Tor function of cyt b5 may be operating to enhance catalysis by cyt P450 2B4 14 ; . It has also been reported that apo-cyt b5 devoid of heme can stimulate catalysis 9, 1518 ; . However, some investigators have disputed that apo-cyt b5 can stimulate cyt P450 catalysis 19 ; . These conflicting reports indicate that the mechanism by which cyt b5 affects the catalysis of cyt P450 remains poorly understood. Hildebrandt and Estabrook 20 ; proposed that cyt b5 functions by transferring one of the two reducing equivalents to cyt P450 based on the observation in microsomes that cyt b5 partially reoxidized upon the addition of NADH to a microsomal drug-metabolizing reaction under steady-state conditions. This proposal is supported by in vitro experiments demonstrating that ferrous cyt b5 is an efficient electron donor to oxyferrous cyt P450 Fe3 OO ; 21, 22 ; . Furthermore, stimulation of benzphetamine and methoxyflurane metabolism by cyt P450 2B4 is only observed in the presence of holo-cyt b5 but not in the presence of apo-cyt b5 or cyt b5 containing manganese protoporphyrin IX 11, 12 ; . Chlorzoxazone metabolism by cyt P450 2E1 is also stimulated by cyt b5, but not by apo-cyt b5, in a purified reconstituted system as well as in membranes in which cyt P450 2E1 and CPR have been coexpressed 8, 9 ; . These results are supportive of an electron transfer role for cyt b5 in cyt P450 catalysis. Stimulation of cyt P450 activity was originally attributed to more rapid electron transfer to oxyferrous cyt P450 by cyt b5 than CPR. However, data from our laboratory have recently demonstrated that cyt b5 and CPR reduce cyt P450 at a similar rate but that catalysis nevertheless occurs more slowly in the presence of reductase 14 ; . Presumably, oxyferrous cyt P450 exists in different conformations in the presence of cyt b5 and CPR. Attempts to characterize the interaction of cyt P450 at the individual steps in its reaction cycle with its amphipathic redox partners have been extremely challenging because membranebinding proteins form heterogeneous aggregates between and among themselves in aqueous solution. It is also likely that cyt P450 changes conformation during its reaction cycle and that its various conformations may react differently with cyt b5 and CPR 23 ; . Cyt P450 2B4 forms a 1: complex with CPR and with cyt b5 in reconstituted systems. The binding of the redox partner is enhanced in the presence of substrates, and substrates enhance the affinity for the redox partner 21, 2325 ; . A sitedirected mutagenesis study of the interactions of cyt P450 2B4 with CPR and cyt b5 has identified residues, primarily in the C-helix on the proximal side of cyt P450 2B4, that participate in binding both CPR and cyt b5 13 ; . These data demonstrate that CPR and cyt b5 have nonidentical but nevertheless overlapping binding sites on the proximal surface of cyt P450 2B4 and predict that cyt b5 and CPR will compete for this binding site on cyt P450. Model complexes of cyt P450 2B4 with cyt b5 and CPR also support the hypothesis of an overlapping binding site 4 ; . On the contrary, Schenkman and co-workers 26 ; have proposed a ternary complex of cyt P450, cyt b5, and CPR based on the finding that a carbodiimide cross-linked cyt b5-cyt P450 2B4 complex was able to accept electrons from CPR for the metabolism of para-nitroanisole. The experiment with the cross-linked complex led to the conclusion that cyt b5 and CPR had distinct binding sites on cyt P450 2B4 and that it was posOCTOBER 12, 2007 VOLUME 282 NUMBER 41.

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