title: Photoinactivation of B-type monoamine oxidase by a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine metabolite.
abstract: The reaction of the neurotoxin MPTP (1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine) with monoamine oxidase from a variety of tissues including rat and monkey brain, bovine liver, and human placenta and platelets was found to yield, as a primary product, a reactive photosensitive substance with an absorbance maximum at 345 nm which is not the cation 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion previously reported as a monoamine oxidase-MPTP metabolite in vivo and in vitro. Our results suggest that the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-pyridinium ion is probably only generated in subsequent nonenzymatic transformations of this reactive monoamine oxidase metabolite. This substance was found to specifically inactivate the B-form of monoamine oxidase by a photo-induced mechanism and to react directly with NADPH and dopamine. Properties of the metabolite and potential significance of its reactions to MPTP neurotoxicity are discussed.
mesh_terms: D015632:1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine; D000818:Animals; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000201:enzymology; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology; D002417:Cattle; D002521:Cercopithecus; D003624:Darkness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008027:Light; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010782:Photolysis; D010920:Placenta / Q000201:enzymology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011725:Pyridines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344
chemical_list: D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors; D011725:Pyridines; D015632:1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase