Approaches for increasing the electrocatalitic efficiency of cytochrome P450 3A4

• The electrochemically driven cytochrome P450 3A4 reactions were performed. • Flavins enhance electro catalytic efficiency of cytochrome P450 3A4. • Complexes with flavins confirm binding in the place of redox partners. The electrochemically driven cytochrome P450 reactions have great promise as drug sensing device, new drug searching tool and bioreactor with broad synthetic application. In the present work, we proposed approaches for the increasing the efficiency of c ytochrome P450 3A4 electrocatalysis, based on fine regulation and reproduction of nature hemeprotein catalytic cycle and electron transfer pathways on electrode. To analyze the comparative electrochemical and electrocatalytic activity, cytochrome P450 3A4 was immobilized on electrodes modified with a membrane-like synthetic surfactant, didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB). We used riboflavin, FMN and FAD as low molecular models of NADPH-dependent cytochrome P450 reductase for the improving and enhancement properties of catalytically responsible cytochrome P450 3A4-electrode. The efficiencies of electrocatalysis of erythromycin N -demethylation as well-known cytochrome P450 3A4 substrate in the case of riboflavin, FAD and FMN as electron transfer mediators were 135 ± 6, 171 ± 15 and 203 ± 10 %, respectively (in comparison with 100 ± 18 % erythromycin N -demethylation in the case of cytochrome P450 3A4-electrode as catalyst). Molecular modeling of cytochrome P450 3A4 complexes with riboflavin, FMN and FAD confirms possibility of binding isoalloxazine ring of riboflavin to the protein on the proximal side of hemeprotein, which is the place for binding of redox partners of the cytochrome P450.