Abstract
The present work shows that the ability of pyridines e.g. metyrapone, to maintain the cytochrome P-450 concentration in cultured hepatocytes is not due to their ability to alter the 5-aminolaevulinate synthase and haem oxygenase activities of the hepatocytes. Since ligands such as metyrapone will prevent the cobalt-mediated loss of hepatic cytochrome P-450 in rats, the hypothesis that ligand formation is the mechanism of maintenance of the cytochrome in hepatocyte culture was tested. The observation that non-pyridine ligands will maintain the cytochrome P-450 concentration supports this hypothesis.
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