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  • Title: Differential cumene hydroperoxide sensitivity of cytochrome P-450 enzymes IA1 and IIB1 determined by their way of membrane incorporation.
    Author: Balvers WG, Boersma MG, Veeger C, Rietjens IM.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1992 Sep 15; 1117(2):179-87. PubMed ID: 1525178.
    Abstract:
    The cytochrome P-450-dependent O-dealkylation of alkoxyresorufins was used to study the effect of cumene hydroperoxide on cytochrome P-450 IIB1 and IA1 in microsomal and reconstituted systems. In liver microsomal systems from respectively phenobarbital and 3-methylcholanthrene pretreated male Wistar rats, cytochrome P-450 IIB1-dependent pentoxyresorufin-O-dealkylation appeared to be more sensitive to cumene hydroperoxide treatment than cytochrome P-450 IA1-dependent ethoxyresorufin-O-dealkylation. This phenomenon was also observed when the cumene hydroperoxide sensitivity of P-450 IIB1 and IA1 was studied in an isosafrole pretreated rat liver microsomal system. The decrease in alkoxy-O-dealkylating activities appeared to proceed by destruction of the cytochrome P-450 component of the enzyme system. Purification and reconstitution of the enzyme system components in a system in which the isolated proteins were not incorporated into a membrane resulted in the disappearance of the difference in sensitivity between the two P-450 enzymes. However, in a reconstituted system with membrane incorporated proteins, again cytochrome P-450 IIB1 expressed a higher sensitivity towards cumene hydroperoxide than cytochrome P-450 IA1. From this it was concluded that the differential cumene hydroperoxide sensitivity of cytochrome P-450 IIB1 and IA1 is not caused by an intrinsic difference in their sensitivity but by a differential effect of membrane incorporation on their cumene hydroperoxide sensitivity.
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