title: Determination of cytochrome P450 1A activities in mammalian liver microsomes by high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection.
abstract: A sensitive method for the determination of cytochrome P450 (P450 or CYP) 1A activities such as ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) and methoxyresorufin O-demethylase (MROD) in liver microsomes from human, monkey, rat and mouse by high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection is reported. The newly developed method was found to be more sensitive than previous methods using a spectrofluorimeter and fluorescence plate reader. The detection limit for resorufin (signal-to-noise ratio of 3) was 0.80 pmol/assay. Intra-day and inter-day precisions (expressed as relative standard deviation) were less than 6% for both enzyme activities. With this improved sensitivity, the kinetics of EROD and MROD activities in mammalian liver microsomes could be determined more precisely. EROD activities in human and monkey liver microsomes, and MROD activities in liver microsomes from all animal species exhibited a monophasic kinetic pattern, whereas the pattern of EROD activities in rat and mouse liver microsomes was biphasic. In addition, the method could determine the non-inducible and 3-methylcholanthrene-inducible activities of EROD and MROD in rat and mouse liver microsomes under the same assay conditions. Therefore, this method is applicable to in vivo and in vitro studies on the interaction of xenobiotic chemicals with cytochrome CYP1A isoforms in mammals.
authors.affiliation: Division of Environmental Chemistry, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. hanioka@nihs.go.jp
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hanioka
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tatarazako
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jinno
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arizono
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ando
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002138:Calibration; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D019363:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013045:Species Specificity; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D010088:Oxidoreductases; C076307:methoxyresorufin-O-demethylase; D019363:Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1