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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2011 Apr 22;50(19):3957–3967. doi: 10.1021/bi1020748

Table 2. Km’s and kcat’s determined for CYP2B4 WT and its variants and CPR.

2B4 Km (µM) kcat (min−1)
WT 0.14±0.022 37±1.5
C79SC152S 0.19±0.023 48±1.7
C79S 0.18±0.025 41±1.6
(E60C) 0.14±0.019 54±1.9
(H226C) 0.20±0.036 41±2.3
(Y484C) 0.10±0.024 42±2.1
(V267C) 0.43±0.10 34±3.1
(R133C) 0.65±0.11 4.7±0.40
(L270C) 0.69±0.12 30±2.5
(L420C) 0.19±0.064 54±5.2

As described under “Experimental Procedures”, the kinetic parameters were determined by measuring the rate of formaldehyde formation as a result of CYP2B4-mediated N-demethylation of benzphetamine under fixed concentrations of CYP2B4 and excess benzphetamine with increasing concentrations of CPR.