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Query: EC:1.6.5.2 (NQO1)
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Lapachol [2-hydroxy-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-1,4-naphthoquinone] has been shown to be a potent inhibitor of both vitamin K epoxide reductase and the dithiothreitol-dependent vitamin K quinone reductase of rat liver microsomes in vitro. These observations explain the anticoagulant activity of lapachol previously observed in both rats and humans. Lapachol inhibition of the vitamin K epoxide and quinone reductases resembled coumarin anticoagulant inhibition, and was observed in normal strain but not in warfarin-resistant strain rat liver microsomes. This similarity of action suggests that the lactone functionality of the coumarins is not critical for their activity. The initial-velocity steady-state inhibition patterns for lapachol inhibition of the solubilized vitamin K epoxide reductase were consistent with tight binding of lapachol to the oxidized form of the enzyme, and somewhat lower affinity for the reduced form. It is proposed that lapachol assumes a 4-enol tautomeric structure similar to that of the 4-hydroxy coumarins. These structures are analogs of the postulated hydroxyvitamin K enolate intermediate bound to the oxidized form of the enzyme in the chemical reaction mechanism of vitamin K epoxide reductase, thus explaining their high affinity.
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PMID:Lapachol inhibition of vitamin K epoxide reductase and vitamin K quinone reductase. 649 79

NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase (DT-diaphorase) was detected in 100000 x g supernatant fractions of extracts of a wide variety of higher plants. Smaller amounts were also found in microsomes and chloroplast fractions. The enzyme was partially purified from soluble extracts of several plants and the quinone reductase from Catharanthus roseus was enriched 25-fold. Plant quinone reductases have molecular weights in the range of 38000-53000 as determined by gel filtration. The plant enzyme is far less sensitive to dicoumarol than its mammalian counterpart and it is inhibited by superoxide dismutase. Quinone reductase is capable of reducing simple p-benzoquinone and naphthoquinone including vitamins K3 and K1. These results indicate that, although the plant enzyme exhibits a similar substrate specificity, it is distinguishable from mammalian DT-diaphorase particularly with respect to its mechanism of reduction.
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PMID:Quinone reductases of higher plants. 714 Jul 60

Using the human hepatoma cell line, HepG2, and the BALB/c mouse fibroblast cell line, 3T3, as the bioindicators in the neutral red cytotoxicity assay, the effect of hydroxyl substitution on the toxicity of 1,4-naphthoquinone was studied. The sequence of potency for the quinones was 5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone > 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone > 1,4-naphthoquinone >> 2-hydroxyl-1,4- naphthoquinone. Pretreatment of the cells with dicoumarol, an inhibitor of DT-diaphorase, enhanced the cytotoxicity of 1,4-naphthoquinone but not of the hydroxylated naphthoquinones. Pretreatment of the BALB/c cells with buthionine sulfoximine, an inhibitor of glutathione synthesis, enhanced the sensitivity of the cells to all the hydroxylated naphthoquinones but not to 1,4-naphthoquinone. A similar pretreatment of the HepG2 cells with buthionine sulfoximine enhanced the toxicity of the 2-hydroxy- and 5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinones but not of 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone or of 1,4-naphthoquinone. Some differences were noted in the responses to the hydroxylated 1,4-naphthoquinones between buthionine sulfoximine-treated replicating cells and buthionine sulfoximine-treated isolated rat hepatocytes, a nonreplicating cell in culture. The use of a replicating cell system in studying the mechanisms of the cytotoxicity of quinones may be an important adjunct to studies using the isolated rat hepatocytes, which is the standard model system.
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PMID:In vitro cytotoxicities of 1,4-naphthoquinone and hydroxylated 1,4-naphthoquinones to replicating cells. 750 9

Southern armyworm, Spodoptera eridania, larvae were provided ad libitum 0.002-0.25% w/w dichlone, 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone (CNQ). Larval mortality occurred in a time-and-dose dependent manner, with an LC17 of 0.01% and an LC50 of 0.26% CNQ at day-5. Extracts of larvae fed control, 0.01, and 0.25% CNQ diets for 5 days were assayed for antioxidant enzymes. While 0.01% CNQ had a mild effect, 0.25% CNQ profoundly increased levels of all antioxidant enzymes that were examined. The increases as compared to control were: 5.3-, 1.9-, 3.2-, 2.6-, 2.8-, and 3.5-fold higher for superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione transferase and its peroxidase activity, glutathione reductase and DT-diaphorase, respectively. At 0.01% CNQ, the thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) were similar to the control group. However, despite the induction from 0.25% CNQ of all enzymes examined, the lipid peroxidation was not attenuated; the TBARS were 29.7% over the control value. High mortalities and CNQ-induced pathologies reflected in retarded growth, wasting syndrome, and diuresis clearly indicated that the insect sustained severe oxidant-induced injuries before appropriate defenses were fully mobilized. Thus, this quinone causes an oxidative stress in a model insect species analogous to that observed in mammalian species.
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PMID:Dichlone-induced oxidative stress in a model insect species, Spodoptera eridania. 757 83

