Table 1

Examples of nonhyperbolic rate-substrate concentration profiles for CYP substrates using microsomal preparations of human liver and heterologously expressed systems

Sigmoidal curves
Aflatoxin (Ueng et al., 1997 in E. coli and RFP)
Amitriptyline1-a (Schmider et al., 1995 in HLM; Shaw et al., 1997 in HLM and RFP; Ueng et al., 1997 in E. coli)
Carbamazepine1-b (Kerr et al., 1994 in HLM and VV;Korzekwa et al., 1998 in VV),
Desmethyladinazolam (Venkatakrishnan et al., 1998 in BV)
Diazepam1-b (Andersson et al., 1994 in HLM; Kenworthy et al., 1999b in β-LM; Shou et al., 1999 in BV)
Estradiol (Kerlan et al., 1992 in HLM; Ueng et al., 1997 in β-LM)
Nifedipine1-c (Shaw et al., 1997 in RFP and BV)
Nordiazepam (D. Carlile, N. Randolph, M. Bayliss and J.B.H., submitted in HLM and β-LM)
Progesterone1-d (Ueng et al., 1997 in β-LM; Domanski et al., 1998 in E. coli)
Testosterone1-e (Lee et al., 1995 in HLM and BV; Shaw et al., 1997 in HLM and BV; Ueng et al., 1997 in E. coli)
Convex curves
Midazolam1-f (Kronbach et al., 1989 in HLM; Ghosal et al., 1996 in HLM and β-LM)
Nifedipine1-c(Kenworthy et al., 1999b in β-LM)
Terfenadine1-g (Kenworthy et al., 1999b in β-LM)
  • 1-a Not seen in BV by Shaw et al., 1997.

  • 1-b Not seen in E. coli by Ueng et al., 1997.

  • 1-c Both sigmoidicity and convex curves reported for this substrate.

  • 1-d Not seen in BV by Yamazaki and Shimada, 1997.

  • 1-e Not seen in RFP by Shaw et al., 1997.

  • 1-f Not seen in β-LM by Gorski et al., 1994.

  • 1-g Not seen in RFP by Rodrigues et al., 1995.

  • HLM, human liver microsomes; VV, vaccinia virus; BV, baculovirus; RFP, recombinant fusion protein.