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. 2013 Jan;41(1):170–179. doi: 10.1124/dmd.112.049171

TABLE 1.

Enzyme kinetics summary of UGT2A2_i1 and UGT2A3 activities against PAHs. Vmax, KM, and Vmax/KM represent the mean of three independent experiments.

Substrate UGT2A2_i1a
UGT2A3b
KM Vmax Vmax/KM KM Vmax Vmax/KM
μM pmol/min/mg μl/min/mg μM pmol/min/mg μl/min/mg
1-OH-pyrene 100 ± 15 38 ± 2.1 0.38 ± 0.03 363 ± 38 5.5 ± 0.2 0.01 ± 0.001*
1-Naphthol 106 ± 15 26 ± 1.5 0.25 ± 0.04 148 ± 18 3.1 ± 0.2 0.02 ± 0.003*
1-OH-B(a)P 279 ± 40 8.2 ± 0.8 0.03 ± 0.004 BLD
3-OH-B(a)P 332 ± 54 7.4 ± 0.5 0.02 ± 0.002 BLD
7-OH-B(a)P 240 ± 29 8.5 ± 0.4 0.04 ± 0.008 BLD
8-OH-B(a)P 287 ± 37 9.3 ± 0.6 0.03 ± 0.002 BLD
5-Methylchrysene-1,2-diol BLD BLD
B(a)P-7,8-diol BLD BLD
Dibenzo(a,l)pyrene-11,12-diol BLD BLD

BLD, below limit of detection.

a

Data expressed as milligrams of total protein homogenate, corrected for relative wild-type UGT2A2 expression as determined by real-time PCR.

b

Data expressed as milligrams of total protein homogenate, corrected for relative UGT2A3 expression as determined by real-time PCR.

*

P < 0.01 versus UGT2A2_i1 activity.