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Huo L, Liu J, Dearing MD, Szklarz GD, Halpert JR, Wilderman PR. Rational Re-Engineering of the O-Dealkylation of 7-Alkoxycoumarin Derivatives by Cytochromes P450 2B from the Desert Woodrat Neotoma lepida. Biochemistry 2017; 56:2238-2246. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Lu Huo
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3092, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3092, United States
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- Department
of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3092, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3092, United States
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Lin HL, Zhang H, Kenaan C, Hollenberg PF. Roles of Residues F206 and V367 in Human CYP2B6: Effects of Mutations on Androgen Hydroxylation, Mechanism-Based Inactivation, and Reversible Inhibition. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 44:1771-1779. [PMID: 27538916 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.116.071662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The crystal structures of human CYP2B6 indicate that Phe206 and Val367 are in close proximity to the substrate binding site and suggest that both residues may play important roles in substrate metabolism and inhibitor binding. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the effects of mutating these residues to Ala on the regiospecificity of CYP2B6 for the metabolism of testosterone and androstenedione. For testosterone metabolism, 16β-OH-testosterone formation by the F206A mutant was <5% of the wild type (WT), whereas the V367A mutant exhibited a doubling of 16α-OH-testosterone formation with a 50% decrease in 16β-OH-testosterone formation compared with the WT. Significant alterations in the regiospecificity for androstenedione metabolism were also observed. To investigate the roles of these two residues in the metabolic activation of mechanism-based inactivators, tert-butylphenylacetylene (BPA) and bergamottin (BG) were used to test the susceptibility to inactivation. Although the rates of inactivation of both mutants by BG were not significantly decreased compared with the WT, the efficiency of inactivation by BPA of both mutants was more than an order of magnitude lower. Our results demonstrate that Phe206 plays a crucial role in determining the specificity of CYP2B6 for the 16β-hydroxylation of testosterone and androstenedione and that it also plays an important role in BG binding and mechanism-based inactivation by BPA. In addition, Val367 dramatically enhances the catalytic activity of CYP2B6 toward androstenedione and plays an important role in mechanism-based inactivation by BPA. The results presented here show the important roles of Phe206 and Val367 in interactions of CYP2B6 with substrates and inactivators/inhibitors and are consistent with the crystal structures.
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- Hsia-Lien Lin
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Roberts AG, Katayama J, Kaspera R, Ledwitch KV, Le Trong I, Stenkamp RE, Thompson JA, Totah RA. The role of cytochrome P450 BM3 phenylalanine-87 and threonine-268 in binding organic hydroperoxides. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2016; 1860:669-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2015.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Revised: 12/09/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Zhang H, Gay SC, Shah M, Foroozesh M, Liu J, Osawa Y, Zhang Q, Stout CD, Halpert JR, Hollenberg PF. Potent mechanism-based inactivation of cytochrome P450 2B4 by 9-ethynylphenanthrene: implications for allosteric modulation of cytochrome P450 catalysis. Biochemistry 2013; 52:355-64. [PMID: 23276288 DOI: 10.1021/bi301567z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The mechanism-based inactivation of cytochrome P450 2B4 (CYP2B4) by 9-ethynylphenanthrene (9EP) has been investigated. The partition ratio and k(inact) are 0.2 and 0.25 min(-1), respectively. Intriguingly, the inactivation exhibits sigmoidal kinetics with a Hill coefficient of 2.5 and an S(50) of 4.5 μM indicative of homotropic cooperativity. Enzyme inactivation led to an increase in mass of the apo-CYP2B4 by 218 Da as determined by electrospray ionization liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, consistent with covalent protein modification. The modified CYP2B4 was purified to homogeneity and its structure determined by X-ray crystallography. The structure showed that 9EP is covalently attached to Oγ of Thr 302 via an ester bond, which is consistent with the increased mass of the protein. The presence of the bulky phenanthrenyl ring resulted in inward rotations of Phe 297 and Phe 206, leading to a compact active site. Thus, binding of another molecule of 9EP in the active site is prohibited. However, results from the quenching of 9EP fluorescence by unmodified or 9EP-modified CYP2B4 revealed at least two binding sites with distinct affinities, with the low-affinity site being the catalytic site and the high-affinity site on the protein periphery. Computer-aided docking and molecular dynamics simulations with one or two ligands bound revealed that the high-affinity site is situated at the entrance of a substrate access channel surrounded by the F' helix, β1-β2 loop, and β4 loop and functions as an allosteric site to enhance the efficiency of activation of the acetylenic group of 9EP and subsequent covalent modification of Thr 302.
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- Haoming Zhang
- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Michigan Medical School , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Cytochrome P450 2B diversity and dietary novelty in the herbivorous, desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida). PLoS One 2012; 7:e41510. [PMID: 22927909 PMCID: PMC3425548 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2012] [Accepted: 06/22/2012] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Detoxification enzymes play a key role in plant-herbivore interactions, contributing to the on-going evolution of ecosystem functional diversity. Mammalian detoxification systems have been well studied by the medical and pharmacological industries to understand human drug metabolism; however, little is known of the mechanisms employed by wild herbivores to metabolize toxic plant secondary compounds. Using a wild rodent herbivore, the desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida), we investigated genomic structural variation, sequence variability, and expression patterns in a multigene subfamily involved in xenobiotic metabolism, cytochrome P450 2B (CYP2B). We hypothesized that differences in CYP2B expression and sequence diversity could explain differential abilities of woodrat populations to consume native plant toxins. Woodrats from two distinct populations were fed diets supplemented with either juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) or creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), plants consumed by woodrats in their respective desert habitats. We used Southern blot and quantitative PCR to determine that the genomic copy number of CYP2B in both populations was equivalent, and similar in number to known rodent copy number. We compared CYP2B expression patterns and sequence diversity using cloned hepatic CYP2B cDNA. The resulting sequences were very diverse, and clustered into four major clades by amino acid similarity. Sequences from the experimental treatments were distributed non-randomly across a CYP2B tree, indicating unique expression patterns from woodrats on different diets and from different habitats. Furthermore, within each major CYP2B clade, sequences shared a unique combination of amino acid residues at 13 sites throughout the protein known to be important for CYP2B enzyme function, implying differences in the function of each major CYP2B variant. This work is the most comprehensive investigation of the genetic diversity of a detoxification enzyme subfamily in a wild mammalian herbivore, and contributes an initial genetic framework to our understanding of how a wild herbivore responds to critical changes in its diet.
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Shah MB, Pascual J, Zhang Q, Stout CD, Halpert JR. Structures of cytochrome P450 2B6 bound to 4-benzylpyridine and 4-(4-nitrobenzyl)pyridine: insight into inhibitor binding and rearrangement of active site side chains. Mol Pharmacol 2011; 80:1047-55. [PMID: 21875942 DOI: 10.1124/mol.111.074427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The biochemical, biophysical, and structural analysis of the cytochrome P450 2B subfamily of enzymes has provided a wealth of information regarding conformational plasticity and substrate recognition. The recent X-ray crystal structure of the drug-metabolizing P450 2B6 in complex with 4-(4-chlorophenyl)imidazole (4-CPI) yielded the first atomic view of this human enzyme. However, knowledge of the structural basis of P450 2B6 specificity and inhibition has remained limited. In this study, structures of P450 2B6 were determined in complex with the potent inhibitors 4-benzylpyridine (4-BP) and 4-(4-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (4-NBP). Comparison of the present structures with the previous P450 2B6-4-CPI complex showed that reorientation of side chains of the active site residue Phe206 on the F-helix and Phe297 on the I-helix was necessary to accommodate the inhibitors. However, P450 2B6 does not require any major side chain rearrangement to bind 4-NBP compared with 4-BP, and the enzyme provides no hydrogen-bonding partners for the polar nitro group of 4-NBP within the hydrophobic active site. In addition, on the basis of these new structures, substitution of residue 172 with histidine as observed in the single nucleotide polymorphism Q172H and in P450 2B4 may contribute to a hydrogen bonding network connecting the E- and I-helices, thereby stabilizing active site residues on the I-helix. These results provide insight into the role of active site side chains upon inhibitor binding and indicate that the recognition of the benzylpyridines in the closed conformation structure of P450 2B6 is based solely on hydrophobicity, size, and shape.
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- Manish B Shah
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0703, USA.
