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Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1
CYP 2E1; CYP IIE1; CYPIIE1; Cytochrome P-450 (ALC); Cytochrome P-450 IIE1; Cytochrome P-450-J; Cytochrome P450 2E1; N-Nitrosodimethylamine Demethylase; 4 Nitrophenol 2 Hydroxylase; Cytochrome P 450 CYP2E1; Cytochrome P 450 IIE1; Cytochrome P 450 J
An ethanol-inducible cytochrome P450 enzyme that metabolizes several precarcinogens, drugs, and solvents to reactive metabolites. Substrates include alcohol; NITROSAMINES; BENZENE; URETHANE; and other low molecular weight compounds. CYP2E1 has been used as an enzyme marker in the study of alcohol abuse.