PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Jushchyshyn, Monica I. AU - Wahlstrom, Jan L. AU - Hollenberg, Paul F. AU - Wienkers, Larry C. TI - Mechanism of Inactivation of Human Cytochrome P450 2B6 by Phencyclidine AID - 10.1124/dmd.106.010579 DP - 2006 Sep 01 TA - Drug Metabolism and Disposition PG - 1523--1529 VI - 34 IP - 9 4099 - http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/34/9/1523.short 4100 - http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/34/9/1523.full SO - Drug Metab Dispos2006 Sep 01; 34 AB - The mechanism behind the observed inactivation of human P450 2B6 by phencyclidine (PCP) has been evaluated over the past 2 decades. The scope of the current investigation was to contribute to the fundamental knowledge of PCP oxidation and perhaps the mechanism behind P450 inactivation. To study the chemistry of PCP oxidation, we subjected PCP to the Fenton reagent. Under Fenton chemistry conditions, oxidation on all three PCP rings was observed by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). When PCP was incubated with the Fenton system in the presence of glutathione (GSH), three GSH-PCP conjugates were identified. Subsequent LC-MS/MS analysis of these conjugates revealed two species that had GSH attached to the cyclohexane ring of PCP and a third conjugate in which GSH was adducted to the piperidine ring. When PCP was incubated across a panel of P450 enzymes, several enzymes, including P450s 2D6 and 3A4, were able to catalyze the formation of the PCP iminium ion, whereas P450s 2B6 and 2C19 were exclusively able to hydroxylate secondary carbons on the cyclohexane ring of PCP. Subsequent mechanistic experiments revealed that only P450s 2B6 and 2C19 demonstrated loss of catalytic activity after preincubation with 10 μM PCP. Finally, investigation of P450 2B6 inactivation using structural analogs of PCP revealed that blocking the para-carbon atom on the cyclohexane ring of PCP from oxidation protected the P450 2B6 from inactivation, which suggests that a reactive intermediate generated during the hydroxylation of the cyclohexane ring may be linked to the mechanism of inactivation of P450 2B6 by PCP. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics