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Bellamri M, Walmsley SJ, Turesky RJ. Metabolism and biomarkers of heterocyclic aromatic amines in humans. Genes Environ 2021; 43:29. [PMID: 34271992 PMCID: PMC8284014 DOI: 10.1186/s41021-021-00200-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) form during the high-temperature cooking of meats, poultry, and fish. Some HAAs also arise during the combustion of tobacco. HAAs are multisite carcinogens in rodents, inducing cancer of the liver, gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, mammary, and prostate glands. HAAs undergo metabolic activation by N-hydroxylation of the exocyclic amine groups to produce the proposed reactive intermediate, the heteroaryl nitrenium ion, which is the critical metabolite implicated in DNA damage and genotoxicity. Humans efficiently convert HAAs to these reactive intermediates, resulting in HAA protein and DNA adduct formation. Some epidemiologic studies have reported an association between frequent consumption of well-done cooked meats and elevated cancer risk of the colorectum, pancreas, and prostate. However, other studies have reported no associations between cooked meat and these cancer sites. A significant limitation in epidemiology studies assessing the role of HAAs and cooked meat in cancer risk is their reliance on food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) to gauge HAA exposure. FFQs are problematic because of limitations in self-reported dietary history accuracy, and estimating HAA intake formed in cooked meats at the parts-per-billion level is challenging. There is a critical need to establish long-lived biomarkers of HAAs for implementation in molecular epidemiology studies designed to assess the role of HAAs in health risk. This review article highlights the mechanisms of HAA formation, mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, the metabolism of several prominent HAAs, and the impact of critical xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes on biological effects. The analytical approaches that have successfully biomonitored HAAs and their biomarkers for molecular epidemiology studies are presented.
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- Medjda Bellamri
- Masonic Cancer Center and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Cancer and Cardiovascular Research Building, University of Minnesota, 2231 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.,Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Masonic Cancer Center and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Cancer and Cardiovascular Research Building, University of Minnesota, 2231 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.,Institute of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Masonic Cancer Center and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Cancer and Cardiovascular Research Building, University of Minnesota, 2231 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. .,Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
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Turesky RJ, White KK, Wilkens LR, Marchand LL. Caffeine Cytochrome P450 1A2 Metabolic Phenotype Does Not Predict the Metabolism of Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines in Humans. Chem Res Toxicol 2015; 28:1603-15. [PMID: 26203673 PMCID: PMC4571451 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5b00177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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2-Amino-1-methylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) and 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx) are carcinogenic heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) formed in well-done cooked meats. Chemicals that induce cytochrome P450 (P450) 1A2, a major enzyme involved in the bioactivation of HAAs, also form in cooked meat. Therefore, well-done cooked meat may pose an increase in cancer risk because it contains both inducers of P450 1A2 and procarcinogenic HAAs. We examined the influence of components in meat to modulate P450 1A2 activity and the metabolism of PhIP and MeIQx in volunteers during a 4 week feeding study of well-done cooked beef. The mean P450 1A2 activity, assessed by caffeine metabolic phenotyping, ranged from 6.3 to 7.1 before the feeding study commenced and from 9.6 to 10.4 during the meat feeding period: the difference in means was significant (P < 0.001). Unaltered PhIP, MeIQx, and their P450 1A2 metabolites, N(2)-(β-1-glucosiduronyl)-2-(hydroxyamino)-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (HON-PhIP-N(2)-Gl); N3-(β-1-glucosiduronyl)-2-(hydroxyamino)-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (HON-PhIP-N3-Gl); 2-amino-3-methylimidazo-[4,5-f]quinoxaline-8-carboxylic acid (IQx-8-COOH); and 2-amino-8-(hydroxymethyl)-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (8-CH2OH-IQx) were measured in urine during days 2, 14, and 28 of the meat diet. Significant correlations were observed on these days between the levels of the unaltered HAAs and their oxidized metabolites, when expressed as percent of dose ingested or as metabolic ratios. However, there was no statistically significant correlation between the caffeine P450 1A2 phenotype and any urinary HAA biomarker. Although the P450 1A2 activity varied by greater than 20-fold among the subjects, there was a large intraindividual variation of the P450 1A2 phenotype and inconsistent responses to inducers of P450 1A2. The coefficient of variation of the P450 1A2 phenotype within-individual ranged between 1 to 112% (median = 40%) during the entire course of the study. The caffeine metabolic phenotype for P450 1A2 was a poor predictor of oxidative urinary metabolites of PhIP and MeIQx and may not be a reliable measure to assess the role of HAAs in cancer risk.
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- Robert J. Turesky
- Masonic Masonic Cancer Center and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, 2231 6th St SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 9681
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- University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 9681
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- University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 9681
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Narjoz C, Favre A, McMullen J, Kiehl P, Montemurro M, Figg WD, Beaune P, de Waziers I, Rochat B. Important role of CYP2J2 in protein kinase inhibitor degradation: a possible role in intratumor drug disposition and resistance. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95532. [PMID: 24819355 PMCID: PMC4018390 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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We have investigated in vitro the metabolic capability of 3 extrahepatic cytochromes P-450, CYP1A1, 1B1 and 2J2, known to be over-expressed in various tumors, to biotransform 5 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI): dasatinib, imatinib, nilotinib, sorafenib and sunitinib. Moreover, mRNA expression of CYP1A1, 1B1, 2J2 and 3A4 in 6 hepatocellular and 14 renal cell carcinoma tumor tissues and their surrounding healthy tissues, was determined. Our results show that CYP1A1, 1B1 and especially 2J2 can rapidly biotransform the studied TKIs with a metabolic efficiency similar to that of CYP3A4. The mRNA expression of CYP1A1, 1B1, 2J2 and 3A4 in tumor biopsies has shown i) the strong variability of CYP expression and ii) distinct outliers showing high expression levels (esp. CYP2J2) that are compatible with high intratumoral CYP activity and tumor-specific TKI degradation. CYP2J2 inhibition could be a novel clinical strategy to specifically increase the intratumoral rather than plasma TKI levels, improving TKI efficacy and extending the duration before relapse. Such an approach would be akin to beta-lactamase inhibition, a classical strategy to avoid antibiotic degradation and resistance.
