Cytochrome P-450-dependent nicotine oxidation by liver microsomes of guinea pigs. Immunochemical evidence with antibody against phenobarbital-inducible cytochrome P-450

When guinea pigs were treated with phenobarbital (PB), the specific activity of liver microsomal nicotine oxidase increased by 42%. PB-inducible cytochrome P-450 (PB-P-450) was purified to homogeneity from liver microsomes of PB-treated guinea pigs. Purified PB-P-450 catalyzed nicotine oxidation when reconstituted with NADPH-P-450 reductase and phospholipid system. Antibody prepared against the purified PB-P-450 formed single precipitation lines with both purified PB-P-450 and microsomal components in livers of PB-treated guinea pigs, and both precipitation lines fused. The antibody against PB-P-450 strongly inhibited nicotine oxidation in the reconstituted system. The antibody also inhibited liver microsomal nicotine oxidase activities in PB-treated and untreated guinea pigs by about 30% and less than 5% respectively. About 45% of total P-450 in liver microsomes of PB-treated guinea pigs was precipitated by the antibody. These results show that PB-P-450 participates in liver microsomal nicotine oxidation in PB-treated guinea pigs but not in untreated control animals.     

Studies on the mechanism of monoclonal antibody inhibition of enzyme activity of phenobarbital-induced cytochrome P-450

Four monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to phenobarbital-induced cytochrome P-450 (PB-P-450) show different patterns of inhibition of PB-P-450 catalyzed aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH), 7-ethoxycoumarin deethylase, benzphetamine demethylase and ethylmorphine demethylase. The inhibition constants vary depending on the individual monoclonal antibody and the individual substrate. Two of the four monoclonal antibodies completely inhibit the reduction of cytochrome P-450 by NADPH cytochrome c (P-450) reductase. The same cytochrome P-450 bound to carbon monoxide, however, can be reduced chemically by sodium dithionite in the presence of the monoclonal antibody. These data indicate that the two MAbs examined completely prevent electron transfer by NADPH cytochrome c (P-450) reductase. Substrate binding is partially inhibited by the monoclonal antibody. The type I substrate-binding spectrum of benzphetamine is inhibited more than the type II binding spectrum of aniline. The degree of inhibition of the substrate binding as indicated by the spectrum is less than that observed for the inhibition of catalytic enzyme activity by the monoclonal antibodies. The data indicate that each of the MAbs are directed toward epitopes on the cytochromes P-450 with different relationships to the active catalytic site.     

The effect of cigarette smoking on 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase and other monooxygenase activities in human liver: analyses with monoclonal antibodies.

Four cytochrome P-450 enzyme activities, 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (ERDE), coumarin 7-hydroxylase (CH), 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase (ECDE) and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) were measured in human liver needle biopsy samples from smokers and non-smokers. Cigarette smoking was verified and quantitated by measuring plasma cotinine levels. Enzyme inhibitory monoclonal antibodies (MAb) to a 3-methylcholanthrene-induced (MAb 1-7-1) and phenobarbitone-induced (MAb 2-66-3) rat hepatic cytochrome P-450 were used to measure the contribution of MAb-defined, epitope-specific cytochromes P-450 to the total reaction measured for each of the above activities. ERDE activity was significantly elevated in the livers of cigarette smokers, whereas AHH, CH or ECDE activities were not affected by cigarette smoking. No correlation was observed between plasma cotinine concentration and ERDE activity. MAb 1-7-1 inhibited hepatic ERDE activity to a variable extent (from 0 to 65%), but had very little or no effect on AHH, CH or ECDE activities. The inhibitory effect of MAb 1-7-1 on ERDE activity was greater than 50% in the non-smokers. MAb 2-66-3 had no inhibitory effect on any of the enzyme activities studied. In contrast to liver both ERDE and AHH on human placental microsomes from cigarette smokers were inhibited by MAb 1-7-1. The MAb 2-66-3 was without effect. Cigarette smoking induces a form of P-450 in human liver, responsible for ERDE activity, that contains an epitope recognized by MAb 1-7-1. This form of cytochrome P-450 is insensitive to MAb 2-66-3 and is not contributing to AHH, CH or ECDE activities of human liver.     

