Purification and Characterization of Rat Sterol 14-Demethylase P450 (CYP51) Expressed in Escherichia coli
作者:Y. Nitahara、Y. Aoyama、T. Horiuchi、M. Noshiro、Y. Yoshida
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022536
日期:1999.11.1
Sterol 14-demethylase P460 (CYP51) is an essential enzyme for sterol biosynthesis by eukaryotes. We have cloned rat and human CYP51 cDNAs [Aoyama, Y., Noshiro, M., Gotoh, 0., Imaoka, S., Funae, Y., Kurosawa, N., Horiuchi, T, and Yoshida, Y. (1996) J. Biochenu 119, 926–933]. The cloned rat CYP51 cDNA was expressed in Escherichia coli with modification of the N-terminal amino acid sequence, and the expressed protein (CYP51m) was purified to gel-electrophoretic homogenity. The spectrophotometrically determined specific content of CYP51m was 16 nmol/mg protein and the apparent molecular weight was estimated to be 53, 000 on SDS-PAGE. Soret peaks of the oxidized and reduced CO-complex of CYP51m were observed at 417 and 447 mn, respectively. The purified CYP51m catalyzed the 14-demethylation of lanosterol and 24, 25-dihydrolanosterol upon reconstitution with NADPH-P450 reductase purified from rat liver microsomes. The apparent Km and Vmnx values for lanosterol were 10.5 μM and 13.9 nmol/min/nmol P450, respectively, and those for 24, 25-dihydrolanosterol were 20.0 jjM and 20.0 nmol/min/nmol P450, respectively. The lanosterol demethylase activity of the reconstituted system of CYP51m was inhibited by ketoconazole, itraconazole and fluconazole with apparent IC50 values of 0.2, 0.7, and 160 respectively.
固醇14-脱甲基酶P460(CYP51)是生物体固醇生物合成所必需的酶。我们已经克隆了大鼠和人类CYP51的cDNA [Aoyama, Y., Noshiro, M., Gotoh, 0., Imaoka, S., Funae, Y., Kurosawa, N., Horiuchi, T, and Yoshida, Y. (1996) J. Biochenu 119, 926–933]。克隆的大鼠CYP51的cDNA在大肠杆菌中表达,N端氨基酸序列经过修饰,表达的蛋白(CYP51m)纯化后凝胶电泳均匀。通过分光光度法测定的CYP51m的特异性含量为16 nmol/mg蛋白,SDS-PAGE上测得的表观分子量为53,000。CYP51m氧化和还原CO复合物的索雷峰分别在417和447 mn处观察到。纯化的CYP51m与从大鼠肝脏微粒体中纯化的NADPH-P450还原酶重组后,催化了羊毛甾醇和24,25-二氢羊毛甾醇的14-脱甲基化。羊毛甾醇的表观Km和Vmnx值