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- Céline Narjoz
- Université Paris Descartes, INSERM UMR S-U775, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Biochimie, Unité Fonctionnelle de Pharmacogénétique et Oncologie Moléculaire, Paris, France
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- Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Facility, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Facility, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Facility, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Université Paris Descartes, INSERM UMR S-U775, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Biochimie, Unité Fonctionnelle de Pharmacogénétique et Oncologie Moléculaire, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Descartes, INSERM UMR S-U775, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Facility, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Turesky RJ, Le Marchand L. Metabolism and biomarkers of heterocyclic aromatic amines in molecular epidemiology studies: lessons learned from aromatic amines. Chem Res Toxicol 2011; 24:1169-214. [PMID: 21688801 PMCID: PMC3156293 DOI: 10.1021/tx200135s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Aromatic amines and heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) are structurally related classes of carcinogens that are formed during the combustion of tobacco or during the high-temperature cooking of meats. Both classes of procarcinogens undergo metabolic activation by N-hydroxylation of the exocyclic amine group to produce a common proposed intermediate, the arylnitrenium ion, which is the critical metabolite implicated in toxicity and DNA damage. However, the biochemistry and chemical properties of these compounds are distinct, and different biomarkers of aromatic amines and HAAs have been developed for human biomonitoring studies. Hemoglobin adducts have been extensively used as biomarkers to monitor occupational and environmental exposures to a number of aromatic amines; however, HAAs do not form hemoglobin adducts at appreciable levels, and other biomarkers have been sought. A number of epidemiologic studies that have investigated dietary consumption of well-done meat in relation to various tumor sites reported a positive association between cancer risk and well-done meat consumption, although some studies have shown no associations between well-done meat and cancer risk. A major limiting factor in most epidemiological studies is the uncertainty in quantitative estimates of chronic exposure to HAAs, and thus, the association of HAAs formed in cooked meat and cancer risk has been difficult to establish. There is a critical need to establish long-term biomarkers of HAAs that can be implemented in molecular epidemioIogy studies. In this review, we highlight and contrast the biochemistry of several prototypical carcinogenic aromatic amines and HAAs to which humans are chronically exposed. The biochemical properties and the impact of polymorphisms of the major xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes on the biological effects of these chemicals are examined. Lastly, the analytical approaches that have been successfully employed to biomonitor aromatic amines and HAAs, and emerging biomarkers of HAAs that may be implemented in molecular epidemiology studies are discussed.
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- Robert J Turesky
- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Wadsworth Center , Albany, New York 12201, United States.
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Ellero S, Chakhtoura G, Barreau C, Langouët S, Benelli C, Penicaud L, Beaune P, de Waziers I. Xenobiotic-metabolizing cytochromes p450 in human white adipose tissue: expression and induction. Drug Metab Dispos 2009; 38:679-86. [PMID: 20035023 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.109.029249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Lipophilic pollutants can accumulate in human white adipose tissue (WAT), and the consequences of this accumulation are still poorly understood. Cytochromes P450 (P450s) have recently been found in rat WAT and shown to be inducible through mechanisms similar to those in the liver. The aim of our study was to describe the cytochrome P450 pattern and their induction mechanisms in human WAT. Explants of subcutaneous and visceral WAT and primary culture of subcutaneous adipocytes were used as WAT models, and liver biopsies and primary culture of hepatocytes were used as liver models to characterize P450 expression in both tissues. The WAT and liver models were then treated with typical P450 inducers (rifampicin, phenobarbital, and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) and lipophilic pollutants (lindane, prochloraz, and chlorpyrifos), and the effects on P450 expression were studied. P450 expression was considerably lower in WAT than in the liver, except for CYP1B1 and CYP2U1, which were the most highly expressed adipose P450s in all individuals. 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and prochloraz induced CYP1A1 and CYP1B1 expression in both tissues. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor was also present in WAT. In contrast, neither phenobarbital nor rifampicin treatment induced CYP2 or CYP3 mRNA in WAT, and constitutive androstane receptor and pregnane X receptor were almost undetectable. These results suggest that the mechanisms by which P450s of family 1 are regulated in the liver are also functional in human WAT, but those regulating CYP2 and CYP3 expression are not.
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- Sandrine Ellero
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université Paris Descartes, Interdisciplinary Institute of Life Sciences des Saints Péres, Paris, France
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Narjoz C, Marisa L, Imbeaud S, Paris A, Delacroix H, Beaune P, De Waziers I. Genomic consequences of cytochrome P450 2C9 overexpression in human hepatoma cells. Chem Res Toxicol 2009; 22:779-87. [PMID: 19445531 DOI: 10.1021/tx800417u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cytochrome P450 2C9 (P450 2C9) is one of the most important P450 isoforms in the human liver, as it metabolizes numerous exogenous and endogenous substrates. Moreover, it is inducible by several compounds, such as rifampicin, phenobarbital, and NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories). The aim of this study was to investigate the global cellular consequences of P450 2C9 overexpression at the transcriptional level using an untargeted approach: pangenomic microarrays. Recombinant adenovirus was used to express P450 2C9 instead of an inducer to prevent a per se effect of inducer or its metabolites. P450 2C9 overexpression induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and regulated genes implicated in the unfolded protein response (UPR) as heat shock protein (HSP) (we studied particurlarly HSPA5 and HSPB1) and in the endoplasmic reticulum associated degradation (ERAD) system as Sec61 and ubiquitin and proteasome pathways. UPR and ERAD are two mechanisms of adaptative response to ER stress. Moreover, activation of Akt was observed in HepG2 cells that overexpress P450 2C9 and might participate in the cellular adaptive response to stress, thus leading to the activation of cell survival pathways. UPR and ERAD should be caused by accumulation of native and misfolded P450 2C9 protein. Our results indicated that P450 2C9 overexpression did not lead to toxicity but induced an ER stress due to protein overexpression rather than mono-oxygenase activity. The ER stress triggered activation of the adaptative response and of pathways leading to cell survival.
