A continuous spectrophotometric assay for P450 BM-3, a fatty acid hydroxylating enzyme, and its mutant F87A.
Cytochrome P450 BM-3 from Bacillus megaterium catalyzes the subterminal hydroxylation of medium- and long-chain fatty acids at the positions omega-1, omega-2, and omega-3. A rapid and continuous spectrophotometric activity assay for cytochrome P450 BM-3 based on the conversion of p-nitrophenoxycarboxylic acids (pNCA) to omega-oxycarboxylic acids and the chromophore p-nitrophenolate was developed. In contrast to the commonly used activity assays for this enzyme, relying on the consumption of oxygen or NADPH or the use of 14C-labeled carboxylic acids, the pNCA assay can even be used with crude extracts of the recombinant enzyme from lysed Escherichia coli cells. The kinetics of p-nitrophenolate formation are directly measured at a wavelength of 410 nm using a spectrophotometer or microtiter plate reader. Sensitivity of the assay is greatly enhanced if p-nitrophenoxydodecanoic or p-nitrophenoxypentadecanoic acid are used with the F87A mutant instead of the wild-type P450 BM-3 enzyme.[1]References
- A continuous spectrophotometric assay for P450 BM-3, a fatty acid hydroxylating enzyme, and its mutant F87A. Schwaneberg, U., Schmidt-Dannert, C., Schmitt, J., Schmid, R.D. Anal. Biochem. (1999) [Pubmed]
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