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CYP12A1, a Mitochondrial Cytochrome P450 from the House Fly,☆☆

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Abstract

Eukaryotic P450 proteins are membrane proteins found predominantly in the endoplasmic reticulum. In vertebrates, several biosynthetic P450s are found in mitochondria as well. We cloned three putative insect mitochondrial P450s from larval house fly cDNA. These P450s are members of a new P450 family, CYP12. The CYP12 proteins are most closely related to the mammalian mitochondrial P450 of the CYP11, CYP24, and CYP27 families. The most abundant cDNA, CYP12A1, was expressed inEscherichia coliand purified. NADPH-dependent reduction of CYP12A1 was rapid and efficient with the bovine mitochondrial proteins adrenodoxin reductase and adrenodoxin as electron transfer partners. In contrast, house fly microsomal NADPH cytochrome P450 reductase reduced CYP12A1 only poorly. In a reconstituted system with the bovine mitochondrial electron donors, CYP12A1 metabolized a variety of insecticides and other xenobiotics, but did not metabolize ecdysteroids, juvenoids, or fatty acids. Subcellular localization of CYP12A1 by immunogold histochemistry established the mitochondrial nature of this protein. CYP12A1 mRNA levels are constitutively higher in an insecticide-resistant strain than in a susceptible strain, and this trait maps to chromosome II in the house fly, where the constitutive overexpression of the pesticide-metabolizing microsomal CYP6A1 also maps. Multiple mitochondrial P450s have evolved in insects and may play a role in the metabolism of xenobiotics in addition to their possibly ancestral functions in steroidogenesis.

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    The sequence data are deposited in GenBank under the Accession Nos. U86618 (CYP12A1), U94698 (CYP12A2), and U94699 (CYP12A3).

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    Omura, T.Ishimura, Y.Fuji-Kuriyama, Y.

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    To whom correspondence should be addressed at Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Forbes 410, PO Box 210036, Tucson, AZ 85721-0036. Fax: (520) 626-8058; E-mail:[email protected].

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