Abstract
1. Kidney mitochondrial 24-hydroxylase cytochrome P450 (CYP24) catalyses sequentialhydroxylation at both C-24 andC-23 positions of calcidiol and calcitriol. Here,we have investigated the in vitro metabolism of a hexafluorinated derivative of calcitriol, 26,26,26,27,27,27-hexafluorocalcitriol (ST-630), in a reconstituted system by using recombinant Escherichia coli membrane fractions containing rat CYP24. 2. When ST-630 was incubated with CYP24 supplemented with bovine adrenodoxin and NADPH-adrenodoxin reductase, a distinct metabolite could be observed. This metabolite was found to be 26,26,26,27,27,27-hexafluoro-23S-hydroxycalcitriol, a biologically active metabolite of ST-630, based on cochromatography on HPLC and mass spectrometric analysis. 3. These results show the direct evidence that CYP24 plays an essential role in the metabolism of ST-630 to yield its 23S-hydroxylated metabolite, as observed in cultured cells and experimental animal studies.
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