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Human estrogen sulfotransferase (SULT1E1) pharmacogenomics: gene resequencing and functional genomics.
British journal of pharmacology - 1 Aug 2003
Adjei Araba A, Thomae Bianca A, Prondzinski Janel L, Eckloff Bruce W, Wieben Eric D, Weinshilboum Richard M
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1. Estrogens are used as drugs and estrogen exposure is a risk factor for hormone-dependent diseases such as breast cancer. Sulfate conjugation is an important pathway for estrogen metabolism. The sulfotransferase (SULT) enzyme SULT1E1 has the lowest K(m) values for estrogens and catecholestrogen...
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