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Halpert JR. Structure and function of cytochromes P450 2B: from mechanism-based inactivators to X-ray crystal structures and back. Drug Metab Dispos 2011; 39:1113-21. [PMID: 21502194 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.111.039719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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This article reviews work from the author dating back to 1978 and focuses on the structural basis of cytochrome P450 (P450) function using available contemporary techniques. Early studies used mechanism-based inactivators that bound to the protein moiety of hepatic P450s to try to localize the active site. Subsequent studies used cDNA cloning, heterologous expression, site-directed mutagenesis, and homology modeling based on multiple bacterial P450 X-ray crystal structures to predict the active sites of CYP2B enzymes with considerable accuracy. Breakthroughs in engineering and expression of mammalian P450s enabled us to determine our first X-ray crystal structure of ligand-free rabbit CYP2B4. To date, we have solved 11 CYP2B4 and three human CYP2B6 structures, which represent four significantly different conformations. The plasticity of CYP2B4 has been confirmed by deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and is substantiated by molecular dynamics simulations. In addition to major movement of secondary structure elements, more subtle reorientation of active site side chains, especially Phe206, Phe297, and Glu301, contributes to the ability of CYP2B enzymes to bind various ligands. Isothermal titration calorimetry has proven to be a useful tool for studying the thermodynamics of ligand binding to CYP2B4 and CYP2B6, and NMR has enabled study of ligand binding orientation in solution as an adjunct to X-ray crystallography. A major challenge remains to harness the power of the various approaches to facilitate prediction of CYP2B specificity and inhibition.
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- James R Halpert
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. #0657, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Oezguen N, Kumar S. Analysis of Cytochrome P450 Conserved Sequence Motifs between Helices E and H: Prediction of Critical Motifs and Residues in Enzyme Functions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 2:1000110. [PMID: 25426333 PMCID: PMC4241269 DOI: 10.4172/2157-7609.1000110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rational approaches have been extensively used to investigate the role of active site residues in cytochrome P450 (CYP) functions. However, recent studies using random mutagenesis suggest an important role for non-active site residues in CYP functions. Meta-analysis of the random mutants showed that 75% of the functionally important non-active site residues are present in 20% of the entire protein between helices E and H (E-H) and conserved sequence motif (CSM) between 7 and 11. The CSM approach was developed recently to investigate the functional role of non-active site residues in CYP2B4. Furthermore, we identified and analyzed the CSM in multiple CYP families and subfamilies in the E-H region. Results from CSM analysis showed that CSM 7, 8, 10, and 11 are conserved in CYP1, CYP2, and CYP3 families, while CSM 9 is conserved only in CYP2 family. Analysis of different CYP2 subfamilies showed that CYP2B and CYP2C have similar characteristics in the CSM, while the characteristics of CYP2A and CYP2D subfamilies are different. Finally, we analyzed CSM 7, 8, 10, and 11, which are common in all the CYP families/subfamilies analyzed, in fifteen important drug-metabolizing CYPs. The results showed that while CSM 8 is most conserved among these CYPs, CSM 7, 9, and 10 have significant variations. We suggest that CSM8 has a common role in all the CYPs that have been analyzed, while CSM 7, 10, and 11 may have relatively specific role within the subfamily. We further suggest that these CSM play important role in opening and closing of the substrate access/egress channel by modulating the flexible/plastic region of the protein. Thus, site-directed mutagenesis of these CSM can be used to study structure-function and dynamic/plasticity-function relationships and to design CYP biocatalysts.
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- Numan Oezguen
- Internal Medicine-Endocrinology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-1060, USA
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- Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2464 Charlotte St., Kansas City, MO, USA
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Lin HL, Zhang H, Jushchyshyn M, Hollenberg PF. Covalent modification of Thr302 in cytochrome P450 2B1 by the mechanism-based inactivator 4-tert-butylphenylacetylene. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2010; 333:663-9. [PMID: 20200115 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.109.164350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The mechanism of inactivation of cytochrome P450 2B1 (CYP2B1) by 4-tert-butylphenylacetylene (BPA) has been characterized previously to be caused by the covalent binding of a reactive intermediate to the apoprotein rather than heme destruction (J Pharmacol Exp Ther 331:392-403, 2009). The identification of a BPA-glutathione conjugate and the increase in the mass of the BPA-adducted apoprotein have indicated that the mass of adduct is 174 Da, equivalent to the mass of BPA plus one oxygen atom. To identify the adducted residue, BPA-inactivated CYP2B1 was digested with trypsin, and the digest was then analyzed by using capillary liquid chromatography with a LTQ linear ion trap mass spectrometer as the detector. A mass shift of 174 Da was used for a SEQUEST database search. The tandem mass spectrometry fragmentation of the modified peptide and the identity of modified residue were determined. The results revealed a mass increase of 174 Da for the peptide sequence (296)FFAGTSSTTLR(308) in the I-helix of CYP2B1 and that the site of adduction formation is Thr302. Homology modeling and ligand docking studies showed that BPA binds in close proximity to both the heme iron and Thr302 with the distances being 2.96 and 3.42 A, respectively. The identification of Thr302 in the CYP2B1 active site as the site of covalent modification leading to inactivation by BPA supports previous hypotheses that this conserved Thr residue may play a crucial role for various functions in P450s.
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- Hsia-lien Lin
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5632, USA
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Zhang H, Kenaan C, Hamdane D, Hoa GHB, Hollenberg PF. Effect of conformational dynamics on substrate recognition and specificity as probed by the introduction of a de novo disulfide bond into cytochrome P450 2B1. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:25678-86. [PMID: 19605359 PMCID: PMC2757969 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.032748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2009] [Revised: 07/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The conformational dynamics of cytochrome P450 2B1 (CYP2B1) were investigated through the introduction of a disulfide bond to link the I- and K-helices by generation of a double Cys variant, Y309C/S360C. The consequences of the disulfide bonding were examined both experimentally and in silico by molecular dynamics simulations. Under high hydrostatic pressures, the partial inactivation volume for the Y309C/S360C variant was determined to be -21 cm3mol(-1), which is more than twice as much as those of the wild type (WT) and single Cys variants (Y309C, S360C). This result indicates that the engineered disulfide bond has substantially reduced the protein plasticity of the Y309C/S360C variant. Under steady-state turnover conditions, the S360C variant catalyzed the N-demethylation of benzphetamine and O-deethylation of 7-ethoxy-trifluoromethylcoumarin as the WT did, whereas the Y309C variant retained only 39% of the N-demethylation activity and 66% of the O-deethylation activity compared with the WT. Interestingly, the Y309C/S360C variant restored the N-demethylation activity to the same level as that of the WT but decreased the O-deethylation activity to only 19% of the WT. Furthermore, the Y309C/S360C variant showed increased substrate specificity for testosterone over androstenedione. Molecular dynamics simulations revealed that the engineered disulfide bond altered substrate access channels. Taken together, these results suggest that protein dynamics play an important role in regulating substrate entry and recognition.
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- Haoming Zhang
- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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- INSERM U779, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94275 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM U779, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94275 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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Tu Y, Deshmukh R, Sivaneri M, Szklarz GD. Application of molecular modeling for prediction of substrate specificity in cytochrome P450 1A2 mutants. Drug Metab Dispos 2008; 36:2371-80. [PMID: 18703643 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.108.022640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of 7-ethoxy- and 7-methoxyresorufin bound in the active site of cytochrome P450 (P450) 1A2 wild-type and various mutants were used to predict changes in substrate specificity of the mutants. A total of 26 multiple mutants representing all possible combinations of five key amino acid residues, which are different between P450 1A1 and 1A2, were examined. The resorufin substrates were docked in the active site of each enzyme in the productive binding orientation, and MD simulations were performed on the enzyme-substrate complex. Ensembles collected from MD trajectories were then scored on the basis of geometric parameters relating substrate position with respect to the activated oxoheme cofactor. The results showed a high correlation between the previous experimental data on P450 1A2 wild-type and single mutants with respect to the ratio between 7-ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) and 7-methoxyresorufin-O-demethylase (MROD) activities and the equivalent in silico "E/M scores" (the ratio of hits obtained with 7-ethoxyresorufin to those obtained with 7-methoxyresorufin). Moreover, this correlation served to establish linear regression models used to evaluate E/M scores of multiple P450 1A2 mutants. Seven mutants, all of them incorporating the L382V substitution, were predicted to shift specificity to that of P450 1A1. The predictions were then verified experimentally. The appropriate P450 1A2 multiple mutants were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis, expressed in Escherichia coli, and assayed for EROD and MROD activities. Of six mutants, five demonstrated an increased EROD/MROD ratio, confirming modeling predictions.
