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Query: EC:1.6.3.1 (NADPH oxidase)
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Activity of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH), cytochrome c-reductase, and NADPH oxidase, and epinephrine oxidation to adrenochrome were determined in lung microsomes from intact, adrenalectomized, and adrenalectomized cortisol-treated female rats under ambient and hyperoxic conditions. Microsomal adrenochrome formation, which is initiated by superoxide anion or other free radicals, was increased by adrenalectomy and decreased by cortisol treatment. Exposure of animals to 100% oxygen caused a further increase in adrenochrome formation. NADPH-cytochrome c-reductase and AHH activities were increased in incubations of microsomes from animals which had received cortisol in vivo while adrenalectomy led to decreases activity. NADPH oxidase activity was increased by cortisol in lung microsomes in the presence of either epinephrine or cytochrome c. Epinephrine conversion to adrenochrome in the presence of lung microsomes was blocked by SOD, but NADPH-cytrochrome c-reductase and AHH activity were unaffected.
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PMID:An effect of corticosteroids and 100% oxygen on aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase, cytochrome-c reductase, and free radical formation by rat lung microsomes. 21 Mar 49

The report by Schacter et al. (J Biol Chem 247: 3601, 1972) that an antibody to NADPH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase inhibited NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and heme oxygenase activities in rat and pig liver and spleen microsomes demonstrated the role of this flavoprotein in microsomal heme oxygenation. Recent studies from other laboratories (Yoshida et al., J Biochem 75, 1187: 1974 and Bissell et al., Fed Proc 33: 1246, 1974) have strongly suggested that cytochrome P-450 is not involved in heme oxygenation. The availability of a homogeneous preparation of NADPH-cytochrome c reductase prompted us to test heme oxygenase activity in a system devoid of hemoprotein contamination. NADPH-cytochrome c reductase catalyzed biliverdin formation at a rate of 8.26 +/- 0.5 SEM nmole min-1mg-1 in the absence of biliverdin reductase. The rate of bilirubin formation in the presence of biliverdin reductase was less than 10% of the rate of biliverdin formation, suggesting that mixture of biliverdin isomers may be produced. Biliverdin production was potently (70--80%) inhibited by catalase, but was unaffected by superoxide dismutase. Epinephrine also inhibited heme oxygenation, presumably by utilizing O2. required for the formation of H2O2 by the reductase. By extrapolation, the NADPH oxidase activity due to NADPH-cytochrome c reductase can account for heme degradation occurring in microsomes. However, the specificity of ring scission at the IXalpha position must be due to another microsomal protein, perhaps the heme oxygenase of Yoshida et al., and not cytochrome P-450.
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PMID:The catalysis of heme degradation by purified NADPH-cytochrome C reductase in the absence of other microsomal proteins. 82 31

Cytochrome b558 of pig blood neutrophils was purified from the membranes of resting cells to examine its ability to reconstitute superoxide (O2-)-forming NADPH oxidase activity in a cell-free assay system containing cytosol and fatty acid. The membrane-associated cytochrome b558 was solubilized with a detergent, n-heptyl beta-thioglucoside, and purified by DEAE-Sepharose, heparin-Sepharose, and Mono Q column chromatography. The final preparation of cytochrome containing 11.5 nmol of protoheme/mg of protein gave bands of the large and small subunits on immunoblotted gel. The cell-free system with the purified cytochrome alone as a membrane component showed little O2(-)-generating activity in the absence of exogenous FAD. However, the system showed high O2(-)-generating activity of 31.8 mol/s/mol of cytochrome b558 (52.5% of the original O2(-)-generating activity of the solubilized membranes) in the presence of a nitro blue tetrazolium (NBT) reductase fraction that was separated from the cytochrome b fraction by heparin-Sepharose chromatography. Heat treatment of the NBT reductase fraction resulted in loss of the O2(-)-generating activity in the reconstituted system. The O2(-)-forming activity of the reconstituted system was markedly decreased by removal of FAD from the NBT reductase fraction and was restored by readdition of FAD to the FAD-depleted reductase. The reconstituted system containing purified cytochrome b558 plus the NBT reductase showed approximately 100 times higher O2(-)-generating activity than a system containing rabbit liver NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase instead. These results suggest that both the FAD-dependent NBT reductase and cytochrome b558 are required as membrane redox components for O2(-)-forming NADPH oxidase activity. The present data are discussed in comparison with previously reported results on reconstituted systems containing added free FAD.
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PMID:Reconstitution of superoxide-forming NADPH oxidase activity with cytochrome b558 purified from porcine neutrophils. Requirement of a membrane-bound flavin enzyme for reconstitution of activity. 132 33