Specificity of medicarpin and related isoflavonoids in inhibition of rat hepatic mixed function oxidase activity

The cytochromes P-450 of the mixed function oxidase system metabolize a wide variety of endogenous compounds to either nontoxic products or toxic metabolites. A number of natural products, such as flavonoids, influence this metabolism. Exposure to these compounds may therefore be a factor in animal and human responsiveness to cytochrome P-450 substrates. We have examined the effect of the pterocarpan medicarpin on the cytochrome P-450-dependent aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) and ethoxycoumarin deethylase (ECD) activities of rat liver microsomes. Medicarpin and maackiain and two of their biosynthetic precursors inhibit the constitutive and phenobarbital (PB)-induced types of AHH, but have little effect on the 3-methylcholanthrene (MC)-induced type of AHH. This is in contrast to the effect of the commonly used cytochrome P-450 inhibitor 7,8-benzoflavone, which inhibits the hepatic AHH of MC-treated rats and has no effects on the AHH of control or PB-treated rats. However, medicarpin inhibited the constitutive as well as the PB- and MC-induced ECD. The specific modulatory effect as well as its relative availability suggests the utility of medicarpin as a probe for different forms of cytochrome P-450 in animal tissues.     

Monoclonal antibody-directed determination of cytochrome P-450 types expressed in a human lymphoblastoid cell line

Cytochrome P-450-dependent aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) and 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase activities of a cloned line of human lymphoblastoid AHH-1 cells are inhibited by a monoclonal antibody (MAb 1-7-1) prepared to a 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat liver cytochrome P-450. The monoclonal antibody inhibition determined that a single MAb 1-7-1-sensitive type of cytochrome P-450 is responsible for all of AHH expression in both the basal and benz[a]anthracene-induced cells. Partial inhibition by the MAb 1-7-1, however, indicates that at least two forms of cytochrome P-450 catalyze 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase in both the basal and the induced cells, one form of which is identical to the MAb-sensitive cytochrome P-450 responsible for all of the AHH. Thus, a single cloned cell line is capable of expressing two classes of cytochromes P-450, and the observed multiplicity of cytochrome P-450 in animal tissues does not necessarily depend on cell heterogeneity. A sensitive MAb 1-7-1-based radioimmunoassay also directly demonstrates the presence in these cells of a MAb 1-7-1-specific type of cytochrome P-450 as well as its elevation in the induced cells. These MAb-based methods thus can determine the contribution of specific MAb-defined types of cytochromes P-450 to the cellular metabolism of specific xenobiotics.     

Nitrite binding to cytochrome P-450 from liver microsomes of trout (Salmo gairdneri Rich.) and effects on two microsomal enzymes

Addition of nitrite to dithionite-reduced trout liver microsomes leads to the conversion of cytochrome P-450 into a cytochrome P-420-NO complex, as it does in mammalian microsomes. A loss in cytochrome P-450 and an inhibition of aminopyrine demethylase (AP) activity were observed in vitro at nitrite-concentrations found in the liver of trout exposed in vivo to this toxin. Nitrite had no effect on dimethylaniline monooxygenase (DMA), a cytochrome P-450-independent enzyme.     

