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Volume 271, Number 50, Issue of December 13, 1996 pp. 32269-32275
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Molecular Cloning and Expression of Rabbit Sterol 12alpha -Hydroxylase

(Received for publication, July 9, 1996, and in revised form, August 23, 1996)

Gösta Eggertsen , Maria Olin , Ulla Andersson , Hiroko Ishida , Shunichiro Kubota par , Ulf Hellman " , Kyu-Ichiro Okuda ''' and Ingemar Björkhem

From the  Division of Clinical Chemistry, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden, the par  Department of Physiological Chemistry and Nutrition, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, the " Ludwig Institute, Biomedicum, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and the ''' Department of Surgery, Miyazaki Medical College, Miyazaki, Japan

Sterol 12alpha -hydroxylase is an important enzyme in bile acid biosynthesis, responsible for the balance between formation of cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid. The enzyme has been purified to apparent homogeneity from rabbit liver (Ishida, H., Noshiro, M., Okuda, K., and Coon, M. J. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 21319-21323), and we here describe the cloning and sequencing of a cDNA coding for this enzyme. After tryptic digestion of purified protein in a polyacrylamide gel, eight different peptides were isolated and sequenced. Using oligonucleotides deduced from the amino acid sequences, clones were isolated from a rabbit liver cDNA library. In addition to several overlapping clones, one full-length clone was obtained that coded for a polypeptide of 500 amino acids, corresponding to a molecular mass of 57 kDa. All of the eight peptides and the reported NH2-terminal amino acid sequence were matched against the sequence. The peptide sequence showed a 39% similarity with human prostacyclin synthase (CYP8) and 31% similarity with the rate-limiting enzyme in over-all synthesis of bile acids, the cholesterol 7alpha -hydroxylase (CYP7) of the rabbit. The similarity with most other sterol cytochrome P-450 hydroxylases was less. Thus, this species of cytochrome P-450 should belong to a group of its own, here denoted CYP12. Transfection of COS cells with the coding part of the cDNA resulted in a significant expression of sterol 12alpha -hydroxylase activity toward 7alpha -hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one.

Northern blotting showed that the enzyme was exclusively expressed in the liver. The major mRNA fraction in rabbit liver had a size of approximately 2.9 kilobases, and those found in rat and human liver were about 2.5 and 4.5 kilobases, respectively. Fasting of rats and mice led to a severalfold increase in both enzyme activity and mRNA levels. In contrast, starvation of rabbits had little or no stimulatory effect on enzyme activity and mRNA levels.


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