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Evans AJ, Henner WD, Eilers KM, Montalto MA, Wersinger EM, Andersen PE, Cohen JI, Everts EC, McWilliams JE, Beer TM. Polymorphisms of GSTT1 and related genes in head and neck cancer risk. Head Neck 2004; 26:63-70. [PMID: 14724908 DOI: 10.1002/hed.10342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Glutathione S-transferase T1 detoxifies some environmental carcinogens while activating others and is deleted in 15% to 38% of humans. We sought to determine whether GSTT1 genotype and genotypes of several related genes are associated with risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC). METHODS Somatic genotypes for GSTT1, GSTM1, GSTP1, and CYP1A1 were determined in 283 individuals with HNSCC and 208 population-based controls. RESULTS The OR for presence of GSTT1 was 1.6 (CI, 1.1-2.5, p = 0.03). HNSCC risk was not associated with GSTM1 null genotype, the presence of the GSTP1 Val/Val genotype, or the Val/Val homozygous genotype for CYP1A1. Stratified analysis revealed disparate ORs for women (OR, 3.0; CI, 1.5-6.3) and men (OR, 1.2; CI, 0.7-2.1) for the presence of GSTT1. CONCLUSIONS In this population, the presence of GSTT1 gene was associated with a significant increase in the risk of HNSCC. This association was particularly robust in women.
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- Adam J Evans
- Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Oregon Health and Science University, Mail Code L586, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA
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Jaiswal AK. Nrf2 signaling in coordinated activation of antioxidant gene expression. Free Radic Biol Med 2004; 36:1199-207. [PMID: 15110384 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2004.02.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 972] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2003] [Revised: 02/04/2004] [Accepted: 02/19/2004] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Antioxidant response element (ARE)-mediated expression and coordinated induction of antioxidant enzymes is a critical mechanism of protection against chemically induced oxidative/electrophilic stress. NF-E2-related nuclear factors (Nrf1 and Nrf2) bind to ARE and regulate ARE-mediated gene expression and induction. Nrf2 is more potent than Nrf1 in activation of ARE-regulated gene expression. Nrf2 is retained in the cytoplasm by an inhibitor INrf2. Nrf2 binding to INrf2 leads to proteasomal degradation of Nrf2. An increase in oxidative/electrophilic stress, due to chemical exposure, leads to the activation of protein kinase C (PKC) and other cytosolic factors. PKC phosphorylation of Nrf2 at serine 40 results in the escape or release of Nrf2 from INrf2. Nrf2 translocates to the nucleus, forms heterodimers with its unknown partner proteins, and binds to the ARE. This leads to the coordinated activation of ARE-regulated genes. Additional nuclear factor including small Mafs (MafG and MafK), large Maf (c-Maf), c-Fos, and Fra1, also bind to ARE and negatively regulate ARE-mediated gene expression. This is presumably to keep the expression of antioxidant enzymes "in check" to maintain the cellular defenses active and/or to rapidly restore induced enzymes to normal levels. Future investigations are expected to reveal that a balance between positive and negative factors regulates ARE-mediated gene expression and induction. The future studies should also reveal a complete mechanism of signal transduction from antioxidants and xenobiotics to the transcription factors, such as Nrf2, that bind to ARE.
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- Anil K Jaiswal
- Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Yassin Z, Ortiz-Salmerón E, García-Maroto F, Barón C, García-Fuentes L. Implications of the ligandin binding site on the binding of non-substrate ligands to Schistosoma japonicum-glutathione transferase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2004; 1698:227-37. [PMID: 15134656 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2003.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2003] [Revised: 10/31/2003] [Accepted: 12/01/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The binding interactions between dimeric glutathione transferase from Schistosoma japonicum (Sj26GST) and bromosulfophthalein (BS) or 8-anilino-1-naphthalene sulfonate (ANS) were characterised by fluorescence spectroscopy and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Both ligands inhibit the enzymatic activity of Sj26GST in a non-competitive form. A stoichiometry of 1 molecule of ligand per mole of dimeric enzyme was obtained for the binding of these ligands. The affinity of BS is higher (K(d)=3.2 microM) than that for ANS (K(d)=195 microM). The thermodynamic parameters obtained by calorimetric titrations are pH-independent in the range of 5.5 to 7.5. The interaction process is enthalpically driven at all the studied temperatures. This enthalpic contribution is larger for the ANS anion than for BS. The strongly favourable enthalpic contribution for the binding of ANS to Sj26GST is compensated by a negative entropy change, due to enthalpy-entropy compensation. DeltaG degrees remains almost invariant over the temperature range studied. The free energy change for the binding of BS to Sj26GST is also favoured by entropic contributions at temperatures below 32 degrees C, thus indicating a strong hydrophobic interaction. Heat capacity change obtained for BS (DeltaC(p) degrees =(-580.3+/-54.2) cal x K(-1) mol(-1)) is twofold larger (in absolute value) than for ANS (DeltaC(p) degrees =(-294.8+/-15.8) cal x K(-1) mol(-1)). Taking together the thermodynamic parameters obtained for these inhibitors, it can be argued that the possible hydrophobic interactions in the binding of these inhibitors to L-site must be accompanied by other interactions whose contribution is enthalpic. Therefore, the non-substrate binding site (designed as ligandin) on Sj26GST may not be fully hydrophobic.
