Endocrinology, Vol 117, 8-12, Copyright © 1985 by Endocrine Society

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Rapid and selective inner ring deiodination of thyroxine sulfate by rat liver deiodinase

JA Mol and TJ Visser

Previous studies have shown that the inner ring deiodination (IRD) of T3 and the outer ring deiodination (ORD) of 3,3'-diiodothyronine are greatly enhanced by sulfate conjugation. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of sulfation on T4 and rT3 deiodination. Iodothyronine sulfate conjugates were chemically synthetized. Deiodination was studied by reaction of rat liver microsomes with unlabeled or outer ring 125I-labeled sulfate conjugate at 37 C and pH 7.2 in the presence of 5 mM dithiothreitol. Products were analyzed by HPLC or after hydrolysis by specific RIAs. T4 sulfate (T4S) was rapidly degraded by IRD to rT3S, with an apparent Km of 0.3 microM and a maximum velocity (Vmax) of 530 pmol/min X mg protein. The Vmax to Km ratio of T4S IRD was increased 200-fold compared with that of T4 IRD. However, formation of T3S by ORD of T4S could not be observed. The rT3S formed was rapidly converted by ORD to 3,3'-T2 sulfate, with an apparent Km of 0.06 microM and a Vmax of 516 pmol/min X mg protein. The enzymic mechanism of the IRD of T4S was the same as that of the deiodination of nonsulfated iodothyronines, as shown by the kinetics of stimulation by dithiothreitol or inhibition by propylthiouracil. The IRD of T4S and the ORD of rT3 were equally affected by a number of competitive inhibitors, suggesting a single enzyme for the deiodination of native and sulfated iodothyronines. In conjunction with previous findings on the deiodination of T3S, these results suggest that sulfation leads to a rapid and irreversible inactivation of thyroid hormone.

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