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Blomquist, C.H. et al.

Blomquist, Bonenfant, McGinley, Posalaky, Lakatua, Tuli-Puri, Bealka, Tremblay,

Androgenic and estrogenic 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/17-ketosteroid reductase in human ovarian epithelial tumors: evidence for the type 1, 2 and 5 isoforms.

17beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/17-ketosteroid reductases (17HSD/ KSR) play a key role in regulating steroid receptor occupancy in normal tissues and tumors. Although 17HSD/ KSR activity has been detected in ovarian epithelial tumors, our understanding of which isoforms are present and their potential for steroid metabolism is limited. In this investigation, 17HSD/ KSR activity from a series of ovarian epithelial tumors was assayed in cytosol and microsomes under conditions which differentiate between isoforms. Inhibition studies were used to further characterize the steroid specificities of isoforms in the two subcellular fractions. Activity varied widely between tumors of the same histopathologic classification. The highest levels of activity were observed in mucinous tumors. Michaelis constants, maximum velocities, estradiol-17beta/testosterone (E(2)/T) activity ratios and inhibition patterns were consistent with a predominance of microsomal 17HSD/KSR2 and cytosolic 17HSD/KSR5, isoforms reactive with both E(2) and T, with evidence of estrogenic 17HSD/KSR1 in cytosol from some samples. In tumors where activity and mRNA expression were both characterized, Northern blots, PCR and sequence analysis indicated 17HSD/KSR5 was the predominant isoform. The presence of 17HSD/KSR5, which also has both 3alpha-HSD/ KSR and 20alphaHSD/ KSR activity, and 17HSD/KSR2 which also has 20alpha-HSD activity, could influence not only estrogen and androgen binding but progesterone receptor occupancy, as well, in receptor-containing tumors.[1]

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Androgenic and estrogenic 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/17-ketosteroid reductase in human ovarian epithelial tumors: evidence for the type 1, 2 and 5 isoforms. Blomquist, C.H., Bonenfant, M., McGinley, D.M., Posalaky, Z., Lakatua, D.J., Tuli-Puri, S., Bealka, D.G., Tremblay, Y. J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. (2002) [Pubmed]

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