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- Zeyad Yassin
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Experimental Sciences, University of Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, 04120, Spain
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Sheweita SA, Mostafa MH, Ebid F, El-Sayed W. Changes in expression and activity of glutathione S-transferase in different organs of schistosoma haematobium-infected hamster. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 2004; 17:138-45. [PMID: 12815609 DOI: 10.1002/jbt.10071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Schistosomiasis is a major health problem in many subtropical developing countries, causing a number of serious pathologies, including bladder cancer. Most of the toxic compounds formed as a result of these infestations are derived either exogenously or formed endogenously and can be conjugated with glutathione (GSH) via glutathione S-transferase (GST). The present study investigates the effect of Schistosma haematobium infection on the activity of GST and glutathione reductase (GR) and levels of glutathione and free radicals (measured as thiobarbituric acid reactive substances) in different organs of the male hamster. The total activity of GST was increased in several organs; in kidney by 50 and 46% at 6 and 10 weeks postinfection, respectively, and in bladder tissues by 169, 23, and 130% at 2, 4, and 6 weeks postinfection, respectively. In support of this, the expression of GST isozymes was also induced in kidney and bladder tissues at early stages (2, 4, and 6 weeks) and reduced at the later stages of infection (8 and 10 weeks). In contrast, the expression of these isozymes was decreased in the spleen and liver at 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 weeks postinfection. Also, such activity was decreased in lungs by 74 and 78% and in bladders by 65 and 72% at 8 and 10 weeks postinfection, respectively. GSH levels increased in lungs by 95, 40, and 56% at 2, 4, and 6 weeks and in spleen by 26 and 74% at 4 and 6 weeks, respectively, but decreased at later stages of S. haematobium infection in these organs. The depletion of GSH levels also occurred in bladders by 72 and 54% at 8 and 10 weeks postinfection, respectively. The activity of GR was increased in the livers, lungs, and kidneys of the S. haematobium-infected hamster. TBARS also increased in the lung by 14, 65, 53, 828, and 624% and in the kidney by 64, 29, 87, 190, and 111%, and in the bladder by 216, 23, 1468, 528, and 1025% at 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 weeks postinfection, respectively. This study indicates that low GST expression and high levels of free radicals could provide new evidence for damage to the bladder and other organs as a result of S. haematobium infection.
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- S A Sheweita
- Department of Bioscience & Technology, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Alexandria University, Egypt.
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Lockhart AC, Howard M, Hande KR, Roth BJ, Berlin JD, Vreeland F, Campbell A, Fontana E, Fiorentini F, Fowst C, Paty VA, Lankford O, Rothenberg ML. A Phase I Dose-Escalation and Pharmacokinetic Study of Brostallicin (PNU-166196A), a Novel DNA Minor Groove Binder, in Adult Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2004; 10:468-75. [PMID: 14760067 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-0658-03] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE This study was performed to determine the maximum tolerated dose, dose-limiting toxicities, and pharmacokinetics of brostallicin, a nonalkylating DNA minor groove binder and a synthetic derivative of distamycin A, given as a weekly i.v. infusion. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Using an accelerated dose escalation design, patients with advanced solid tumor malignancies were treated with brostallicin administered as a 10-min i.v. infusion on days 1, 8, and 15 of a 28-day cycle. The starting dose of brostallicin was 0.3 mg/m(2)/week. To study the pharmacokinetic behavior of brostallicin, serial blood samples were obtained before and after the first and last infusions during cycle 1, and in cycles 2 and 4 in a limited number of patients. RESULTS Fourteen patients received 32 complete cycles of brostallicin. Dose-limiting toxicity was febrile neutropenia and was observed in 3 of 5 patients treated at 4.8 mg/m(2)/week. The maximum tolerated dose and recommended Phase II dose was 2.4 mg/m(2)/week. The mean +/- SD terminal half-life at the maximum tolerated dose was 4.6 +/- 4.1 h. There was moderate distribution of brostallicin into tissues, and the clearance was approximately 20% of the hepatic blood flow. The area under the concentration time curve(0- infinity ) of brostallicin increased in a dose-linear fashion. No significant relationship was observed between any plasma pharmacokinetic parameter and clinical toxicities. There were no objective responses during the trial, but 5 patients had stable disease after two cycles of treatment. CONCLUSIONS The dose-limiting toxicity of weekly brostallicin was neutropenia. Systemic exposure increases linearly with dose. The recommended dose for Phase II studies is 2.4 mg/m(2) on days 1, 8, and 15 of a 28-day cycle.
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Zeindl-Eberhart E, Haraida S, Liebmann S, Jungblut PR, Lamer S, Mayer D, Jäger G, Chung S, Rabes HM. Detection and identification of tumor-associated protein variants in human hepatocellular carcinomas. Hepatology 2004; 39:540-9. [PMID: 14768008 DOI: 10.1002/hep.20060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The proteomic approach is a valuable tool to detect and identify proteins that are associated with cancer. In previous investigations on experimentally induced rat hepatomas, we detected aldose reductase-like protein (ARLP) as a highly significant marker protein. Our present study was intended to look for the presence of similar tumor-associated marker proteins on human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC). We found several novel tumor-associated protein variants that represent members of the aldo-keto reductase (AKR) superfamily. Human aldose reductase-like protein-1 (hARLP-1) was the most prominent tumor-associated AKR member detected in HCC by 2-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) and identified by mass spectrometric fingerprinting. The enzyme was found in 4 distinct forms (hARLP-1, 36/7.4 (kd/pI); hARLP-2, 36/7.2; hARLP-3, 36/6.4; and hARLP-4, 33/7.35). In addition, a human aldose reductase-like protein (hARLP-5, 36/7.6) was identified that differed from hARLP-1 by 1 amino acid (D313N), indicating 2 allelic forms of the human aldose reductase-like gene. A novel antibody directed against common parts of the hARLPs revealed hARLP reactivity in human HCC by immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, aldose reductase (AR) was identified and characterized as a tumor-associated variant. In conclusion, in all investigated human HCCs at least one of the various types of the described tumor-associated proteins of the AKR superfamily was clearly present. Of these HCC samples, 95% were positive for hARLPs as proven by 2-DE analysis and/or by use of the antibody directed against hARLP. Thus, hARLP is a strong candidate for use as an immunohistochemical diagnostic marker of human HCC.
