• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.168-173
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• 1995

To investigate the effects of endosulfan on cytochrome P-450 enzymes in mouse(Balb c.), endosulfan was given by an intraperitoneal dose of 7.5 mg/kg. The treatment of endosulfan increased the cytochrome P-450 content by 3.3 to 4.2 fold, cytochrome $b_5$ content by 2.3 to 3.8 fold, NADPH cytochrome P-450 reductase activity by 5.3 to 6.4 fold and total haem content by 3.1 to 3.6 fold of mouse liver after 48 hrs of intraperitoneal injection. Endosulfan cytochrome P-450 absorption spectrum exhibited miximum at 387 nm and 389 nm and broad near 407 nm in the liver microsome. Reduced P-450-CO spectrum of the liver microsome exposed by the treatment of endosulfan showed maximum at 449 nm and 450 nm compared to that of the control having maximum at 451 nm, which indicated endosulfan induced cytochrome P-450 new isozymes. Aldrin epoxidase activities in the mouse liver and kidney were increased by 2.8 and 2.1 fold by the treatment of endosulfan. Also 7-ethoxyresorufin dealkylase activities in the mouse liver and kidney were elevated by 1.7 and 1.8 fold by treatment of endosulfan.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.278-280
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• 2005

To obtain cytochrome $c_3$ labeled with a stable isotope, the conditions of cultivation and the composition of medium for DvMF were examined. The growth of DvMF was steady and reproducible under purging with $N_2$ and under pH control. DvMF was able to go on a defined medium without natural products. The composition of medium containing a small amount of $NH_4C$l as sole nitrogen source was established. Then, uniformly $^{15}N$labeled cytochrome $c_3$ was obtained during the culture of DvMF in a defined medium with $^{15}NH_4$Cl; it was confirmed by $^1H-^{15}N$ HMQC.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.279-284
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• 1996

Decay of the spin label attached to cytochrome c or to stearic acid has been measured by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to monitor membrane oxidation induced by cytochrome c-membrane interaction. Binding of cytochrome c sequestered the acidic phospholipids and membrane oxidation was efficient in the order linoleic oleic>stearic acid for a fatty acid chain in the acidic phospholipids. The spin label on cyt c was destroyed at pH 7 whereas that on stearic acid embedded in the membrane was destroyed at pH 4, presumably due to different modes of cyt c-membrane interaction depending on pH. Interestingly, cyt c also interacts with phosphatidylethanolamine, an electrically neutral phospholipid, to cause rapid membrane oxidation. Both EPR and fluorescence measurements indicated that electrostatic interaction is at least partially responsible for the process.

• BMB Reports
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.506-509
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• 2000

To obtain Cytochrome $c_3$ labeled with a stable isotope, the conditions of cultivation and the composition of medium for DvMF were examined. The growth of DvMF was steady and reproducible under purging with $N_2$ and under pH control. DvMF was able to go on a defined medium without natural products. The composition of the medium containing a small amount of $NH_4Cl$ as sole nitrogen source was established. Then, uniformly $^{15}N-labeled$ Cytochrome $c_3$ was obtained during the culture of DvMF in a defined medium with $^{15}NH_4Cl$; it was confirmed by $^{1}H-^{15}N$ HMQC.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.331-336
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• 1995

The macroscopic and microscopic redox potentials of tetrahemoprotein, cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris(Hildenborough) (DvH) were estimated from 1H NMR and differential pulse polarography(DPP). Five sets of NMR resonances were confirmed by a redox titration. They represent cytochrome c3 molecules in five macroscopic redox states. The electron transfer in cytochrome c3 involves four consecutive one-electron steps. The saturation transfer method was used to determine the chemical shifts of eight heme methyl resonances in five different oxidation states. Thirty two microscopic redox potentials were estimated. The results showed the presence of a strong positive interaction between a pair of particular hemes. Comparing the results with those of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F (DvMF), it was observed that the two proteins resemble each other in overall redox pattern, but there is small difference in the relative redox potentials of four hemes.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.57-63
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• 2006