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- Céline Narjoz
- Université Paris Descartes and INSERM UMR U775, Paris, France
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Stringer RA, Strain-Damerell C, Nicklin P, Houston JB. Evaluation of Recombinant Cytochrome P450 Enzymes as an in Vitro System for Metabolic Clearance Predictions. Drug Metab Dispos 2009; 37:1025-34. [DOI: 10.1124/dmd.108.024810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Woodland C, Huang TT, Gryz E, Bendayan R, Fawcett JP. Expression, Activity and Regulation of CYP3A in Human and Rodent Brain. Drug Metab Rev 2008; 40:149-68. [DOI: 10.1080/03602530701836712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Tychopoulos M, Corcos L, Genne P, Beaune P, de Waziers I. A virus-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (VDEPT) strategy for lung cancer using a CYP2B6/NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase fusion protein. Cancer Gene Ther 2005; 12:497-508. [PMID: 15746946 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cgt.7700817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Virus-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (VDEPT) is an emerging strategy against cancer. Our approach is a P450-based VDEPT that consists of using cyclophosphamide (CPA) as a prodrug and a Cytochrome P450 2B6/NADPH cytochrome P450 reductase fusion protein (CYP2B6/RED) as a prodrug-activating enzyme. Due to the heterogenous expression of proteins in tumor cells, basal reductase activity may not be sufficient to supply CYP2B6 with electrons, the fusion protein should enable the expression of both proteins at high levels in tumor cells. CYP/RED fusion proteins have never been previously expressed in mammalian cells, to enable expression the fusion protein was cloned into an adenoviral vector and subsequently several pulmonary tumor cell lines were infected. The CYP2B6/RED fusion protein was detected by Western blot, its mRNA by Northern blot, and its heme incorporation into an active form by spectral analysis. Infection with the fusion gene increased RED activity in microsomes by a factor of 3 compared to the control. After infection and treatment with CPA, in cell lines with low endogenous RED, the fusion protein mediated significantly higher CPA-induced cytotoxicity compared to cells expressing solely CYP2B6. In conclusion, the fusion protein is functional for VDEPT by providing one protein for higher levels of CPA metabolism.
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- Marina Tychopoulos
- INSERM UMRS 490, Molecular Toxicology, Université René Descartes, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France
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Turesky RJ. Interspecies metabolism of heterocyclic aromatic amines and the uncertainties in extrapolation of animal toxicity data for human risk assessment. Mol Nutr Food Res 2005; 49:101-17. [PMID: 15617087 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200400076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) are potent bacterial mutagens that are formed in cooked meats, tobacco smokes condensate, and diesel exhaust. Many HAAs are carcinogenic in experimental animal models. Because of their wide-spread occurrence in the diet and environment, HAAs may contribute to some common types of human cancers. The extrapolation of animal toxicity data on HAAs to asses human health risk has many uncertainties, which can lead to tenuous risk assessment estimates. Perhaps the most critical and variable parameters in interspecies extrapolation are the effects of dose, species differences in catalytic activities of xenobiotic metabolism enzymes (XMEs), human XME polymorphisms that lead to interindividual differences in carcinogen metabolism and dietary constituents that may either augment or diminish the carcinogenic potency of these genotoxins. The impact of these parameters on the metabolism and toxicological properties of HAAS and uncertainties in extrapolation of animal toxicity data for human risk assessment are presented in this article.
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- Robert J Turesky
- National Center for Toxicological Research, Division of Chemistry, Jefferson, AR, USA.
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Stiborová M, Martínek V, Rýdlová H, Koblas T, Hodek P. Expression of cytochrome P450 1A1 and its contribution to oxidation of a potential human carcinogen 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol (Sudan I) in human livers. Cancer Lett 2005; 220:145-54. [PMID: 15766589 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.07.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2004] [Revised: 07/26/2004] [Accepted: 07/28/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) is one of the most important enzymes implicated in the metabolic activation of carcinogens. To date, there is still conflicting evidence for the expression of enzymatically functional CYP1A1 in human liver. In the present work, we clearly demonstrate that CYP1A1 capable of metabolizing a carcinogen 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol (Sudan I) is expressed in livers of eight American Caucasian donors. Using two independent methods (immunoblotting and N-terminal sequencing), CYP1A1 protein was detected and quantified in all human hepatic microsomes tested in the study. Its levels, ranging from 0.97 to 3.0 pmol/mg protein, correlated with activities catalyzed by this enzyme [7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylation (EROD) and oxidation of Sudan I], indicating the presence of enzymatically active CYP1A1. Even though levels of CYP1A1 expression are low, <0.7% of total hepatic CYP, the CYP1A1 contribution to oxidation of carcinogenic Sudan I in the test set of human liver microsomes ranges from 12 to 30%.
