This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.
- Table of Contents
1 Citations
Facts about Cytochrome P450 2C8.
It oxidizes a variety of structurally unrelated compounds, including steroids, fatty acids, and xenobiotics. In the epoxidation of arachidonic acid it generates only 14,15- and 11,12-cis-epoxyeicosatrienoic acids.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CYP2C8 |
| Uniprot: | P10632 |
| Entrez: | 1558 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| cytochrome P450 family |

CPC8; CYPIIC8; cytochrome P450 2C8; Cytochrome P450 form 1; Cytochrome P450 IIC2; Cytochrome P450 MP-12; Cytochrome P450 MP-20; cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily C, polypeptide 8; cytochrome P450, subfamily IIC (mephenytoin 4-hydroxylase), polypeptide 8; EC 1.14.14.1; flavoprotein-linked monooxygenase; microsomal monooxygenase; MP-12/MP-20; P450 form 1; S-mephenytoin 4-hydroxylase; xenobiotic monooxygenase
Mass (kDA):
55.825 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 10q23.33 |
| Sequence: | 10; NC_000010.11 (95036772..95069497, complement) |
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Peripheral membrane protein. Microsome membrane; Peripheral membrane protein.





PMID: 3500169 by Okino S.T., et al. Characterization of multiple human cytochrome P-450 1 cDNAs. The chromosomal localization of the gene and evidence for alternate RNA splicing.
PMID: 3697070 by Kimura S., et al. cDNA and amino acid sequences of two members of the human P450IIC gene subfamily.