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Abhinav Nath1, Peter K Koo, Elizabeth Rhoades
1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Abstract:
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 is a major human drug-metabolizing enzyme and displays pharmacologically relevant allosteric kinetics caused by multiple substrate and/or effector binding. Here, in the first single-molecule (SM) fluorescence studies of CYPs, we use total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to measure residence times of the fluorescent dye Nile Red in CYP3A4 incorporated in surface-immobilized lipid Nanodiscs, with and without the effector alpha-naphthoflavone. We find direct evidence that CYP3A4 effectors can decrease substrate off-rates, providing a possible mechanism for effector-mediated enhancement of substrate metabolism. These interesting results highlight the potential of SM methods in studies of CYP allosteric mechanisms.
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