title: Substrate-binding region of cytochrome P-450SCC (P-450 XIA1). Identification and primary structure of the cholesterol binding region in cytochrome P-450SCC.
abstract: Cytochrome P-450SCC (P-450 XIA1) from bovine adrenocortical mitochondria was investigated using a suicide substrate: [14C]methoxychlor. [14C]Methoxychlor irreversibly abolished the activity of the side-chain cleavage enzyme for cholesterol (P-450SCC) and the inactivation was prevented in the presence of cholesterol. The binding of [14C]methoxychlor and cytochrome P-450SCC occurred in a molar ratio of 1:1 and the cholesterol-induced difference spectrum of cytochrome P-450SCC was similar with the methoxychlor-induced difference spectrum. [14C]Methoxychlor-binding peptides were purified from tryptic-digested cytochrome P-450SCC modified with [14C]methoxychlor. Determination of the sequence of the amino-acid residues of a [14C]methoxychlor-binding peptide allowed identification of the peptide comprising the amino-terminal amino-acid residues 8 to 28.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Kagawa Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsujita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000378:metabolism*; D002786:Cholesterol Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme / Q000378:metabolism*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D007700:Kinetics; D008731:Methoxychlor / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D013057:Spectrum Analysis
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol; D002786:Cholesterol Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme; D008731:Methoxychlor