title: Inhibitor and substrate activities of sesquiterpene olefins toward +-δ-cadinene-8-hydroxylase, a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (CYP706B1).
abstract: Several lines of evidence indicate that (+)-δ-cadinene-8-hydroxylase (CYP706B1) plays an important role in biosynthesis of gossypol in Gossypium arboreum L. (Luo et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2003). The catalytically active enzyme has been expressed in yeast microsomes. Some microsomal preparations conjugated the hydroxylated (+)-δ-cadinene to a moiety that has not yet been identified. However, when microsomes were treated with n-octyl-β-d-glucoside (OG), a non-ionic detergent, (+)-δ-cadinene was reproducibly converted to the free alcohol, 8-hydroxy-(+)-δ-cadinene. OG had little effect on K(m) and slightly stimulated apparent V(max). Enzymic activity was more than 10-fold more sensitive to inhibition by the N-substituted imidazole clotrimazole than to miconazole. Sesquiterpene olefins (-)-δ-cadinene, (-)-α-cubebene, (-)-α-muurolene, α-humulene, and a mixture of (-)- and (+)-α-copaene were inhibitory to hydroxylation of (+)-δ-cadinene. In addition, (-)-α-cubebene, (-)-α-muurolene, α-humulene, and, to a smaller extent, (-)-δ-cadinene served as alternative substrates for (+)-δ-cadinene-8-hydroxylase and were converted to mono-hydroxylated products. Of the five olefins tested, α-humulene and α-copaene are found in lysigenous glands of cotton (Elzen et al., 1985), which are also the site of gossypol accumulation (Bell et al., 1978; Mace et al., 1976) and the probable site of its biosynthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-3035, USA.
authors.forename: Yan-Hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Essenberg
mesh_terms: D000475:Alkenes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002384:Catalysis; D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism*; D003368:Gossypium / Q000201:enzymology*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000475:Alkenes; D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; C554978:delta-cadinene-8-hydroxylase, Gossypium arboreum; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System