title: Identification of P-450ALC in microsomes from alcohol dehydrogenase-deficient deermice: contribution to ethanol elimination in vivo.
abstract: Isozyme 3a of rabbit hepatic cytochrome P-450, also termed P-450ALC, was previously isolated and characterized and was shown to be induced 3- to 5-fold by exposure to ethanol. In the present study, antibody against rabbit P-450ALC was used to identify a homologous protein in alcohol dehydrogenase-negative (ADH-) and -positive (ADH+) deermice, Peromyscus maniculatus. The antibody reacts with a single protein having an apparent molecular weight of 52,000 on immunoblots of hepatic microsomes from untreated and ethanol-treated deermice from both strains. The level of the homologous protein was about 2-fold greater in microsomes from naive ADH- than from naive ADH+ animals. Ethanol treatment induced the protein about 3-fold in the ADH+ strain and about 4-fold in the ADH- strain. The antibody to rabbit P-450ALC inhibited the microsomal metabolism of ethanol and aniline. The homologous protein, termed deermouse P-450ALC, catalyzed from 70 to 80% of the oxidation of ethanol and about 90% of the hydroxylation of aniline by microsomes from both strains after ethanol treatment. The antibody-inhibited portion of the microsomal activities, which are attributable to the P-450ALC homolog, increased about 3-fold upon ethanol treatment in the ADH+ strain and about 4-fold in the ADH- strain, in excellent agreement with the results from immunoblots. The total microsomal P-450 content and the rate of ethanol oxidation were induced 1.4-fold and 2.2-fold, respectively, by ethanol in the ADH+ strain and 1.9-fold and 3.3-fold, respectively, in the ADH- strain. Thus, the total microsomal P-450 content and ethanol oxidation underestimate the induction of the P-450ALC homolog in both strains. A comparison of the rates of microsomal ethanol oxidation in vitro with rates of ethanol elimination in vivo indicates that deermouse P-450ALC could account optimally for 3 and 8% of total ethanol elimination in naive ADH+ and ADH- strains, respectively. After chronic ethanol treatment, P-450ALC could account maximally for 8% of the total ethanol elimination in the ADH+ strain and 22% in the ADH- strain. Further, cytochrome P-450ALC appears to be responsible for about one-half of the increase in the rate of ethanol elimination in vivo after chronic treatment with ethanol. These results indicate that the contribution of P-450ALC to ethanol oxidation in the deermouse is relatively small. Desferrioxamine had no effect on rates of ethanol uptake by perfused livers from ADH-negative deermice, indicating that ethanol oxidation by a hydroxyl radical-mediated mechanism was not involved in ethanol metabolism in this mutant.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Handler
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Koop
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Coon
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Thurman
mesh_terms: D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism*; D007118:Immunoassay; D008297:Male; D008830:Microbodies / Q000378:metabolism; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000032:analysis / Q000201:enzymology*; D010542:Peromyscus / Q000235:genetics; D010641:Phenotype; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase