Metabolism of hydroquinone by human myeloperoxidase: Mechanisms of stimulation by other phenolic compounds
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Vol. 286 (1), 76-84
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-9861(91)90010-g
Abstract
Hydroquinone, a metabolite of benzene, is converted by human myeloperoxidase to 1,4-benzoquinone, a highly toxic species. This conversion is stimulated by phenol, another metabolite of benzene. Here we report that peroxidase-dependent hydroquinone metabolism is also stimulated by catechol, resorcinol, o-cresol, m-cresol, p-cresol, guaiacol, histidine, and imidazole. In order to gain insights into the mechanisms of this stimulation, we have compared the kinetics of human myeloperoxidase-dependent phenol, hydroquinone, and catechol metabolism. The specificity () of hydroquinone for myeloperoxidase was found to be 5-fold greater than that of catechol and 16-fold greater than that of phenol. These specificities for myeloperoxidase-dependent metabolism inversely correlated with the respective one-electron oxidation potentials of hydroquinone, catechol, and phenol and suggested that phenol- and catechol-induced stimulation of myeloperoxidase-dependent hydroquinone metabolism cannot simply be explained by interaction of hydroquinone with stimulant-derived radicals. Phenol (100 μm), catechol (20 μm), and imidazole (50 mm) did, however, all increase the specificity () of hydroquinone for myeloperoxidase, indicating that these three compounds may be stimulating hydroquinone metabolism by a common mechanism. Interestingly, the stimulation of peroxidase-dependent hydroquinone metabolism by other phenolic compounds was pH-dependent, with the stimulating effect being higher under alkaline conditions. These results therefore suggest that the interaction of phenolic compounds, presumably by hydrogen-bonding, with the activity limiting distal amino acid residue(s) or with the ferryl oxygen of peroxidase may be an important contributing factor in the enhanced myeloperoxidase-dependent metabolism of hydroquinone in the presence of other phenolic compounds.
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