Thursday 14 February 2013

Medicinal chemistry

Role of cytochrome P450 in microsomal oxidataions

 Ø   The key component in  these reaction is cytochromes P450 Labeled because in can unit with carbon monoxide as well as with atmospheric oxygen give a complex with an absorption peak at 450.

Ø   Cytochrome P450 is present almost all tissues in the body like lungs, Kindly, skin, Brain, Liver.


Ø   But it is not found in these tissues the Microsomal Oxidations do not take place ,because of substrate specificity is very low.


Ø   Cytochrome P450 is described as Oxygen carvers.


Ø   Cytochrome p450 transfers atmospheric O2 to the  substance.

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 Ø   Only reduced form of cytochrome P450 can carry O2 for this way but in the case of it activity it is oxidized to the Fe 3+ form.

Ø   The transfers of electrons necessary to effect it change back to the reduced form and so maintain metabolic activity it requires the NICODINMI ADENINE DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE (NADP/NADPH2) system.

Ø   The drug forms a complex with oxidized [FE37] cytochrome p450.