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- Youbin Tu
- Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9530, Morgantown, WV 26506-9530, USA
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Yang Z, Yang H, He G. Cloning and characterization of two cytochrome P450 CYP6AX1 and CYP6AY1 cDNAs from Nilaparvata lugens Stål (Homoptera: Delphacidae). ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 64:88-99. [PMID: 17212353 DOI: 10.1002/arch.20162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Two full-length P450 cDNAs, CYP6AX1 and CYP6AY1, were cloned from the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens Stål (Homoptera: Delphacidae). Both CYP6AX1 and CYP6AY1 are typical microsomal P450s and their deduced amino acid sequences share common characteristics with other members of the insect P450 CYP6 family. CYP6AX1 and CYP6AY1 show the highest percent identity (36%) of amino acid to each other; both of them have 31-33% amino acid identity with CYP6B1 from Papilio polyxenes (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), CYP6B4 from Papilio glaucus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), and CYP6B8 from Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Phylogenetic analysis showed the clustering of CYP6AX1 and CYP6AY1 was in the clade including CYP6AE1 from Depressaria pastinacella (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) and the CYP6B family members from Helicoverpa and Papilio species. Northern blot analysis revealed that both of the P450s were induced by the resistant rice variety B5 (Oryza sativa L), and CYP6AY1 was expressed at a higher level than CYP6AX1. The results suggest that more than one P450s are likely involved in metabolism of rice allelochemicals and that they are possibly important components in adaptation of Nilaparvata lugens to host rice. Arch. Insect Biochem.
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- Zhifan Yang
- College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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Zhao Y, Halpert JR. Structure-function analysis of cytochromes P450 2B. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2006; 1770:402-12. [PMID: 16935426 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2006.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2006] [Revised: 07/14/2006] [Accepted: 07/18/2006] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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In the last 4 years, breakthroughs were made in the field of P450 2B (CYP2B) structure-function through determination of one ligand-free and two inhibitor-bound X-ray crystal structures of CYP2B4, which revealed many of the structural features required for binding ligands of different size and shape. Large conformational changes of several plastic regions of CYP2B4 can dramatically reshape the active site of the enzyme to fit the size and shape of the bound ligand without perturbing the overall P450 fold. Solution biophysical studies using isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) have revealed the large difference in the thermodynamic parameters of CYP2B4 in binding inhibitors of different ring chemistry and side chains. Other studies have revealed that the effects of site-specific mutations on steady-state kinetic parameters and mechanism-based inactivation are often substrate dependent. These findings agree with the structural data that the enzymes adopt different conformations to bind various ligands. Thus, the substrate specificity of an individual enzyme is determined not only by active site residues but also non-active site residues that modulate conformational changes that are important for substrate access and rearrangement of the active site to accommodate the bound substrate.
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- Yonghong Zhao
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1031, USA.
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Wen Z, Baudry J, Berenbaum MR, Schuler MA. Ile115Leu mutation in the SRS1 region of an insect cytochrome P450 (CYP6B1) compromises substrate turnover via changes in a predicted product release channel. Protein Eng Des Sel 2005; 18:191-9. [PMID: 15837716 DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzi023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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CYP6B1 represents the principal cytochrome P450 monooxygenase responsible for metabolizing furanocoumarins in Papilio polyxenes, an insect that specializes on host plants containing these toxins. Investigations of the amino acids responsible for the efficient metabolism of these plant toxins has identified Ile115 as one that modulates the rate of furanocoumarin metabolism even though it is predicted to be positioned at the edge of the heme plane and outside substrate contact regions. In contrast to previous expression studies conducted under conditions of limiting P450 reductase showing that the Ile115-to-Leu replacement enhances turnover of xanthotoxin and other furanocoumarins, studies conducted at high P450 reductase indicate that the Ile115-to-Leu replacement reduces turnover of these substrates. Further analysis of substrate binding affinities, heme spin state and NADPH consumption rates indicate that, whereas the I115L replacement mutant displays higher substrate affinity and heme spin state than the wild-type CYP6B1 protein, it utilizes NADPH more slowly than the wild-type CYP6B1 protein at high P450 reductase levels. Molecular models developed for the wild-type CYP6B1 and mutant protein suggest that more constricted channels extending from the catalytic site in the I115L mutant to the P450 surface limit the rate of product release from this mutant catalytic site under conditions not limited by the rate of electron transfer from NADPH.
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- Zhimou Wen
- Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Takahashi S, Zhao Y, O’Maille PE, Greenhagen BT, Noel JP, Coates RM, Chappell J. Kinetic and molecular analysis of 5-epiaristolochene 1,3-dihydroxylase, a cytochrome P450 enzyme catalyzing successive hydroxylations of sesquiterpenes. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:3686-96. [PMID: 15522862 PMCID: PMC2859954 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m411870200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The final step of capsidiol biosynthesis is catalyzed by 5-epiaristolochene dihydroxylase (EAH), a cytochrome P450 enzyme that catalyzes the regio- and stereospecific insertion of two hydroxyl moieties into the bicyclic sesquiterpene 5-epiaristolochene (EA). Detailed kinetic studies using EA and the two possible monohydroxylated intermediates demonstrated the release of 1beta-hydroxy-EA ((OH)EA) at high EA concentrations and a 10-fold catalytic preference for 1beta(OH)EA versus 3alpha(OH)EA, indicative of a preferred reaction order of hydroxylation at C-1, followed by that at C-3. Sequence alignments and homology modeling identified active-site residues tested for their contribution to substrate specificity and overall enzymatic activity. Mutants EAH-S368C and EAH-S368V exhibited wild-type catalytic efficiencies for 1beta(OH)EA biosynthesis, but were devoid of the successive hydroxylation activity for capsidiol biosynthesis. In contrast to EAH-S368C, EAH-S368V catalyzed the relative equal biosynthesis of 1beta(OH)EA, 2beta(OH)EA, and 3beta(OH)EA from EA with wild-type efficiency. Moreover, EAH-S368V converted approximately 1.5% of these monohydroxylated products to their respective ketone forms. Alanine and threonine mutations at position 368 were significantly compromised in their conversion rates of EA to capsidiol and correlated with 3.6- and 5.7-fold increases in their Km values for the 1beta(OH)EA intermediate, respectively. A role for Ile486 in the successive hydroxylations of EA was also suggested by the EAH-I468A mutant, which produced significant amounts 1beta(OH)EA, but negligible amounts of capsidiol from EA. The altered product profile of the EAH-I486A mutant correlated with a 3.6-fold higher Km for EA and a 4.4-fold slower turnover rate (kcat) for 1beta(OH)EA. These kinetic and mutational studies were correlated with substrate docking predictions to suggest how Ser368 and Ile486 might contribute to active-site topology, substrate binding, and substrate presentation to the oxo-Fe-heme reaction center.
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- Shunji Takahashi
- Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology Program, Agronomy Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40546-0312
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology Program, Agronomy Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40546-0312
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology Program, Agronomy Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40546-0312
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Kim D, Guengerich FP. Enhancement of 7-methoxyresorufin O-demethylation activity of human cytochrome P450 1A2 by molecular breeding. Arch Biochem Biophys 2004; 432:102-8. [PMID: 15519301 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2004.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2004] [Revised: 09/02/2004] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Alkylresorufins are model substrates for cytochrome P450 (P450) 1A2. The ability of human P450 1A2 to catalyze 7-methoxyresorufin O-demethylation was improved by screening of random mutant libraries (expressed in Escherichia coli) on the basis of 7-methoxyresorufin O-demethylation. After three rounds of mutagenesis and screening, the triple mutant E163K/V193M/K170Q yielded a kcat > five times faster than wild type P450 1A2 in steady-state kinetic analysis using either isolated membrane fractions or purified, reconstituted enzymes. The enhanced catalytic activity was not attributed to changes in substrate affinity. The kinetic hydrogen isotope effect of the triple mutant did not change from wild type enzyme and suggests that C-H bond cleavage is rate-limiting in both enzymes. Homology modeling, based on an X-ray structure of rabbit P450 2C5, suggests that the locations of mutated residues are not close to the substrate binding site and therefore that structural elements outside of this site play roles in changing the catalytic activity. This approach has potential value in understanding P450 1A2 and generating engineered enzymes with enhanced catalytic activity.
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- Donghak Kim
- Department of Biochemistry and Center in Molecular Toxicology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 683 Robinson Research Building, 23rd and Pierce Avenues, Nashville, TN 37232-01465, USA
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Von Weymarn LB, Sridar C, Hollenberg PF. Identification of amino acid residues involved in the inactivation of cytochrome P450 2B1 by two acetylenic compounds: the role of three residues in nonsubstrate recognition Sites. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2004; 311:71-9. [PMID: 15178696 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.104.069757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The homologous rat cytochrome P450s 2B1 and 2B2 differ by 13 amino acids. A chimeric construct of P450 2B1/2B2 was used in conjunction with several site-directed mutants to identify key residues involved in the inactivation of P450 2B1 by two acetylenic compounds, 17alpha-ethynylestradiol (17EE) and tert-butyl 1-methyl-2-propynyl ether (tBMP). 17EE is a mechanism-based inactivator of P450 2B1 but not of P450 2B2. We show here that tBMP is also a mechanism-based inactivator of P450 2B1 and not P450 2B2. Minimal loss in 7-ethoxy-4-(trifluoromethyl)coumarin (7-EFC) activity was observed when P450 2B1 G478A was incubated with either inactivator, suggesting that this residue plays a role in the inactivation. However, P450 2B2 A478G behaved like wild-type P450 2B2, indicating that this residue alone is not sufficient for inactivation. A chimeric construct of P450 2B1/2B2 that is essentially P450 2B1 with five residues of P450 2B2 (including residue 478), was not inactivated by either tBMP or 17EE, suggesting that these five residues are important for inactivation. Sequential mutagenesis of the chimeric construct to quadruple (S407T-N417D-A419T-G478A) and triple (S407T-N417D-A419T) mutants of P450 2B1 did not result in inactivation by either inactivator. However, the triple mutant with mutations only in non-substrate recognition site (SRS) regions still exhibits wild-type P450 2B1 7-EFC O-deethylation activity with a K(m) value of 25 microM and V(max) of 8 nmol/min/nmol P450. These results demonstrate that substitution of three non-SRS residues in P450 2B1 leads to protection against inactivation of 2B enzymes by these two acetylenic compounds.
