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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 1561-1568Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.D500008-JLR200
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cytochrome P450 7A1; cytochrome P450 46A1; cytochrome P450 11A1; spectral binding; alternative assay
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Cholesterol plays an important role in cellular function and membrane compartmentalization and is involved in the interaction with more than a dozen of different proteins. Using three cholesterol-metabolizing cytochrome P450s ( P450s 7A1, 46A1, and 11A1), we have developed a rapid and simple assay for measurements of nanomolar to micromolar cholesterol affinities. In this assay, the P450 is incubated with a fixed amount of radiolabeled cholesterol and varying concentrations of cold cholesterol followed by separation of free and protein-bound cholesterol via filtration through a membrane. Free cholesterol is found in the flow-through fraction, whereas P450 binds to the membrane. The radioactivity of the membranes is then measured, and a saturation curve is generated after correction for nonspecific binding of cholesterol to the filter. The validity of the filter assay was confirmed by spectral assay, a traditional method to evaluate the interaction of the P450 enzymes with their substrates. Two types of membranes, one binding positively charged proteins and another binding negatively charged proteins, were identified. These membranes were also found to hold proteins through hydrophobic interactions. Thus, the cholesterol binding properties of a wide variety of proteins could be characterized using this filter assay. - Mast, N., and I. A. Pikuleva. A simple and rapid method to measure cholesterol binding to P450s and other proteins.
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