rat liver

Mikael Gillner 1 4, Jan Bergman 2, Christian Cambillau 3 and Jan-Åke Gustafsson

1Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital F69, S-141 86 Huddinge
2Department of Organic Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology S-100 44 Stockholm 70, Sweden
3Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-LCCMB, Faculté de Médicine Nord, Bd P Drammard 13326 Marseille Cedex 15, France

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Rutaecarpine alkaloids have the capacity to inhibit specific 2,3,7,8-[1,6-3H]tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) binding in rat liver cytosol, as analysed by electrofocusing in polyacrylamide gel. The IC50 value for binding of 7,8-dehydrorutaecarpine was estimated to ~7 nM indicating a high-affinity interaction, whereas rutaecarpine appeared less active (IC50 ~110 nM). These findings are of interest in view of the fact that analogues to these compounds may be formed following UV-irradiation of tryptophan and that such photo-products have been suggested to constitute (the) endogenous ligand(s) for the TCDD receptor. As further support of this notion, the rutaecarpine alkaloids investigated could be fitted into a rectangle of 6.8x13.7 A, a characteristic common for most high affinity ligands of the TCDD receptor hitherto studied. In view of their structural similarity to dehydrorutaecarpine and the agreement of their mol. wt with that of the photoproduct with the highest affinity for the TCDD receptor, we suggest deaza-analogues of dehydrorutaecarpine to represent possible candidates for the endogenous TCDD receptor ligand.


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