Unlike rodent tissues, the major quinone reductase in centrifuged homogenates of human liver and placenta is a carbonyl reductase rather than a DT-diaphorase. When reduction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is compared, there are differences between the human placental carbonyl reductase, rat liver DT-diaphorase, and Clostridium DT-diaphorase. In a buffer containing 1% albumin and 10 microM quinone, 9,10-phenanthrenequinone is reduced most rapidly by the carbonyl reductase, 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone is reduced most rapidly by the rat enzyme, and 3,6-pyrenequinone is reduced most rapidly by the Clostridium enzyme. In the presence of O2, redox cycling occurs with all of the quinones that are enzyme substrates, but the rate of cycling does not necessarily correlate with that of quinone reduction. Since glutathionyl adducts of certain quinones can undergo redox cycling mediated by the human carbonyl reductase or rat DT-diaphorase, it is unlikely that the conjugation of one of these quinones with glutathione is sufficient to protect against quinone-mediated oxidative stress in cells which contain either of these enzymes. The observation that superoxide dismutase and a dismutase "mimic," 3-carboxy-2,2,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidine-1-oxyl, inhibit the redox cycling of 9,10-phenanthrenequinone suggests a mechanism whereby cells could be protected against oxidative stress caused by certain quinones.
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PMID:Studies on three reductases which have polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon quinones as substrates. 768 81

Following the two-electron reduction of 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone by rat liver DT-diaphorase (also called NAD(P)H: (quinone acceptor) oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.99.2), the hydroquinone product is slowly autoxidized to the quinone in buffered solutions at pH 7.0. The autoxidation, which generates the superoxide radical (O2-.) and other reactive oxygen species, is the rate-limiting step in the oxidation-reduction (redox) cycling of the quinone. The addition of ascorbate to these reaction mixtures increases the rate of redox cycling. Two mechanisms are proposed to explain this increase: (1) ascorbate reduces the quinone in a one-electron reduction and (2) if Fe(3+)-EDTA is present, ascorbate reduces the metal chelate in a one-electron reduction. Both mechanisms produce O2-. which initiates the free radical chain reaction that results in autoxidation of the hydroquinone. Although ascorbate may be a physiologically important antioxidant under some conditions, the studies reported here show that ascorbate is a prooxidant in the redox cycling of 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone and, as such, could increase the potential toxicity of this quinone.
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PMID:Effect of ascorbate on the DT-diaphorase-mediated redox cycling of 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone. 773 72

NADH peroxidase is a flavoenzyme having a single redox-active thiol, Cys42, that cycles between sulfenate and thiol forms in the NADH-dependent reduction of hydrogen peroxide. NADH peroxidase catalyzes the NADH-dependent reduction of quinones with turnover numbers between 1.2 and 3.9 s-1, per mole of FAD, at pH 7.5. The bimolecular rate constants for quinone reduction, V/K, ranged from 4.3 x 10(3) to 6.0 x 10(5) M-1 s-1 for 14 quinones whose redox potentials varied between -0.41 and 0.09 V. The logarithms of the V/K values for these quinones are hyperbolically dependent on their single-electron reduction potentials (E7(1). One-electron reduction of benzoquinone accounts for about 50% of the total electron transfer catalyzed by NADH peroxidase at pH 7, with the remainder of the reduction being catalyzed by a two-electron (hydride) transfer. Cys42 can be irreversibly oxidized to the sulfonate by hydrogen peroxide, with inactivation of the peroxidatic activity of the enzyme. The residual quinone reductase activity of NADH peroxidase which has undergone oxidative inactivation of the active site Cys42 indicates that this residue is not involved in the reduction of the quinones. Product inhibition studies suggest the possibility of overlap of the pyridine nucleotide and quinone binding sites in the reduced enzyme at low pH values. The pH dependence of the maximum velocity of naphthoquinone reduction shows that deprotonation of an enzymic group, exhibiting a pK value of ca. 6.2, decreases the maximal velocity. Primary deuterium kinetic isotope effects on V and V/K for quinone-dependent NADH oxidation increase upon protonation of a group, exhibiting a pK value of 6.4.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Quinone reductase reaction catalyzed by Streptococcus faecalis NADH peroxidase. 775 94

