Rampersaud A, Waxman DJ, Ryan DE, Levin W, Walz FG. Microheterogeneity of a male-specific rat hepatic cytochrome P-450: existence of three allozymic forms.
Arch Biochem Biophys 1985;
243:174-83. [PMID:
3840669 DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(85)90786-6]
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Abstract
Preparations of hepatic cytochrome P-450 h [D. E. Ryan, et al. (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 1239] and cytochrome P-450 2c [D. J. Waxman (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 15481] from outbred Sprague-Dawley rats were analyzed using two-dimensional electrophoresis and in situ peptide mapping. Both preparations consisted of the same isozyme which was previously characterized as a developmentally regulated, male-specific cytochrome P-450 active in the 16 alpha-hydroxylation of steroids. Each preparation evidenced microheterogeneity which was shown, in part, to result from the existence of two genetically determined variant forms of cytochrome P-450 h/2c. Analyses of hepatic microsomes from several inbred strains of rat revealed that each was characterized by a single variant form of this isozyme, with some strains expressing a variant that was not present in Sprague-Dawley rats. Genetic crosses indicated that these electrophoretic variants represent allozymic forms of cytochrome P-450 h/2c which are codominantly expressed at a single autosomal locus. Additional microheterogeneity of each allozymic form of cytochrome P-450 h/2c was shown to result from a specific in vitro modification that may involve limited proteolysis near its C terminus by a microsome-bound protease.
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