Establishment of a transgenic cell line stably expressing human cytochrome P450 2C18 and identification of a CYP2C18 clone with exon 5 missing

摘要

AIM: The human cytochrome P-450 2C18(CYP2C18) hasbeen characterized. However, the protein has not beenpurified from liver and very little is known regarding thespecific substrate of CYP2C18. In order to study its enzymaticactivity for drug metabolism, the CYP2C18cDNA was clonedand a stable CHL cell line expressing recombinant CYP 2C18was established.METHODS: The human CYP2C18cDNA was amplified withreverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)from total RNAs extracted from human liver and cloned intopGEM-T vector. The cDNA segment was identified by DNAsequencing and subcloned into a mammalian expressionvector pREP9. A transgenic cell line was established bytransfecting the recombinant plasmid of pREPg-CYP2C18toChinese hamster lung (CHL) cell. The enzyme activity ofCYP2C18 catalyzing oxidation of tolbutamide tohydroxytolbutamide in postmitochondrial supernant(Sg)fraction of the cell was determined by high performanceliquid chromatography(HPLC).RESULTS: The amino acid sequence predicted from thecloned cDNA segment was identical to that of reported byRomkes et al(GenBank accession number: M61856,J05326).The S9 fraction of the established cell line metabolizestolbutamide to hydroxytolbutamide. Tolbutamide hydroxylaseactivity was found to be 0.509±0.052 μmol.min-1.g-1 S9protein or 8.82±0.90 mol.min-1.mol-1 CYP, but wasundetectable in parental CHL cell. In addition, we haveidentified a CYP2C18cDNA clone with exon 5 missing.CONCLUSION: The cDNA of human CYP2C18 wassuccessfully cloned and a cell line, CHL-CYP2C18, efficientlyexpressing the protein of CYP2C18, was established. Aspliced variant of CYP2C18 with exon 5 missing was identifiedin the cloning process.