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Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase
About: Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1087 publications have been published within this topic receiving 28468 citations. The topic is also known as: hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.
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TL;DR: 17beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17betaHSD) type 13 has an N-terminal sequence similar to that of 17 betaHSD type 11, and both sequences function as an endoplasmic reticulum and lipid droplet-targeting signal.
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TL;DR: Another isoform of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 17βHSDXI is identified and it is found that this enzyme converts 5α-androstane-3α, 17 β-diol to androsterone and is implicated in supporting gestation and modulating γ-aminobutyric acid receptor activity.
Abstract: We searched expressed sequence tag databases with conserved domains of the short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase superfamily and identified another isoform of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 17βHSDXI. This enzyme converts 5α-androstane-3α, 17β-diol to androsterone. The substrate has been implicated in supporting gestation and modulating γ-aminobutyric acid receptor activity. 17βHSDXI is colinear with human retinal short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase retSDR2, a protein with no known biological activity (accession no. AAF06939). Of the proteins with known function, 17βHSDXI is most closely related to the retinol-metabolizing enzyme retSDR1, with which it has 30% identity. There is a polymorphic stretch of 15 adenosines in the 5′ untranslated region of the cDNA sequence and a silent polymorphism at C719T. A 17βHSDXI construct with a stretch of 20 adenosines was found to produce significantly more enzyme activity than constructs containing 15 or less adenosines (43% vs. 26%, P < 0.005). The C719T polymorphism i...
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TL;DR: The present data suggest the existence of two 17β-HSDs, which efficiently catalyzes the interconversion of estrone and estradiol while dehydroepiandrosterone and 5-androstene-3β,17β-diol are interconverted at a lower rate.
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TL;DR: Type 2 11 β -HSD plays an important role in the human heart to promote glucocorticoid metabolism and to confer MC specificity upon MR, which strongly suggest that the heart is MC responsive.
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TL;DR: H6PDH was found in a wide variety of tissues, with the greatest concentrations in the liver, kidney, and Leydig cells, and some neurons were clearly immunoreactive by immunohistochemistry.
Abstract: Intracellular concentrations of the glucocorticoids cortisol and corticosterone are modulated by the enzymes 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11β-HSD) 1 and 2. 11β-HSD1 is a reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)-dependent microsomal reductase that converts the inactive glucocorticoids cortisone and 11-dehydrocorticosterone to their active forms, cortisol and corticosterone. Hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (H6PDH) is an enzyme that generates NADPH from oxidized NADP (NADP+) within the endoplasmic reticulum. In the absence of NADPH or H6PDH to regenerate NADPH, 11β-HSD1 acts as a dehydrogenase and inactivates glucocorticoids, as does 11β-HSD2. A monoclonal antibody against H6PDH was produced to study the possibility that 11β-HSD1 in the absence of H6PDH may be responsible for hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in tissues that do not express significant amounts of 11β-HSD2. H6PDH and 11β-HSD1 expression was surveyed in a variety of rat tissues by real-time RT-PCR, Western blot analysis, and immunohistochemistry. H6PDH was found in a wide variety of tissues, with the greatest concentrations in the liver, kidney, and Leydig cells. Although the brain as a whole did not express significant amounts of H6PDH, some neurons were clearly immunoreactive by immunohistochemistry. H6PDH was amply expressed in most tissues examined in which 11β-HSD1 was also expressed, with the notable exception of the renal interstitial cells, in which dehydrogenase activity by 11β-HSD1 probably moderates activation of the glucocorticoid receptor because rat renal interstitial cells do not have significant amounts of mineralocorticoid receptors. This antibody against the H6PDH should prove useful for further studies of enzyme activity requiring NADPH generation within the endoplasmic reticulum.
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