Kinetic measurements were made for purified cellobiose oxidase in 100 mM acetate (pH 4.0) at 30 degrees C, with excess cellobiose as substrate and O2 or Fe(III) as acceptor. With O2 at 230 microM as sole electron acceptor, the O2 uptake rate corresponded to a one-electron turnover number of 0.13 +/- 0.01 s-1. Measurements at different O2 concentrations indicated Km(O2) greater than 120 microM. In separate experiments, the reduction of Fe(III) acetate was monitored at 340 nm in the absence of oxygen. The maximum velocity of Fe(III)-acetate reduction (Vmax) was 4.5 +/- 0.7 s-1, while Km[Fe(III) acetate] was 34 +/- 12 microM. With ferricyanide in place of Fe(III) acetate, the corresponding values were 6.9 +/- 0.7 s-1 and 23 +/- 5 microM. Redox titrations established the potential of the haem prosthetic group of the oxidase at pH 4.0 as +165 mV. The midpoint potential for Fe(III)/Fe(II) acetate at pH 4.0 is much higher, a value of +535 mV being obtained with 200 microM Fe. Cellobiose oxidase resembles yeast flavocytochrome b2 and differs from the neutrophil NADPH oxidase in having the potential of its haem group far above the potential for one-electron reduction of O2 to superoxide (Em,4 = -110 mV). A kinetic comparison led to the conclusion that the role of cellobiose oxidase is as an Fe(III) reductase. Fe(II) may have a biological importance as a component of Fenton's reagent [Fe(II)/H2O2]. The concentration of cellobiose oxidase in the growth medium at harvest (0.3 microM) can provide a far higher flux of Fe(II) than a non-enzymic proposal in the literature.
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PMID:Evidence that cellobiose oxidase from Phanerochaete chrysosporium is primarily an Fe(III) reductase. Kinetic comparison with neutrophil NADPH oxidase and yeast flavocytochrome b2. 155 75

Membrane-bound NADPH oxidase of pig blood neutrophils was solubilized with heptylthioglucoside in a high yield. The solubilized preparation from myristate-stimulated cells (sample S) showed high O2- generating activity, and the preparation from resting cells (sample R) had no activity, but the two samples had equal amounts of flavins and cytochrome b-558 (cyt b-558). The electron transfer reactions to exogenous cytochrome c (cyt c) or cyt b-558 in samples S and R were examined. Under anaerobic conditions, NADPH-dependent cyt c reductase activity appeared higher in sample S than in sample R, and the addition of FMN and FAD greatly enhanced the reductase activity of sample S, but not that of sample R. No marked difference between the reductase activities of samples S and R was seen with NADH. Photoreduction of the NADPH oxidase system was examined in the absence of NADPH under anaerobic conditions by monitoring the reduction rates of exogenous cyt c using a flashlight with cut-off filters between 400 and 500 nm. Cyt c reduction was much higher in sample S than in sample R on photoexcitation at about 450 nm. Photoreduction was carried out with a band-pass filter for selective irradiation at 450 nm. Marked reduction of exogenous cyt c was observed only in sample S: the small reduction of cyt c by sample R was independent of the light wavelength and was equal to the blank level. In contrast, no difference in the reduction of cyt b-558 by the two samples was found by either NADPH or photoreduction. Under aerobic conditions, no direct reduction of either cyt c or cyt b-558 was observed. These results suggest that an NADPH-cyt c reductase (a membrane-bound flavoprotein) is involved in the NADPH oxidase system of stimulated neutrophils.
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PMID:Electron transfer reactions in the NADPH oxidase system of neutrophils--involvement of an NADPH-cytochrome c reductase in the oxidase system. 165 5

Superoxide generation in the NADPH oxidase reaction of NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, demonstrated using the ESR spin trap, 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-1-oxide, increased on the addition of lactoferrin. The NADPH-lactoferrin reductase activity was assessed in terms of NADPH oxidation and oxygen consumption. From Lineweaver-Burk plots, the Km and Vmax for lactoferrin were estimated to be 13 microM and 0.5 S-1, respectively. The liberation of iron from lactoferrin was proven with the use of bathophenanthroline and by the demonstration of bleomycin-dependent DNA degradation; lactoferrin was reduced by the enzyme in the presence of NADPH. During the reaction, the ESR spectrum of the spin trap adduct changed from one characteristic of DMPO-OOH to that of DMPO-OH. The conversion was ascribed to the reaction of hydrogen peroxide with reduced lactoferrin.
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PMID:Lactoferrin-mediated formation of oxygen radicals by NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase system. 169 25

