Abstract
Various drugs including hexobarbital, lidocaine and nortriptyline were added to suspensions of liver cells isolated from untreated and phenobarbital-treated male rats. Upon drug addition, there was a fast binding to cytochrome P-450, as revealed by the appearance of a rapidly growing type I spectral change in the difference spectrum. When this had reached optimal magnitude, an absorption peak at 437 nm could often be seen to appear and quickly disappear, followed by yet another increase in absorption at about 446 nm; the latter and the type I spectral change then rapidly disappeared. These spectral changes were most pronounced with liver cells from phenobarbital-treated rats which contained markedly increased levels of cytochrome P-450. Also the rate of hexobarbital binding to cytochrome P-450 seemed to be increased after phenobarbital pretreatment. Finally, evidence was obtained that the major part of cytochrome P-450 in the isolated liver cells is present in an oxidized, non-substrate-bound form.
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