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Cytochrome P450s (P450s) are a supergene family of enzymes responsible for the metabolism of a wide range of endogenous and foreign compounds. P450 isozymes possess overlapping substrate specificity. Systemic administration of dexamethasone, a widely used topical agent in dermatologic practice, to animals is known to result in the induction of multiple P450 isozymes in liver. In this study the effect of topical application of dexamethasone to mice on P450-dependent monooxygenase activities, expression of P450 isozymes, and P450 mRNA levels in skin was assessed. The treatment of mice with dexamethasone resulted in significant induction of 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (2.3 times), 7-pentoxyresorufin O-depentylase (19.2 times), para-nitrophenol hydroxylase (7.5 times), and erythromycin N-demethylase (2.2 times) activities; the monooxygenases catalyzed preferentially by P450 isozymes 1A1, 2B1, 2E1, and 3A, respectively. Immunoblot analysis of cutaneous microsomes, employing antibodies directed against purified P450s 1A1/2, 2B1/2, 2E1, and 3A, showed that dexamethasone treatment results in an increased immunoreactivity (1.8-13.9 times). In immunohistochemical staining of skin with antibody against P4502B1/2, topical application of dexamethasone resulted in an increased reactivity towards microsomal protein in the suprabasal layer of the epidermis and with the cells of the hair follicles. Whereas constitutive expression of mRNAs for CYP1A1 and CYP2E1 was evident in murine skin, any change in the levels of these mRNAs following treatment with dexamethasone was not apparent. The results of our study indicate that the application of dexamethasone to murine skin results in the induction of several families of P450 isozymes, suggesting that murine skin contains multiple inducible P450 isozymes capable of participating in the metabolism of a wide range of xenobiotics and endogenous compounds.
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