Isozyme-specific monoclonal antibody-directed assessment of induction of hepatic cytochrome p-450 by clotrimazole

Clotrimazole, an N-substituted imidazole widely used as an antifungal agent, has been shown to both inhibit and induce hepatic cytochrome P-450 and related monooxygenase activities. In this study the profile of hepatic cytochrome P-450 isozyme(s) induced by clotrimazole treatment of male Sprague-Dawley rats was investigated. Clotrimazole administration (100 mg/kg, daily for 4 days, ig) resulted in 86% induction of spectrally detectable cytochrome P-450 in hepatic microsomes. In these microsomes 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase (126%), aminopyrine N-demethylase (176%), benzphetamine N-demethylase (117%), p-nitrophenol hydroxylase (89%), and 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (62%) activities were significantly induced, whereas aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity remained unchanged. Characterization of cytochrome P-450 isozyme(s) in hepatic microsomes prepared from clotrimazole-treated animals was based on the immunoreactivity of these microsomes with highly specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) raised against 3-methylcholanthrene-specific P-450 (MAb 1-7-1), phenobarbital-specific P-450 (MAb 2-66-3), pregnenolone-16 alpha-carbonitrile-specific P-450 (MAb C2), and ethanol-inducible P-450 (MAb 1-98-1). Western blot analysis of hepatic microsomes prepared from clotrimazole-treated animals with MAb 2-66-3, MAb 1-98-1, and MAb C2 revealed strong immunoreactive bands, whereas moderate reactivity was observed with MAb 1-7-1. MAb 2-66-3 significantly inhibited 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase activity 45%), whereas MAb 1-7-1 moderately inhibited 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase activity (-30%) in clotrimazole-treated animals.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

CYP2C19基因型和CYP2C9对人肝微粒体中氟西汀N-去甲基代谢的影响(英文)

目的:本实验旨在研究CYP2C19基因型人肝微粒体中氟西汀N-去甲基代谢的酶促动力学特点并鉴定参与此代谢途径的细胞色素P-450酶。方法:测定基因型CYP2C19肝微粒体中去甲氟西汀形成的酶促动力学。鉴定氟西汀N-去甲基酶活性与细胞色素P-450 2C9,2C19,1A2和2D6酶活性的相关性,同时应用各种细胞色素P-450酶的选择性抑制剂和化学探针进行抑制实验,从而确定参与氟西汀N-去甲基代谢的细胞色素P-450酶。结果:去甲氟西汀生成的酶促动力学数据符合单酶模型,并具有Michaelis-Menten动力学特征。当底物浓度为氟西汀25μmol/L和100μmol/L时,去甲氟西汀(N-FLU)的生成率分别与甲磺丁脲3-羟化酶活性显著相关(r_1=0.821,P_1=0.001;r_2=0.668,P_2=0.013),当底物浓度为氟西汀100μmol/L时,N-FLU的生成率与S-美芬妥因4’-羟化酶活性显著相关(r=0.717,P=0.006)。PM肝微粒中磺胺苯吡唑和醋竹桃霉素对氟西汀N-去甲基代谢的抑制作用显著大于EM(73％vs 45％,P<0.01)。结论:在生理底物浓度下,CYP2C9是催化人肝微粒体中氟西汀N-去甲基代谢的主要CYP-450酶;而高底物浓度时,以CYP2C19的作用为主。     

Changes in the rat hepatic mixed function oxidase system associated with chronic ethanol vapor inhalation

Chronic ethanol vapor inhalation by rats increased hepatic microsomal aniline hydroxylase activity, increasing the turnover number and decreasing the K_m. Activity of ethanol-induced microsomes toward other substrates was also examined. The increase in aniline hydroxylase activity as a result of ethanol treatment is attributed to an increase in a form of cytochrome P-450 with a high specific activity toward aniline. Since the ethanol effect on aniline hydroxylation had disappeared 24 hr after treatment was discontinued, a high rate of turnover of this enzyme was deduced. Dimethylsulfoxide (56 mM) produced a reverse type I spectral change in ethanol-induced, but not in control, microsomes. This was interpreted as being due to a change in the spin state of the cytochrome P-450 in these microsomes. Acetone added to the incubation produced an increased rate of aniline hydroxylation by microsomes from control and ethanol-induced rats. The difference between the rate of aniline hydroxylation by control microsomes and the rate by ethanol-induced microsomes was, however, abolished at higher acetone concentrations.     

