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Davydova, N. Y.

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Effects of alcohol consumption and tobacco smoking on the composition of the ensemble of drug metabolizing enzymes and transporters in human liver

We examined the effect of alcohol consumption and smoking on the abundance of drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters (DMET) in human liver microsomes (HLM) isolated from liver tissues of 94 donors. Global proteomics analysis was performed and DMET protein levels were analyzed in relation to alcohol consumption levels, smoking history, and sex using non-parametric tests (p-value [≤] 0.05; cutoff of 1.25-fold change, FC). The examination of the alcohol-induced changes was further enforced by correlational analysis, where we used arbitrary alcohol consumption grade (ACG) scaling from 0 to 4 to establish a set of protein markers. We elaborated a provisional index of alcohol exposure (PIAE) based on a combination of relative abundances of four proteins (ER chaperone HSPA5, protein disulfide isomerases PDIA3 and P4HB, and cocaine esterase CES2) best correlating with ACG. The PIAE index was then used to find its correlations with the abundances of DMET proteins. Our results demonstrate considerable alcohol-induced changes in composition of the pool of cytochrome P450 enzymes in HLM. We observed significantly increased abundances of CYP2E1, CYP2B6, CYP2J2, and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase. In contrast, CYP1A2, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP4A11, and cytochrome b5 protein levels were downregulated. Significant alteration in abundances of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) were also detected, comprising of elevated UGT1A6, UGT1A9, and UGT2A1, and reduced UGT1A3, UGT1A4, UGT2B7, UGT2B10, and UGT2B15 levels. Important alcohol-induced changes were also observed in the expression of non-CYP and non-UGT DMET. Additionally, tobacco smoke was associated with elevated CYP1A2, UGT1A6, UGT2A1, and UGT2B4 and decreased FMO3, FMO4, and FMO5 levels.

pharmacology and toxicology↗

Multifold Activation of CYP3A4 Caused by Alcohol-Induced Increase in the Content of CYP2E1 in Human Liver Microsomes

Here we investigate the effect of alcohol-induced increase in the content of CYP2E1 in human liver microsomes (HLM) on the function of CYP3A4. In these studies we used a model that implements enrichment of HLM samples with CYP2E1 through membrane incorporation of the purified protein. Enrichment of HLM with CYP2E1 considerably increases the rate of metabolism of 7-benzyloxyquinoline (BQ) and attenuates the homotropic cooperativity observed with this CYP3A4-specific substrate. Incorporation of CYP2E1 also eliminates the activating effect of -Naphthoflavone (ANF) on BQ metabolism seen in some untreated HLM samples. To probe the physiological relevance of these effects we compared three pooled preparations of HLM from normal donors (HLM-N) with a preparation obtained from heavy alcohol consumers (HLM-A). The composition of the P450 pool in all four samples was characterized with mass-spectrometric determination of 11 cytochrome P450 species. The molar content of CYP2E1 in HLM-A was from 2.5 to 3.3 times higher than that found in HLM-N. In contrast, the content of CYP3A4 in HLM-A was the lowest among all four HLM samples. Despite of that, HLM-A exhibited much higher rate of metabolism and lower degree of homotropic cooperativity with BQ, similar to that observed in CYP2E1-enriched HLM-N. In order to substantiate the hypothesis on the involvement of physical interactions between CYP2E1 and CYP3A4 in the observed effects we probed hetero-association of these proteins in Supersomes containing recombinant CYP3A4 with a technique based on homo-FRET and employing CYP2E1 labeled with BODIPY-618 maleimide. These experiments demonstrated high affinity interactions between the two enzymes and revealed an inhibitory effect of ANF on their hetero-association. Our results demonstrate that the catalytic activity and allosteric properties of CYP3A4 are fundamentally dependent on the composition of the cytochrome P450 ensemble and imply a profound impact of chronic alcohol exposure on the pharmacokinetics of drugs metabolized by CYP3A4.

biochemistry↗

Non-additive effects of changing the cytochrome P450 ensemble: incorporation of CYP2E1 into human liver microsomes and its impact on CYP1A2

The aim of this study is to investigate the ability of ethanol-inducible CYP2E1 to interact with other cytochrome P450 species and affect the metabolism of their substrates. As a model system we used CYP2E1-enriched microsomes obtained by incorporation of purified CYP2E1 protein into HLM. Using the method based on homo-FRET in homo-oligomers of CYP2E1 labeled with BODIPY 577/618 maleimide we demonstrated that the interactions of CYP2E1 with microsomes result in dissociation of the protein homo-oligomers. The finding that this effect is much better pronounced in HLM as compared to the microsomes containing no P450 proteins indicates the formation of mixed oligomers of CYP2E1 with other P450 species that takes place in expense of dissociation of the homo-oligomers.\n\nIncorporation of CYP2E1 into HLM results in a multifold increase in the rate of metabolism of CYP2E1-specific substrates p-Nitrophenol (pNP) and Chlorzaxozone (CLZ). The rate of their oxidation remains proportional to the amount of incorporated CYP2E1 up to the content of 0.3-0.4 nmol/mg protein (or about 50% CYP2E1 in the P450 pool). These results demonstrate that the incorporated CYP2E1 becomes a fully-functional member of the P450 ensemble and do not exhibit any detectable functional differences with the endogenous CYP2E1 in HLM.\n\nEnrichment of HLM with CYP2E1 results in a pronounced alteration of the metabolism of 7-etoxy-4-cyanocoumarin (CEC), the substrate of CYP2C19 and CYP1A2, that suggests an important augmentation of the involvement of CYP1A2 in its metabolism. This effect goes together with a remarkable increase in the rate of dealkylation of CYP1A2-specific substrate 7-ethoxyresorufin by CYP2E1-enriched HLM. Furthermore, probing the interactions of CYP2E1 with model microsomes (Supersomes) containing individual P450 enzymes we found that CYP2E1 efficiently interacts with CYP1A2, but lacks any ability to form complexes with CYP2C19. This finding goes inline with CYP2E1-induced redirection of the main route of CEC metabolism from CYP2C19 to CYP1A2.

biochemistry↗