Purification of hepatic microsomal cytochromes P-450 from β-naphthoflavone-treated Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), a marine teleost fish

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Abstract

Four isozymes of cytochrome P-450 were purified to varying degrees of homogeneity from liver microsomes of cod, a marine teleost fish. The cod were treated with β-naphthoflavone by intraperitoneal injection, and liver microsomes were prepared by calcium aggregation. After solubilization of cytochromes P-450 with the zwitterionic detergent 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propansulfonate, chromatography on Phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B, and subsequently on DEAE-Sepharose, resulted in two cytochrome P-450 fractions. These were further resolved on hydroxyapatite into a total of four fractions containing different isozymes of cytochromes P-450. One fraction, designated cod cytochrome P-450c, was electrophoretically homogeneous, was recovered in the highest yield and constituted the major form of the isozymes. The relative molecular mass of this form (58 000) corresponds well with a protein band appearing in cod liver microsomes after treatment with β-naphthoflavone. Both cytochrome P-450c and a minor form called cytochrome P-450d (56 000) showed activity towards 7-ethoxyresorufin in a reconstituted system containing rat liver NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase and phospholipid. Differences between these two forms were observed in the rate and optimal pH for conversion of this substrate, and in optical properties. Rabbit antiserum to cod cytochrome P-450c did not show any cross-reactions with cod cytochrome P-450a (Mr 55 000) or cytochrome P-450d in Ouchterlony immunodiffusion, but gave a precipitin line of partial identify with cod cytochrome P-450b (Mr 54 000), possibly as a result of contaminating cytochrome P-450c in this fraction.

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