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- Marie Stiborová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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Parimoo B, Mishin VM, Busch CM, Thomas PE. Identification of epitopes on cytochrome P450 3A4/5 recognized by monoclonal antibodies. Arch Biochem Biophys 2003; 414:244-54. [PMID: 12781776 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(03)00128-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this study we describe the mapping of epitopes on CYP3A4/5 recognized by a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 cDNAs were cloned in GST expression vectors and the fusion proteins were subjected to Western blot. Eight MAbs reacted with the full-length GST-3A4 fusion protein as well as baculovirus cDNA-expressed CYP3A4, while six of these reacted with baculovirus cDNA-expressed CYP3A5. Five (MAb 347, 351, 352, 354, and 357) out of 8 MAbs were inhibitory in a metabolic assay using quinine as substrate. MAbs 352, 354, and 357 brought about a moderate inhibition of quinine metabolism (60-70%) while MAb 347 inhibited quinine 3- hydroxylation in human liver microsomes (n=6) by more than 70%. MAb 347 was a potent inhibitor of baculovirus-expressed CYP3A5-catalyzed metabolism of quinine (95%) at </=0.20 mg IgG/nmol P450 but only moderately inhibited CYP3A4 at much higher ratios of MAb to P450. This MAb was mapped to a region of 283 to 504 amino acids on CYP3A4 protein and to an identical region on CYP3A5 protein. The region that was identified on the CYP3A5 construct was further validated based on the ability of the construct harboring the epitope to reverse the inhibition of hydroxylation of quinine by MAb 347. Our experiments clearly demonstrate that a spatial antigenic determinant is responsible for the inhibitory potency of MAb 347.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/metabolism
- Baculoviridae/metabolism
- Blotting, Western
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Epitopes
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Glutathione Transferase/metabolism
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin G/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Microsomes, Liver/metabolism
- Models, Genetic
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Quinidine/analogs & derivatives
- Quinidine/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
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- Bhama Parimoo
- Chemical Biology Department, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, EOHSI Bldg., 170 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, USA
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Lhoste EF, Ouriet V, Bruel S, Flinois JP, Brézillon C, Magdalou J, Chèze C, Nugon-Baudon L. The human colonic microflora influences the alterations of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes by catechins in male F344 rats. Food Chem Toxicol 2003; 41:695-702. [PMID: 12659723 DOI: 10.1016/s0278-6915(03)00010-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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As other xenobiotics, polyphenols are metabolized both by the endogenous detoxication system and the gut microflora. We hypothesized that the presence of a gut microflora may account for the effect of catechins on phase I and II xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes and that the human bacterial metabolites may be different from those of a rodent gut microflora. Therefore, the effects of 2% (+)-catechin or 2% (-)-epicatechin were studied in germ free (GF) rats and rats inoculated with the flora of a human volunteer (HFA). In addition, the catechins were administered in ethanol as a vehicle. In the liver, (+)-catechin or (-)-epicatechin decreased the total amount of CYP450 in both GF and HFA rats while the isoenzyme CYP2E1 decreased. In GF rats only, CYP2C11 increased when compared to the rats treated with the vehicle alone. (+)-catechin increased the specific activity of UGT-chloramphenicol in GF rats only and that of cytosolic glutathion-S-transferase (GST) in HFA rats only. In the intestine, (+)-catechin and (-)-epicatechin increased the specific activity of UGT-4-methylumbelliferone in both GF and HFA rats and that of UGT- chloramphenicol in HFA rats only. In conclusion, the presence of a human flora in rats is able to modify the inducing effect of catechins on the UGT and GST activities suggesting the involvement of bacterial metabolites. The alterations on CYP 450 are independent of the presence of a human gut flora.
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- E F Lhoste
- INRA, Unit on Ecology and Physiology of the Digestive Tract, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Martin H, Sarsat JP, de Waziers I, Housset C, Balladur P, Beaune P, Albaladejo V, Lerche-Langrand C. Induction of cytochrome P450 2B6 and 3A4 expression by phenobarbital and cyclophosphamide in cultured human liver slices. Pharm Res 2003; 20:557-68. [PMID: 12739762 DOI: 10.1023/a:1023234429596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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PURPOSE To examine the potential of cultured human liver slices to predict cytochrome P450 (CYP) inducibility, regarding global and zonal CYP expression, together with drug-induced histologic changes. METHODS We first assessed whether CYP2B6, 3A4, and 2C9 expression was maintained in cultured liver slices. Cultured hepatocytes were used as the reference culture system. Then we tested the effects of phenobarbital and cyclophosphamide on CYP expression in both models. RESULTS Morphologic features are preserved in slices. Basal CYP expression declines with time in culture in both models. Slices display the same region specificity of CYP2B6, 2C9, and 3A4 expression as intact liver. CYP2B6 and 3A4 mRNA, apoprotein, and enzyme-related activities were induced by phenobarbital and cyclophosphamide, whereas CYP2C9 apoprotein was not. Their immunoreactivities were also increased, while their zonal distribution was preserved on slice tissue sections. Microsomal enzyme induction was confirmed by histology. CONCLUSIONS Cultured human liver slices are an attractive alternative to hepatocyte culture for the prediction of human CYP isoenzyme induction by xenobiotics.
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- Hélène Martin
- Drug Safety Evaluation, Aventis Pharma SA, Vitry-sur-Seine, France.
