Abstract
1. 1. The disadvantage of a whole cell system for studying the metabolism of xenobiotics is that some substrates and regulatory molecules do not readily cross cell membrane. 2. 2. The present study describes a technique to permeabilize H-4-II-E rat hepatoma cells for the study of benzo(a)pyrene metabolism. 3. 3. NADPH is an essential cofactor in the in vitro microsomal metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene and has been shown by indirect measurement to be a rate limiting factor in mixed function oxidase activity in whole liver perfusion systems. 4. 4. The role of NADPH has not been directly demonstrated in an intact cell system. 5. 5. Using this permeabilized whole cell system it is possible to directly demonstrate that NADPH is rate limiting in the mixed function oxidation of benzo(a)pyrene.
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