J. Biochem, 1994, Vol. 115, No. 2 338-344
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Different Mechanisms of Regioselection of Fatty Acid Hydroxylation by Laurate (
-1)-Hydroxylating P450s, P450 2C21 and P450 2E1,2
*Department of Veterinary Science, University of Osaka Prefecture Sakai, Osaka 593
**Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University Suita, Osaka 565
***Toneyama Institute for Tuberculosis Research, Osaka City University Medical School Toyonaka, Osaka 560
****Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Fukuyama University Fukuyama, Hiroshima 729-02
P450 2C2 as well as P450 2E1 [Fukuda, T. et al. (1993) J. Biochem. 113, 7–12] catalyzed the hydroxylation of medium chain fatty acids, although the regioselectivity of substrates of the former contrasted with that of the latter. Whereas P450 2E1 hydroxylated C9-C13 fatty acids at the 
-1 position and to a much lesser extent at the and -2 positions, P450 2C2 hydroxylated C9-C13 fatty acids at different positions dependent on the chain length of fatty acids. Among the fatty acids used as the substrate, undecanoate was hydroxylated at the -1 position almost exclusively by P450 2C2. The proportion of -hydroxylated products produced by P450 2C2 was markedly increased with decreasing chain length of fatty acids, while the hydroxylation positions were enlarged to the -3 position with tridecanoate. When the conserved Thr at the putative distal helix was replaced with Ser, the substrate regioselectivity of the two P450s was affected in different manners. The mutation of P450 2C2 did not change the hydroxylation positions of C9-C12 fatty acids, but caused a significant decrease in the proportion of the -1 hydroxy analog in the total products. In sharp contrast to P450 2C2, the mutated P450 2E1 gave additional products to those with the wild-type P450, and the number of different products increased with increasing chain length of the fatty acids. Thus, the products of palmitate hydroxylation were identified as -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, and -7 monohydroxy isomers using gas chromatography-electron impact mass spectrometry. From these findings, (i) P450 2C2 shows the substrate selectivity of undecanoate 10-hydroxylation, whereas P450 2E1 has the activity of fatty acid -1 hydroxylation, and (ii) P450 2E1 is speculated to have a larger substrate pocket near the distal heme surface than P450 2C2 and the 
-methyl group of the conserved Thr may contribute to the limitation of the hydroxylation position in different ways in the two P450s.
1Individual forms of P450 are designated according to the nomenclature recommended by Nebert et al (1).
2This work was supported m part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (04225230) from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, and by the CIBA-GEIGY Foundation.
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