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  • Title: Human liver lauric acid hydroxylase activities.
    Author: Castle PJ, Merdink JL, Okita JR, Wrighton SA, Okita RT.
    Journal: Drug Metab Dispos; 1995 Oct; 23(10):1037-43. PubMed ID: 8654190.
    Abstract:
    Nine male and five female human liver microsomal sample were examined for laurate 11- and 12-hydroxylase activities. The mean specific activities for the 11- and 12-hydroxylation reactions were 0.78 +/- 0.33 and 1.07 +/- 0.12 nmol/min/mg protein, respectively. Antibody inhibition experiments, using a polyclonal antibody to a cytochrome P450 (P450) isolated from diethylhexyl phthalate-treated rats, which recognizes forms P4504A1, P4504A2, and P4504A3 of the rate, inhibited the 12-hydroxylase activity by 65%, but did not affect 11-hydroxylase activity. Western-blot analyses of the 14 human liver microsomal samples identified one major protein band at 52 kDa that comigrated with human form 4A11. A correlation coefficient of only 0.19 was calculated when comparing laurate 12-hydroxylase activities and the densitometric values of the immunochemically reactive protein bands in the human liver microsomal samples, which strongly suggests that additional P450 forms also support the 12-hydroxylation of lauric acid. Laurate 11-hydroxylase activity was inhibited by diethyldithiocarbamate, an inhibitor of P4502E1-mediated reactions, and by chlorzoxazone, a P4502E1 substrate. A comparison of laurate 11-hydroxylase activities with densitometric values of the P4502E1 protein bands indicated a strong correlation existed (0.82). An analysis of microsomal samples containing expressed human forms P4501A2, P4502A6, P4502C8, P4502C9, P4502D6, P4502E1, and P4503A4 showed that only form P4502E1 supported the 11-hydroxylation reaction.
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