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Jaiswal AK. Regulation of antioxidant response element-dependent induction of detoxifying enzyme synthesis. Methods Enzymol 2004; 378:221-38. [PMID: 15038972 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(04)78018-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Anil K Jaiswal
- Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Stoehlmacher J, Goekkurt E, Lenz HJ. Pharmacogenetic aspects in treatment of colorectal cancer – an update. Pharmacogenomics 2003; 4:767-77. [PMID: 14596640 DOI: 10.1517/phgs.4.6.767.22825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Pharmacogenomic analyses will become crucial to predict patients’ toxicity to treatment and will also help to predict the tumor response. Processes of drug metabolism, drug efflux, DNA-repair and characteristics of drug targets are critical checkpoints of drug efficacy. These crucial pathways for drug action have been part of pharmacogenomic studies evaluating the impact of genomic variants on transcription, translation, protein structure and substrate binding of the genes involved. Promising candidates have been identified with predictive value for response and toxicity to chemotherapy in colorectal cancers. These candidates need to be incorporated into large, prospective clinical trials to confirm their impact for response and survival to chemotherapy that has been reported in retrospective analyses. Confirmed predictive markers, together with additional yet to be identified pharmacogenomic key players, will provide the basis for tailoring chemotherapy in the future.
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- Jan Stoehlmacher
- GI Oncology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Suite 3456, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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Aizawa S, Ookawa K, Kudo T, Asano J, Hayakari M, Tsuchida S. Characterization of cell death induced by ethacrynic acid in a human colon cancer cell line DLD-1 and suppression by N-acetyl-L-cysteine. Cancer Sci 2003; 94:886-93. [PMID: 14556662 PMCID: PMC11160201 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01371.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2003] [Revised: 08/15/2003] [Accepted: 08/21/2003] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Since ethacrynic acid (EA), an SH modifier as well as glutathione S-transferase (GST) inhibitor, has been suggested to induce apoptosis in some cell lines, its effects on a human colon cancer cell line DLD-1 were examined. EA enhanced cell proliferation at 20-40 microM, while it caused cell death at 60-100 microM. Caspase inhibitors did not block cell death and DNA ladder formation was not detected. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, however, was cleaved into an 82-kDa fragment, different from an 85-kDa fragment that is specific for apoptosisis. The 82-kDa fragment was not recognized by antibody against PARP fragment cleaved by caspase 3. N-Acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) completely inhibited EA-induced cell death, but 3(2)-t-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole or pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate ammonium salt did not. Glutathione (GSH) levels were dose-dependently increased in cells treated with EA and this increase was hardly affected by NAC addition. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase (MEK) 1, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1 and GST P1-1 were increased in cells treated with 25-75 microM EA, while c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) 1 and p38 MAPK were markedly decreased by 100 microM EA. NAC repressed EA-induced alterations in these MAPKs and GST P1-1. p38 MAPK inhibitors, SB203580 and FR167653, dose-dependently enhanced EA-induced cell death. An MEK inhibitor, U0126, did not affect EA-induced cell death. These studies revealed that EA induced cell death concomitantly with a novel PARP fragmentation, but without DNA fragmentation. p38 MAPK was suggested to play an inhibitory role in EA-induced cell death.
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- Shu Aizawa
- Second Department of Biochemistry, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8562, Japan.
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Site-directed Mutagenesis of Tyrosine 108 Residue in Human Glutathione S-Transferase P1-1. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2003. [DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2003.24.8.1188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Stoehlmacher J, Lenz HJ. Implications of genetic testing in the management of colorectal cancer. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOGENOMICS : GENOMICS-RELATED RESEARCH IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL PRACTICE 2003; 3:73-88. [PMID: 12749725 DOI: 10.2165/00129785-200303020-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer is impacted by various factors at the time of diagnosis, including location of the tumor, gender, age and overall performance status of the patient. Optimal postoperative management of patients who have undergone successful tumor resection involves the utilization of reliable determninants of prognosis to help select patients who would benefit from adjuvant treatment, while sparing others from drug-related adverse effects. Tailoring chemotherapy for patients with disseminated cancer, or for patients who receive adjuvant chemotherapy, is also critical. Interpatient differences in tumor response and drug toxicity are common during chemotherapy. Genomic variability of key metabolic enzyme complexes, drug targets, and drug transport molecules is an important contributing factor. The identification of genetic markers of response and prognosis will aid in the development of more individualized chemotherapuetic strategies for cancer patients. Potential prognostic indicators in colorectal cancer include oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, genes involved in angiogenic and apoptotic pathways and cell proliferation, and those encoding targets of chemotherapy. Specifically, molecular markers such as deletion of 18q (DCC), p27 and microsatellite instability are promising as indicators of good or poor prognosis. Molecular determinants of efficacy and host toxicity of the most commonly used drugs in colorectal cancer, fluoracil, irinotecan and oxaliplatin, are being investigated. Alterations in gene expression, protein expression and polymorphic variants in genes encoding thymidylate synthase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, dUTP nucleotidehydrolase and thymidine phosphorylase (for fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy), uridine diphosphate glucosyltransferase (UGT) 1A1 and carboxylesterase (for irinotecan therapy), and excision repair cross-complementing genes (ERCC1 and ERCC2) and glutathione-S-transferase P1 (for oxalilplatin-based regimens) may be useful as markers for clinical drug response, survival and host toxicity.
