title: Purification and immunological characterization of human placental mitochondrial cytochrome P-450.
abstract: Human placental mitochondrial cytochrome P-450 was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity by hydrophobic, anion exchange and cation exchange column chromatography. The specific content of the purified protein was 15.7 nmol/mg protein and it showed a single band mol. wt 48,000 D in SDS-gel electrophoresis. When reconstituted with bovine adrenal adrenodoxin reductase and adrenodoxin it converted cholesterol to pregnenolone (cholesterol side-chain cleavage activity, CSCC) at the rate of 1 pmol/min/pmol P-450. Antibodies against the purified protein were raised in rabbits. Inhibition studies demonstrated 85% inhibition of placental CSCC activity at an antibody/protein ratio of 10:1. Placental microsomal aromatase activity was inhibited by 47% at the same antibody/protein ratio. The antibody inhibited bovine mitochondrial CSCC activity by 87% at the same antibody/protein ratio. Placental microsomal 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase, aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase and 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase activities were not significantly inhibited by the antibody. The results indicate that the purified protein catalyzes cholesterol side-chain cleavage reaction, human placental microsomal aromatase and bovine adrenal mitochondrial P-450scc may share common antigenic determinants with placental P-450scc, but the placental microsomal xenobiotic-metabolizing cytochrome(s) is (are) distinctly different.
mesh_terms: D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000201:enzymology; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000378:metabolism; D002786:Cholesterol Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme / Q000032:analysis; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D005779:Immunodiffusion; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000201:enzymology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010920:Placenta / Q000201:enzymology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D013053:Spectrophotometry
chemical_list: D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D002784:Cholesterol; D002786:Cholesterol Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme