Oxidation of tetrahydro-beta-carboline by cytochrome P-450cam--determination and rationalisation of product distribution.

Eur J Biochem

Section de Biophysique des Protéines et des Membranes, DBCM, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Published: January 1998

Cytochrome P-450cam oxidises 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline, an indolic alkaloid. We report here measurements of the product distribution of this oxidation. To rationalise the experimental results, ab initio quantum-chemistry calculations of the product stabilities and molecular-dynamics calculations of the substrate-binding mode in the active site were performed. The calculations suggest that the product distribution is influenced by both the relative intrinsic gas-phase stabilities of the monohydroxy products and by conformational rearrangement of the active site on substrate binding.

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