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- Jan Stoehlmacher
- Division of Medical Oncology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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Li M, Ittmann MM, Rowley DR, Knowlton AA, Vaid AK, Epner DE. Glutathione S-transferase pi is upregulated in the stromal compartment of hormone independent prostate cancer. Prostate 2003; 56:98-105. [PMID: 12746833 DOI: 10.1002/pros.10249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Glutathione S-transferase (GST) pi is a detoxifying enzyme abundant in normal prostate basal cells but only rarely expressed in prostate cancer cells. The current studies are the first to focus on GST pi in the stromal compartment of prostate tumors. METHODS We employed immunohistochemical, immunofluorescence, and Western blot analysis to measure GST pi expression and subcellular localization in 21 primary and metastatic tumors from patients with hormone independent prostate cancer, as well as seven lymph node metastases and six prostatectomy specimens. RESULTS GST pi was detectable in stromal cells in 17 of the 21 hormone independent prostate tumors. GST pi tissue distribution in hormone independent tumors coincided with vimentin staining, suggesting that GST pi is expressed by reactive fibroblasts and/or myofibroblasts. CONCLUSIONS The current results suggest that prostate cancer cells induce an injury response in the stroma during progression to hormone independence, which results in GST pi expression. Stromal GST pi may contribute to chemoresistence of advanced prostate cancer.
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- Ming Li
- Department of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Choi SC, Yun KJ, Kim TH, Kim HJ, Park SG, Oh GJ, Chae SC, Oh GJ, Nah YH, Kim JJ, Chung HT. Prognostic potential of glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 null genotypes for gastric cancer progression. Cancer Lett 2003; 195:169-75. [PMID: 12767525 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(03)00158-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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To improve understanding of glutathione S-transferase (GST) behavior in terms of a development and prognostic factor for gastric adenocarcinoma, we investigated the association between the GSTM1 and GSTT1 null genotypes and gastric cancer risk or the prognostic value of the GSTM1 and GSTT1 null genotypes was evaluated. Using a polymerase chain reaction-based method, the frequencies of GSTM1 and GSTT1 genotypes and prognostic factors, such as staging, differentiation, and histologic type (intestinal vs. diffuse), were evaluated in 80 patients with curatively resected primary gastric adenocarcinoma. The frequencies of GSTM1 and GSTT1 null individuals were higher in the gastric cancer group, but the differences were not statistically significant (for GSTM1 null odds ratio (OR)=0.86; 95% confidence interval (CI)=0.49-1.51 and for GSTT1, OR=0.97; 95% CI=0.55-1.71). Since the GSTM1 and GSTT1 null genotypes are potential indicators of gastric adenocarcinoma, we examined the relationship between the GSTM1 and GSTT1 genotypes and prognostic factors. In terms of the histologically diffuse type of cancer, GSTM1 indicated an approximately 3.24-fold increase (OR=3.24; 95% CI=1.05-10.17). With respect to gastric cancer differentiation, the frequency of the GSTM1 null genotype was linked with a statistically significant increase in risk (3.42-fold) for the high-grade type (OR=3.42; CI=1.02-13.24). Our results indicate that there is no obvious relationship between GSTM1 and GSTT1 polymorphisms and the development of gastric cancer. However, in Korean gastric adenocarcinoma patients the GSTM1 null genotype appears to be associated with a poorer prognosis.
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- Suck Chei Choi
- Department of Internal Medicine, Genomic Research Center for Immune Disorder, Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Chonbuk 570-749, South Korea
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Mayama J, Kumano T, Hayakari M, Yamazaki T, Aizawa S, Kudo T, Tsuchida S. Polymorphic glutathione S-transferase subunit 3 of rat liver exhibits different susceptibilities to carbon tetrachloride: differences in their interactions with heat-shock protein 90. Biochem J 2003; 372:611-6. [PMID: 12611589 PMCID: PMC1223406 DOI: 10.1042/bj20021788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2002] [Revised: 02/24/2003] [Accepted: 02/27/2003] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Rat glutathione S-transferase (GST) subunit 3 gene has polymorphism, one type encoding Asn(198)-Cys(199) (NC type) and another encoding Lys(198)-Ser(199) (KS type). To examine whether the two types of GST 3-3 exhibit different susceptibilities to oxidative stress in vivo, rats were administered with CCl(4), a hepatotoxin causing severe oxidative stress, and its effect on liver GST 3-3 was compared. Decrease in GST activities in liver due to CCl(4) administration was more evident in NC type rats than in KS type rats, and most GST activities of KS type rats were confined to S-hexylglutathione-Sepharose, whereas those of NC type rats were not. Decreases in GST subunits 1 and 3 were more marked in NC type rats and glutathiolated NC type GST 3-3 was also detected. These results indicated that KS and NC type GST 3-3 of rat livers exhibited different susceptibilities to CCl(4) in vivo. A protein consisting of a subunit with molecular mass of 90 kDa was shown to bind to KS type GST 3-3 but not to NC type. This protein was identified as heat-shock protein (HSP) 90beta by N-terminal amino acid sequencing and immunoblotting. A specific HSP90 inhibitor geldanamycin released their binding. There was no difference in the binding of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 to GST 3-3 between NC and KS type rats. These findings suggest that HSP90 interacts with KS type GST 3-3 and thereby protects it from inactivation due to CCl(4).
