Purification and characterization of three forms of microsomal cytochrome P-450 in liver from 3-methylcholanthrene-treated guinea pigs

Mol Pharmacol. 1983 Jan;23(1):258-64.

Abstract

One molecular form of cytochrome P-450IIA from liver microsomes of guinea pigs treated with 3-methylcholanthrene was purified to a specific content of 17.4 nmoles/mg of protein. The difference spectrum of reduced hemoprotein-carbon monoxide complex of this cytochrome exhibits an absorption maximum at 448 nm. The absolute absorption spectrum of the oxidized form of this hemoprotein suggests a high-spin state of heme iron. Sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the purified protein shows a single band of polypeptide stained with Coomassie brilliant blue at the position corresponding to Mr 54,000. On the other hand, the other two forms of cytochrome P-450, cytochrome P-450I and P-450IIB, were also separated and purified to specific contents of 8.7 and 5.2 nmoles/mg of protein, respectively. Both cytochrome P-450I and P-450IIB exhibit absorption maxima at 450 nm in the difference spectrum of reduced hemoprotein-carbon monoxide complex, and a low-spin state of ferric iron in the heme. The spectrophotometrical property of cytochrome P-450I and P-450IIB was clearly different from that of cytochrome P-450IIA. Molecular activities of a reconstituted aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (EC 1.14.14.1) containing, respectively, cytochrome P-450I, P-450IIA, and P-450IIB were 0.224, 0.250, and 0.395 (moles per minute per mole of cytochrome P-450), and were estimated to be one-tenth that of cytochrome P-448 induced in rat liver by 3-methylcholanthrene, indicating the presence of the low inducibility by 3-methylcholanthrene of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase in liver microsomes of guinea pigs.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases / metabolism
  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • Benzopyrenes / metabolism
  • Chromatography
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / isolation & purification*
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Enzyme Induction
  • Guinea Pigs
  • Male
  • Methylcholanthrene / pharmacology*
  • Microsomes, Liver / drug effects
  • Microsomes, Liver / enzymology*
  • NADPH-Ferrihemoprotein Reductase / metabolism
  • Rats
  • Spectrum Analysis

Substances

  • Benzopyrenes
  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • Methylcholanthrene
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases
  • NADPH-Ferrihemoprotein Reductase