Studies on the metabolism of aminopyrine, antipyrine and theophylline using monoclonal antibodies to cytochrome P-450 isozymes purified from rat liver

We investigated the role played by monoclonal antibody defined classes of cytochrome P-450 in the metabolism of antipyrine, aminopyrine and theophylline. Two enzyme inhibitory monoclonal antibodies (MAb 1-7-1 and MAb 2-66-3) raised to two forms of cytochrome P-450 were used. Microsomes were prepared from the livers of untreated, 3-methylcholanthrene (MC)-treated, and phenobarbital (PB)-treated male Wistar rats. Addition of either monoclonal antibody to hepatic microsomes from untreated rats had a negligible effect on the metabolism of aminopyrine, antipyrine or theophylline. These results indicate that the constitutive enzymes responsible for metabolism of these three drugs differ from the MAb inhibitable enzymes responsible for transformation of these drugs in induced microsomes. In microsomes from MC- and PB-treated rats, however, the two MAbs differentially inhibited individual pathways. For example, at 20 mM aminopyrine, as much as 55% of 4-amino-antipyrine (4-AA) formation arose from the family of cytochrome P-450 isozymes that were not inhibited for 4-AA formation at 4 mM aminopyrine and 4-methylaminoantipyrine (4-MAA) formation at either concentration. Thus, the enzyme that functions at 20 mM aminopyrine in 4-MAA formation differs from that which functions at 4 mM aminopyrine in the formation of 4-AA or 4-MAA. Addition of MAbs to induced microsomes revealed at least four isozymes with overlapping specificities involved in antipyrine and theophylline metabolism. Each MAb-inhibitable pathway and the isozymes associated with it were classified into one of three epitope families: those pathways inhibited by both MAbs, those inhibited only by the MAb raised against PB-inducible P-450 isozymes, and those inhibited only by the MAb raised against 3-MC-inducible P-450 isozymes. A fourth group of pathways consisted of those unaffected by addition of either monoclonal antibody. Analysis of metabolism with these two MAbs suggests more extensive heterogeneity of the isozymes that biotransform these drugs than previously recognized.     

Preparation and characterization of monoclonal antibodies to pregnenolone 16-alpha-carbonitrile inducible rat liver cytochrome P-450

Hybridomas were prepared from mouse myeloma cells and spleen cells derived from BALB/c female mice immunized with purified rat hepatic pregnenolone 16-alpha-carbonitrile (PCN) induced cytochrome P-450 2a/PCN-E. The monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) thus obtained were screened for binding to the purified P-450 2a/PCN-E by radioimmunoassay. Eleven independent hybrid clones produced MAbs, each of which was of a single mouse immunoglobulin subclass of the IgG1, IgG2a or IgG2b type. Each of the MAbs produced by the eleven individual hybrid clones bound strongly to P-450 2a/PCN-E as assessed by radioimmunoassay and immunoprecipitation of P-450 2a/PCN-E in Ouchterlony double-immunodiffusion plates. Of the eleven MAbs, three also bound strongly to the phenobarbital-inducible rat liver cytochrome P-450 PB-4. Thus, two classes of MAbs were obtained, one class specific for P-450 2a/PCN-E and a second class that bound to both PCN- and phenobarbital-inducible P-450 forms. The reactivities of one MAb from each class toward eight highly purified rat hepatic cytochromes P-450 were examined using solid phase enzyme-linked immunosorbent analyses. The MAb designated C2 was found to be specific for P-450 2a/PCN-E and did not cross-react with seven other P-450 forms. This MAb was shown to be an effective probe for monitoring, by Western blotting, the induction of microsomal P-450 2a/PCN-E by PCN and phenobarbital. The MAb designated C1 reacted both with P-450 2a/PCN-E and with the two major phenobarbital-inducible P-450 forms, PB-4 and PB-5. None of the MAbs was inhibitory towards P-450 2a/PCN-E-dependent aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase, benzphetamine N-demethylase, ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase or ethymorphine N-demethylase activity, indicating that the epitopes recognized by these MAbs are not directly associated with catalytic activity. The strong reactivities of three of the MAbs with both P-450 2a/PCN-E and P-450s PB-4 and PB-5 indicate that these two structurally quite different cytochrome P-450 families share at least one common epitope. These new MAbs are additions to our library of MAbs to different cytochromes P-450 and should help further our understanding of the relationship of cytochrome P-450 phenotype and multiplicity to inter-individual differences in drug and carcinogen metabolism and sensitivity.     

