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Title: Molecular identity and gene expression of aldosterone synthase cytochrome P450

Journal Article · · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BBRC.2005.0· OSTI ID:20793199
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Laboratories for Biomolecular Networks, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 (Japan) and Department of Molecular Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine (H-1), Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 (Japan)
  2. College of Nutrition, Koshien University, Takarazuka, Hyogo 665-0006 (Japan)
  3. Department of Molecular Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine (H-1), Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 (Japan)
  4. Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Human Life Sciences, Senri Kinran University, Suita, Osaka 565-0873 (Japan)

11{beta}-Hydroxylase (CYP11B1) of bovine adrenal cortex produced corticosterone as well as aldosterone from 11-deoxycorticosterone in the presence of the mitochondrial P450 electron transport system. CYP11B1s of pig, sheep, and bullfrog, when expressed in COS-7 cells, also performed corticosterone and aldosterone production. Since these CYP11B1s are present in the zonae fasciculata and reticularis as well as in the zona glomerulosa, the zonal differentiation of steroid production may occur by the action of still-unidentified factor(s) on the enzyme-catalyzed successive oxygenations at C11- and C18-positions of steroid. In contrast, two cDNAs, one encoding 11{beta}-hydroxylase and the other encoding aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2), were isolated from rat, mouse, hamster, guinea pig, and human adrenals. The expression of CYP11B1 gene was regulated by cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent signaling, whereas that of CYP11B2 gene by calcium ion-signaling as well as cAMP-signaling. Salt-inducible protein kinase, a cAMP-induced novel protein kinase, was one of the regulators of CYP11B2 gene expression.

OSTI ID:
20793199
Journal Information:
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol. 338, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.07.187; PII: S0006-291X(05)01690-6; Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0006-291X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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