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- Linda B Von Weymarn
- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Michigan, 1150 West Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0632, USA
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Lin HL, Zhang H, Waskell L, Hollenberg PF. Threonine-205 in the F helix of p450 2B1 contributes to androgen 16 beta-hydroxylation activity and mechanism-based inactivation. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2003; 306:744-51. [PMID: 12721329 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.103.050260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Four mutants of Thr-205 in cytochrome p450 2B1 were constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli. The Ser-, Ala-, and Val-mutants displayed stable reduced CO difference spectra and were able to metabolize 7-ethoxy-4-(trifluoromethyl)coumarin, testosterone, androstenedione, and benzphetamine. The Arg-mutant displayed an unstable reduced CO difference spectrum at 450 nm, was concomitantly converted to a denatured form with a peak at 422 nm, and showed no catalytic activity with any of the four substrates tested. The Ser-mutant displayed activity and metabolite profiles for testosterone and androstenedione similar to those of the wild-type p450 2B1 (WT). Substitution of Thr-205 with Ala or Val markedly suppressed the 16 beta-hydroxylation activity but exhibited little effect on the 16 alpha-hydroxylation activity for testosterone and androstenedione. Because 16 beta-hydroxylation activity of androgens is a specific p450 2B subfamily marker and residue 205 is located in the F helix, which forms the ceiling of the active site, we postulate that the gamma-hydroxyl side chain of Thr may play an important role in directing the 16 beta-face of testosterone and androstenedione toward the active site. Surprisingly, the Val-mutant retained full activity for benzphetamine demethylation. When mechanism-based inactivators for p450 2B1 were used to evaluate the susceptibility to inactivation, the Val-mutant was resistant to inactivation by 17 alpha-ethynylestradiol and less sensitive to inactivation by 2-ethynylnaphthalene compared with the WT enzyme. Our results demonstrate the importance of Thr-205 in determining substrate specificity and product formation as well as in influencing the susceptibility of p450 2B1 to mechanism-based inactivators.
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- Hsia-Lien Lin
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0632, USA
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Lewis DFV, Lake BG, Dickins M, Goldfarb PS. Molecular modelling of CYP2B6 based on homology with the CYP2C5 crystal structure: analysis of enzyme-substrate interactions. DRUG METABOLISM AND DRUG INTERACTIONS 2003; 19:115-35. [PMID: 12751910 DOI: 10.1515/dmdi.2002.19.2.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The results of homology modelling of CYP2B6 based on the CYP2C5 crystal structure is described in terms of substrates and inhibitors binding within the putative active site. In general these results are in agreement with currently available evidence from substrate metabolism, mode of inhibitor action and site-directed mutagenesis experiments within the CYP2B subfamily of enzymes. Consequently, the model based on the CYP2C5 template represents an advance on those models produced from bacterial P450s, such as CYP101 and CYP102. Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs) for substrates binding to CYP2B6 indicate a key role for hydrogen bonding, and lipophilic character, as determined by the log P parameter (where P is the octanol/water partition coefficient), is also of importance for explaining the variation in experimental binding affinity for CYP2B6 substrates. It is possible to estimate the binding energies for typical CYP2B6 substrates based on their properties and interactions with the enzyme, which show good concordance with experimental data in the form of apparent Km values.
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- David F V Lewis
- School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK.
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Kumar S, Scott EE, Liu H, Halpert JR. A rational approach to Re-engineer cytochrome P450 2B1 regioselectivity based on the crystal structure of cytochrome P450 2C5. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:17178-84. [PMID: 12609983 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m212515200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The regioselectivity for progesterone hydroxylation by cytochrome P450 2B1 was re-engineered based on the x-ray crystal structure of cytochrome P450 2C5. 2B1 is a high K(m) progesterone 16alpha-hydroxylase, whereas 2C5 is a low K(m) progesterone 21-hydroxylase. Initially, nine individual 2B1 active-site residues were changed to the corresponding 2C5 residues, and the mutants were purified from an Escherichia coli expression system and assayed for progesterone hydroxylation. At 150 microm progesterone, I114A, F297G, and V363L showed 5-15% of the 21-hydroxylase activity of 2C5, whereas F206V showed high activity for an unknown product and a 13-fold decrease in K(m). Therefore, a quadruple mutant, I114A/F206V/F297G/V363L (Q), was constructed that showed 60% of 2C5 progesterone 21-hydroxylase activity and 57% regioselectivity. Based on their 2C5-like testosterone hydroxylation profiles, S294D and I477F alone and in combination were added to the quadruple mutant. All three mutants showed enhanced regioselectivity (70%) for progesterone 21-hydroxylation, whereas only Q/I477F had a higher k(cat). Finally, the remaining three single mutants, V103I, V367L, and G478V, were added to Q/I477F and Q/S294D/I477F, yielding seven additional multiple mutants. Among these, Q/V103I/S294D/I477F showed the highest k(cat) (3-fold higher than that of 2C5) and 80% regioselectivity for progesterone 21-hydroxylation. Docking of progesterone into a three-dimensional model of this mutant indicated that 21-hydroxylation is favored. In conclusion, a systematic approach to convert P450 regioselectivity across subfamilies suggests that active-site residues are mainly responsible for regioselectivity differences between 2B1 and 2C5 and validates the reliability of 2B1 models based on the crystal structure of 2C5.
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- Santosh Kumar
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1031, USA.
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Melet A, Assrir N, Jean P, Pilar Lopez-Garcia M, Marques-Soares C, Jaouen M, Dansette PM, Sari MA, Mansuy D. Substrate selectivity of human cytochrome P450 2C9: importance of residues 476, 365, and 114 in recognition of diclofenac and sulfaphenazole and in mechanism-based inactivation by tienilic acid. Arch Biochem Biophys 2003; 409:80-91. [PMID: 12464247 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00548-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A series of six site-directed mutants of CYP 2C9 were constructed with the aim to better define the amino acid residues that play a critical role in substrate selectivity of CYP 2C9, particularly in three distinctive properties of this enzyme: (i) its selective mechanism-based inactivation by tienilic acid (TA), (ii) its high affinity and hydroxylation regioselectivity toward diclofenac, and (iii) its high affinity for the competitive inhibitor sulfaphenazole (SPA). The S365A mutant exhibited kinetic characteristics for the 5-hydroxylation of TA very similar to those of CYP 2C9; however, this mutant did not undergo any detectable mechanism-based inactivation by TA, which indicates that the OH group of Ser 365 could be the nucleophile forming a covalent bond with an electrophilic metabolite of TA in TA-dependent inactivation of CYP 2C9. The F114I mutant was inactive toward the hydroxylation of diclofenac; moreover, detailed analyses of its interaction with a series of SPA derivatives by difference visible spectroscopy showed that the high affinity of SPA to CYP 2C9 (K(s)=0.4 microM) was completely lost when the phenyl substituent of Phe 114 was replaced with the alkyl group of Ile (K(s)=190+/-20 microM), or when the phenyl substituent of SPA was replaced with a cyclohexyl group (K(s)=120+/-30 microM). However, this cyclohexyl derivative of SPA interacted well with the F114I mutant (K(s)=1.6+/-0.5 microM). At the opposite end, the F94L and F110I mutants showed properties very similar to those of CYP 2C9 toward TA and diclofenac. Finally, the F476I mutant exhibited at least three main differences compared to CYP 2C9: (i) big changes in the k(cat) and K(m) values for TA and diclofenac hydroxylation, (ii) a 37-fold increase of the K(i) value found for the inhibition of CYP 2C9 by SPA, and (iii) a great change in the regioselectivity of diclofenac hydroxylation, the 5-hydroxylation of this substrate by CYP 2C9 F476I exhibiting a k(cat) of 28min(-1). These data indicate that Phe 114 plays an important role in recognition of aromatic substrates of CYP 2C9, presumably via Pi-stacking interactions. They also provide the first experimental evidence showing that Phe 476 plays a crucial role in substrate recognition and hydroxylation by CYP 2C9.
