代谢
玉带凤蝶(老虎凤蝶)是一种杂食性昆虫,很少遇到含有呋喃香豆素的植物,但它具有固有能力代谢这些高度有毒的异种化学物质低水平。在玉带凤蝶幼虫中,线性(花椒毒素,佛手柑素)和角形(白芷素,防风素)呋喃香豆素的代谢可以通过饮食中花椒毒素的存在诱导高达30倍。通过使用与三种昆虫P450s中保守氨基酸序列相对应的简并引物,家蝇(CYP6A1)、果蝇(CYP6A2)和凤蝶(CYP6B1),通过逆转录聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)策略从玉带凤蝶幼虫中克隆花椒毒素诱导的P450转录物。编码高度保守的F--G-R-C-G P450特征基序的阳性克隆用于从玉带凤蝶花椒毒素诱导的cDNA文库中分离出全长CYP6B4v1 cDNA。序列比较表明,玉带凤蝶CYP6B4v1蛋白序列与凤蝶呋喃香豆素可诱导的CYP6B1v1和CYP6B3v1蛋白分别有63%和61%的同一性。Northern分析表明,CYP6B4和相关转录物在响应花椒毒素时高度诱导。通过杆状病毒介导在鳞翅目细胞系中表达CYP6B4v1蛋白,表明这种P450同工酶以高速率代谢异补骨脂素、帝皇素和佛手柑素,以中等速率代谢花椒毒素和补骨脂素,而仅以非常低的速率代谢白芷素、防风素和三甲沙林。
Papilio glaucus (tiger swallowtail) is a generalist that rarely encounters plants containing furanocoumarins yet is constitutively capable of metabolizing low levels of these highly toxic allelochemicals. In larvae of this species, metabolism of linear (xanthotoxin, bergapten), and angular (angelicin, sphondin), furanocoumarins can be induced up to 30-fold by the presence of xanthotoxin in their diet. Degenerate primers corresponding to conserved amino acid sequences in three insect P450s, Musca domestica (CYP6A1), Drosophila melanogaster (CYP6A2) and Papilio polyxenes (CYP6B1), were used to clone xanthotoxin-induced P450 transcripts from P. glaucus larvae by a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) strategy. Positive clones encoding the highly conserved F--G-R-C-G P450 signature motif were used to isolate a full-length CYP6B4v1 cDNA from a P. glaucus xanthotoxin-induced cDNA library. Sequence comparisons indicate the P. glaucus CYP6B4v1 protein sequence is 63% and 61% identical, respectively, to the P. polyxenes furanocoumarin-inducible CYP6B1v1 and CYP6B3v1 proteins. Northern analysis indicates that CYP6B4 and related transcripts are highly induced in response to xanthotoxin. Baculovirus-mediated expression of the CYP6B4v1 protein in lepidopteran cell lines demonstrates that this P450 isozyme metabolizes isopimpinellin, imperatorin, and bergapten at high rates, xanthotoxin and psoralen at intermediate rates and angelicin, sphondin, and trioxsalen only at very low rates.
来源:Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)