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- Jun Mayama
- Second Department of Biochemistry, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Japan
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Mohammadzadeh GS, Nasseri Moghadam S, Rasaee MJ, Zaree AB, Mahmoodzadeh H, Allameh A. Measurement of glutathione S-transferase and its class-pi in plasma and tissue biopsies obtained after laparoscopy and endoscopy from subjects with esophagus and gastric cancer. Clin Biochem 2003; 36:283-8. [PMID: 12810157 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9120(03)00012-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To develop an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring class-pi glutathione S-transferase (GST) in plasma, and tissue biopsies obtained from upper gastrointestinal cancer (UGI Ca) patients. METHODS GST activity and GST-pi concentration were detected in normal human squamous esophageal epithelium, normal gastric cardia and their corresponding malignant tumor biopsies. RESULTS Plasma GST was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in UGI Ca patients as compared to those obtained from normal individuals. Plasma GST-pi concentration in normal subjects was 6.6 +/- 1.9 ng/mg protein, whereas it was higher in UGI Ca patients (esophageal, 10.0 +/- 1.8; gastric, 10.7 +/- 1.7 ng/mL, p <or= 0.01). GST and GST-pi levels were higher in surgically resected tumor biopsies as compared to normal tissues adjacent to a tumor (p < 0.05). GST-pi was also elevated in malignant esophagus and gastric biopsies taken at endoscopy as compared to normal and normal-appearing esophageal tissues (p < 0.05). Total GST was also increased significantly in gastric malignant tissues although its activity was within the same range in normal and normal-appearing tissues. A significant correlation between plasma GST-pi with that in malignant tissues was observed. Total GST and GST-pi were also correlated in different malignant tissues. CONCLUSIONS Biopsies obtained at endoscopy can be used satisfactorily to measure tumor markers.
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- G S Mohammadzadeh
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University, PO Box 14115-111, I R, Tehran, Iran
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Ferruzzi E, Franceschini R, Cazzolato G, Geroni C, Fowst C, Pastorino U, Tradati N, Tursi J, Dittadi R, Gion M. Blood glutathione as a surrogate marker of cancer tissue glutathione S-transferase activity in non-small cell lung cancer and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Eur J Cancer 2003; 39:1019-29. [PMID: 12706373 DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(03)00122-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The identification of markers predicting the response to therapy is of the utmost importance in oncology. Several authors have suggested that increased levels of glutathione (GSH) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity might be meaningful predictors of poor responsiveness to chemotherapy in several human cancers, but the biological assays have not been standardised and published studies show conflicting evidence. The aim of the present study was to select a validated panel of tests to assess the GST/GSH system in a clinical setting. Matched blood and tissue samples (normal and malignant) from 52 cancer patients with either non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCCHN) were investigated. GSH levels and GST activity were higher in cancer tissues than in matched normal tissues in both malignancies. The difference was statistically significant in NSCLC (P=0.0004 and P=0.0002, for GSH and GST, respectively) and borderline in SCCHN (P=0.03 and P=0.02, for GSH and GST, respectively). Moreover a strong correlation was found between the GSH level in whole blood and GST activity in cancer tissue in both malignancies (P=0.003, r=0.53 in NSCLC, P<0.0001, r=0.89 in SCCHN). In conclusion, reliable and robust methods for routine use in tissue extracts and in whole blood have been validated. Our finding regarding the GSH level in blood indicates that circulating GSH could have a clinical relevance as a surrogate marker of GST activity in tumour tissue.
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- E Ferruzzi
- Regional Centre for the Study of Biological Markers of Malignancy, General Hospital, ULSS12 Venice, Italy
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Kelly C, Jewell C, O’Brien N. The effect of dietary supplementation with the citrus limonoids, limonin and nomilin on xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes in the liver and small intestine of the rat. Nutr Res 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0271-5317(03)00021-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Lo HW, Ali-Osman F. Cyclic AMP mediated GSTP1 gene activation in tumor cells involves the interaction of activated CREB-1 with the GSTP1 CRE: a novel mechanism of cellular GSTP1 gene regulation. J Cell Biochem 2003; 87:103-16. [PMID: 12210727 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.10275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The human GSTP1 gene is frequently over-expressed in many human cancers and the expression increases with tumor progression and is associated with a more aggressive biology, poor patient survival, and resistance to therapy. The molecular regulation of the human GSTP1 gene during malignancy is, however, still not well understood. Recently, we reported the presence of a cAMP response element (CRE) in the 5'-region of the human GSTP1 gene, raising the possibility that the cAMP signaling pathway, frequently aberrant in human cancers, may play an important role in the transcriptional activation of the GSTP1 gene in human tumors. In this study, we report that the GSTP1 gene is an early cAMP response gene. Treatment of cells of the human lung carcinoma cell line, Calu-6, with 25 microM forskolin to activate the cAMP pathway resulted in a rapid and significant (sevenfold after 30 min) increase in GSTP1 gene transcripts, which peaked at 12-fold after 4 h. The forskolin-activated GSTP1 transcription in Calu-6 cells was suppressed dose-dependently by a 2-h pre-treatment with 0.1, 1.0, and 10 microM of the adenylate cyclase inhibitor, 2', 5'-dideoxyadenosine. Western blot analysis showed a rapid, fivefold increase, in GSTP1 protein levels after treatment with 25 microM forskolin, with a peak at 2 h post-treatment. The levels of phosphorylated CRE (Ser133) binding protein-1 (CREB-1) increased rapidly, sevenfold at 30 min, and reached 10-fold at 4 h following forskolin treatment. Intracellular cAMP levels also increased rapidly reaching 12-fold at 30 min. Gel mobility shift and supershift assays and DNase/footprinting analyses demonstrated that CREB-1 bZIP and CREB-containing nuclear extracts recognized the GSTP1 CRE with high affinity and specificity. Binding of CREB-1 bZIP to the GSTP1 CRE was abolished when the GSTP1 CRE sequence 5'-CGTCA-3', was mutated at the core nucleotides. Finally, transfection studies using luciferase plasmid constructs showed the GSTP1 CRE to be required for the cAMP-activated gene expression. Together, these findings describe a novel cAMP- and CREB-1-mediated mechanism of transcriptional regulation of the GSTP1 gene and suggest that this may be an important mechanism underlying the increased GSTP1 expression observed in tumors with an aberrant cAMP signaling pathway and in normal cells under conditions of stress, associated with increased intracellular cAMP.
