Abstract
Naphthalene, a ubiquitous environmental contaminant, produces cytotoxicity in nonciliated bronchiolar epithelial (Clara) cells in mice; rats are refractory to lung cytotoxicity from naphthalene. In contrast, 1-nitronaphthalene is a potent toxicant in both species. Naphthalene is metabolized by CYP2F to a 1,2-epoxide, the first and obligate step in events leading to cytotoxicity. 1-Nitronaphthalene is metabolized to both the 5,6- and the 7,8-epoxides with the 7,8-epoxide predominating in lung. Previous studies have demonstrated recombinant CYP2F2 (mouse) to efficiently metabolize both naphthalene and 1-nitronaphthalene. To better understand the mechanism for the unique toxicity profiles for both compounds, a CYP2F ortholog (CYP2F4) was isolated from rat lung and expressed using a baculovirus system. Recombinant CYP2F4 efficiently generates 1R,2S-naphthalene oxide (Km = 3 μM, Vmax = 107 min-1) and the 5,6- and 7,8-epoxides of 1-nitronaphthalene (Km = 18 μM, Vmax = 25 min-1 based on total generated glutathione conjugates). Kinetics and regio/stereoselectivity of rat CYP2F4 were indistinguishable from mouse CYP2F2. These results, combined with our recent immunomapping studies demonstrating minimal pulmonary CYP2F expression in rats, indicate that CYP2F expression is the factor most clearly associated with susceptibility to naphthalene-induced pneumotoxicity. CYP2F4 failed to display an enhanced ability to bioactivate 1-nitronaphthalene, an ability that could have potentially compensated for the lower CYP2F pulmonary expression levels in the rat, yet equal species susceptibilities. These results suggest the importance of other P450 enzymes in the epoxidation/bioactivation of 1-nitronaphthalene. Expression of recombinant CYP2F1 (human) yielded an immunoreactive protein with no detectable CO-difference spectrum suggesting inadequate heme incorporation.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 857-865 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics |
| Volume | 312 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2005 |
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Bioactivation of the pulmonary toxicants naphthalene and 1-nitronaphthalene by rat CYP2F4. / Baldwin, R. Michael; Shultz, Michael A.; Buckpitt, Alan R.
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T1 - Bioactivation of the pulmonary toxicants naphthalene and 1-nitronaphthalene by rat CYP2F4
AU - Baldwin, R. Michael
AU - Shultz, Michael A.
AU - Buckpitt, Alan R
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N2 - Naphthalene, a ubiquitous environmental contaminant, produces cytotoxicity in nonciliated bronchiolar epithelial (Clara) cells in mice; rats are refractory to lung cytotoxicity from naphthalene. In contrast, 1-nitronaphthalene is a potent toxicant in both species. Naphthalene is metabolized by CYP2F to a 1,2-epoxide, the first and obligate step in events leading to cytotoxicity. 1-Nitronaphthalene is metabolized to both the 5,6- and the 7,8-epoxides with the 7,8-epoxide predominating in lung. Previous studies have demonstrated recombinant CYP2F2 (mouse) to efficiently metabolize both naphthalene and 1-nitronaphthalene. To better understand the mechanism for the unique toxicity profiles for both compounds, a CYP2F ortholog (CYP2F4) was isolated from rat lung and expressed using a baculovirus system. Recombinant CYP2F4 efficiently generates 1R,2S-naphthalene oxide (Km = 3 μM, Vmax = 107 min-1) and the 5,6- and 7,8-epoxides of 1-nitronaphthalene (Km = 18 μM, Vmax = 25 min-1 based on total generated glutathione conjugates). Kinetics and regio/stereoselectivity of rat CYP2F4 were indistinguishable from mouse CYP2F2. These results, combined with our recent immunomapping studies demonstrating minimal pulmonary CYP2F expression in rats, indicate that CYP2F expression is the factor most clearly associated with susceptibility to naphthalene-induced pneumotoxicity. CYP2F4 failed to display an enhanced ability to bioactivate 1-nitronaphthalene, an ability that could have potentially compensated for the lower CYP2F pulmonary expression levels in the rat, yet equal species susceptibilities. These results suggest the importance of other P450 enzymes in the epoxidation/bioactivation of 1-nitronaphthalene. Expression of recombinant CYP2F1 (human) yielded an immunoreactive protein with no detectable CO-difference spectrum suggesting inadequate heme incorporation.
AB - Naphthalene, a ubiquitous environmental contaminant, produces cytotoxicity in nonciliated bronchiolar epithelial (Clara) cells in mice; rats are refractory to lung cytotoxicity from naphthalene. In contrast, 1-nitronaphthalene is a potent toxicant in both species. Naphthalene is metabolized by CYP2F to a 1,2-epoxide, the first and obligate step in events leading to cytotoxicity. 1-Nitronaphthalene is metabolized to both the 5,6- and the 7,8-epoxides with the 7,8-epoxide predominating in lung. Previous studies have demonstrated recombinant CYP2F2 (mouse) to efficiently metabolize both naphthalene and 1-nitronaphthalene. To better understand the mechanism for the unique toxicity profiles for both compounds, a CYP2F ortholog (CYP2F4) was isolated from rat lung and expressed using a baculovirus system. Recombinant CYP2F4 efficiently generates 1R,2S-naphthalene oxide (Km = 3 μM, Vmax = 107 min-1) and the 5,6- and 7,8-epoxides of 1-nitronaphthalene (Km = 18 μM, Vmax = 25 min-1 based on total generated glutathione conjugates). Kinetics and regio/stereoselectivity of rat CYP2F4 were indistinguishable from mouse CYP2F2. These results, combined with our recent immunomapping studies demonstrating minimal pulmonary CYP2F expression in rats, indicate that CYP2F expression is the factor most clearly associated with susceptibility to naphthalene-induced pneumotoxicity. CYP2F4 failed to display an enhanced ability to bioactivate 1-nitronaphthalene, an ability that could have potentially compensated for the lower CYP2F pulmonary expression levels in the rat, yet equal species susceptibilities. These results suggest the importance of other P450 enzymes in the epoxidation/bioactivation of 1-nitronaphthalene. Expression of recombinant CYP2F1 (human) yielded an immunoreactive protein with no detectable CO-difference spectrum suggesting inadequate heme incorporation.
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