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Ng PS, Imaoka S, Hiroi T, Osada M, Niwa T, Kamataki T, Funae Y. Production of Inhibitory Polyclonal Antibodies against Cytochrome P450s. Drug Metab Pharmacokinet 2003; 18:163-72. [PMID: 15618732 DOI: 10.2133/dmpk.18.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nine different antibodies against P450 isoforms were prepared using purified cytochrome P450s (P450) expressed in E. coli. Purified isozymes were injected into rabbits to raise specific antibody. The resulting antibodies were characterized for their specificity and sensitivity through each particular P450 enzyme-mediated probe reaction.Anti-CYP1A2, CYP2A6, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2D6, CYP2E1, and CYP3A4 antibodies proved to be strong immunoinhibitors with inhibitory effects specific to their corresponding antigen. Antiserum derived from the CYP2C19-immunized rabbits was reacted with CYP2C9 as well as CYP2C19 and immunoabsorbed with membrane-bound CYP2C9 expressed in E. coli. Antibody specific for CYP2C19 was obtained. Anti-CYP2C19 together with the anti-CYP2C8 and anti-CYP2C9 can be very useful for determining the contribution of a particular P450 in the metabolism of a drug. The developed inhibitory antibodies will serve as in vitro-specific tools for evaluating the quantitative contribution of individual P450 enzymes to drug metabolism.
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- Poh-Sing Ng
- Bio-Department, Nosan Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
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Barque JP, Abahamid A, Flinois JP, Beaune P, Bonaly J. Constitutive overexpression of immunoidentical forms of PCP-induced Euglena gracilis CYP-450. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 298:277-81. [PMID: 12387828 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)02439-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Environmental pollutants are classically associated with increased drug metabolism. In this report, antibodies that are able to detect mammalian CYP proteins, namely the CYP1A1, CYP1A2, CYP2B1/B2, and CYP3A4 proteins, were used to investigate the expression of CYP-related proteins in Euglena gracilis (EG) cells under normal and PCP-treated conditions and in a EG-cell line adapted to PCP. Compared to normal conditions, the presence of PCP in the culture medium induced elevated levels of EG CYP-like proteins. With the exception of CYP3A4, this overexpression was correlated with expression of additional forms of CYP proteins having, respectively, the same molecular weight but slightly different pIs. Even in EG cells which had lost their PCP-adapted property after having been cultured without PCP, these additional forms were continuously expressed. This observation raised the question about the definition of a biomarker of pollution.
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- Jean-Philippe Barque
- Faculté de Pharmacie, Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Biochimie, EA 1595, rue J.B. Clément, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex 92296, France
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Parimoo B, Thomas PE. Epitope mapping of rat cytochrome P450 2B1 using glutathione S-transferase-2B1 fusion constructs. Arch Biochem Biophys 2000; 380:117-25. [PMID: 10900140 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.2000.1922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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We have previously produced 12 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against rat cytochrome P450(CYP)2B1, and 8 of these inhibit CYP2B1 catalytic activity to varying extents. Using competitive binding studies we showed that this collection of 12 MAbs recognize at least 6 spatially distinct epitopes. The complete coding sequence of CYP2B1 DNA in plasmid pSR-P450 was inserted into a glutathione S-transferase (GST) expression vector pGEX-1lambdaT so that it was in frame with the GST gene. Expression of GST-CYP2B1 was detected with most of the MAbs in Western blots except those which were conformation-specific. Fourteen different constructs were then made using PCR with oligonucleotide primers having EcoRI sites at their ends and were introduced into the GST expression vector at the EcoRI site. Each fusion construct was expressed in Escherichia coli, subjected to SDS-PAGE, blotted, and probed individually with each MAb. MAbs, which inhibited catalytic activity and were mutually competitive in binding to CYP2B1 (viz. BEA33, BE44, BE45, and BE28), recognized several fusion constructs and by deduction recognized amino acids 250-261 in CYP2B1. Other antibodies inhibiting catalytic activity recognized amino acids 262-272 (BEF29) and 306-491 (BE46, B50, and BE49) on CYP2B1. Non-inhibitory MAbs BE26 and BE32 were mapped to region 380-398 in CYP2B1. It was interesting to note that MAbs BEA33 and BE26, which also recognize spatially distinct epitopes on human CYP2E1 but not rat CYP2E1, had corresponding regions of high homology in human CYP2E1 but not rat CYP2E1. Identifying the epitopes recognized by this collection of MAbs will add to our understanding the sequences that may be important for producing inhibitory and specific antibodies to closely related antigens.
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- B Parimoo
- Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy, Laboratory for Cancer Research, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 164 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8020, USA
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Kreth K, Kovar K, Schwab M, Zanger UM. Identification of the human cytochromes P450 involved in the oxidative metabolism of "Ecstasy"-related designer drugs. Biochem Pharmacol 2000; 59:1563-71. [PMID: 10799653 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(00)00284-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The human cytochrome P450 (CYP) isozymes catalyzing the oxidative metabolism of the widely abused amphetamine derivatives MDMA (N-methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, "Ecstasy"), MDE (N-ethyl-3, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, "Eve"), and MDA (3, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine) were identified. Using a simplified non-extractive reversed-phase HPLC assay with fluorescence detection, biphasic Michaelis-Menten kinetics were obtained for formation of all three dihydroxyamphetamines in liver microsomes from a CYP2D6 extensive metabolizer subject. In contrast, no low K(m) component was detectable in microsomes from a poor metabolizer subject. Additional specific probes for CYP2D6 further confirmed this isozyme as the exclusive low K(m) component for demethylenation. P450-selective inhibitors applied to CYP2D6-inhibited microsomes and activity measurements in a series of recombinant P450s suggested CYP1A2 as the major high K(m) component with contributions by CYP2B6 and CYP3A4. Moreover, the relative CYP1A2 content of a panel of 12 human livers was weakly but significantly correlated to the high K(m) demethylenase activity (Spearman rank correlation coefficient [r(s)] = 0.58; P < 0.05). Microsomal maximal velocities for N-dealkylation were at least 7-fold lower than for demethylenation and were characterized by apparently monophasic kinetics. The most important isozyme for this reaction appeared to be CYP2B6, the microsomal content of which was found to be strongly correlated to N-deethylation of MDE (r(s) = 0.90; P < 0.001). We conclude that, in addition to CP2D6 as the sole high-affinity demethylenase, several other P450 isozymes have the capacity to contribute to microsomal oxidative metabolism of methylenedioxyamphetamines. This may be of particular importance in individuals genetically lacking functional CYP2D6.