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- Armelle Melet
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques, UMR 8601 CNRS, Université Paris V, 45 Rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 06 Paris Cedex, France
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Lewis DFV. Essential requirements for substrate binding affinity and selectivity toward human CYP2 family enzymes. Arch Biochem Biophys 2003; 409:32-44. [PMID: 12464242 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00349-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A detailed analysis of substrate selectivity within the cytochrome P450 2 (CYP2) family is reported. From a consideration of specific interactions between drug substrates for human CYP2 family enzymes and the putative active sites of CYP2A6, CYP2B6, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, CYP2D6, and CYP2E1, it is likely that the number and disposition of hydrogen bond donor/acceptors and aromatic rings within the various P450 substrate molecules determines their enzyme selectivity and binding affinity, together with directing their preferred routes of metabolism by the CYP2 enzymes concerned. Although many aliphatic residues are present in most P450 active sites, it would appear that their main contribution centers around hydrophobic interactions and desolvation processes accompanying substrate binding. Molecular modeling studies based on the recent CYP2C5 crystal structure appear to show close agreement with site-directed mutagenesis experiments and with information on substrate metabolism and selectivity within the CYP2 family.
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- David F V Lewis
- Molecular Toxicology Group, School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
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Lesigiarska I, Pajeva I, Yanev S. Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) and three-dimensional QSAR analysis of a series of xanthates as inhibitors and inactivators of cytochrome P450 2B1. Xenobiotica 2002; 32:1063-77. [PMID: 12593756 DOI: 10.1080/0049825021000012574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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1. Various xanthates (R-OCS2) were found to be mechanism-based inactivators of cytochrome P450 2B1 (CYP2B1) and CYP2B6 via formation of reactive metabolites. 2. In the present study, quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) were derived with inhibitory and inactivation potencies of 15 xanthates (R = two to 20 methylene groups, allyl, cyclohexyl or O-tricyclo[5.2.1.0(2,6)]dec-9-yl (D609)) against purified, reconstituted rat liver CYP2B1. Factor, regression and comparative molecular field analyses (CoMFA) were used. 3. The compounds formed two groups whose activities depended on different structural features: the first group consisted of compounds with ethyl, propyl, allyl, cyclohexyl and D609 substituents; the second involved compounds with eight to 20 methylene groups. 4. High correlation between the molecular volume and inhibitory potency of the xanthates of the second group was found. The inactivation potency in the first group correlated with the charge of the first carbon atom of R, identifying this atom as a potential target for metabolic attack. A decrease in the inactivation potency with an increase in the size of R was observed in the second group. This finding could be explained by a decreased rate of metabolism of the long alkyl chain compounds and/or by difficulty in binding of the resulting metabolite(s) to the enzyme molecule.
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- I Lesigiarska
- Centre of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Physiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl.23, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Lewis DFV. Modelling human cytochromes P450 involved in drug metabolism from the CYP2C5 crystallographic template. J Inorg Biochem 2002; 91:502-14. [PMID: 12237218 DOI: 10.1016/s0162-0134(02)00429-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A historical background to homology modelling of human P450s involved in drug metabolism is outlined, showing that the progress in crystallographic studies of bacterial forms of enzyme and, latterly, determination of a mammalian P450 crystal structure, has enabled the production of increasingly satisfactory models of human P450 enzymes. The methodology for the generation of P450 models by homology with crystallographic template structures is summarized, and recent results of CYP2C5-constructed models of P450s are described. These indicate that selective substrates are able to fit within the putative active sites of each enzyme, where key contacts with complementary amino acid residues are largely consistent with the results of site-directed mutagenesis experiments and metabolic studies. Consequently, the CYP2C5 crystal structure can be regarded at the current paradigm for homology modelling of the drug metabolizing P450s, especially those from the CYP2 family.
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- David F V Lewis
- School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
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Hosseinpour F, Hidestrand M, Ingelman-Sundberg M, Wikvall K. The importance of residues in substrate recognition site 3 for the catalytic function of CYP2D25 (vitamin D 25-hydroxylase). Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 288:1059-63. [PMID: 11689019 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Porcine CYP2D25, microsomal vitamin D(3) 25-hydroxylase, catalyzes the essential first step in the bioactivation of the prohormone vitamin D(3). Although CYP2D25 shows a high degree of sequence identity with other members of the CYP2D subfamily, such as human CYP2D6, the vitamin D(3) 25-hydroxylase activity is a unique property among CYP2D enzymes. In addition to 25-hydroxylation, CYP2D25 also metabolizes the drug tolterodine. In this study, CYP2D25 was functionally expressed in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae W(R) strain and site-directed mutagenesis was used to study the role of substrate recognition site 3 (SRS-3) for the catalytic specificity of CYP2D25. Five residues in SRS-3 of CYP2D25 were simultaneously mutated to the equivalent residues in CYP2D6, an enzyme not active in 25-hydroxylation. Western blot analysis of microsomes from transformed yeast cells showed that both the wild-type and mutant CYP2D25 were expressed at comparable levels. The 25-hydroxylase activity of recombinant mutant CYP2D25 was completely lost whereas the activity toward tolterodine remained virtually unaffected. The results implicate that residues in SRS-3 of CYP2D25 are important determinants for its function in vitamin D(3) metabolism.
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- F Hosseinpour
- Division of Biochemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, SE-751 23, Sweden
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Scott EE, Spatzenegger M, Halpert JR. A truncation of 2B subfamily cytochromes P450 yields increased expression levels, increased solubility, and decreased aggregation while retaining function. Arch Biochem Biophys 2001; 395:57-68. [PMID: 11673866 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.2001.2574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The hydrophobic membrane-spanning domain in four cytochromes P450 2B was removed (Delta3-21) and several positive charges were substituted at the N-terminus to increase expression and solubility. Histidine residues were appended to the C-terminus to simplify purification. The truncated proteins were highly expressed in Escherichia coli, could be released from the membrane using high salt conditions, and were purified from this fraction to specific contents up to 19 nmol P450/mg protein using a single Ni(2+)-agarose column. Gel filtration revealed that truncated P450 2B1 forms a monodisperse solution of hexamers in the absence of detergent and >95% monomers in 0.25% sodium cholate. All truncated proteins, including human 2B6, were active with 7-ethoxy-4-trifluoromethylcoumarin, and truncated 2B1 was shown to retain the native regio- and stereospecificity of testosterone hydroxylation. These data demonstrate that modification of the N-terminus yields high levels of properly folded P450s 2B with increased solubility, which are suitable for functional and structural analysis.
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- E E Scott
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 77555-1031, USA.
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Domanski TL, He YQ, Scott EE, Wang Q, Halpert JR. The role of cytochrome 2B1 substrate recognition site residues 115, 294, 297, 298, and 362 in the oxidation of steroids and 7-alkoxycoumarins. Arch Biochem Biophys 2001; 394:21-8. [PMID: 11566023 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.2001.2504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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At least two substitutions were made at each of five amino acid residues in rat cytochrome P450 2B1 that align to residues of known importance in other P450s. The mutants were histidine tagged for purification from Escherichia coli, and the proteins were assessed for testosterone and 7-alkoxycoumarin oxidation. Alteration of each of the sites studied, Phe-115, Ser-294, Phe-297, Ala-298, and Leu-362, was found to affect overall enzyme activity or the metabolite profile. In particular, most of the mutants, excluding F297A, A298G, and L362F, exhibited significantly altered ratios of 16alpha-hydroxytestosterone:16beta-hydroxytestosterone, with the most dramatic alteration being displayed by A298V. Four 7-butoxycoumarin metabolites were produced by CYP2B1, of which two, 7-hydroxycoumarin and 7-(3-hydroxybutoxy)coumarin, were formed at nearly equal rates. Several mutants, F115A, F297A, F297I, and A298V, exhibited an increased predominance of one of the metabolites. The results from this study illustrate the conservation of functionally important residues across P450 subfamilies and families.
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- T L Domanski
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA.