Identification of the cyanopregnenolone-inducible form of hepatic cytochrome P-450 as a catalyst of aldrin epoxidation

In light of recent suggestions that hepatic microsomal aldrin expoxidation activity selectively reflects the phenobarbital (PB)-inducible form(s) of cytochrome P-450 (P-450PB), we tested the effect of pregnenolone-16 alpha-carbonitrile (PCN), a synthetic steroid that induces P-450PCN, a form of the cytochrome biochemically and immunochemically distinguishable from P-450PB. In hepatic microsomes prepared from rats receiving PB, 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC), or PCN, the latter compound produced a greater increase in aldrin epoxidation activity relative to control than did PB, whereas 3-MC decreased enzyme activity. Moreover, the aldrin epoxidation activity in microsomes prepared from PCN- or PB-pretreated rats was selectively inhibited by form-specific antibodies directed against P-450PCN or P-450PB, respectively, whereas anti-P-450MC antibodies gave no inhibition with microsomes prepared from induced or control animals. We conclude that P-450PCN, P-450PB, and probably other cytochromes P-450 catalyze aldrin epoxidation, precluding use of this enzyme as a specific marker of a single form of the cytochrome.     

Influence of liver disease and environmental factors on hepatic monooxygenase activity in vitro

Summary The effects of liver disease and environmental factors on hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 content, NADPH-cytochrome c reductase (reductase) activity and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity have been simultaneously investigated in 70 patients undergoing diagnostic liver biopsy. The activity of reductase was not significantly affected by the presence of liver disease or any of the environmental factors studied. Cytochrome P-450 content decreased with increasing severity of liver disease whereas AHH activity was only significantly reduced in biopsies showing hepatocellular destruction. None of the parameters of monooxygenase activity varied significantly with the age or sex of the patients. Alcohol excess was associated with decreased cytochrome P-450 content and AHH activity and this effect was independent of the histological status of the biopsy. Both high caffeine intake and cigarette smoking increased AHH activity in the absence of any change in cytochrome P-450 content. There was a positive correlation between the number of meat meals eaten per week and cytochrome P-450 content. Chronic treatment with enzyme-inducing anticonvulsants appeared to increase both cytochrome P-450 content and AHH activity. Despite differential effects of liver disease and environmental influences on cytochrome P-450 content and AHH activity there was a highly significant correlation between the two parameters. The results of the present study correlate well with the known effects of disease and environment on drug metabolism in vivo.     

Monooxygenase Activities of Human Liver,Lung, and Kidney Microsomes – A Study of 42 post mortem Cases

Abstract: The cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenase system was examined in microsomal fractions prepared from 42 post mortem human livers and 9 lungs and kidneys. Electron microscopy studies indicated that the human liver samples were relatively free of mitochondrial and plasma membrane contamination, but samples of kidney and lung were less pure. The microsomal fractions from all organs were judged to be relatively free of haemoglobin and methaemoglobin. The specific enzyme activities for several drug substrates for the monooxygenase, NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity and the content of the microsomal cytochromes were measured. The values of the biochemical parameters studied were found to be quite variable and the values for the human liver were appreciably lower than those obtained with liver microsomes from laboratory rodents. The enzyme activities of the human kidney and lung microsomal fractions were 1–10% of those seen for human liver samples, except for NADPH-cytochrome c (P-450) reductase activity. In order to evaluate any post mortem changes in human liver, correlations between drug metabolism activities and either cytochrome P-450 or NADPH-cytochrome c (P-450) reductase content were examined. Strong correlations (r>0.91) were seen only between aminopyrine or ethylmorphine demethylase activity and cytochrome P-450 content in samples obtained within 4 hours of death. Longer post mortem times gave poorer correlation between activity and cytochrome content. These studies document several conditions required in order to obtain human microsomal fractions representative of the activities in fresh, viable tissue.     

