Isolation and comparison of endoplasmic reticulum membranes and their mixed function oxidase activities from mammalian extrahepatic tissues.
Isolation and comparison of endoplasmic reticulum membranes and their mixed function oxidase activities from mammalian extrahepatic tissues.
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哺乳动物肝外组织内质网膜及其混合功能氧化酶活性的分离和比较。
DOI:
10.1016/0163-7258(79)90042-1
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
13.5
通讯作者:
S. Orrenius
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作者:
M. Burke;S. Orrenius
Anyone who has investigated extrahepatic microsomal mixed function oxidases realizes the special problems that are associated with such studiesl Whereas isolation of a reasonably pure microsomal fraction, and assays of cytochrome P-450 and cytochrome P-450-1inked mixed function oxidase activities, are relatively easily performed with liver, this is rarely true for extrahepatic tissues. Many such organs are rich in connective tissue and are composed of cells with a poorly developed endoplasmic reticulum and thus, upon homogenization and differential centrifugation, produce microsomal fractions in low yields and often contaminated with other subcellular organelles. Moreover, in most extrahepatic tissues, the levels ofcytochrome P-450 are much lower than in liver, so that even a slight contamination by mitochondrial cytochromes or by hemoglobin can drastically affect spectral studies on cytochrome P-450. Assays of cytochrome P-450-1inked mixed function oxidase activities are often made difficult by low reaction rates. Finally, most of the extrahepatic tissues contain cell populations of considerable heterogeneity, rendering localization of the mixed function oxidase system to a specific cell type difficult or impossible with presently available isolation techniques.In spite of all these difficulties there have been an increasing number of studies concerned with extrahepatic mixed function oxidases during recent years. This is probably not due to a general belief in the importance of these enzymes for overall drug biotransformation, but rather to the physiological, pharmacological and toxicological implications of specific mixed function oxidase reactions in the individual extrahepatic tissues, as well as to a desire to further elucidate and differentiate the various functions of cytochrome P-450. Considerable progress has already been made in both these respects. The purpose of this contribution is to present an overview of various characteristics of mammalian extrahepatic microsomal mixed function oxidases. Since the hepatic mixed function oxidase system is best characterized, we have chosen to compare the various extrahepatic tissues to the liver rather than between themselves. Although we have been rather detailed in our presentation, it has not been possible to include all major aspects of mixed function oxidases in extrahepatic tissues; for this purpose we refer to several more specialized reviews (Bend and Hook, 1974; Brandenburger Brown, 1974; Juchau, 1976). The contribution of the gut flora to the biotransformation of xenobiotics, which has not been included in this chapter, has been reviewed by Scheline (1973).