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Query: EC:3.4.21.4 (trypsin)
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Solubilized NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase has been purified from liver microsomes of phenobarbital-treated rats. When added to microsomes, the reductase enhances the monoxygenase, such as aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase, ethoxycoumarin O-dealkylase, and benzphetamine N-demethylase, activities. The enhancement can be observed with microsomes prepared from phenobarbital- or 3-methylcholanthrene-treated, or non-treated rats. The added reductase is believed to be incorporated into the microsomal membrane, and the rate of the incorporation can be assayed by measuring the enhancement in ethoxycoumarin dealkylase activity. It requires a 30 min incubation at 37 degrees C for maximal incorporation and the process is much slower at lower temperatures. The temperature affects the rate but not the extent of the incorporation. After the incorporation, the enriched microsomes can be separated from the unbound reductase by gel filtration with a Sepharose 4B column. The relationship among the reductase added, reductase bound and the enhancement in hydroxylase activity has been examined. The relationship between the reductase level and the aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity has also been studied with trypsin-treated microsomes. The trypsin treatment removes the reductase from the microsomes, and the decrease in reductase activity is accompanied by a parallel decrease in aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity. When purified reductase is added, the treated microsomes are able to gain aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity to a level comparable to that which can be obtained with normal microsomes. The present study demonstrates that purified NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase can be incorporated into the microsomal membrane and the incorporated reductase can interact with the cytochrome P-450 molecules in the membrane, possibly in the same mode as the endogenous reductase molecules. The result is consistent with a non-rigid model for the organization of cytochrome P-450 and NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase in the microsomal membrane.
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PMID:Interaction between NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase and hepatic microsomes. 2 1

Hepatic microsomal NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase was solubilized from rabbit liver microsomes in the presence of detergents and purified to homogeneity by column chromatography. The purified reductase had a molecular weight of 78 000 and contained 1 mol each of FAD and FMN per mol of enzyme. On reduction with NADPH in the presence of molecular oxygen, an 02-stable semiquinone containing one flavin free radical per two flavins was formed, in agreement with previous work on purified trypsin-solubilized reductase. The reduction of oxidized enzyme by NADPH, and autoxidation of NADPH-reduced enzyme by air, proceeded by both one-electron equivalent and two-electron equivalent mechanisms. The reductase reduced cytochrome P-450 (from phenobarbital-treated rabbits) and cytochrome P-448 (from 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rabbits). The rate of reduction of cytochrome P-450 increased in the presence of a substrate, benzphetamine, but that of cytochrome P-448 did not.
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PMID:Studies on the microsomal mixed function oxidase system: redox properties of detergent-solubilized NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase. 2 10

Fractions of plasma membranes, Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and nuclear envelope were isolated from rat liver and were characterized by electron microsocpe and biochemical methods. The purity of the fractions was controlled by morphometry and by marker enzyme activities. Amounts of cytochromes b5, P-450, and P-420 were measured, as well as the NADPH- and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activities. The pigments of the microsomal electron transport system were found in all membrane fractions in relatively high amounts, thus excluding an origin by microsomal contamination. Purified preparations of plasma membrane and Golgi apparatus contained approximately 30% of the cytochrome b5 and cytochrome P-450 + P-420 found in ER membranes. Plasma membranes were also characterized by a high ratio of P-420/450. Degradation of cytochromes P-450 and P-420 was relatively rapid in all fractions, except in the ER. Cytochrome b5 extracted from plasma membranes was spectrophotometrically and enzymatically indistinguishable from ER cytochrome b5. However, immunnlogical characterization with rabbit antibodies against the trypsin-resistant core of microsomal cytochrome b5 showed the presence of at least two types of cytochrome b5 in ER membranes, in contrast to the plasma membranes in which only one of these components was detected. This immunological differentiation also demonstrates that the plasma membrane-bound cytochrome b5 is endogenous to this membrane and does not reflect contamination by ER elements. We conclude that cytochromes b5, P-450, and P-420 are not confined only to ER and nuclear membranes but also occur in signficant amounts in Golgi apparatus and plasma membranes. The findings are discussed in relation to observations of similar redox components in Golgi apparatus, secretory vesicles, and plasma membranes of other cells.
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PMID:B-type cytochromes in plasma membranes isolated from rat liver, in comparison with those of endomembranes. 10 58

