1434-85-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
HELIX 12 DIRECTED STEROIDAL PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS
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Page/Page column 128-129, (2010/02/12)
Compounds having the structure or their salts: are used to treat or reduce le likelihood of acquiring androgen-dependent diseases, such as prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, polycystic ovarian syndrome, acne, hirsutism, seborrhea, androgenic alopecia and male baldness. They can be formulated together with pharmaceutically acceptable diluent or carrier or otherwise made into any pharmaceutical dosage form. Some of these compounds having tissue-specific antiandrogenic activity and tissue-specific androgenic activity can be used to treat or reduce the risk of developing diseases related to loss of androgenic stimulation. Combinations with other active pharmaceutical agents are also disclosed.
Neurosteroid analogues. 4. The effect of methyl substitution at the C-5 and C-10 positions of neurosteroids on electrophysiological activity at GABA(A) receptors
Han, Mingcheng,Zorumski, Charles F.,Covey, Douglas F.
, p. 4218 - 4232 (2007/10/03)
A series of analogues of the neuroactive steroids 3α-hydroxy-5α- pregnan-20-one and 3α-hydroxy-5β-pregnan-20-one were studied to elucidate the mode of binding of 5α- and 5β-reduced steroids to steroid binding sites on GABA(A) receptors. Analogues which were either 3α-hydroxy-20-ketosteroids or 3α-hydroxysteroid-17β-carbonitriles and which contained various methyl group substitution patterns at C-5 and C-10 were prepared. Evaluations utilized whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiological methods carried out on cultured rat hippocampal neurons, and the results obtained with the rigid 17β-carbonitrile analogs were analyzed using molecular modeling methods. The molecular modeling results provide a rationale for the observation that the configuration of the hydroxyl group at C-3 is a greater determinant of anesthetic potency than the configuration of the A,B ring fusion at C-5. The electrophysiological results identify steric restrictions for the space that can be occupied in 5α- and 5β-reduced steriod modulators of GABA(A) recepters in the regions of space proximate to the steroid C-5, C-10, and possibly C-4 positions. This information is useful for the development of nonsteroidal analogues that can modulate GABA(A) receptors via interactions at steroid binding sites.
Formation of 5α steroids by biotranformation involving the 5 α-reductase activity of Penicillium decumbens
Holland, Herbert L.,Dore, Sophia,Xu, Weili,Brown, Frances M.
, p. 642 - 647 (2007/10/02)
The biotransformation of a series of Δ4-3-ketosteroids by the Penicillium decumbens ATCC 10436 has been investigated. Conversion to the 5α-dihydrosteroid was observed substrates of the androsterone and pregne series: the reaction is tolerant of non-polar substituents (Cl and CH3) at C-4 of the substrate, but does not occur in the presence of a 4-hydroxyl group, or with additional unsaturation at the Δ1 or Δ6 positions. A-nor, B-nor, 3-deoxy-, and 3,5-cycloandrostanes are not reduced, but 6-methylenestestosterone is converted to a 6-methylene-5α-dihydro derivative. Several biotransformations are reported which involve oxidoreductase activity at C-3 and/or C-17, either concomitant or independent of Δ4 reduction: the substrate specificity of the oxidoreductase processes has been examined and defined by the use of 3α-hydroxy, 3β-hydroxy, 3-keto, 17β-keto substituted steroids. In this way, the existence in P. decumbens of 3β-hydroxy-3-keto and 17β-hydroxy-17-keto oxidoreductases has been demonstrated.
