Ai. Voznesensky et al., THE NH2-TERMINAL REGION OF RABBIT CYP2E1 IS NOT ESSENTIAL FOR INTERACTION WITH NADPH-CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 203(1), 1994, pp. 156-161
Recently we reported that electrostatic forces interfere with the form
ation of the NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase/cytochrome P450 electron
transfer complex and suggested that this complex is formed by the attr
action of the complementary hydrophobic patches (Voznesensky, A., and
Schenkman,J.(1994) 269 J.Biol.Chem, 15724-1573). In this report we eva
luate the sole of the NH2-terminal hydrophobic region of CYP2E1 in the
interaction with the reductase by comparing ionic strength dependence
of the reduction of the full-length and truncated Delta 3-29 CYP2E1.
Increasing ionic strength stimulates reduction of both full-length and
truncated CYP2E1. The neutralization of electrostatic interactions by
increasing ionic strength revealed no impairment of the Delta 3-29 CY
P2E1 reduction compared to that of the full-length CYP2E1, indicating
that the NH2-terminal region is not essential for the interaction of t
he cytochrome with the reductase. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.