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  • Title: [O-ethyl 14C]phenacetin O-deethylase activity in human liver microsomes.
    Author: Rodrigues AD, Surber BW, Yao Y, Wong SL, Roberts EM.
    Journal: Drug Metab Dispos; 1997 Sep; 25(9):1097-100. PubMed ID: 9311627.
    Abstract:
    The activity of human liver microsomal cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2) is readily estimated by following the O-deethylation of [O-ethyl 14C]phenacetin (PODase). The basis of the assay is the quantitative measurement of [14C]acetaldehyde, remaining in the supernatant of assay incubates, after extraction of unmetabolized [O-ethyl 14C]phenacetin with charcoal. In the presence of native human liver microsomes (K(m) = 54 +/- 27 microM; V(max) = 14 +/- 2.3 nmol/hr/mg; mean +/- SD; N = 3 different livers) and human B-lymphoblastoid cell microsomes containing cDNA-expressed CYP1A2 (K(m) = 46 microM; V(max) = 55 nmol/hr/nmol CYP), PODase activity conformed to monophasic Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Furthermore, PODase activity in a panel of microsomes prepared from a series of human livers was significantly correlated (r = 0.91; p < 0.001; N = 11) with CYP1A2-selective 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase activity, and was markedly inhibited (> or = 92%) by furafylline (FURA, IC50 = 0.4 microM) and 7,8-benzoflavone (ANF, IC50 = 0.1 microM), two well known CYP1A2 inhibitors. Inhibitors selective for other forms of CYP (e.g. CYP3A, CYP2C, CYP2D6, CYP2E1) elicited a marginal effect (< or = 17% inhibition) at relatively high concentrations (> or = 10.K(i)). It is concluded that the inhibition of human liver microsomal CYP1A2 activity can be readily determined by using a charcoal-based radiometric method employing [O-ethyl 14C]phenacetin as substrate.
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