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Received for publication February 14, 2007.
Revised April 18, 2007.
Accepted for publication April 23, 2007.
A new variant allele CYP2D6*62 (g.4044C>T; R441C) of the drug-metabolizing cytochrome P450, CYP2D6, was identified in a person with reduced sparteine oxidation phenotype which was unexpected based on a genetic CYP2D6*1A/*41 background. The recombinantly expressed variant protein had no activity towards propafenone due to missing heme incorporation. Sequence alignment revealed that the positively charged R441 residue is part of the heme-binding signature but not strictly conserved among all P450s. A compilation of described P450 monooxygenase variants revealed that other enzymes can functionally tolerate even non-conservative amino acid changes at the corresponding position (i.e. the invariant cysteine -2). This suggests that heme binding in mammalian P450s depends not only on the integrity of the heme-binding signature but also on other family- and subfamily-specific sequence determinants.
Key words:
CYP2D, cytochrome P450 structure, human CYP enzymes
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