Pregnenolone and progesterone concentrated in the microsomal fraction of cryptorchid mouse testis compared with mitochondria and cytosol. While the concentrating mechanisms had high capacity and low association constants the effect did not seem to be due to nonspecific solubility in the lipid components since 17-hydroxyprogesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione and testosterone did not show differential concentration. Also digestion with phospholipases A2 and C to the point where most of the phospholipids were specifically split, only lowered the differential binding of pregnenolone and progesterone by less than half. Trypsin had a greater effect, short digestion at 0 degrees C lowering the specific binding to 35-40% and decreasing the steroid dehydrogenases to a similar extent. The members of the mixed function oxidase system in the testis microsomes were particularly sensitive to trypsin, cytochrome P-450 and, as a consequence, 17alpha-hydroxylase and 17, 20-lyase activity being eliminated under tha same conditions while liver microsomal cytochrome P-450 was hardly affected. Bonds split by trypsin seem to play a more important role in the hydroxylase activity of testis microsomes than in the hepatic system.
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PMID:Effects of trypsin and phospholipases A2 and C on enzyme organization in testis microsomes. 18 6

The transverse distribution of enzyme proteins and phospholipids within microsomal membranes was studied by analyzing membrane composition after treatment with proteases and phospholipases. Upon trypsin treatment of closed microsomal vesicles, NADH- and NADPH-cytochrome c reductases as well as cytochrome b5 were solubilized or inactivated, while cytochrome P-450 was partially inactivated. When microsomes were exposed to a concentration of deoxycholate which makes them permeable to macromolecules but does not disrupt the membrane, the detergent alone was sufficient to release four enzymes: nucleoside diphosphatase, esterase, beta-glucuronidase, and a portion of the DT-diaphorase. Introduction of trypsin into the vesicle lumen inactivated glucose-6-phosphatase completely and cytochrome P-450 partially. The rest of this cytochrome, ATPase, AMPase, UDP-glucuronyltransferase, and the remaining 50% of DT-diaphorase activity were not affected by proteolysis from either side of the membrane. Phospholipase A treatment of intact microsomes in the presence of albumin hydrolyzed all of the phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, and 55% of the phosphatidylcholine. From this observation, it was concluded that these lipids are localized in the outer half of the bilayer of the microsomal membrane; Phosphatidylinositol, 45% of the phosphatidylcholine, and sphingomyelin are tentatively assigned to the inner half of this bilayer. It appears that the various enzyme proteins and phospholipids of the microsomal membrane display an asymmetric distribution in the transverse plane.
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PMID:Enzyme and phospholipid asymmetry in liver microsomal membranes. 19 Feb 41

Norethisterone, specifically labeled with tritium, was incubated with hepatic microsomes of rats. About 2% of 3H radioactivity was irreversibly incorporated into the microsomal protein. This protein binding of norethisterone (about 0.7-1.6 nmol/mg of microsomal protein) was dependent on oxygen, NADPH, substrate concentration, and microsomal protein content and could be inhibited by carbon monoxide. Glutathione and other cysteine derivatives with free sulfhydryl groups diminished the microsomal protein binding diminished the microsomal protein binding as did the addition of bovine serum albumin. Norethisterone-derived radioactivity was also irreversibly bound to albumin. Solvent-extraction and charcoal-adsorption methods were employed to prove the irreversible nature of this binding. After trypsin digestion of albumin and microsomal protein loaded with norethisterone, peptides which were labeled with 3H could be isolated. To explain our results, a metabolic bioactivation of norethisterone to norethisterone-4,5-epoxide, catalyzed by the microsomal mixed-function oxidase cytochrome P-450, is proposed.
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PMID:Metabolic activation of norethisterone (norethindrone) to an irreversibly protein-bound derivative by rat liver microsomes. 24 14

Microsomal squalene epoxidase has previously been solubilized with Triton X-100 and resolved into fractions, FA and FB, by DEAE-cellulose chromatography (Ono T. and Bloch K (1975) J biol. Chem. 250, 1571-1579). It has now been found that FB is identical with NADPH-cytochrome c reductase (denoted FPT, EC 1.6.2.3). Although both NADPH and NADH served as electron donors, the former was preferred for squalene epoxidase activity in the reconstituted system of FA and FB. FB is characterized by its ability to reduce cytochrome c by NADPH. In place of FB, partially purified FPT was tested for its ability to support squalene epoxidation in the presence of FA. A stepwise purification of the deoxycholate-solubilized FPT yielded an increase in specific FPT activity with a parallel increase in squalene epoxidase activity. Bromelain-solubilized FPT was less effective. Rabbit antisera preparations to the purified FPT solubilized with trypsin were shown to inhibit concomitantly FPT activity and squalene epoxidase activity. These observations support the concept that squalene epoxidation is primarily mediated via a flavoprotein, NADPH-cytochrome c reductase, and a terminal oxidase, squalene epoxidase, which is distinct from cytochrome P-450.
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PMID:Involvement of NADPH-cytochrome c reductase in the rat liver squalene epoxidase system. 40 52

