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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-6-8
pubmed:abstractText
Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases are involved in metabolism of hostplant allelochemicals by larval Lepidoptera. Biochemical purification of the P450 polypeptide induced in Papilio polyxenes (black swallowtail) larvae in response to xanthotoxin, a linear furanocoumarin, has allowed us to clone cDNAs encoding two allelic variants of the CYP6B1 locus. Expression of these alleles in lepidopteran cell lines using baculovirus expression vectors has demonstrated that both P450 isoforms metabolize substantial amounts of linear furanocoumarins, such as xanthotoxin and bergapten, but not angular furanocoumarins, such as angelicin and sphondin. These linear furanocoumarins are ubiquitous constituents of the hostplants of P. polyxenes. The efficiency of linear furanocoumarin metabolism is strongly affected by the nature of the substituents on the benzene ring; methoxy-derivatives are metabolized more efficiently than are derivatives with smaller (hydroxy-) or larger (8-O isopentenyl) groups. Metabolism of either bergapten or xanthotoxin is inhibited in the presence of the other. In addition, metabolism of linear furanocoumarins is inhibited by the presence of nonmetabolizable angular furanocoumarins, indicating that the active site of CYP6B1 binds angular furanocoumarins. The reactivities described here indicate that P. polyxenes larvae express at least two selective furanocoumarin-metabolic P450s: CYP6B1, which metabolizes a discrete set of linear furanocoumarins, and another P450, as yet unidentified, which metabolizes angular furanocoumarins more efficiently than does CYP6B1.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0003-9861
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
310
pubmed:geneSymbol
CYP6B1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
332-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Butterflies, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Coumarins, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Enzyme Induction, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Isoenzymes, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Larva, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Methoxsalen, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Moths, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Steroid Hydroxylases, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:8179316-Transfection
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) alleles encode cytochrome P450s that selectively metabolize linear furanocoumarins.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't