Protein Information

Name CYP3A4
Synonyms CP33; CYP3; HLP; CYP3A; CP34; CYP 3A4; CYP 3; CYP3A3…

Compound Information

Name piperonyl butoxide
CAS 5-[[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]methyl]-6-propyl-1,3-benzodioxole

Reference List

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9928682 Ratra GS, Cottrell S, Powell CJ: Effects of induction and inhibition of cytochromes P450 on the hepatotoxicity of methapyrilene. Toxicol Sci. 1998 Nov;46(1):185-96.

However, the role of CYP3A, which is constitutively expressed in the liver and induced by piperonyl butoxide, butylated hydroxytoluene, or Aroclor 1254, was unclear.
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16162970 Brandon EF, Meijerman I, Klijn JS, den Arend D, Sparidans RW, Lazaro LL, Beijnen JH, Schellens JH: In-vitro cytotoxicity of ET-743 (Trabectedin, Yondelis), a marine anti-cancer drug, in the Hep G2 cell line: influence of cytochrome P450 and phase II inhibition, and cytochrome P450 induction. Anticancer Drugs. 2005 Oct;16(9):935-43.

In-vitro studies have shown that ET-743 is mainly metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4, but also by 2C9, 2C19, 2D6 and 2E1, and the phase II enzymes uridine diphosphoglucuronosyl transferase and glutathione-S-transferase.
Potent cytotoxic activity of ET-743 after 120 h treatment was observed, which could be increased in combination with the CYP inhibitors metyrapone (3A4), phenanthrene (substrate for 2E1, 3A4), piperonyl butoxide (3A), proadifen (2C9, 2E1, 3A4), ritonavir (3A4), and warfarin (2C9, 2C19).
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12593759 Pass GJ, McLean S: Inhibition of the microsomal metabolism of 1,8-cineole in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) by terpenes and other chemicals. Xenobiotica. 2002 Dec;32(12):1109-26.


This suggests the involvement of CYP3A enzymes, although in the possum there was a lack of the expected inhibition by troleandomycin or activation by alpha-naphthoflavone, highlighting the differences between species in CYP forms.
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14611171 Caboni P, Sammelson RE, Casida JE: Phenylpyrazole insecticide photochemistry, metabolism, and GABAergic action: ethiprole compared with fipronil. J Agric Food Chem. 2003 Nov 19;51(24):7055-61.

Metabolic sulfone formation is more rapid with ethiprole than fipronil in human expressed CYP3A4 in vitro and mouse brain and liver in vivo.
High biological activity is observed for the sulfide, sulfoxide, sulfone, and desulfinyl derivatives in both the ethiprole and the fipronil series in GABA receptor assays (human recombinant beta3 homomer and house fly head membranes) with [(3) H] EBOB and in topical toxicity to house flies with and without the P450-inhibiting synergist piperonyl butoxide.
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9473531 Miranda CL, Henderson MC, Buhler DR: Evaluation of chemicals as inhibitors of trout cytochrome P450s. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1998 Feb;148(2):237-44.


In addition, isosafrole, piperonyl butoxide, gestodene, 17alpha-ethynylestradiol, 1-aminobenzotriazole, and 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid strongly inhibited PROG-OH activity.
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