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Relationship between the reduction of oxygen, artificial acceptors and cytochrome P-450 by NADPH--cytochrome c reductase.


ABSTRACT: The interaction of NADPH--cytochrome c reductase with oxygen, artificial acceptors and cytochrome P-450 was studied. The generation of superoxide anion radicals (O2-.) from the oxidation of adrenaline to adrenochrome catalysed by NADPH--cytochrome c reductase proceeds independently of the interaction of the enzyme with the artificial anaerobic acceptors cytochrome c or 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol. Propyl 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoate inhibited competitively the adrenaline oxidation by isolated NADPH--cytochrome c reductase (Ki 3.2--4.7 micrometer) and inhibited non-competitively the cytochrome c reduction (Ki 92--109 micrometer). In contrast with the process of electron transfer to cytochrome c, the rate of reduction of cytochrome P-450 and the rate of oxidation of adrenaline in liver microsomal fraction are correlated. Hexobarbital increases the Vmax. of adrenaline oxidation without affecting the Km value, whereas metyrapone, a metabolic inhibitor decreases Vmax. without affecting the Km. From the results obtained, some conclusions about NADPH--cytochrome c reductase function were made.

SUBMITTER: Lyakhovich V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1183744 | biostudies-other | 1977 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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