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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-11-16
pubmed:abstractText
Six cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoforms have been shown to hydroxylate vitamin D. Four of these, CYP27A1, CYP2R1, CYP3A4 and CYP2J3, are candidates for the enzyme vitamin D 25-hydroxylase that is involved in the first step of activation. The highly regulated, renal enzyme 25-hydroxyvitamin D-1alpha-hydroxylase contains the component CYP27B1, which completes the activation pathway to the hormonal form 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3). A five-step inactivation pathway from 1alpha,25-(OH)(2)D(3) to calcitroic acid is attributed to a single multifunctional CYP, CYP24A1, which is transcriptionally induced in vitamin D target cells by the action of 1alpha,25-(OH)(2)D(3). On the basis of alignments and crystal structures of other CYPs, homology models of vitamin-D-related CYPs have been generated. Two human forms of rickets caused by mutations of CYP2R1 and CYP27B1, as well as mouse knockout models of CYP27A1, CYP27B1 and CYP24A1, are helping us to establish the full in vivo physiological roles of the vitamin-D-related hydroxylases.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0968-0004
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
664-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Enzymes involved in the activation and inactivation of vitamin D.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't