Cytochromes P450 epoxidation reactions

Metabolic activation of benzol a Ipyrcnc consists of three enzymatic reactions. First, the formation of epoxide in position 7/8 is catalyzed by cytochrome P450 epoxidation in position 4/5 results in detoxification of this compound. Then, epoxide hydrolase converts the epoxide into 7,8-dihydrodiol, which is subsequently oxidized to 7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide. The formation of four different diastereoisomers is feasible, among which anti-9,10-epoxide derived from (-)-7,8-dihydrodiol is by far most... 

The overall hydroxylation or epoxidation reaction catalyzed by cytochrome P450s involves the insertion of one oxygen atom, derived from molecular oxygen, into a C-H bond or into the Jt-system of an olefin, with the concomitant reduction of the... 

The metabolism of foreign compounds (xenobiotics) often takes place in two consecutive reactions, classically referred to as phases one and two. Phase I is a functionalization of the lipophilic compound that can be used to attach a conjugate in Phase II. The conjugated product is usually sufficiently water-soluble to be excretable into the urine. The most important biotransformations of Phase I are aromatic and aliphatic hydroxylations catalyzed by cytochromes P450. Other Phase I enzymes are for example epoxide hydrolases or carboxylesterases. Typical Phase II enzymes are UDP-glucuronosyltrans-ferases, sulfotransferases, N-acetyltransferases and methyltransferases e.g. thiopurin S-methyltransferase. 

The numerous biotransformations catalyzed by cytochrome P450 enzymes include aromatic and aliphatic hydroxylations, epoxidations of olefinic and aromatic structures, oxidations and oxidative dealkylations of heteroatoms and as well as some reductive reactions. Cytochromes P450 of higher animals may be classified into two broad categories depending on whether their substrates are primarily endogenous or xenobiotic substances. Thus, CYP enzymes of families 1-3 catalyze... 

Guengerich, F.P. (2003) Cytochrome P450 oxidations in the generation of reactive electrophiles epoxidation and related reactions. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 409, 59-71. 

Fig. 10.8. Simplified and partial metabolic scheme of benzene. Cytochrome P450 mediated oxidation (Reaction a) yields benzene oxide (10.1), which produces phenol (10.14) by isomerization (Reaction c) and 1,2-dihydro-1,2-dihydroxybenzene (10.13) by epoxide hydrolase catalyzed hydration (Reaction d). Direct formation of phenol also occurs (Reaction b). Phenol...

Two further compounds are briefly discussed here. Tetrachloroethylene administered to animals yielded 2,2,2-trichloroacetic acid (10.95, Fig. 10.23) as the only chlorinated metabolite [13]. These findings provided the first evidence that tetrachloroethylene is oxidized by cytochrome P450 to its epoxide (10.94), which rearranges by Cl migration to 2,2,2-trichloroacetyl chloride (Fig. 10.23). The latter hydrolyzes to 2,2,2-trichloroacetic acid (10.95), but also acylates tissue proteins, a reaction of unclear toxicological significance. In vitro investigations of tetrachloroethylene oxide (2,2,3,3-tetrachlo-rooxirane, 10.94) further showed that it hydrolyzes to the vicinal diol (10.96... 

S.3 Cytochrome P450 Model Compounds Functional. Ferric-peroxo species are part of the cytochrome P450 catalytic cycle as discussed previously in Section 7.4.4. For instance, these ferric-peroxo moieties are known to act as nucleophiles attacking aldehydic carbon atoms in oxidative deformylations to produce aromatic species.An example of this work, establishing the nucleophilic nature of [(porphyrin)Fe (02)] complexes, was achieved for alkene epoxidation reactions by J. S. Valentine and co-workers. The electron-deficient compound menadione (see Figure 7.18) yielded menadione epoxide when reacted with a [(porphyrin)Fe X02)] complex. 

In subsequent research, it turned out that two-state reactivity can also provide a concept for the understanding of oxidation reactions way beyond the scope of gas-phase ion chemistry and can actually resolve a number of existing mechanistic puzzles. In enzymatic oxidations involving cytochrome P450, for example, changes in spin multiplicity appear to act as a kind of mechanistic distributor for product formation [27-29], and in the case of manganese-catalyzed epoxidation reactions, two-state scenarios have been put forward to account for the experimentally observed stereoselectivities [30-32], Two-state reactivity is not restricted to oxidation reactions, and similar scenarios have been proposed for a number of other experimentally studied reactions of 3d metal compounds [33-37]. Moreover, two-state scenarios have recently also been involved in the chemistry of main group elements [38]. The concept of two-state reactivity developed from the four-atomic system FeO /H2... 

Cytochromes P450 are monooxygenases whose cosubstrates, often NADH or NADPH, deliver electrons to the active center heme via a separate flavoprotein and often via an iron-sulfur protein as well 476a b A typical reaction (Eq. 18-55) is the 11 (3-hydroxylation of a steroid, an essential step in the biosynthesis of steroid hormones (Fig. 22-11). The hydroxyl group is introduced without inversion of configuration. The same enzyme converts unsaturated derivatives to epoxides (Eq. 18-56), while other cytochromes P450... 

The mechanism of the epoxidation of alkenes by the cytochrome P450 model, sodium hypochlorite-manganese(III) tetraarylporphyrins, involves rate-determining formation of an active species 234 from a hypochlorite-manganese complex 233 (Scheme 6) pyridine or imidazole derivatives, as axial ligands, accelerate this step by electron donation, although the imidazoles are destroyed under the reaction conditions368. 

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