Deazaadenosine analogs such as 3-deazaadenosine (DZA), 3-deazaaristeromycin (DZAri) and ara-3-deazaadenine (DZAra-A) were developed as inhibitors of S-adenosylhomocysteine (Ado-Hcy) hydrolase (EC 3.3.1.1). These analogs were reported to induce apoptosis in human and murine leukemic cells. But, the mechanism involved in this apoptosis was not clarified yet. In the present study, we analyze the apoptosis induced by deazaadenosine analogs in human cervival cancer cell line, HeLa and the effect of Bcl-2 on this apoptosis. Whereas neither DZAri nor DZAra-A showed inhibitory effect on HeLa cell growth, DZA induced apoptosis in HeLa cells accompanied by cytochrome c release and activation of various caspases such as caspase-2,-8,-9 and -3. In HeLa-bcl-2 cell line, a stable transfectant of HeLa cell to overexpress Bcl-2, cytochrome c release, activation of all these caspases and the resulted apoptosis by DZA were completely prevented. By in vitro assay of cytochrome c release, in addition, DZA induced cytochrome c release from purified mitochondria of HeLa-pcDNA3 cells, but not HeLa-bcl-2 cells, even in the absence of cytosolic fraction. Therefore, it can be suggested that DZA might damage directly mitochondria leading to activate intrinsic pathway of caspase and thus induce apoptosis. DZA-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells may be in a bcl-2-inhibitable manner and irrelative of Ado-Hcy hydrolase.

• BMB Reports
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.445-453
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• 2004

We identified apoptosis as being a significant mechanism of toxicity following the exposure of HeLa cell cultures to abrin holotoxin, which is in addition to its inhibition of protein biosynthesis by N-glycosidase activity. The treatment of HeLa cell cultures with abrin resulted in apoptotic cell death, as characterized by morphological and biochemical changes, i.e., cell shrinkage, internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, the occurrence of hypodiploid DNA, chromatin condensation, nuclear breakdown, DNA single strand breaks by TUNEL assay, and phosphatidylserine (PS) externalization. This apoptotic cell death was accompanied by caspase-9 and caspase-3 activation, as indicated by the cleavage of caspase substrates, which was preceded by mitochondrial cytochrome c release. The broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor, benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp-fluoromethyl ketone (zVAD-fmk), prevented abrin-triggered caspase activation and partially abolished apoptotic cell death, but did not affect mitochondrial cytochrome c release. These results suggest that the release of mitochondrial cytochrome c, and the sequential caspase-9 and caspase-3 activations are important events in the signal transduction pathway of abrin-induced apoptotic cell death in the HeLa cell line.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.852-858
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• 2009

The homeostasis of the pyridine nucleotide pool [NAD(P)H and NAD(P)$^+$] is maintained in Rhodobacter sphaeroides mutant strains defective in the cytochrome bci complex or the cytochrome c oxidases in terms of its concentration and redox state. Aerobic derepression of the puf operon, which is under the control of the PrrBA two-component system, in the CBB3 mutant strain of R. sphaeroides was shown to be not the result of changes in the redox state of the pyridine nucleotides and the ubiquinone/ubiquinol pool. Using the bc$_1$ complex knock-out mutant strain of R. sphaeroides, we clearly demonstrated that the inhibitory effect of cbb$_3$, oxidase on spectral complex formation is not caused indirectly by the redox change of the ubiquinone/ubiquinol pool.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.65-70
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• 2001

We have carried out PCR reactions to investigate if cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes (1A1, 1A2, 2C8, 2E1 and 3A4), which are well hewn to be the key enzymes in detoxification process and/or synthesis of steroids in the liver, are expressed in the human brain, too. P450 1A1, 2C8 and 2E1 were expressed clearly. However, P450 1A2 and 3A4 were not detectable. Their expression levels in the human brain could be extremely low or they were not expressed at all. One base substitution at nucleotide 290 (A->G) was identified in P450 1A1. It is suspected to be an individual polymorphism. Our results should contribute to the better understanding of the role of cytochrome P450 enzymes in the human brain.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1039-1046
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• 2009

The cytochrome P450s (P450s) metabolizing natural products are among the most versatile biological catalysts known in plants, but knowledge of the structural basis for their broad substrate specificity has been limited. The activity of p-coumarate 3-hydroxylase (C3H) is thought to be essential for the biosynthesis of lignin and many other phenylpropanoid pathway products in plants however, all attempts to express and purify the protein corresponding C3H gene have failed. As a result, no conditions suitable for the unambiguous assay of the enzyme are known. The detailed understanding of the mechanism and substrate-specificity of C3Hdemands a method for the production of active protein on the milligram scale. We have developed a bacterial expression and purification system for the plant C3H, which allows for the quick expression and purification of active wild-type C3H via introduction of combinational mutagenesis. The modified cytochrome P450 C3H ($C3H_{mod}$) could be purified in the absence of detergent using immobilized metal affinity chromatography and size exclusion chromatography following extraction from isolated membranes in a high salt buffer and catalytically activated. This method makes the use of isotopic labeling of C3H for NMRstudies and X-ray crystallography practical, and is also applicable to other plant cytochrome P450 proteins.