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- Hui-Wen Lo
- Section of Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Tumor Center, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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The goal in administering chemotherapeutics is to develop the ability to predict the outcome of therapy in terms of response and toxicity. Technology has been developed to allow tumor profiling with measurement of protein expression, gene expression levels of markers, and even genetic polymorphisms, which may predict response to particular chemotherapeutics. The chemotherapeutics for which particular markers have been shown to predict outcome include the fluoropyrimidines and platinums. The next step is to develop clinical trials that will assess prospectively the benefits of profiling a patient's particular tumor, which should translate into an improvement in response and toxicity.
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- Syma Iqbal
- Division of Oncology, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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Kim SK, Woodcroft KJ, Novak RF. Insulin and glucagon regulation of glutathione S-transferase expression in primary cultured rat hepatocytes. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2003; 305:353-61. [PMID: 12649389 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.102.045153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Diabetes is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and complications resulting from diabetes have been attributed in part to increased oxidative stress. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) constitute a major protective mechanism against oxidative stress. Studies of the expression and activity of GSTs during diabetes are inconclusive, with both increased and decreased GST expression being reported in vivo. Insulin and glucagon effects on GST expression and the signaling pathway involved in the glucagon regulation of GST expression were examined in primary cultured rat hepatocytes. The addition of insulin resulted in the elevation of alpha-class GST protein levels, whereas alpha- and pi-class GST protein levels were markedly decreased in hepatocytes cultured with glucagon. In contrast, mu-class GST protein expression was unaffected by insulin or glucagon treatment. Insulin concentrations >/=1 nM resulted in increased GST activities and alpha-class GST protein levels, whereas glucagon concentrations >/=20 nM decreased alpha- and pi-class protein levels and activity. Treatment of cells with 8-bromo-cAMP or dibutyryl-cAMP also resulted in decreased alpha- and pi-class GST protein levels. Pretreatment with N-[2-(4-bromocinnamylamino)ethyl]-5-isoquinoline sulfonamide (H89), a selective inhibitor of protein kinase A, before glucagon addition markedly attenuated the glucagon effect. This study demonstrates that insulin and glucagon regulate, in an opposing manner, the expression of alpha-class GSTs and that glucagon completely inhibits pi-class GST expression in vitro, suggesting that hepatic GST expression may be decreased during diabetes. Furthermore, the present study implicates cAMP and protein kinase A in mediating the inhibitory effect of glucagon on GST expression.
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- Sang K Kim
- Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA.
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Cozzi P. The discovery of a new potential anticancer drug: a case history. FARMACO (SOCIETA CHIMICA ITALIANA : 1989) 2003; 58:213-20. [PMID: 12620417 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-827x(03)00014-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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DNA minor groove binders (MGB) represent a class of anticancer agents whose DNA sequence specificity was hypothesized to lead to high selectivity of action. Tallimustine (TAM), a benzoyl nitrogen mustard derivative of distamycin A (DST), showed excellent antitumor activity in preclinical tests, but also a severe myelotoxicity. Novel nitrogen mustard, nitrogen half-mustard and sulfur mustard derivatives of DST showing excellent activity were recently identified and SAR reported. In particular nitrogen half-mustard and sulfur mustard derivatives, as one-arm alkylating agents, represent interesting structural novelties. A further new class of cytotoxic anticancer agents is that of alpha-halogenoacrylamido derivatives of DST-like oligopeptides, which show an activity profile substantially improved in comparison to TAM. In particular brostallicin (PNU-166196), alpha-bromo-acrylamido tetra-pyrrole derivative ending with a guanidino moiety, showed high cytotoxic potency and myelotoxicity dramatically reduced in comparison to TAM and other MGB. Brostallicin binds to the minor groove but appears unreactive in classical in vitro DNA alkylation assays. About the apparent lack of DNA alkylation we speculated that an intracellular nucleophile, e.g. glutathione (GSH), could activate the reactivity of the compound leading to alkylation of DNA in vivo. Evidence of both covalent interaction of brostallicin with plasmidic DNA in the presence of GSH and of enhanced cytotoxicity in cancer cells characterized by high levels of GSH were obtained. Brostallicin was selected for clinical development and is now undergoing Phase II studies.
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- Paolo Cozzi
- Department of Chemistry, Pharmacia, Global Chemistry, Discovery Research Oncology, Viale Pasteur 10, 20014 Nerviano, Milan, Italy.