1. Lindane administered to untreated rats or rats pretreated with phenobarbital (PB) or 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) increased liver lipid peroxidation, of the same magnitude in all groups. 2. PB pretreatment produced a 50% increase in lipid peroxidation (TBAR) by liver homogenates and microsomes, an effect accompanied by increases in cytochrome P-450, NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, NADPH oxidase and microsomal superoxide anion production, MC pretreatment resulted in increases in liver cytochrome P-450 and NADPH oxidase only. 3. Pretreatment of rats with PB, but not MC or lindane, gave increases in glutathione peroxidase and reductase. 4. Pretreatment with PB, but not MC, increased liver GSH. Lindane decreased liver GSH to the same extent as PB plus lindane. 5. Biliary GSH, GSSG and bile flow were decreased by lindane to similar extents in all groups. 6. Lindane induced periportal necrosis with haemorrhagic foci in all groups. 7. Data presented indicate that the early lipid peroxidative response of liver to lindane was unchanged by PB- or MC-stimulated hepatic microsomal enzyme induction.
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PMID:Effect of phenobarbital and 3-methylcholanthrene on the early oxidative stress component induced by lindane in rat liver. 172 29

A soluble protein containing very weak NADPH-dependent nitroblue tetrazolium reductase activity was partially purified from the cytosol of dormant human neutrophils by DEAE-5PW ion exchange chromatography. This preparation of cytosolic reductase exhibited three nitroblue tetrazolium-reducing bands with approximate molecular masses of 95, 45, and 40 kDa on non-denaturing gel electrophoresis in the presence of 35 mM n-octyl-glucoside, and two major bands with apparent masses of 45 and 40 kDa along with a few variable minor bands on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The 45 kDa protein is susceptible to endogenous proteases and is rapidly converted to proteolysis products at 36 degrees C. The partially purified cytosolic protein(s) provided a concentration-dependent activation of NADPH oxidase in the cell-free system composed of the membrane, arachidonate and magnesium ion. In addition, polyclonal antibodies raised against rabbit hepatic NADPH:cytochrome P-450 reductase [EC 1.6.99.1] showed positive immunological reactivity toward cytosolic 45 kDa protein and also caused 30 to 40% inhibition of superoxide anion production in the cell-free system.
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PMID:Cytosolic components to activate neutrophilic NADPH oxidase in a cell-free system. 196 55

After phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) stimulation the increase of NADPH:nitroblue tetrazolium reductase activity in the plasma membrane almost corresponded with the stimulated activity of respiratory burst oxidase. Solubilization of plasma membranes from PMA-activated neutrophils with n-octyl glucoside resulted in high recoveries of the two enzymatic activities. When solubilized plasma membrane was subjected to non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of 35 mM n-octyl glucoside, we could see three major bands stained with NADPH-dependent nitroblue reductase activity giving molecular masses of approx. 95, 45 and 40 kDa, respectively. Activity was specific for NADPH but not for NADH. These bands also stained weakly in the plasma membranes obtained from resting cells. The activities for NADPH oxidase and nitroblue tetrazolium reductase were found to elute as a very similar protein peak on an anion-exchange HPLC, at about 0.32 M KCl. This elution peak also contains 45 and 40 kDa proteins showing NADPH:nitroblue tetrazolium reductase activity.
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PMID:NADPH: nitroblue tetrazolium reductase found in plasma membrane of human neutrophil. 211 29

Rifapentine (R773, DL473) is a long-acting antituberculous drug used in China. In our experiments we have found some manifestations of induction of hepatic mixed function oxidase system in mice following pretreatment with rifapentine or phenobarbital. Both rifapentine and phenobarbital significantly increased the rate of antipyrine and pentobarbital metabolism in vivo. They also increased liver weight, the content of liver microsomal protein and cytochrome P-450, the activity of NADPH-cytochrome C reductase and NADPH oxidase. SDS-polyacylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the relative proportions of some polypeptide bands in mice microsomal fraction were significantly changed following rifapentine or phenobarbital pretreatment. The results indicate that rifapentine, like phenobarbital, is a potent inducer of hepatic mixed function oxidase system in mice and that it should be used carefully in clinical therapy, when combined with other drugs.
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PMID:Inductive effects of rifapentine on mice hepatic mixed function oxidase system. 231 33


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