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- K Kreth
- Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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Piipari R, Savela K, Nurminen T, Hukkanen J, Raunio H, Hakkola J, Mäntylä T, Beaune P, Edwards RJ, Boobis AR, Anttila S. Expression of CYP1A1, CYP1B1 and CYP3A, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adduct formation in bronchoalveolar macrophages of smokers and non-smokers. Int J Cancer 2000; 86:610-6. [PMID: 10797280 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(20000601)86:5<610::aid-ijc2>3.0.co;2-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Variability in the expression of enzymes metabolizing carcinogens derived from cigarette smoke may contribute to individual susceptibility to pulmonary carcinogenesis. This study was designed to determine the effects of smoking and 3 major cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, i.e., CYP1A1, CYP1B1 and CYP3A, which metabolize polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) on PAH-DNA adduct formation in the bronchoalveolar macrophages (BAM) of 31 smokers and 16 non-smokers. CYP protein levels were determined by immunoblotting and PAH-DNA adduct levels by the nuclease P1 enhanced (32)P-postlabeling method. The expression of specific CYP forms was confirmed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from 10 additional samples. CYP3A protein, CYP3A5 by RT-PCR, was detected in the majority of samples from smokers and non-smokers. The levels of CYP3A appeared to be lower in active smokers than in ex-smokers (p = 0.10) or never smokers (p = 0.02). CYP1A1 was not detectable by either immunoblotting or RT-PCR. The expression of CYP1B1 was low or undetectable in most samples. The PAH-DNA adduct levels were higher (mean 1.57/10(8) nucleotides) in samples from smokers compared with non-smokers (mean 0.42/10(8) nucleotides, p < 0.001) and the number of adducts correlated with the number of cigarettes smoked daily (regression analysis, p < 0. 001). Higher levels of adducts were detected in samples from smokers with a high level of CYP3A compared with those with a low level (regression analysis, p = 0.002). As CYP3A5 is abundant in both lung epithelial cells and BAM, its association with adduct formation suggests that this CYP form may be important in the activation of cigarette smoke procarcinogens.
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- R Piipari
- Departments of Occupational Medicine, Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland.
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Lakehal F, Wendum D, Barbu V, Becquemont L, Poupon R, Balladur P, Hannoun L, Ballet F, Beaune PH, Housset C. Phase I and phase II drug-metabolizing enzymes are expressed and heterogeneously distributed in the biliary epithelium. Hepatology 1999; 30:1498-506. [PMID: 10573530 DOI: 10.1002/hep.510300619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Tissue expression of drug-metabolizing enzymes influences susceptibility to drugs and carcinogens. Because the biliary epithelium, exposed to bile-borne chemicals, may give rise to drug-induced cholangiopathies and to cholangiocarcinomas, we determined the pattern of expression of drug-metabolizing enzymes in this epithelium. We first demonstrated by blot analyses that biliary epithelial cells (BEC) isolated from human gallbladders display cytochrome P450 (CYP) 1A, 2E1, and 3A, microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH), alpha, mu, and pi glutathione S-transferase (GST), transcripts and proteins. We also identified CYP-associated steroid 6beta-hydroxylase activity in BEC. CYP and mEH expression was 5- to 20-fold lower in BEC than in autologous hepatocytes, and further differed by a higher ratio of CYP3A5/CYP3A4, and by CYP1A1 predominance over CYP1A2. alphaGST was highly expressed in both hepatocytes and BEC, while piGST was restricted to BEC. In approximately 50% of individuals, muGST was expressed in hepatocytes and at lower levels in BEC. By using the same antibodies as those used in immunoblots, we could show by immunohistochemistry that CYP2E1, CYP3A, mEH, alpha, mu, and piGST immunoreactivities are expressed and display a heterogeneous distribution in the epithelium lining the entire biliary tract except for small intrahepatic bile ducts that were devoid of CYP3A and alphaGST immunoreactivities. In conclusion, BEC contribute to phase II, and although to a lesser extent than hepatocytes, to phase I biotransformation. The distribution of drug-metabolizing enzymes in BEC suggest that they are heterogeneous in their ability to generate and detoxicate reactive metabolites, which may contribute to specific distributions of cholangiopathies.
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- F Lakehal
- Unité INSERM U402, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
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Elkahwaji J, Robin MA, Berson A, Tinel M, Lettéron P, Labbe G, Beaune P, Elias D, Rougier P, Escudier B, Duvillard P, Pessayre D. Decrease in hepatic cytochrome P450 after interleukin-2 immunotherapy. Biochem Pharmacol 1999; 57:951-4. [PMID: 10086330 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(98)00372-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Interleukin-2 (IL-2) has been shown to decrease cytochrome P450 (CYP) mRNAs and proteins in cultured rat hepatocytes, and IL-2 administration decreases CYPs in rats. Although high doses of IL-2 are administered to cancer patients, the effect on human CYPs has not yet been determined. Patients with hepatic metastases from colon or rectum carcinomas were randomly allocated to various daily doses of human recombinant IL-2 (from 0 to 12.10(6) units/m(2)). IL-2 was infused from day 7 to day 3 before hepatectomy and the conservation of a non-tumorous liver fragment in liquid nitrogen. Hepatic CYPs and monooxygenase activities were not significantly decreased in 5 patients receiving daily doses of 3 or 6 10(6) IL-2 units/m2, compared to 7 patients who did not receive IL-2. In contrast, in 6 patients receiving daily doses of 9 or 12 x 10(6) IL-2 units/m2, the mean values for immunoreactive CYP1A2, CYP2C, CYP2E1, and CYP3A4 were 37, 45, 60 and 39%, respectively, of those in controls; total CYP was significantly decreased by 34%, methoxyresorufin O-demethylation by 62%, and erythromycin N-demethylation by 50%. These observations suggest that high doses of IL-2 may decrease total CYP and monooxygenase activities in man.
