CYP2A6 Genetic Variation Alters Striatal-Cingulate Circuits, Network Hubs, and Executive Processing in Smokers.

Background: Variation in the CYP2A6 gene alters the rate of nicotine metabolic inactivation and is associated with smoking behaviors and cessation success rates. The underlying neurobiological mechanisms of this genetic influence are unknown.

Methods: Intrinsic functional connectivity strength, a whole-brain, data-driven, graph theory-based method, was applied to resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data in 66 smokers and 92 nonsmokers.

Three-dimensional culture and cAMP signaling promote the maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes.

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent a novel source of hepatocytes for drug metabolism studies and cell-based therapy for the treatment of liver diseases. These applications are, however, dependent on the ability to generate mature metabolically functional cells from the hPSCs. Reproducible and efficient generation of such cells has been challenging to date, owing to the fact that the regulatory pathways that control hepatocyte maturation are poorly understood.

Hepatic CYP2A6 levels and nicotine metabolism: impact of genetic, physiological, environmental, and epigenetic factors.

Purpose: We investigated the role of genetic, physiological, environmental, and epigenetic factors in regulating CYP2A6 expression and nicotine metabolism.

Methods: Human livers (n = 67) were genotyped for CYP2A6 alleles and assessed for nicotine metabolism and CYP2A6 expression (mRNA and protein). In addition, a subset of livers (n = 18), human cryopreserved hepatocytes (n = 2), and HepG2 cells were used for DNA methylation analyses.

Novel and established CYP2A6 alleles impair in vivo nicotine metabolism in a population of Black African descent.

Cytochrome P450 2A6 (CYP2A6) is a human enzyme best known for metabolizing tobacco-related compounds, such as nicotine, cotinine (COT), and nitrosamine procarcinogens. CYP2A6 genetic variants have been associated with smoking status, cigarette consumption, and tobacco-related cancers. Our objective was to functionally characterize four nonsynonymous CYP2A6 sequence variants with respect to their haplotype, allele frequency, and association with in vivo CYP2A6 activity.

Chronic nicotine treatment induces rat CYP2D in the brain but not in the liver: an investigation of induction and time course.

Objectives: CYP2D6 levels are higher in many brain regions of human smokers in comparison with nonsmokers. We have shown that CYP2D is expressed in rat brain regions and that enzyme activities correlate with protein and messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels. The aims of this study were to investigate whether nicotine can induce rat brain CYP2D, to determine the recovery time course of the induction and to investigate the mechanism of induction through measuring mRNA levels over time.

An association of CYP2A6 genotype and smoking topography.

Nicotine is metabolized into biologically inactive cotinine primarily by the cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP2A6. CYP2A6 genetic variations have been phenotypically grouped as slow, intermediate, and normal metabolizers. Slow metabolizers smoke fewer cigarettes daily and weekly, and have lower carbon monoxide (CO) and plasma nicotine levels, suggesting a reduced smoking rate compared with normal metabolizers.

CYP2B6 genotype alters abstinence rates in a bupropion smoking cessation trial.

Background: CYP2B6 is the primary enzyme involved in bupropion (Zyban; GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) metabolism. Genetic polymorphisms in CYP2B6, such as CYP2B6*6, can alter bupropion metabolism and may affect bupropion treatment outcome.

Methods: Subjects participated in a smoking cessation clinical trial of bupropion versus placebo.

Ethnic variation in CYP2A6 and association of genetically slow nicotine metabolism and smoking in adult Caucasians.

Genetically variable CYP2A6 is the primary enzyme that inactivates nicotine to cotinine. Our objective was to investigate allele frequencies among five ethnic groups and to investigate the relationship between genetically slow nicotine metabolic inactivation and smoking status, cigarette consumption, age of first smoking and duration of smoking. Chinese, Japanese, Canadian Native Indian, African-North American and Caucasian DNA samples were assessed for CYP2A6 allelic frequencies (CYP2A6*1B-*12,*1x2).

Brain CYP2E1 is induced by nicotine and ethanol in rat and is higher in smokers and alcoholics.

1. Ethanol and nicotine are commonly coabused drugs. Cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) metabolizes ethanol and bioactivates tobacco-derived procarcinogens.

Regional and cellular expression of CYP2D6 in human brain: higher levels in alcoholics.

Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6 is expressed in liver, brain and other extrahepatic tissues where it metabolizes a range of centrally acting drugs and toxins. As ethanol can induce CYP2D in rat brain, we hypothesized that CYP2D6 expression is higher in brains of human alcoholics. We examined regional and cellular expression of CYP2D6 mRNA and protein by RT-PCR, Southern blotting, slot blotting, immunoblotting and immunocytochemistry.