Molecular Aspects of Drug Metabolism

Abstract: Drug oxidation is linked to a liver-microsomal electron transport system consisting of at least two components - cytochrome P-450 and the NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase. Cytochrome P-450 is also involved in the hydroxylation of lipid-soluble endogenous compounds, such as steroid hormones and fatty acids. Substrates capable of undergoing hydroxylation bind to cytochrome P-450 and the reduction of the cytochrome P-450-substrate complex so formed may well be the rate-limiting step in the over-all hydroxylation process. It is suggested that the competitive inhibition that various substrates exert on each other's hydroxylation is due to a competition for binding to a common cytochrome P-450 species in the liver microsomes.     

Immunochemical analysis of a cytochrome P-450IA1 homologue in human lung microsomes

The monoclonal antibody MAb 1-7-1, which specifically binds to cytochromes P-450IA1 and P-450IA2 in 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat liver microsomes, was used to identify a cytochrome P-450IA1 homologue in human lung microsomes. Although MAb 1-7-1 had similar affinity constants for human and rat microsomes, the amount bound to human lung microsomes was severalfold lower than that bound to microsomes from untreated rat or rabbit lung and much lower than the amount bound to 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat lung or liver microsomes. The amount bound to untreated baboon lung microsomes was similar to that bound to human lung microsomes. Three cytochrome P-450IA1-catalyzed activities, 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase, 7-ethoxycoumarin, O-deethylase, and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase, were measurable in human lung microsomes, but the cytochrome P-450IA2-dependent activity acetanilide 4-hydroxylase was not. MAb 1-7-1 inhibited, and its binding correlated strongly with, 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase activity (r = 0.92, p less than 0.01) in human lung microsomes. 7-Ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase activities in human lung were similar to those measured in untreated baboon lung but considerably lower than those present in untreated rabbit lung, untreated or 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat lung and liver, or human liver. We conclude that MAb 1-7-1 recognizes a cytochrome P-450IA1 homologue in human lung and that no cytochrome P-450IA2 homologue is detected. Cytochrome P-450IA1 is expressed in human lung at relatively low levels, similar to those observed in untreated primate (baboon) lung. The majority of the 19 human lung samples examined do not exhibit a permanent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-induced state with respect to this isozyme.     

Stimulatory effects of benzene on rabbit liver and kidney microsomal cytochrome P-450 dependent drug metabolizing enzymes

Treatment of rabbits with benzene (880 mg/kg/day), s.c. for 3 consecutive days, caused 3.8- and 5.7-fold increases in aniline 4-hydroxylation rates of liver and kidney microsomes, respectively. Benzene treatment markedly enhanced hydroxylation rates ofp-nitrophenol by liver and kidney by 7.2- and 4.2-fold, respectively. Both of these enzymes are associated with cytochrome P-450 LM3a. In contrast, the activity of benzphetamine N-demethylase, associated with P-450 LM2, was not altered significantly in either liver or kidney microsomes. Although the total cytochrome P-450 contents of liver and kidney microsomes were not altered significantly by the benzene treatment, in the case of liver microsomes, formation of a new cytochrome P-450 with an apparent M_r of 51,400 was observed on SDS-PAGE. On the other hand, in the kidney microsomes, the intensity of the bands corresponding to approximate M_r of 50000 and 51400 was markedly increased. The results of the present work, in combination with those of the previous work (Arinç et al. 1988), indicate the existence of tissue specificity in the induction of rabbit P-450 isozyme by benzene.A preliminary account of this work has been presented at the Nato Advanced Study Institute on Molecular Aspects of Monooxygenases and Bioactivation of Toxic Compounds, August 27–September 7, 1989, Izmir, Turkey.     

