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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 23, 532-535, Copyright © 1977 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Hydrolysis of steroid glucuronides with beta-glucuronidase preparations from bovine liver, Helix pomatia, and E. coli

V Graef, E Furuya and O Nishikaze

We determined the enzymic activity of beta-glucuronidase preparations from bovine liver, Helix pomatia, and Escherischia coli with steroid glucuronides and nonsteroid glucuronides as substrates. We also studied the effect of Na2SO4 on the enzymic hydrolysis of several substrates with the three preparations of beta-glucuronidase. Na2SO4 increases the rate of hydrolysis of all substrates with beta-glucuronidase from bovine liver. Hydrolysis of a steroid glucoronide with beta- glucuronidase from Helix pomatia and E. coli is inhibited by Na2SO4. None of the three enzyme preparations gives complete hydrolysis of urinary steroid conjugates, because urine contains inhibitors, which can be removed by absorption chromatography of the urine on a column of neutral polystyrene resin Amberlite XAD-2. But when Amberlite XAD-2 is not used, hydrolysis of urinary glucuronides of androsterone, etiocholanolone, pregnanediol, estriol, and 17-hydroxycorticosteroids proves that, given an incubation time of 24 h, the beta-glucuronidase preparation from bovine liver, in the presence of Na2SO4, is suited for determining all of the above steroids except esriol; the preparation from Helix pomatia is good for determining estriol and 17- hydroxycorticosteroids; the preparation from E. coli is good for determining androsterone, 17-hydroxycorticosteroids, and especially estriol, the glucuronide, of which is maximally hydrolyzed in 2 h.


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