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Kearns PR, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA, Pieters R, Veerman A, Hall AG. Mu class glutathione S-transferase mRNA isoform expression in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Br J Haematol 2003; 120:80-8. [PMID: 12492580 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04039.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are implicated in cytotoxic drug resistance in leukaemia. In a previous study, expression of mu class GST (GSTM) was associated with poor prognosis in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), however, that study did not differentiate between individual GSTM isoforms. This study, therefore, investigated individual GSTM isoform expression in ALL blasts at the mRNA level. Leukaemic blasts from 21 children with ALL were studied. Interindividual variation in the pattern of GSTM mRNA isoform expression was demonstrated. GSTM2 transcript was expressed in all patients in contradistinction to GSTM5, which was not detected in any sample. GSTM3 and GSTM4 expression varied between individuals, with GSTM3 expressed in 62% and GSTM4 in 24% of patients. Lymphoblast expression of GSTM3 was positively related to good prognosis whereas expression of GSTM4 was not related to clinical outcome in this small cohort. No relationship was demonstrated with established indicators of prognosis, including sex, age, immunophenotype and presenting white cell count. The results suggest that expression of GSTM3 may play a role in determining prognosis in childhood ALL and could provide more information for accurate stratification of treatment. Further studies are required to determine whether there is a causal relationship between GSTM3 expression and clinical outcome.
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- Pamela R Kearns
- Department of Paediatric Oncology, University of Bristol, UK.
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Schröder P, Fischer C, Debus R, Wenzel A. Reaction of detoxification mechanisms in suspension cultured spruce cells (Picea abies L. Karst.) to heavy metals in pure mixture and in soil eluates. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2003; 10:225-34. [PMID: 12943006 DOI: 10.1065/espr2002.10.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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UNLABELLED INTENTION, GOAL, BACKGROUND: The widespread and unconcerned use of chemicals in the past has led to an accumulation of pollutants in our environment. Numerous sites are polluted with a mixture of organic chemicals and heavy metals. The future use of these sites and the safe consumption of groundwater from these areas depends on our ability to assess risk by determining the bioavailability of trace levels of pollutants in the respective soil solutions. Soil eluates containing heavy metals in mixture as well as pure heavy metals in aqueous solution were added to a spruce cell culture to set up such a test system. OBJECTIVE The present study aims at evaluating the response of cultured spruce cells to heavy metals in aqueous solution, and at characterizing these basic cellular responses as potential biomarkers. METHODS In order to characterize cell reactions toward heavy metals, spruce cell cultures were incubated with CdSO4 (50 to 500 microM), Na2HAsO4 (1.5 to 80 microM) or PbCl2 (10 to 150 microM). Alternatively, the cells were incubated with a standard heavy metal mixture containing 80 microM Na2HAsO4, 150 microM CdSO4 and 150 microM PbCl2 in medium and with aqueous original soil eluates. Measurement of oxidative stress, antioxidants and basic detoxification enzymes involved in plant defence reactions were performed with the treated cells. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION After 5 hrs of incubation, the onset of a strong oxidative burst was observed. H2O2 concentrations exceeded 40 microM in the culture media after 20 hrs. Concomitantly, glutathione levels showed drastic changes indicating the influence of the metals and/or the H2O2 on antioxidative systems. Following cadmium treatment, GSH and GSSG were elevated by 50 and 200% above controls. Whereas arsenic doubled GSSG levels, treatment with lead did not cause significant changes. However, a mixture of the metals decreased both metabolites by 50%. The effect of the metals was concentration-dependent and disappeared at high concentrations. Furthermore, strong induction of glutathione S-transferase (GST) subunits was observed and, although no novel subunit was expressed, the rise of a new GST isoform occurred. The most potent inducer of plant defence reactions is cadmium, followed by arsenate and lead in descending order of effectiveness. Counter ions seem to play an important role, e.g. lead chloride influenced the investigated parameters much more than lead acetate. CONCLUSIONS The investigated metals activate gene expression through signal transduction pathways previously not associated with these metals, which points to new end points for resistance and toxicity testing. Especially a monitoring of GST subunit behaviour together with quantifying the oxidative burst seem to be promising for a biomonitoring concept. The close regulation of plant answers observed may facilitate the setup of an integrated biotest for heavy metal pollution that could be based on enzymological as well as proteome data. RECOMMENDATIONS AND OUTLOOK Heavy metals cause stress to plant cells and elicit a whole range of answers, although specific for individual metal species. The differences observed in plant answers are suitable to distinguish between metals bioavailable in soil eluates and water samples, however only at concentrations in the microM range. It will be necessary to evaluate the effects on the RNA and transcript level. We recommend that similar plant metabolic end points and enzyme reactions be screened for their suitability as biotest systems.
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- Peter Schröder
- Institute for Soil Ecology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
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Pui CH, Relling MV, Evans WE. Role of pharmacogenomics and pharmacodynamics in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Best Pract Res Clin Haematol 2002; 15:741-56. [PMID: 12617874 DOI: 10.1053/beha.2002.0225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Pharmacodynamic studies have been used to establish the relationships between the administered dosage and the concentration of drugs and metabolites in the blood or tissues and that between these concentrations and pharmacological effects. Polymorphisms in the genes that encode drug-metabolizing enzymes, drug transporters and drug targets can affect a person's response to therapy and may affect the development of de novo or therapy-related leukaemias. The burgeoning field of pharmacogenomics elucidates inherited differences in drug metabolism and treatment response. Increasingly, pharmacodynamic and pharmacogenomic studies are being used to individualize therapy to enhance efficacy and reduce toxicity.
