Estrone phosphate (E1P), or estrone 3-phosphate, is an
estrogen and
steroid sulfatase
Steroid sulfatase (STS), or steryl-sulfatase (EC 3.1.6.2), formerly known as arylsulfatase C, is a sulfatase enzyme involved in the metabolism of steroids. It is encoded by the ''STS'' gene.
Reactions
This enzyme catalysis, catalyses the follow ...
inhibitor
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which was never marketed.
It has similar
affinity
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for steroid sulfatase as
estrone sulfate and acts as a
competitive inhibitor of the
enzyme.
In contrast to estrone sulfate however, it is not
hydrolyzed
Hydrolysis (; ) is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds. The term is used broadly for substitution, elimination, and solvation reactions in which water is the nucleophile.
Biological hydrolysis ...
by steroid sulfatase and is instead
metabolized
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by
phosphatase
In biochemistry, a phosphatase is an enzyme that uses water to cleave a phosphoric acid Ester, monoester into a phosphate ion and an Alcohol (chemistry), alcohol. Because a phosphatase enzyme catalysis, catalyzes the hydrolysis of its Substrate ...
s.
See also
*
List of estrogen esters § Estrone esters
*
Estradiol phosphate
*
Estriol phosphate
References
Abandoned drugs
Estrone esters
Phosphate esters
Prodrugs
Steroid sulfatase inhibitors
Synthetic estrogens
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