The inhibition of squalene epoxidase by the allylamine antimycotic agents naftifine and compound SF 86-327 was investigated, with particulate enzyme preparations from the pathogenic yeasts Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis and from rat liver. Both naftifine and compound SF 86-327 were potent inhibitors of the Candida epoxidases and showed apparently non-competitive kinetics with respect...

Supernatant protein factor (SPF) and anionic phospholipids such as phosphatidylglycerol (PG) stimulate squalene epoxidase activity in rat liver microsomes by promoting ['Hlsqualene uptake as well as substrate translocation (Chin, J., and K. Bloch. 1984. J Biol. C h . 259: 11735-11738). This process is postulated to be membrane-mediated and not carriermediated. Here we show that treatment of PG ...

The microsomal enzyme system from rat liver which catalyzes the epoxidation of squalene to 2,3-oxidosqualene (squalene epoxidase) has been investigated further with 10 ,ll-dihydrosqualene as the artacial substrate. Liver supernatant contributes two essential components to the epoxidase system, one heat stable and the other heat labile (YAMAMOTO, S., AND BLOCH, K. (1970) J. Biol. Chem. 245, 1670...

The effect of oxygen on squalene epoxidase activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae was investigated. In cells grown in standing cultures, the epoxidase was localized mainly in the "mitochondrial" fraction. Upon aeration, enzyme activity increased and the newly formed enzyme was associated with the "microsomal" fraction. At 0.03% (vol/vol) oxygen, epoxidase levels doubled, whereas the ergosterol le...

Background: Trichophyton tonsurans is one of the dermatophyte fungi which invades the skin and hair of human. Several properties of this fungus have been investigated so far. However a few studies were carried out in the field of molecular biology of this fungus. In the present study, we tried to identify the Squalene epoxidase gene which is related to synthesis of ergosterol in this fungus. Me...

Irrtrotliictiori The allylamines arc a recently developed class o f synthetic antifungal agents 1 1 1 with clinical applications against pathogenic fungi. The topical antimycotic na temically active compound terbinafine inhibit a wide range of fungi. with a strictly fungicidal action in most cases [2, 31. A large number of structurally related allylamines have been synthesized; the chemistry an...

Squalene epoxidase, a membrane-associated enzyme that converts squalene to squalene 2,3-oxide, plays an important role in the maintenance of cholesterol homeostasis. In 1957, Bloch and colleagues identified a factor from rat liver cytosol termed "supernatant protein factor (SPF)," which promotes the squalene epoxidation catalyzed by rat liver microsomes with oxygen, NADPH, FAD, and phospholipid...

background: trichophyton tonsurans is one of the dermatophyte fungi which invades the skin and hair of human. several properties of this fungus have been investigated so far. however a few studies were carried out in the field of molecular biology of this fungus. in the present study, we tried to identify the squalene epoxidase gene which is related to synthesis of ergosterol in this fungus. me...

Recombinant rat squalene epoxidase (rSE) was expressed in E. coli and purified to an apparent homogeneity. This expression system was constructed using squalene epoxidase (SE) cDNA in which nucleotides coding 99 amino acids in the N-terminal were deleted and nucleotides coding hexa-histidine in the C-terminal were added. Purification was carried out using Ni-chelate affinity agarose and Cibacro...