title: Studies on the maintenance of cytochromes P-450 and b5, monooxygenases and cytochrome reductases in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes.
abstract: The cytochrome P-450 content of rat hepatocytes declined rapidly over 72 h in culture, due primarily to denaturation to cytochrome P-420. Six different media were investigated for their ability to conserve cytochrome P-450 during culture, and the most successful was a modified Earle's medium. After 72 h culture in this medium, cytochromes P-450 and b5, NADH-cytochrome b5- and NADPH-cytochrome c-reductases were maintained at 40, 100, 35 and 52% of fresh cell values, respectively. Cytochrome P-450 showed differential functional stability during culture with ethoxyresorufin O-deethylation being more stable than either pentoxyphenoxazone O-depentylation or biphenyl 4-hydroxylation. Monooxygenase than did cytochrome P-450 content. This discrepancy was not explained by loss of flavin nucleotides, FMN or FAD.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003470:Culture Media; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D003579:Cytochrome Reductases / Q000378:metabolism; D003573:Cytochrome b Group / Q000378:metabolism; D003580:Cytochromes / Q000378:metabolism*; D015786:Cytochromes b5; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D010105:Oxygenases / Q000378:metabolism; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D003573:Cytochrome b Group; D003580:Cytochromes; D015786:Cytochromes b5; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D010105:Oxygenases; D003579:Cytochrome Reductases