A rapid and sensitive indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for microsomal epoxide hydrolase of rat liver. The assay, which is easily and readily performed, is significantly more sensitive than most enzymatic epoxide hydrolase assays routinely used and electroimmunoassays previously developed. The limit of sensitivity of the ELISA is between 2-5 ng of microsomal epoxi...

Epoxides are organic three-membered oxygen compounds that arise from oxidative metabolism of endogenous, as well as xenobiotic compounds via chemical and enzymatic oxidation processes, including the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase system. The resultant epoxides are typically unstable in aqueous environments and chemically reactive. In the case of xenobiotics and certain endogenous substances, epo...

Metabolism of trans-7,8-dihydroxy-7,8-dihydro-6-fluorobenzo(a)pyrene by liver microsomes from 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats and by a highly purified monooxygenase system, reconstituted with cytochrome P-450c, has been examined. Although both the fluorinated and unfluorinated 7,8-dihydrodiol formed from benzo(a)pyrene by liver microsomes share (R,R)-absolute configuration, the fluorinated di...

an efficient and simple method for the preparation of si-imidazole-hso4 functionalized magnetic fe3o4 nanoparticles (si-im-hso4 mnps) and used as an efficient and reusable magnetic catalysts for the regioselective ring opening of epoxides under green conditions in water. this catalyst was used for the ring opening of epoxide corresponding to the thiocyanohydrins and azidohydrines. compared to t...

ABSTRACT Acetonolysis of the titanium tetrachioride complex of lycopene gives s-carotene and e.carotene. Analogous cyclization reactions have been achieved with y-carotene, rubixanthin esters and f3-zeacarotene. In some typical parasitic plants and semi-parasitic plants, carotenoids with a-structures predominate over those with fl-structures. The formation of carotenoid epoxides is favoured in ...

Mammalian soluble and microsomal epoxide hydrolases have been proposed to belong to the family of alpha/beta-hydrolase-fold enzymes. These enzymes hydrolyse their substrates by a catalytic triad, with the first step of the enzymatic reaction being the formation of a covalent enzyme-substrate ester. In the present paper, we describe the direct visualization of the ester formation between rat mic...

The mutagenic activities of benz(a)acridine, benz(c)acridine, and a number of their derivatives, including 12 epoxides and diol-epoxides, were examined in bacterial and mammalian cells to determine the importance of bay-region activation of azapolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. In Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98, the diastereomeric bay-region 3,4-diol-1,2-epoxides of benz(c)acridine, in which...

Epoxidised rubber seed oil (ERSO) was successfully synthesized into non-isocyanate polyurethane via carboxylation method whereas peroxoformic acid formed by in-situ reaction for epoxidation. The effects of temperature and ratio hydrogen peroxide formic to were studied. optimum the epoxidation found at 50 °C avoid ring opening epoxy whilst is equal molar double bond: 1:2 1:1, respectively. At a ...

Endogenous, constitutive soluble epoxide hydrolase in mice 3T3 cells was localized via immunofluorescence microscopy exclusively in peroxisomes, whereas transiently expressed mouse soluble epoxide hydrolase (from clofibrate-treated liver) accumulated only in the cytosol of 3T3 and HeLa cells. When the C-terminal lie of mouse soluble epoxide hydrolase was mutated to generate a prototypic putativ...

The mutagenic activities of benz(a)acridine, benz(c)acridine, and a number of their derivatives, including 12 epoxides and diol-epoxides, were examined in bacterial and mammalian cells to determine the importance of bay-region activation of azapolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. In Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98, the diastereomeric bay-region 3,4-diol-1,2-epoxides of benz(c)acridine, in which...