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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
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General Xenobiochemistry

Site-specific oxidation of flavanone and flavone by cytochrome P450 2A6 in human liver microsomes

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Pages 791-802 | Received 28 Jun 2018, Accepted 23 Jul 2018, Published online: 28 Sep 2018
 

Abstract

  1. The roles of human cytochrome P450 (P450 or CYP) 2A6 in the oxidation of flavanone [(2R)- and (2S)-enantiomers] and flavone were studied in human liver microsomes and recombinant human P450 enzymes.

  2. CYP2A6 was highly active in oxidizing flavanone to form flavone, 2′-hydroxy-, 4′-, and 6-hydroxyflavanones and in oxidizing flavone to form mono- and di-hydroxylated products, such as mono-hydroxy flavones M6, M7, and M11 and di-hydroxy flavones M3, M4, and M5.

  3. Liver microsomes prepared from human sample HH2, defective in coumarin 7-hydroxylation activity, were very inefficient in forming 2′-hydroxyflavanone from flavanone and a mono-hydroxylated product, M6, from flavone. Coumarin and anti-CYP2A6 antibodies strongly inhibited the formation of these metabolites in microsomes prepared from liver samples HH47 and 54, which were active in coumarin oxidation activities.

  4. Molecular docking analysis showed that the C2′-position of (2R)-flavanone (3.8 Å) was closer to the iron center of CYP2A6 than the C6-position (10 Å), while distances from C2′ and C6 of (2S)-flavanone to the CYP2A6 were 6.91 Å and 5.42 Å, respectively.

  5. These results suggest that CYP2A6 catalyzes site-specific oxidation of (racemic) flavanone and also flavone in human liver microsomes. CYP1A2 and CYP2B6 were also found to play significant roles in some of the oxidations of these flavonoids by human liver microsomes.

Acknowledgments

The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This study was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI [16K21710] (to H. N), [16K09119] (to K. K.), [15K07770] (to S. T.), [17K08630] (J. K.), [17K08426] (to N. M.), and [17K08425] (to H. Y.), National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2016R1D1A1B03932002] (to D. K.), and United States Public Health Service grant [R01 GM118122] (to F. P. G.)

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