title: Oxidation of fatty acids by kidney microsomes of musk shrew (Suncus murinus).
abstract: Substrate specificity and other properties of a fatty acid monooxygenase system in kidney microsomes of the Japanese house musk shrew (Suncus murinus) were examined. The suncus kidney microsomes catalyzed the hydroxylation of various saturated and unsaturated fatty acids to the omega- and (omega-1)-hydroxy derivatives. Laurate was most effectively hydroxylated among saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. The specific activity (53.79 +/- 5.59 [mean +/- SD, n = 6] nmol/nmol cytochrome P450/min) of laurate in suncus kidney microsomes was very high compared with that in liver and kidney microsomes of other species. C18 unsaturated fatty acids were converted to epoxides by a cytochrome P450-dependent fatty acid monooxygenase system in suncus kidney microsomes, in addition to omega- and (omega-1)-hydroxylation products. The monooxygenase system metabolized arachidonic acid only to omega- and (omega-1)-hydroxylation products, not to epoxidation products.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. ymiura@med.teikyo_u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D004579:Electron Transport; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006900:Hydroxylation; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D007850:Lauric Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008861:Microsomes / Q000378:metabolism; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D009251:NADPH-Ferrihemoprotein Reductase; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012788:Shrews / Q000378:metabolism*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D005227:Fatty Acids; D007850:Lauric Acids; D009243:NAD; C030358:lauric acid; D009249:NADP; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; D009251:NADPH-Ferrihemoprotein Reductase; C052423:flavocytochrome P450 BM3 monoxygenases