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Li W, Berenbaum MR, Schuler MA. Molecular analysis of multiple CYP6B genes from polyphagous Papilio species. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 31:999-1011. [PMID: 11483436 DOI: 10.1016/s0965-1748(01)00048-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Papilio glaucus (eastern tiger swallowtail) and Papilio. canadensis (Canadian tiger swallowtail) are two closely related species with broad but overlapping hostplant ranges. P. glaucus encounters toxic furanocoumarins occasionally in its diet in its rutaceous hostplants, whereas P. canadensis rarely if ever encounters these compounds. Analysis of their furanocoumarin-metabolic profiles indicates that these species induce cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) capable of metabolizing linear and angular furanocoumarins to varying degrees in response to dietary supplementation with xanthotoxin (a linear furanocoumarin). In P. glaucus, metabolism is induced to a significantly higher level than in P. canadensis. Cloning of multiple P450 genes from each species has revealed that both species contain and express two groups of P450s, designated CYP6B4 and CYP6B17, that are related to the P. glaucus CYP6B4v1 enzyme known to metabolize an array of furanocoumarins. Expression patterns of the CYP6B4 and CYP6B17 group transcripts differ in these species in both their basal and furanocoumarin-inducible levels. In P. glaucus, CYP6B4 transcripts, which are not detectable constitutively, are 311-fold induced by xanthotoxin and CYP6B17 transcripts, which are detectable constitutively, are 3-fold induced by xanthotoxin. In P. canadensis, CYP6B4 transcripts are only 8-fold induced and CYP6B17 transcripts are 13-fold induced. These findings are consistent with the postulated evolutionary history of these two species, according to which P. glaucus maintains its association with rutaceous hostplants and P. canadensis has differentiated to utilize hostplants in other families more extensively.
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- W Li
- Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Kullman SW, Hinton DE. Identification, characterization, and ontogeny of a second cytochrome P450 3A gene from the fresh water teleost medaka (Oryzias latipes). Mol Reprod Dev 2001; 58:149-58. [PMID: 11139226 DOI: 10.1002/1098-2795(200102)58:2<149::aid-mrd3>3.0.co;2-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Multiple copies of cytochrome P450 gene family 3 have been identified from numerous mammalian species. Often these genes exhibit differential catalytic activities and gene regulation. To date however, little information is available regarding multiple forms of this gene family in teleost fishes. In this study, a second isozyme of cytochrome P450 3A has been cloned from the teleost fish Oryzias latipes and designated CYP3A40. Screening of a cDNA library to medaka liver resulted in the identification of a full length cDNA clone containing a 2316 base pair (bp) insert with an open reading frame encoding a single peptide of 502 amino acids. Comparisons of the deduced amino acid sequence to other known cytochrome P450 sequences indicate that this gene product is most similar to the CYP3A gene family and shares a 90% identity to CYP3A38 previously identified from medaka liver. Consistent with Northern blot and Western blot analysis, Southern blots of medaka genomic DNA demonstrated the presence of two CYP3A genes. Gene expression studies demonstrated that CYP3A38 and CYP3A40 are differentially regulated according to embryonic development. Northern blot analysis, using a probe to a conserved region of both CYP3A genes, demonstrated the presence of a single CYP3A transcript for early and late embryonic stages and two CYP3A transcripts in larvae and adult liver. Similarly, Western blots show a single faint immunoreactive cytochrome P450 3A protein in microsomes from early and late embryos and two abundant protein bands in microsomes from larval and adult liver. To further examine the transcriptional differences in CYP3A expression, RT-PCR analysis was performed on embryonic stages 11-35, 1- and 14-day-old larvae, and adult liver using primer sets specific for CYP3A38 and CYP3A40. These results demonstrate that CYP3A40 is expressed early in embryonic development and continues throughout adult stages. CYP3A38, however, is tightly regulated during embryonic development and is only expressed post-hatch.
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- S W Kullman
- School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology and University of California Toxic Substance Research and Training Program, Lead Campus in Ecotoxicology, Davis, California, USA.
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Roussel F, Khan KK, Halpert JR. The importance of SRS-1 residues in catalytic specificity of human cytochrome P450 3A4. Arch Biochem Biophys 2000; 374:269-78. [PMID: 10666307 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1999.1599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The structural basis for the regioselective hydroxylation of Delta-4-3-ketosteroids by human CYP3A4 was investigated. Prior studies had suggested that the chemical reactivity of the allylic 6beta-position might have a greater influence than steric constraints by the enzyme. Six highly conserved CYP3A residues from substrate recognition site 1 were examined by site-directed mutagenesis. F102A and A117L showed no spectrally detectable P450. V101G and T103A exhibited a wild-type progesterone metabolite profile. Of five mutants at residue N104, only N104D yielded holoenzyme and exhibited the same steroid metabolite profile as wild-type. Of four mutants at position S119 (A, L, T, V), the three hydrophobic ones produced 2beta-OH rather than 6beta-OH progesterone or testosterone as the major metabolite. Kinetic analysis showed S(50) values similar to wild-type for S119A (progesterone) and S119V (testosterone), whereas the V(max) values for 2beta-hydroxysteroid formation were increased in both cases. All four mutants exhibited an altered product profile for 7-hexoxycoumarin side-chain hydroxylation, whereas the stimulation of steroid hydroxylation by alpha-naphthoflavone was similar to the wild-type. The results indicate that the highly conserved residue S119 is a key determinant of CYP3A4 specificity and reveal an important role of the active site topology in steroid 6beta-hydroxylation.
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- F Roussel
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-1031, USA.
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Williams PA, Cosme J, Sridhar V, Johnson EF, McRee DE. Mammalian microsomal cytochrome P450 monooxygenase: structural adaptations for membrane binding and functional diversity. Mol Cell 2000; 5:121-31. [PMID: 10678174 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)80408-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 534] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Microsomal cytochrome P450s participate in xenobiotic detoxification, procarcinogen activation, and steroid hormone synthesis. The first structure of a mammalian microsomal P450 suggests that the association of P450s with the endoplasmic reticulum involves a hydrophobic surface of the protein formed by noncontiguous portions of the polypeptide chain. This interaction places the entrance of the putative substrate access channel in or near the membrane and orients the face of the protein proximal to the heme cofactor perpendicular to the plane of the membrane for interaction with the P450 reductase. This structure offers a template for modeling other mammalian P450s and should aid drug discovery and the prediction of drug-drug interactions.
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- P A Williams
- Department of Molecular Biology MB-8, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Lewis DF, Lake BG, Dickins M, Eddershaw PJ, Tarbit MH, Goldfarb PS. Molecular modelling of CYP2B6, the human CYP2B isoform, by homology with the substrate-bound CYP102 crystal structure: evaluation of CYP2B6 substrate characteristics, the cytochrome b5 binding site and comparisons with CYP2B1 and CYP2B4. Xenobiotica 1999; 29:361-93. [PMID: 10375007 DOI: 10.1080/004982599238560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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1. Molecular modelling studies of CYP2B isoforms from rat (CYP2B1), rabbit (CYP2B4) and man (CYP2B6) are reported, with particular emphasis on substrate interactions with the human CYP2B isoform, CYP2B6. 2. The findings represent an advance on our previous study that focused primarily on the rat CYP2B isoform, CYP2B1, and involved homology modelling with substrate-free CYP102. 3. The current work utilizes the recently published substrate-bound CYP102 crystal structure as a template for construction of the CYP2B subfamily isoforms and shows, in particular, that known CYP2B6 substrate specificity and regioselectivity can be rationalized by putative active site interactions.
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- D F Lewis
- Molecular Toxicology Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
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Domanski TL, Liu J, Harlow GR, Halpert JR. Analysis of four residues within substrate recognition site 4 of human cytochrome P450 3A4: role in steroid hydroxylase activity and alpha-naphthoflavone stimulation. Arch Biochem Biophys 1998; 350:223-32. [PMID: 9473295 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1997.0525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Sequence alignment of human cytochrome P450 3A4 with bacterial enzymes of known structure has provided a basis from which to predict residues involved in substrate oxidation. Substitutions were made at four residues (I301, F304, A305, and T309) predicted to be located within the highly conserved substrate recognition site 4. Site-directed mutants engineered to contain carboxy-terminal histidine tags were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified on a metal affinity column. The integrity of each protein was assessed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting. Functional analysis was performed using progesterone and testosterone as substrates and alpha-naphthoflavone as an activator. In testosterone hydroxylase assays, all of the mutants displayed rates of total product formation similar to wild-type 3A4, with several mutants showing small differences in specific products formed. However, with progesterone as the substrate, mutants F304A, A305V, and T309A exhibited altered product ratios and/or changes in the rates of product formation. F304A and A305V also displayed altered flavonoid stimulation that resulted in product ratios dramatically different from wild-type 3A4. Therefore, the kinetics of progesterone hydroxylation of these mutants and the wild-type enzyme were further assessed, and the data were analyzed with the Hill equation. Results with wild-type 3A4 and F304A indicated that at high progesterone concentrations, hydroxylation rates and product ratios are independent of the presence of alpha-NF. This suggests that progesterone may be equivalent to alpha-NF as an activator. In contrast, A305V exhibited autoactivation by progesterone but inhibition by alpha-NF.