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- J Elkahwaji
- INSERM U481 and Centre de Recherche sur les Hépatites Virales (Association Claude Bernard), Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France
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Mahéo K, Morel F, Antras-Ferry J, Langoüet S, Desmots F, Corcos L, Guillouzo A. Endotoxin suppresses the oltipraz-mediated induction of major hepatic glutathione transferases and cytochromes P450 in the rat. Hepatology 1998; 28:1655-62. [PMID: 9828231 DOI: 10.1002/hep.510280627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The effect of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a classic inducer of the acute-phase response, has been analyzed on both constitutive and oltipraz (a chemoprotective agent)-inducible messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and enzyme activities of major cytochromes P450 (CYPs) and glutathione transferases (rGSTs) in rat liver. At the dose administered (1 mg/kg) and the time studied (6 and 24 hours), endotoxin had no effect on the expression of either CYPs and GSTs with the exception of CYP1A2, which was reduced at both mRNA and activity levels. A strong increase of rGSTA1/2, rGSTM1, rGSTP1, CYP1A2, CYP2B1/2, and CYP2E1 was observed after 3 days of treatment with oltipraz (0.075%, wt/wt). Oltipraz induction of these enzymes (with the exception of CYP2E1) was found to be suppressed at both mRNA, protein, and activity levels during the acute-phase response to endotoxin. Moreover, it is shown that oltipraz induction of CYP1A2 and CYP2B1/2 and its suppression by E. coli LPS occurred at a transcriptional level. These data support the idea that the chemoprotective effect of oltipraz is altered in the course of inflammation and that adaptation in chemoprotective strategies should be considered in certain physiopathologic situations.
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- K Mahéo
- INSERM Unité 456, Détoxication et Réparation Tissulaire, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France
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Klotz U, Hoensch H, Schütz T, Beaune P, Zanger U, Bode JC, Fritz P. Expression of intestinal drug-metabolizing enzymes in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Curr Ther Res Clin Exp 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0011-393x(98)85095-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Becquemont L, Ragueneau I, Le Bot MA, Riche C, Funck-Brentano C, Jaillon P. Influence of the CYP1A2 inhibitor fluvoxamine on tacrine pharmacokinetics in humans. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1997; 61:619-27. [PMID: 9209244 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9236(97)90095-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Tacrine is extensively metabolized by cytochrome P4501A2 (CYP1A2). Fluvoxamine, a potent CYP1A2 inhibitor, may be coadministered with tacrine. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of fluvoxamine administration on the disposition kinetics of single-dose tacrine administration. METHODS Thirteen healthy volunteers participated in this double-blind, randomized crossover study, which compared the effects of fluvoxamine (100 mg/day during 6 days) and placebo on the pharmacokinetics of a single oral dose of tacrine (40 mg). RESULTS Fluvoxamine caused a significant increase in tacrine area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC): arythmetic mean, 27 (95% confidence interval [CI], 19 to 38) ng.hr/ml versus 224 (95% CI, 166 to 302) ng. hr/ml. Fluvoxamine caused a decrease in the apparent oral clearance of tacrine from 1683 +/- 802 to 200 +/- 106 L/hr (mean +/- SD), which was explained by a decrease in its nonrenal clearance. Five subjects had gastrointestinal side effects during fluvoxamine administration. Fluvoxamine administration was associated with significant increases in the plasma AUC values of three monohydroxylated tacrine metabolites and in the total urinary recovery measurements of tacrine and its metabolites (9.1% +/- 4.6% versus 24.0% +/- 2.6% of recovery). These results may be attributable to fluvoxamine-dependent inhibition of CYP1A/, which is responsible of the biotransformation of tacrine into its monohydroxylated metabolites and further into dihydroxylated and reactive metabolites. CONCLUSION Fluvoxamine inhibits the metabolism of tacrine. CYP1A2 may be the target of this inhibition. Fluvoxamine may modulate the hepatotoxicity of tacrine, depending on the relative contribution of tacrine and its reactive metabolites to this toxicity.
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- L Becquemont
- Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Saint Antoine University Hospital, Paris, France
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Guitton J, Buronfosse T, Désage M, Lepape A, Brazier JL, Beaune P. Possible involvement of multiple cytochrome P450S in fentanyl and sufentanil metabolism as opposed to alfentanil. Biochem Pharmacol 1997; 53:1613-9. [PMID: 9264313 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(96)00893-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Fentanyl, sufentanil, and alfentanil are commonly used as opioid analgesics. Alfentanil clearance has previously been shown to exhibit an important interindividual variability, which was not observed for fentanyl or sufentanil. Differences in pharmacokinetic parameters of alfentanil have previously been associated with the wide distribution of CYP3A4, the only known hepatic cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (CYP) involved in the conversion of alfentanil to noralfentanil. Little is known about the involvement of CYP enzymes in the oxidative metabolism of fentanyl and sufentanil. Microsomes prepared from different human liver samples were compared for their abilities to metabolize fentanyl, sufentanil and alfentanil, and it was found that disappearance of the three substrates was well correlated with immunoreactive CYP3A4 contents but not with other CYPs, including CYP1A2, CYP2A6, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2D6 and CYP2E1. Specific known inhibitors of CYP enzymes gave similar results, whereas the use of recombinant human CYP enzymes expressed in yeast provided information about the possible involvement of other CYPs than CYP3A4 in the biotransformation of fentanyl and sufentanil. The possible in vivo interaction of fentanyl and sufentanil with other drugs catalyzed by CYP3A4 is also discussed.