西尼地平在人肝微粒体内代谢及代谢抑制

目的：在体外研究西尼地平在人肝微粒体内的代谢及选择性细胞色素P-450（CYP450）酶抑制剂对其代谢的影响。方法：在体外用人肝微粒体研究西尼地平的代谢,并用CYP450酶的选择性抑制剂探讨其对西尼地平代谢的影响及人肝微粒体中参与西尼地平二氢吡啶环脱氢代谢的CYP450酶。结果：西尼地平在人肝微粒体内被迅速代谢物M1,二氢吡啶环侧链脱甲基代谢物M2,二氢吡嘧环脱氢及其侧链脱甲基代谢物M3,酮康唑竞争性地抑制西尼地平二氢吡啶环的脱氢代谢,同时降低西尼地平的代谢速率,而其它抑制剂,奎尼丁,α-Naphthoflavone,diethyldithiocarbamate,sulfaphenazole和tra-nylcypromine对西尼地平二氢吡啶环的脱氢代谢没有明显的影响。结论：西尼地平在人肝微粒体内被迅速代谢,其二氢吡啶环的脱氢代谢是其代谢的关键性的步骤,CYP3A作为主要的CYP酶参与了西尼地平二氢吡啶环的脱氢代谢,CYP3A的抑制剂可能会与西尼地平发生代谢相互作用。     

Hepatic microsomal monooxygenase activities in natural populations of the Mallard DuckAnas platyrhynchos,the Tufted DuckAythya fuligula and the Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus

Birds from three waterfowl species were collected over a period of three years, mainly near the river Rhine in France. Cytochrome P-450 content and monooxygenase activities were measured in liver microsomes of 71 Mallard DucksAnas platyrhynchos, 57 Tufted DucksAythya fuligula and 64 Great Crested GrebesPodiceps cristatus. The monooxygenase activities were estimated by measuring the dealkylation of substituted alkoxycoumarins, substituted alkylresorufins, and the metabolism of the insecticide parathion to its neurotoxic metabolite, paraoxon. A very high dispersion of values was shown, with no indication of season- or sex-related differences. It was concluded that the cytochromes P-450 in the studied populations of these waterfowl species are not induced, even if some individuals exhibit elevated cytochrome P-450 and enzymatic activities. Correlations were found between some enzymatic activities which suggested that the regulation of monooxygenase activities is widely different between birds and rodent laboratory species.     

Nature of N-nitrosodimethylamine demethylase

The nature of enzymes involved in demethylation of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) was investigated in hepatic microsomes of rats. Compared to the other cytochrome P-450-dependent enzymes. NDMA demethylase had anomalous properties as reported in the literature. However, kinetic analysis suggested a qualitative change in NDMA demethylase induced by phenobarbital (PB) and 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) pretreatment. The inhibition of demethylase by -naphthoflavone in MC-treated microsomes also suggested that cytochrome P-450 species induced by MC are active in demethylating NDMA. The enhancement of NDMA demethylase activity by metyrapone in PB-treated microsomes was greater than in non-treated ones, and was not observed in MC-treated ones. The result is almost the same as in acetanilide hydroxylation, depending on cytochrome P-450. Pyrazole, tranylcypromine, and aminoacetonitrile, which are selective inhibitors of NDMA demethylation, interacted with cytochrome P-450 species to produce type-II spectra, and typical type-II compounds (aniline, imidazole, and nicotinamide) were inhibitors of the NDMA demethylation. Tranylcypromine irreversibly inhibited microsomal monoamine oxidase [EC 1.4.3.4], but not NDMA demethylase. Semicarbazide (a copper- and pyridoxal-containing amine oxidase [EC 1.4.3.6] inhibitor) had no effect on demethylation. From these results it is concluded that NDMA demethylation depends only on cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenases.