Role of isozymes of rabbit microsomal cytochrome P-450 in the metabolism of retinoic acid, retinol, and retinal

ES Roberts, AD Vaz and MJ Coon

Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.

The metabolism of retinoic acid, retinol, and retinal has been investigated with eight purified rabbit cytochrome P-450 (P-450) isozymes, including the major forms in nasal and liver microsomes. Retinoids hydroxylated at the 4-position were found to be major metabolites with each of the isozymes examined. Only two of the isozymes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-inducible P-450 1A2 and antibiotic-inducible P-450 3A6, also catalyze the oxidation of retinal to retinoic acid, a reaction not previously attributed to P-450. P-450 1A2 showed high activities in both the 4-hydroxylation and aldehyde oxidation reactions. Phenobarbital-inducible P-450 2B4 also had high activity in the 4-hydroxylation reaction of retinoids, and cytochrome b5 was found to increase the activity of P-450 2B4 with each substrate but to increase the activity of P-450 1A2 only with retinoic acid. In microsomes, retinoic acid is converted in an NADPH-dependent manner to both 4-hydroxyretinoic acid and 4-oxoretinoic acid, but none of the isozymes investigated was found to convert the 4-hydroxy derivative to the 4-oxo derivative. Microsomes from animals treated with phenobarbital were more active than those from untreated animals in the 4-hydroxylation reaction and, consequently, showed an increase in the ratio of 4-hydroxy to 4-oxo derivatives produced. These results show that the individual forms of P-450 metabolize retinoic acid, retinol, and retinal to multiple products, and they indicate that the amounts formed may be dependent on the exposure of animals to various inducers of P-450.

Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 427-433, 02/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

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