Can the inhibition of cytochrome P450 in aquatic invertebrates due to azole fungicides be estimated with in silico and in vitro models and extrapolated between species?

Azole fungicides, designed to halt fungal growth by specific inhibition of fungal cytochrome P450 (CYP51), inhibit cytochrome P450s involved in the metabolism of xenobiotics in several non-target organisms thus raising environmental concern. The present study investigates the degree by which inhibition strengths of azoles toward cytochrome P450 in rat liver, the insect Chironomus riparius larvae and the snail Lymnaea stagnalis can be extrapolated from estimated in silico affinities. Azoles' affinities toward human cytochrome P450 isoforms involved in xenobiotic metabolism (CYP3A4, CYP2C9 and CYP2D6) as well as fungal CYP51 were estimated with a ligand-protein docking model based on the ChemScore scoring function. Estimated affinities toward the selected enzymatic structures correlated strongly with measured inhibition strengths in rat liver (ChemScore vs. logIC50 among cytochrome P450 isoforms: -0.662 < r < -0.891, n = 17 azoles), while weaker correlations were found for C. riparius larvae (-0.167 < r < -0.733, n = 9) and L. stagnalis (-0.084 < r < -0.648, n = 8). Inhibition strengths toward C. riparius and rat liver activities were found to be highly correlated to each other (r: 0.857) while no significant relationship was found between either of the species and L. stagnalis. The inhibition of cytochrome P450 due to azole fungicides could be estimated in vitro and to a lesser extent in silico for C. riparius but not for L. stagnalis, possibly due to different enzymatic susceptibility toward azole inhibition among the species.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Aquatic Toxicology

• Publication date

  2018-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.aquatox.2018.05.017PMID 29859403
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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