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- ItemAn investigation into the catalytic activity of porcine cytochrome P450 17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04) Fox, Cheryl-Leigh; Swart, Amanda C.; Storbeck, Karl-Heinz; Swart, P.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Science. Dept. of BiochemistryENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study, the effect of the amino acid residues at positions 40 and 407 on the catalytic activity of porcine CYP17A1 was investigated. Porcine cofactor CYB5 was cloned from porcine liver tissue and its effect on the catalytic activity of porcine CYP17A1 was determined. The influence of rat, human and angora CYB5 on the lyase activity of porcine CYP17A1 was subsequently determined and compared to the influence of porcine CYB5. Wt porcine CYP17A1, which has residues Val40 and His407, catalysed the conversion of prog efficiently with ~50% prog converted to 17OHprog (~40%) and A4 (~10%) after 3 hr. After 24 hr, negligible levels prog remained with ~71% 17OHprog and ~25% A4 being produced. Low levels of 16OHprog were formed (~9%). The Leu105Ala mutation reduced wt 17α-hydroxylase activity, with 70% prog remaining after 24 hr while 16OHprog (~10%) levels remained unchanged. Porcine CYP17A1 with residues Leu40 and His407, exhibited similar catalytic activity towards prog as did wt porcine CYP17A1 (Val40 and His407 residues), while porcine CYP17A1 with residues Leu40 and Leu407 increased the formation of A4 2-fold to 54% at 24 hr and porcine CYP17A1 with residues Val40 and Leu407 resulted in the highest formation of A4 (90%). Wt porcine CYP17A1, while having converted 95% of the prog substrate, produces only ~16% A4 after 24 hr. In the presence of porcine CYB5, however, the lyase activity was stimulated with 85% of prog being converted to A4 and only 13% 17OHprog remaining. The lyase activity was also stimulated by CYB5 from other species, resulting in an increase in A4 production of 60.6%, 24% and 11.6% by rat, angora and human CYB5, respectively. The degree of lyase stimulation correlated to the percentage identity of the CYB5 amino acid sequences to porcine CYB5. While the Val and Leu residues at position 40 do not appear to influence the lyase activity of porcine CYP17A1 as prominently as the residue at position 407, it is the charged residue at 407 that plays a significant role in the production of A4, decreasing A4 production irrespective of the Val and the Leu residues at position 40. It would, furthermore, appear that the stimulation of lyase activity of CYP17A1 is the greatest when assaying this activity in the presence of CYB5 of the same species as was detected when co-expressing porcine CYP17A1 and porcine CYB5.