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SUBMITTER: Hadjokas NE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1573356 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hadjokas Nicholas E NE Dai Renke R Friedman Fred K FK Spence Michael J MJ Cusack Barry J BJ Vestal Robert E RE Ma Yongsheng Y
British journal of pharmacology 20020601 3
1. Cytochrome P4501A2 (CYP1A2) activates a large number of procarcinogens to carcinogens. Phytochemicals such as flavones can inhibit CYP1A2 activity competitively, and hydroxylated derivatives of flavone (galangin) may be potent, selective inhibitors of CYP1A2 activity relative to CYP1A1 activity. Molecular modelling of the CYP1A2 interaction with hydroxylated derivatives of flavone suggests that a number of hydrophobic residues of the substrate-binding domain engage in hydrogen bonding with su ...[more]