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- T L Domanski
- College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
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He YQ, Harlow GR, Szklarz GD, Halpert JR. Structural determinants of progesterone hydroxylation by cytochrome P450 2B5: the role of nonsubstrate recognition site residues. Arch Biochem Biophys 1998; 350:333-9. [PMID: 9473309 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1997.0516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The highly related rabbit cytochromes P450 2B4 and 2B5 differ in only 12 amino acid positions, but only 2B5 has activity toward progesterone. Previously, simultaneous site-directed mutagenesis of four key substrate recognition site (SRS) residues (114, 294, 363, and 367) was shown to result in interconversion of the androstenedione hydroxylase specificities of cytochrome P450 2B4 and 2B5. However, the progesterone metabolite profiles of the 2B4 quadruple mutant or of a quintuple mutant in which residue 370 was also mutated to the 2B5 residue were not identical to that of P450 2B5. Therefore, single mutants of P450 2B5 at the remaining seven positions were constructed, expressed in Escherichia coli, and studied with progesterone as the substrate. The single mutants at positions 120 and 221, which are outside any known SRS, exhibited a significant alteration in progesterone hydroxylation. Based on these results, Ile-114, Arg-120, Ser-221, Ser-294, Ile-363, and Val-367 in cytochrome P450 2B4 were replaced simultaneously with Phe, His, Pro, Thr, Val, and Ala, respectively, from 2B5. This yielded a mutant with a very similar progesterone metabolite profile to that of 2B5, although the total activity was lower. An additional substitution at residue 370 produced a multiple mutant P450 2B4 I114F-R120H-S221P-S294T-I363V-V367A- T370M with very similar or identical substrate specificity, regio- and stereospecificity and kinetic properties to that of P450 2B5 wild type.
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- Y Q He
- College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Wang H, Lanza DL, Yost GS. Cloning and expression of CYP2F3, a cytochrome P450 that bioactivates the selective pneumotoxins 3-methylindole and naphthalene. Arch Biochem Biophys 1998; 349:329-40. [PMID: 9448722 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1997.0479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Members of the CYP2F gene subfamily are selectively expressed in lung tissues and have been implicated as important catalysts in the formation of reactive intermediates from several pneumotoxic chemicals. Human CYP2F1 bioactivates 3-methylindole (3MI), while mouse CYP2F2 bioactivates naphthalene. Although 3MI is a potent pneumotoxin in ruminants and rodents, the participation of cytochrome P450s from the 2F subfamily in 3MI bioactivation has not been fully defined. To test the hypothesis that a goat lung 2F homologue uniquely catalyzes the dehydrogenation of 3MI to the putative electrophile 3-methylene-indolenine, the CYP2F3 cDNA was cloned from a goat lung cDNA library and expressed in Escherichia coli. The predicted amino acid sequence of CYP2F3 possessed 82% identity to both human CYP2F1 and mouse CYP2F2. CYP2F3 was mutated at the 5' end, expressed in E. coli, and shown to have a molecular mass of 50 kDa. The reconstituted enzyme uniquely catalyzed only the dehydrogenation of 3MI to form 3-methylene-indolenine, an electrophilic intermediate, without detectable formation of other products, thus demonstrating highly unusual selectivity for dehydrogenation rather than hydroxylation of a substrate. Immunoinhibition studies demonstrated that about 20% of the production of the intermediate in goat lung microsomal samples was produced by CYP2F3. The CYP2F3 enzyme had a specific activity that was similar to that of human cDNA-expressed CYP2F1. CYP2F3 also stereoselectively catalyzed the formation of the 1R,2S-oxide from naphthalene; this stereoisomer is the putative pneumotoxin. The enzyme, however, lacked catalytic activity with other common P450 substrates including 7-ethoxycoumarin, a substrate for CYP2F1, indicating that the substrate selectivity of CYP2F3 appears to be high.
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- H Wang
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
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Szklarz GD, Halpert JR. Use of homology modeling in conjunction with site-directed mutagenesis for analysis of structure-function relationships of mammalian cytochromes P450. Life Sci 1998; 61:2507-20. [PMID: 9416773 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(97)00717-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In recent years, homology modeling has become an important tool to study cytochrome P450 function, especially in conjunction with experimental approaches such as site-directed mutagenesis. Molecular models of mammalian P450s can be constructed based on crystal structures of four bacterial enzymes, P450cam, P450 BM-3, P450terp and P450eryF, using molecular replacement or consensus methods. In a model built by molecular replacement, the coordinates are copied from those of a given template protein, while consensus methods utilize more then one protein as a template and are based on distance geometry calculations. The models can be used to identify or confirm key residues, evaluate enzyme-substrate interactions and explain changes in protein stability and/or regio- and stereospecificity of substrate oxidation upon residue substitution by site-directed mutagenesis. P450 models have also been utilized to analyze binding of inhibitors or activators, as well as alterations in inhibition and activation due to residue replacement.
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- G D Szklarz
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA.
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Fang X, Kobayashi Y, Halpert JR. Stoichiometry of 7-ethoxycoumarin metabolism by cytochrome P450 2B1 wild-type and five active-site mutants. FEBS Lett 1997; 416:77-80. [PMID: 9369237 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)01173-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Recombinant P450 2B1 wild-type and the active-site mutants I114V, F206L, V363A, V363L, and G478S were purified and studied. The efficiency of coupling of reducing equivalents to 7-hydroxycoumarin formation was decreased for all the mutants except I114V. Uncoupling to H2O was increased for F206L, V363A, and G478S, decreased for V363L, and unchanged for I114V. Uncoupling to H2O2 was increased for V363L and decreased for I114V, F206L, and V363A. The findings from this study provide firm biochemical evidence that residues 206, 363, and 478 comprise part of the substrate binding site of P450 2B1.
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- X Fang
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA.
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De Groot MJ, Vermeulen NP. Modeling the active sites of cytochrome P450s and glutathione S-transferases, two of the most important biotransformation enzymes. Drug Metab Rev 1997; 29:747-99. [PMID: 9262946 DOI: 10.3109/03602539709037596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- M J De Groot
- Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Department of Pharmacochemistry, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lewis DF, Lake BG. Molecular modelling of mammalian CYP2B isoforms and their interaction with substrates, inhibitors and redox partners. Xenobiotica 1997; 27:443-78. [PMID: 9179987 DOI: 10.1080/004982597240433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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1. The construction of three-dimensional models of CYP2B isozymes from rat (CYP2B1), rabbit (CYP2B4) and man (CYP2B6), based on a multiple sequence alignment with CYP102, a unique eukaryotic-like bacterial P450 (in terms of possessing an NADPH-dependent FAD- and FMN-containing oxidoreductase redox partner) of known crystal structure, is reported. 2. The enzyme models described are shown to be consistent with experimental evidence from site-directed mutagenesis studies, antibody recognition sites and amino acid residues identified as being associated with redox partner interactions, together with the location of a key serine residue (Ser-128) likely to be involved in protein kinaseA-mediated phosphorylation. 3. A substantial number of known substrates and inhibitors of CYP2B isozymes are shown to fit the putative active sites of the enzyme models in agreement with their reported position of metabolism or mode of inhibition respectively. In particular, there is complementarity between the characteristic non-planar geometries of CYP2B substrates and key groups in the enzymes' active sites. 4. Molecular modelling of CYP2B isozymes appears to rationalize a number of the reported findings from quantitative structure-activity relationship investigations on series of CYP2B substrates and inhibitors.
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- D F Lewis
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Harlow GR, He YA, Halpert JR. Functional interaction between amino-acid residues 242 and 290 in cytochromes P-450 2B1 and 2B11. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1338:259-66. [PMID: 9128144 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(96)00209-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Previous studies have revealed the functional importance of the negatively charged amino-acid residue Asp-290 of the phenobarbital-inducible dog liver cytochrome P-450 (P-450) 2B11 (Harlow, G.R. and Halpert J.R. (1996) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 326, 85-92). A search for P-450 2B11 residues capable of forming a charge pair with Asp-290 suggested the positively charged residue Lys-242 as a likely candidate. Replacement of Lys-242 with Asp in a P-450 2B11 fusion protein with rat NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase (reductase) resulted in very low holoenzyme expression levels in Escherichia coli, as did replacement of Asp-290 with Lys. Remarkably, however, expression levels of the double mutant Lys-242 --> Asp/Asp-290 --> Lys were dramatically increased above either single replacement alone. Similarly, the pair-wise substitutions Lys-242 --> Leu/Asp-290 --> Ile in P-450 2B11 and Leu-242 --> Lys/Ile-290 --> Asp in P-450 2B1 showed greater holoenzyme expression levels than the constituent single mutants, providing further evidence for the close proximity of these residues within the three-dimensional structure of these two enzymes. These results support the hypothesis that a functional interaction exists between residues 242 and 290, which may help to coordinate the relative positions of proposed helices G and I. All of the mutant combinations, including the additional P-450 2B11 double mutants Tyr-242/Asn-290 and Tyr-242/Ser-290, displayed altered stereoselectivity of androstenedione hydroxylation.
