title: Reductive activation of 1,1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane (HCFC-141b) by phenobarbital- and pyridine-induced rat liver microsomal cytochrome P450.
abstract: 1. During anaerobic reductive incubation of liver microsomes, from either the pyridine- or phenobarbital-treated rat, with 1,1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane (HCFC-141b) in the presence of a NADPH-regenerating system, a time- and dose-dependent formation of reactive metabolites was detected as indicated by a depletion of added exogenous glutathione. 2. A statistically significant, dose-dependent loss of both cytochrome P450 and microsomal haem was also observed under these experimental conditions. Furthermore, a statistically significant decrease of p-nitrophenol hydroxylase and pentoxyresorufin O-depentylase activity was measured in microsomes from the pyridine- and phenobarbital-induced rat, respectively indicating that both P4502E1 and P4502B undergo substrate-dependent inactivation. 3. Both reactive metabolite formation and P450 inactivation were almost completely inhibited by previous bubbling of the incubation mixture with carbon monoxide, indicating that interaction of the substrate with a free and reduced P450 haem iron is required for substrate bioactivation and enzyme loss. 4. The presence in the incubation mixture of the spin-trap N-t-butyl-alpha-phenylnitrone (PBN) and the carbene trap 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene (DMB) largely prevented both glutathione depletion and P450 loss. This suggests that free radical and carbene intermediates formed by the metabolic activation of the substrate are involved in the inactivation of P450 and the loss of its prosthetic haem group.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Toxicology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tolando
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ferrara
authors.forename: N I
authors.initials: NI
authors.lastname: Eldirdiri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Albores
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manno
mesh_terms: D000475:Alkenes; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D001711:Biotransformation; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000494:pharmacology; D017402:Chlorofluorocarbons / Q000378:metabolism*; D064227:Chlorofluorocarbons, Ethane; D003497:Cyclic N-Oxides; D019362:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1 / Q000378:metabolism; D019392:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1 / Q000378:metabolism; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism*; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D006418:Heme / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D009589:Nitrogen Oxides / Q000494:pharmacology; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011725:Pyridines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D000475:Alkenes; D017402:Chlorofluorocarbons; D064227:Chlorofluorocarbons, Ethane; D003497:Cyclic N-Oxides; D009589:Nitrogen Oxides; D011725:Pyridines; C029217:phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone; D006418:Heme; D009249:NADP; C040216:2,3-dimethyl-2-butene; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D019392:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1; D019362:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1; D005978:Glutathione; C023666:pyridine; C068320:1,1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane; D010634:Phenobarbital