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Alterations of the regiospecificity of progesterone metabolism by the mutagenesis of two key amino acid residues in rabbit cytochrome P450 2C3v

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authors

  • Richardson, T. H.
  • Johnson, Eric

publication date

  • September 1994

journal

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry  Journal

abstract

  • A Ser/Thr difference at position 364 underlies a phenotypic difference between naturally occurring variants of microsomal cytochrome P450 2C3 in their capacity to catalyze the 6 beta-hydroxylation of progesterone, as well as in their sensitivity to the inhibitor 16 alpha-methyl-progesterone. Position 364 of P450 2C3 maps to a substrate contacting domain suggested by models for mammalian P450 enzymes based on the structure of P450,101. In this study, Thr-364 of P450 2C3v, a progesterone 6 beta- and 16 alpha-hydroxylase, was replaced by Gly, Asp, Asn, Val, Leu, or Ile. The latter three amino acids did not alter the regiospecificity of P450 2C3v, whereas the Gly, Asp, and Asn substitutions each produced enzymes with properties that correspond closely to the Ser mutant that catalyzes 16 alpha-hydroxylation but not 6 beta-hydroxylation. The former are distinguished from the latter amino acids by their greater hydrophobicity and size. In contrast, the 16 alpha-hydroxylase activity could be greatly diminished by the introduction of an alanine replacement for Val-113. This mutation conferred progesterone 21- and 17 alpha-hydroxylase activity to P450 2C3v at the expense of 16 alpha-hydroxylase activity, leaving the 6 beta-hydroxylase activity largely unaffected. Compound mutants displayed the additive effects of the two mutations. These results are consistent with two distinct orientations for the binding of progesterone to P450 2C3v, resulting in 6 beta- and 16 alpha-hydroxylation, respectively. The binding of progesterone in these two orientations can be modulated relatively independently by modifications of the two key amino acid residues at 113 and 364.

subject areas

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acids
  • Animals
  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
  • Enzyme Activation
  • Isoenzymes
  • Kinetics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
  • Pregnanediol
  • Progesterone
  • Rabbits
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Steroid 16-alpha-Hydroxylase
  • Steroid Hydroxylases
  • Substrate Specificity
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0021-9258

PubMed ID

  • 7929041
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 23937

end page

  • 23943

volume

  • 269

issue

  • 39

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