Structural highlights
Disease
[CP3A5_HUMAN] Tacrolimus dose selection.
Function
[CP3A5_HUMAN] Cytochromes P450 are a group of heme-thiolate monooxygenases. In liver microsomes, this enzyme is involved in an NADPH-dependent electron transport pathway. It oxidizes a variety of structurally unrelated compounds, including steroids, fatty acids, and xenobiotics.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 is a major contributor to hepatic drug and xenobiotic metabolism in human adults. The related enzyme CYP3A5 is also expressed in adult liver and has broader age and tissue distributions. However, CYP3A5 expression is low in most Caucasians because of the prevalence of an allele that leads to an incorrectly spliced mRNA and premature termination of translation. When expressed, CYP3A5 expands metabolic capabilities and can augment CYP3A4-mediated drug metabolism, thereby reducing drug efficacy and potentially requiring dose adjustments. The extensive role of CYP3A4 in drug metabolism reflects in part the plasticity of the substrate-free enzyme to enlarge its active site and accommodate very large substrates. We have previously shown that the structure of the CYP3A5-ritonavir complex differs substantially from that of the CYP3A4-ritonavir complex. To better understand whether these differences are conserved in other CYP3A5 structures and how they relate to differential plasticity, we determined the X-ray crystallographic structure of the CYP3A5 substrate-free complex to 2.20 A resolution. We observed that this structure exhibits a much larger active site than substrate-free CYP3A4 and displays an open substrate access channel. This reflected in part a lower trajectory of the helix F-F' connector in CYP3A4 and more extensive pi/CH interactions between phenylalanine residues forming the roof of the active site cavity than in CYP3A5. Comparison with the CYP3A5-ritonavir complex confirmed conserved CYP3A5 structural features and indicated differences in plasticity between CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 that favor alternative ritonavir conformations.
Active site differences between substrate-free and ritonavir-bound cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A5 reveal plasticity differences between CYP3A5 and CYP3A4.,Hsu MH, Johnson EF J Biol Chem. 2019 Mar 29. pii: RA119.007928. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007928. PMID:30926609[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
See Also
References
- ↑ Hsu MH, Johnson EF. Active site differences between substrate-free and ritonavir-bound cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A5 reveal plasticity differences between CYP3A5 and CYP3A4. J Biol Chem. 2019 Mar 29. pii: RA119.007928. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007928. PMID:30926609 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA119.007928
