Warusavithana Gunawardena Manori De Silva, Bianca Yuko McCarthy, Jeremy Han, Chen Yang, Andrew J A Holland, Harvey Stern, Katie Marie Dixon, Edith Kai Yan Tang, Robert Charles Tuckey, Mark Stephen Rybchyn, Rebecca Sara Mason
The hormonal form of vitamin D3 , 1,25(OH)2 D3 , reduces UV-induced DNA damage. UV exposure initiates pre-vitamin D3 production in the skin, and continued UV exposure photoisomerizes pre-vitamin D3 to produce "over-irradiation products" such as lumisterol3 (L3 ). Cytochrome P450 side-chain cleavage enzyme (CYP11A1) in skin catalyzes the conversion of L3 to produce three main derivatives: 24-hydroxy-L3 [24(OH)L3 ], 22-hydroxy-L3 [22(OH)L3 ], and 20,22-dihydroxy-L3 [20,22(OH)L3 ]. The current study investigated the photoprotective properties of the major over-irradiation metabolite, 24(OH)L3 , in human primary keratinocytes and human skin explants...
June 21, 2023: Metabolites