Two common environmental pollutants, DDT and a polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mixture (Clophen A-50), were administered ip to rats in discrete single doses (160 and 100 mg/kg, respectively) and in combination. All the enzyme activities studied were enhanced by DDT and PCB. the overall drug hydroxylation reactions, and their components, achieved maximal induction in 1 wk. The cytochrome P-450 content of microsomes was increased nearly fourfold and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity was enhanced twofold by both compounds. p-Nitroanisole O-demethylase was increased sevenfold by PCB and fourfold by DDT, aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase threefold by PCB and 1.7-fold by DDT. After 2 wk the activities began to decline. Distinct increases in enzyme activities were still detectable 1 month after a single dose. Epoxide hydratase and UDPglucuronosyltransferase activities were also enhanced in 1 wk (epoxide hydratase 2.5-fold by both compounds, UDPglucuronosyltransferase tenfold by PCB in trypsin-activated microsomes but only threefold by DDT). The disappearance of induction in epoxide hydratase was slower than in the monooxygenases, and UDPglucuronosyltransferase still showed a trend toward increased activity 4 wk after the administration. The DDT-enhanced UDPglucuronosyltransferase activity slightly returned toward the control level. Glutathione S-transferase differed from the microsomal enzymes in that it was already elevated 1 day after the administration of both DDT and PCB. Its activity was only doubled, but the increased activity remained at almost the same level through the whole 1 month period.
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PMID:Long-term effects of single and combined doses of DDT and PCB on drug-metabolizing enzymes in rat liver. 41 32

1. The microsomal haem oxygenase activity induced by the administration of CoCl2 was found mainly in the smooth-surfaced microsomal fraction, whereas that of the untreated control animals was widely distributed in smooth-surfaced microsomal, rough-surfaced microsomal and Golgi fractions. 2. When microsomal preparation was incubated and the time course of the distribution of biliverdin between the membranes and the medium was followed, most of the biliverdin formed was found first in the medium. This suggests that the active site of haem oxygenase is exposed on the cytoplasmic surface of the membranes. The possible localization of the enzyme at the outer surface of the membranes was also supported by a digestion experiment with trypsin. The haem oxygenase activity was greatly decreased even at low concentration of the proteinase, which did not affected the NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity. 3. When microsomal preparation was further fractionated by isopycnic centrifugation in the presence of deoxycholate or by partitioning of sonicated microsomal preparation in aqueous-polymer two-phase systems, most of the haem oxygenase activity was found in a fraction different from the main fraction of the NADH- and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and NADH--ferricyanide reductase activities. This indicates the different distribution of haem oxygenase from the other enzymes mentioned, on the lateral plane of microsomal membranes, and suggests the different localization of the haem oxygenase system from the electron-transport system linked with cytochrome b5 and cytochrome P-450.
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PMID:Topological arrangement in microsomal membranes of hepatic haem oxygenase induced by cobalt chloride. 44 18

The topology of the steroid hydroxylase complexes in bovine adrenocortical mitochondria were studied by using controlled digestion with trypsin of purified inner mitochondrial membranes. Inhibition of steroid hydroxylase activity by trypsin was only observed in inner mitochondrial membranes which had been disrupted by various techniques. The steroid hydroxylase activity of intact inner membranes was not inhibited by trypsin. The effect of tryptic digestion was monitored by measuring 11 beta-hydroxylase and cholesterol side chain cleavage activities, as well as cytochrome P-450 reduction. The effect of trypsin on the steroid-induced difference spectra using pregnenolone, 20 alpha-hydroxycholesterol, and deoxycorticosterone was also measured. The results were similar regardless of which procedure was utilized and strongly suggest that both cytochrome P-45011 beta and cytochrome P-450scc are located on the matrix side of the mitochondrial inner membrane.
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PMID:Topological studies of cytochromes P-450scc and P-45011 beta in bovine adrenocortical inner mitochondrial membranes. Effects of controlled tryptic digestion. 48 6


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