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- J Guitton
- LEACM-ISPB, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
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Doostzadeh J, Urban P, Pompon D, Morfin R. Pregnenolone-7 beta-hydroxylating activities of yeast-expressed mouse cytochrome P450-1A1 and mouse-tissue microsomes. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 242:641-7. [PMID: 9022692 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0641r.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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In many tissues from different species, pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) are hydroxylated mainly at the 7 alpha position by a cytochrome P450 (P450)-containing microsomal enzyme complex. In addition, 7-hydroxysteroids have been shown to activate immune processes in mice. The reported production of 7 beta-hydroxypregnenolone and 7 beta-hydroxy-DHEA was not supported by formal identification, and the P450 responsible for 7 alpha-hydroxylation and 7 beta-hydroxylation of pregnenolone and DHEA have not been identified. Based on results of analyses by crystallization to constant specific activity and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, we report that mouse-liver and mouse-brain microsomes carried out 7 beta-hydroxylation of pregnenolone and DHEA, and that yeast-expressed mouse cytochrome P450-1A1 (P450 1A1) transformed pregnenolone into 7 beta-hydroxypregnenolone (Km = 25.1 +/- 0.4 microM, turnover number = 979 +/- 30 pmol.min-1.nmol-1 mouse P450 1A1). Neither 7-hydroxy derivatives of DHEA nor 7 alpha-hydroxypregnenolone was produced by P450 1A1. The presence of P450 1A1 in liver and brain microsomes was shown by Western blot analysis, and induction of mouse P450 1A1 by beta-naphthoflavone resulted in increased 7 beta-hydroxylation of pregnenolone in liver microsomes. Studies of the brain-microsome 7 beta-hydroxylating enzyme with pregnenolone or DHEA gave Km of 5.0 microM and 4.9 microM, respectively, and Vmax of 4.5 pmol.min-1.mg-1 and 6.1 pmol.min-1.mg-1, respectively, and showed the absence of cross-inhibitions between the two steroids. These findings indicate that, in addition to unidentified P450, P450 1A1 is involved in 7 beta-hydroxylation of pregnenolone and may contribute in part to the production of the 7-hydroxylated steroids necessary for activation of immune defenses.
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- J Doostzadeh
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, Conservatorie National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
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Wormhoudt LW, Ploemen JH, de Waziers I, Commandeur JN, Beaune PH, van Bladeren PJ, Vermeulen NP. Inter-individual variability in the oxidation of 1,2-dibromoethane: use of heterologously expressed human cytochrome P450 and human liver microsomes. Chem Biol Interact 1996; 101:175-92. [PMID: 8870687 DOI: 10.1016/0009-2797(96)03723-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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1,2-Dibromoethane (1,2-DBE) is mainly used as an additive in leaded gasoline and as a soil fumigant and it is a suspected carcinogen in humans. In this study, the oxidative bioactivation of 1,2-DBE to 2-bromoacetaldehyde (2-BA) was studied using heterologously expressed human cytochrome P450 (P450) isoenzymes and human liver microsomes. Out of ten heterologously expressed human P450 isoenzymes (CYP1A1, CYP1A2, CYP2A6, CYP2B6, CYP2E1, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2C18, CYP3A4 and CYP3A5), only human CYP2A6, CYP2B6 and CYP2E1 metabolized 1,2-DBE, albeit with strongly differing catalytic efficiencies. The apparent Km and Vmax values were 3.3 mM and 0.17 pmol/min per pmol P450 for CYP2A6, 9.7 mM and 3.18 pmol/min per pmol P450 for CYP2B6 and 42 microM and 1.3 pmol/min per pmol P450 for CYP2E1, respectively. In all of 21 human liver samples studied, 1,2-DBE was oxidized with activities ranging from 22.2 to 1027.6 pmol/min per mg protein, thus showing a 46-fold inter-individual variability. The kinetics of the oxidative metabolism of 1,2-DBE to 2-BA in human liver microsomes were linear, indicating the involvement of primarily one single P450 isoenzyme. There was a tendency towards a positive correlation between the oxidative metabolism of 1,2-DBE in the human liver microsomes and the 6-hydroxylation of chlorzoxazone, a selective substrate for CYP2E1. Furthermore, the oxidative metabolism of 1,2-DBE was inhibited by the specific CYP2E1 inhibitors disulfiram (DS) and diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC). In contrast, a poor correlation was found between the immunochemically quantified amount of CYP2E1 and the microsomal chlorzoxazone 6-hydroxylation or the 1,2-DBE oxidation. The results indicate that CYP2E1 is probably the major P450 isoenzyme involved in the oxidative hepatic metabolism of 1,2-DBE in humans. The inter-individual variability in the oxidative bioactivation of 1,2-DBE in humans, largely due to inter-individual variability in the catalytic activity of hepatic CYP2E1, may have important consequences for the risk assessment for human exposure to 1,2-DBE.
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- L W Wormhoudt
- Leiden Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (LACDR), Vrije Universiteit, Department of Pharmacochemistry, Netherlands
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Lecoeur S, Gautier JC, Belloc C, Gauffre A, Beaune PH. Use of heterologous expression systems to study autoimmune drug-induced hepatitis. Methods Enzymol 1996; 272:76-85. [PMID: 8791764 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(96)72010-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- S Lecoeur
- CHU NECKER-INSERM U 75, Biochemie Pharmacologique et Métabolique, Université René Descartes, Paris, France
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