Coenzyme A esters of 2-aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides and 2-arylpropionate antiinflammatory drugs are potent and stereoselective inhibitors of rat liver acetyl-CoA carboxylase.

The CoA esters of diclofop, haloxyfop and fluazifop are up to 425-fold more potent than the corresponding unconjugated herbicides as inhibitors of rat liver acetyl-CoA carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.2); the most potent inhibitor is (R)-fluazifopyl-CoA2 (Ki = 0.03 microM). The binding site is stereoselective for (R)-diclofop, the herbicidally active enantiomer, and for (R)-diclofopyl-CoA. The CoA esters of the antiinflammatory drugs ibuprofen and fenoprofen also strongly inhibit this carboxylase. (S)-Ibuprofenyl-CoA (Ki = 0.7 microM), the CoA ester of the enantiomer with antiinflammatory activity, is 15-fold more potent as an inhibitor than (R)-ibuprofenyl-CoA. These results suggest that some of the biological effects of these herbicides and antiinflammatory drugs in animals may be due to the inhibition of acetyl-CoA carboxylase by their acyl-CoA derivatives.