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- G R Harlow
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA.
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Harlow GR, Halpert JR. Alanine-scanning mutagenesis of a putative substrate recognition site in human cytochrome P450 3A4. Role of residues 210 and 211 in flavonoid activation and substrate specificity. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:5396-402. [PMID: 9038138 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.9.5396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Alanine-scanning mutagenesis was performed on amino acid residues 210-216 of cytochrome P450 3A4, the major drug-metabolizing enzyme of human liver. Mutagenesis of this region, which has been proposed to align with the C-terminal ends of F-helices from cytochromes P450BM-3, P450terp, and P450cam, served as a test of the applicability of the substrate recognition site model of Gotoh (Gotoh, O. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 83-90) to P450 3A4. The results, using two steroid substrates, indicated that substitution of Ala for Leu210 altered the responsiveness to the effector alpha-naphthoflavone and the regioselectivity of testosterone hydroxylation. Replacement of Leu211 by Ala also decreased the stimulation by alpha-naphthoflavone, whereas mutations at residues 212-216 had little effect. The diminished flavonoid responses of the 210 and 211 mutants were observed over a wide range of progesterone and alpha-naphthoflavone concentrations. Further characterization was performed with the additional effectors beta-naphthoflavone, flavone, and 4-chromanone. The finding that P450 3A4 with one altered residue, Leu210 --> Ala, can have both an altered testosterone hydroxylation profile and response to flavonoid stimulation provides evidence that the substrate binding and effector sites are at least partially overlapping.
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- G R Harlow
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
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Desrochers M, Christou M, Jefcoate C, Belzil A, Anderson A. New proteins in the rat CYP2B subfamily: presence in liver microsomes of the constitutive CYP2B3 protein and the phenobarbital-inducible protein product of alternatively spliced CYP2B2 mRNA. Biochem Pharmacol 1996; 52:1311-9. [PMID: 8937440 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(96)00502-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The rat CYP2B gene subfamily includes CYP2B1, CYP2B2 and CYP2B3. Translation of an alternatively spliced hepatic CYP2B2 mRNA would generate a CYP2B2 variant, CYP2B2v, having eight additional amino acid residues inserted between CYP2B2 positions 274 and 275. The presence of CYP2B3 and CYP2B2v in rat liver has yet to be demonstrated. cDNA expression vectors were obtained for CYP2B1, CYP2B2, CYP2B3 and CYP2B2v. All four proteins react with an anti-CYP2B1 antibody and can be resolved by SDS-PAGE. A CYP2B3-specific polyclonal antibody raised against an undecapeptide (SPVDPNTIDMT) from near the C-terminus of CYP2B3 detected a constitutive protein on immunoblots of rat liver microsomes, thus demonstrating that the CYP2B3 mRNA is translated in the liver. Similarly, a CYP2B2v-specific polyclonal antibody was raised against a peptide containing the eight additional amino acid residues (VSPAWMRE) predicted to be present in the CYP2B2v protein. It detected a phenobarbital- and Aroclor 1254-inducible protein in rat liver microsomes. Microsomes of Ad293 cells expressing cDNAs for CYP2B2 and CYP2B2v were used to metabolize 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA), and the metabolites produced were compared with those generated by microsomes of cells expressing CYP2B1 cDNA. CYP2B2v had activity similar to that of CYP2B2 for DMBA metabolism. Both CYP2B2 forms preferentially catalyzed 12-hydroxylation, whereas CYP2B1 preferred 7-hydroxylation and exhibited turnover that was strongly suppressed as previously reported. These results demonstrate the existence in rat liver of two new CYP2B proteins: CYP2B3, the major constitutive CYP2B form, and CYP2B2v, which represents a rare case of non-aberrant alternative splicing among xenobiotic-metabolizing P450s.
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- M Desrochers
- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l'Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Ibeanu GC, Ghanayem BI, Linko P, Li L, Pederson LG, Goldstein JA. Identification of residues 99, 220, and 221 of human cytochrome P450 2C19 as key determinants of omeprazole activity. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:12496-501. [PMID: 8647857 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.21.12496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Human P450 2C19 is selective for 4'-hydroxylation of S-mephenytoin and 5-hydroxylation of omeprazole, while the structurally homologous P450 2C9 has low activity toward these substrates. To identify the critical amino acids that determine the specificity of human amino acids that determine the specificity of human P450 2C19, we constructed chimeras of p450 2C9 replacing various proposed substrate binding sites (SRS) with those of P450 2C19 and then replaced individual residues of P450 2C19 and then replaced individual residues of P450 2C9 by site-directed mutagenesis. The 339 NH2-terminal amino acid residues (SRS-1-SRS-4) and amino acids 160-383 (SRS-2-SRS-5) of P450 2C19 conferred omeprazole 5-hydroxylase activity to P450 2C9. In contract, the COOH terminus of P450 2C19 (residues 340-490 including SRS-5 and SRS-6), residues 228-339 (SRS-3 and SRS-4) and residues 292-383 (part of SRS-4 and SRS-5) conferred only modest increases in activity. A single mutation Ile99 --> His increased omeprazole 5-hydroxylase to approximately 51% of that of P450 2C19. A chimera spanning residues 160-227 of P450 2C19 also exhibited omeprazole 5-hydroxylase activity which was dramatically enhanced by the mutation Ile99 --> His. A combination of two mutations, Ile99 --> His and Ser200 --> Pro, converted P450 2C9 to an enzyme with a turnover number of omeprazole 5-hyrdroxylation, which resembled that of P450 /c19. Mutation of Pro221 --> Thr enhanced this activity. Residue 99 is within SRS-1, but amino acids 220 and 221 are in the F-G loop and outside any known SRS. Mutation of these three amino acids did not confer significant S-mephenytoin 4'-hydroxylase activity to P450 2C9, although chimeras containing SRS-1-SRS-4 and SRS-2-SRS-5 of P450 2C19 exhibited activity toward this substrate. Our results thus indicate that amino acids 99, 220, and 221 are key residues that determine the specificity of P450 2C19 for omeprazole.
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- G C Ibeanu
- NIEHS, National Institute of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
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Lewis DF. Three-dimensional models of human and other mammalian microsomal P450s constructed from an alignment with P450102 (P450bm3). Xenobiotica 1995; 25:333-66. [PMID: 7645302 DOI: 10.3109/00498259509061857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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1. A novel modelling alignment for P450s, utilizing NADPH-P450 reductase for electron transfer, is proposed on the basis of analysis of their amino acid sequences. 2. Information used to facilitate the alignment process includes: the recent X-ray crystal structure of P450102 (P450bm3), site-directed mutagenesis experiments, chemical modification of specific residues, and antibody recognition studies. 3. The alignment has been used to construct a number of microsomal P450s of relevance to xenobiotic and endogenous metabolism.
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- D F Lewis
- Molecular Toxicology Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Ramarao MK, Straub P, Kemper B. Identification by in vitro mutagenesis of the interaction of two segments of C2MstC1, a chimera of cytochromes P450 2C2 and P450 2C1. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:1873-80. [PMID: 7829524 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.4.1873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
A hybrid cytochrome P450, C2MstC1, with 306 N-terminal amino acids derived from cytochrome P450 2C2 sequence and 184 C-terminal amino acids from cytochrome P450 2C1 acquires a novel progesterone 21-hydroxylase activity which is absent in the parent enzymes. Extension of the cytochrome P450 2C2 sequence to residue 382 reduced progesterone hydroxylase activity to 5% of that of C2MstC1, while further extension to residue 411 or 462 increased activity back to about 30 or 40%, respectively. In the chimera with cytochrome P450 2C2 sequence to residue 382, substitution of cytochrome P450 2C1 amino acids at positions 368, 369, and 374 increased progesterone hydroxylase activity to a level equivalent to that of C2MstC1. In the chimera with cytochrome P450 2C2 sequence extending to residue 411, substitutions of P450 2C1 amino acids at positions 386 and 388, in addition those at 368, 369, and 374, were required to obtain activities equivalent to that of C2MstC1, which suggests an interaction between these two regions. The lauric acid hydroxylase activities of all chimeras and mutant cytochromes P450 differed by 2-fold or less, demonstrating that the changes in progesterone hydroxylase activity reflected altered interactions with the substrate. Alignment of cytochrome P450 2C1 sequence with cytochromes P450cam, P450BM-3, and P450terp predicts that residues 368/369 and 386/388 are in adjacent antiparallel strands of the same beta-sheet, in agreement with the experimental data suggesting an interaction between these two regions.
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- M K Ramarao
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801
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Szklarz GD, Ornstein RL, Halpert JR. Application of 3-Dimensional Homology Modeling of Cytochrome P450 2B1 for Interpretation of Site-Directed Mutagenesis Results. J Biomol Struct Dyn 1994; 12:61-78. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1994.10508088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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