Oxidation of heme c derivatives by purified heme oxygenase. Evidence for the presence of one molecular species of heme oxygenase in the rat liver.
Oxidation of heme c derivatives by purified heme oxygenase. Evidence for the presence of one molecular species of heme oxygenase in the rat liver.
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10.1016/s0021-9258(18)33968-1
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1982-09
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R. K. Kutty;M. Maines
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作者:
R. K. Kutty;M. Maines
Only one molecular species of heme oxygenase was detected in the rat liver.“he enzyme catalyzed the oxidation of protoheme, the prosthetic moiety of b-type hemoproteins, as well as heme c derivatives: hematoheme, hematoheme dimethyl ester, dicysteinyl hematoheme, and heme undecapeptide of cytochrome c. Intact cytochrome c was not oxidized by the enzyme. In a reconstituted system of heme oxygenase, NADPH-cytochrome c (P-450) reductase, NADPH, and O,, the oxidation rates of hematoheme and heme uadecapeptide exceeded that of protoheme by 2-fold; md those of dicysteinyl and dimethyl hematoheme aad protoheme were comparable. The oxidation of hematoheme by heme oxygenase was investigated in detail. The high performance liquid chromatography pattern of “hematobiliverdin” revealed the formation of one major isomer (54%) and three minor components (20, 17, and 9%). Only the major isomer of hematobiliverdin was reduced to “hematobilirubin” by purified biliverdin reductase. In contrast, the oxidation of dimethyl hematoheme resulted in the formation of 1 isomer of biliverdin. The oxidation products of dimethyl hematoheme, dicysteinyl hematoheme, and heme undecapeptide of cytochrome c were not substrates for biliverdin reductase and did not yield bilirubin-type com-pounds which could be separated and characterized. The formation of hematobilirubin from hematoheme had an absolute requirement for heme oxygenase,