Bluegill sunfish BF-2 fibroblasts were used to evaluate the in vitro cytotoxicities of 1,4-naphthoquinone (NQ), 5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-NQ, and 2,3-dichloro-1, 4-NQ (dichlone); comparisons were made with previously obtained data on the response of human hepatoma HepG2 cells. For both cell types, the sequence of potency was 5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-NQ > 1,4-NQ > dichlone. Dichlone, and, although to a lesser extent, 1,4-NQ and 5,8-dihydroxy-1-4-NQ, induced endoreduplication in the BF-2 cells; for the HepG2 cells, endoreduplication was induced only with dichlone. Exposures to the three NQs reduced intracellular glutathione levels in both cell types. For the BF-2 and HepG2 cells, pretreatments with buthionine sulfoximine (BSO), a glutathione-depleting agent, potentiated the cytotoxicity of 5,8-hydroxy-1,4-NQ and dichlone; pretreatment with dicoumarol, an inhibitor of DT-diaphorase, had no effect on toxicity of these two NQs. Apparently, for these two quinones the predominant metabolic pathway in both the BF-2 and HepG2 cells involved redox cycling via a one-electron reduction reaction, generating reactive oxygen intermediates that consumed intracellular glutathione. Pretreatment of the BF-2 cells with BSO, but not with dicoumarol, potentiated the toxicity of 1,4-NQ, again indicating that metabolism occurred via one electron reduction. However, for the HepG2 cells, pretreatment with dicoumarol, but not with BSO, potentiated the cytotoxicity of 1,4-NQ. Apparently, in the HepG2, as compared to the BF-2, cells, 1,4-NQ was metabolized by DT-diaphorase in a reaction involving a two electron reduction.
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PMID:Naphthoquinone cytotoxicity to bluegill sunfish BF-2 cells. 802 24

Both phenylbutazon and mofebutazon inhibit oxidative fragmentation of the methionine derivative, 2-keto-4-methylthio-butyric acid (KMB) by xanthine oxidase--or diaphorase mediated OH radical production. Differentiation of the two non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs is possible by means of determining oxygen reduction by xanthine oxidase or diaphorase in the presence of the naphthoquinone, juglone, where only mofebutazon shows an inhibitory effect.
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PMID:Antioxidative properties of phenazone derivatives: differentiation between phenylbutazon and mofebutazon. 821 10

Xenobiotic regulatory elements have been identified for enzymes which ameliorate oxidative damage in cells. Zeta (zeta)-crystallin, a taxon-specific enzyme/crystallin shown to be a novel NADPH-dependent quinone reductase, is found in a number of tissues and cell types. This study shows that zeta-crystallin is present in mouse lens epithelium, as well as in the alpha TN4 mouse lens epithelial cell line. To determine whether zeta-crystallin is an inducible quinone reductase, cell cultures were exposed to the xenobiotics, 1,2-naphthoquinone and beta-naphthoflavone. Assays of cellular homogenates showed that quinone reductase activity was stimulated greater than 70% and 90%, respectively, over the control cells. This observed activity was sensitive to dicumarol, a potent inhibitor of quinone reductase activity. 1,2-Naphthoquinone- and beta-naphthoflavone-exposed cells were found to exhibit 1.47- and 1.68-fold increases, respectively, in zeta-crystallin protein concentration. A comparable increase in zeta-crystallin mRNA was indicative of an induction in zeta-crystallin expression in response to naphthalene challenge. Lens epithelial cells were also checked for DT-diaphorase, a well-known cellular protective enzyme which can catalyze the two-electron reduction of quinones. Slot blot analyses indicated that alpha TN4 cells exposed to 1,2-naphthoquinone and beta-naphthoflavone exhibited 2.71- and 6.81-fold increases in DT-diaphorase concentration when compared to the control cells. The data suggest that while DT-diaphorase is most likely responsible for the majority of the observed increase in quinone reductase activity, the zeta-crystallin gene also undergoes activation which is apparently mediated by a xenobiotic-responsive element.
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PMID:Xenobiotic induction of quinone oxidoreductase activity in lens epithelial cells. 826 8


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