“…Although the P450 NADPH-dependent metabolism of several bioactive eicosanoids is well established, P450 NAPDH-independent metabolism is less well characterized but seems to be equally important in the generation of biologically significant oxygenated eicosanoids. Although cytochromes P450 in families 1 to 3 are mainly involved in the metabolism of exogenous compounds (Nebert and Karp, 2008), several also participate in eicosanoid synthesis and degradation (Nebert and Russell, 2002), and several have been shown to catalyze -and -1-hydroxylation of prostaglandins, arachidonic acid, epoxyeicosatrienoic acids, and HETEs in an NADPH-dependent fashion (Holm et al, 1989;Tanaka et al, 1990). CYP1A2, 2E1, and 3A4 have also been shown to break down prostaglandins into 12-hydroxyheptadecatrienoate and malondialdehyde (MDA), independently of cytochrome P450 reductase, NADPH, and O 2 (Plastaras et al, 2000).…”