Cytochrome P450 CYP3A in marsupials: Cloning and identification of the first CYP3A subfamily member, isoform 3A70 from Eastern gray kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

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• 作者：Adaweyah El-Merhibi ; Suong N.T. Ngo ; Ceilidh L. Marchant ; Tamara A. Height ; Ieva Stupans ; Ross A. McKinnon
• 关键词：A ; Adenosine ; Aa ; Amino acid (s) ; Bp ; Base pair(s) ; C ; Cytidine ; CYP3A ; Gene encoding CYP3A ; cDNA ; DNA complementary to DNA ; CYP ; Cytochrome P450 ; D ; Deoxyribo ; DMEM ; Dulbecco's modified eagle medium ; DAB ; 3&prime ; 3&prime ; Diaminobenzidine ; dNTP ; Deoxyrib
• 刊名：Gene
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：15 September, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：506
• 期：2
• 页码：423-428
• 全文大小：336 K

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Australian marsupials are unique fauna that have evolved and adapted to unique environments and thus it is likely that their detoxification systems differ considerably from those of well-studied eutherian mammals. Knowledge of these processes in marsupials is therefore vital to understanding the consequences of exposure to xenobiotics. Cytochromes P450 (CYPs) are critically important in the oxidative metabolism of a diverse array of both xenobiotics and endogenous substrates. In this study we have cloned and characterized CYP3A70, the first identified member of the CYP3A gene subfamily from Eastern gray kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). A 1665 base pair kangaroo hepatic CYP3A complete cDNA, designated CYP3A70, was cloned by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction approaches, which encodes a protein of 506 amino acids. The CYP3A70 cDNA shares approximately 71 % nucleotide and 65 % amino acid sequence homology to human CYP3A4 and displays high sequence similarity to other published mammalian CYP3As from human, monkey, cow, pig, dog, rat, rabbit, mouse, hamster, and guinea pig. Transfection of the CYP3A70 cDNAs into 293T cells resulted in stable cell lines expressing a CYP3A immuno-reactive protein that was recognized by a goat anti-human CYP3A4 polyclonal antibody. The anti-human CYP3A4 antibody also detected immunoreactive proteins in liver microsomes from all test marsupials, including the kangaroo, koala, wallaby, and wombat, with multiple CYP3A immunoreactive bands observed in kangaroo and wallaby tissues. Relatively, very low CYP catalytic activity was detected for the kangaroo CYP3A70 cDNA-expressed proteins (19.6 relative luminescent units/¦Ìg protein), which may be due to low protein expression levels. Collectively, this study provides primary molecular data regarding the Eastern kangaroo hepatic CYP3A70 gene and enables further functional analyses of CYP3A enzymes in marsupials.