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- Ching Hon Pui
- St Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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Ranganna K, Yousefipour Z, Nasif R, Yatsu FM, Milton SG, Hayes BE. Acrolein activates mitogen-activated protein kinase signal transduction pathways in rat vascular smooth muscle cells. Mol Cell Biochem 2002; 240:83-98. [PMID: 12487375 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020659808981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Acrolein, a major component of cigarette smoke, an environmental pollutant and an endogenous lipid peroxidation product, has been implicated in the development of atherosclerosis. Although a link between vascular injury and acrolein has been indicated, the exact molecular mechanism of acrolein-induced toxicity to vasculature is unknown. In an effort to elucidate the molecular basis of acrolein-induced vascular toxicity, the possibility of the intracellular signaling system as one of the targets of acrolein-induced toxicity is investigated in the present study. Exposure of cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to different doses of acrolein not only causes cytotoxicity but also alters cellular morphology in a concentration and time-dependent manner. VSMCs exhibit cytotoxicity to a narrow concentration range of 5-10 microg/ml and display no toxicity to 2 microg/ml acrolein even after 24 h of exposure. Furthermore, exposure to acrolein results in activation of members of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family and protein tyrosine kinases. The extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2), stress-activated protein kinases/c-jun NH2-terminal kinases (SAPK/JNK) and p38MAPK are effectively and transiently activated by acrolein in a concentration and time-dependent fashion. While all three MAPKs exhibit significant activation within 5 min of exposure to acrolein, maximum activation (ERK1/2 and p38MAPK) or close to maximum activation (SAPK/JNK) occurs on exposure to 5 microg/ml acrolein for 2 h. Acrolein-induced activation of MAPKs is further substantiated by the activation of transcription factors, c-jun and activator transcription factor-2 (ATF-2), by acrolein-activated SAPK/JNK and p38MAPK, respectively. Additionally several cellular proteins exhibit spectacular protein tyrosine phosphorylation, particularly in response to 2 and 5 microg/ml of acrolein. Interestingly, the acrolein-induced activation of MAPKs precedes acrolein-stimulated protein tyrosine phosphorylation, which occurs after 2 h of exposure to acrolein. However, the time course of maximum protein tyrosine phosphorylation profile corresponds to the peak activation profile of MAPKs. The activation of MAPKs and protein tyrosine phosphorylation by acrolein appears to be independent of acrolein-induced toxicity. VSMCs exposed to 2 microg/ml acrolein exhibit no toxicity but stimulates significant activation of MAPKs and protein tyrosine phosphorylation. Although acrolein-induced VSMC toxicity is not blocked by MAPK inhibitors, PD98059, an inhibitor of MAPK kinase and SB203580, an inhibitor of p38MAPK, eitheralone or in combination, each MAPK responds differently to the inhibitors. Most prominently, although SB203580, an inhibitor of both SAPK/JNK and p38MAPK, significantly inhibited acrolein-induced activation of p38MAPK, it also stimulated SAPK/JNK activation by acrolein alone and in combination with PD98059. These results provide the first evidence that the activation of both growth-regulated (ERK1/2) and stress-regulated (SAPK/JNK and p38MAPK) MAPKs as well as tyrosine kinases are involved in the mediation of acrolein-induced effects on VSMC, which may play a crucial role in vascular pathogenesis due to environmentally and endogenously produced acrolein.
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- Kasturi Ranganna
- College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX 77004, USA.
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Burg D, Mulder GJ. Glutathione conjugates and their synthetic derivatives as inhibitors of glutathione-dependent enzymes involved in cancer and drug resistance. Drug Metab Rev 2002; 34:821-63. [PMID: 12487151 DOI: 10.1081/dmr-120015695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Alterations in levels of glutathione (GSH) and glutathione-dependent enzymes have been implicated in cancer and multidrug resistance of tumor cells. The activity of a number of these, the multidrug resistance-associated protein 1, glutathione S-transferase, DNA-dependent protein kinase, glyoxalase I, and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, can be inhibited by GSH-conjugates and synthetic analogs thereof. In this review we focus on the function of these enzymes and carriers in cancer and anti-cancer drug resistance, in relation to their inhibition by GSH-conjugate analogs.
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- Danny Burg
- Division of Toxicology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55 2333CC, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Nogués MR, Giralt M, Cervelló I, Del Castillo D, Espeso O, Argany N, Aliaga A, Mallol J. Parameters related to oxygen free radicals in human skin: a study comparing healthy epidermis and skin cancer tissue. J Invest Dermatol 2002; 119:645-52. [PMID: 12230508 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2002.00077.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In vitro studies with tumor cells have demonstrated that oxygen free radicals are involved in the development of skin cancers and that variations in the body's defense mechanisms can modify the course of the disease. To assess the validity of this hypothesis in spontaneous tumors, we determined glutathione S-transferase, superoxide dismutase, reduced and oxidized glutathione, and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances in healthy whole skin (n = 95), dermis (n = 73), and epidermis (n = 69). The values were compared with those obtained in three types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma (n = 16), squamous cell carcinoma (n = 6), and melanoma (n = 33). In healthy skin, glutathione S-transferase, superoxide dismutase, reduced glutathione, and oxidized glutathione were higher in epidermis than in dermis, whereas thiobarbituric acid reactive substances were higher in dermis than in epidermis; whole skin had intermediate values. These results suggest that there is an induction of some anti-oxygen free radicals mechanisms in epidermis as a result of increased oxygen free radicals production. Glutathione S-transferase and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances were higher in all types of tumor than in healthy epidermis but oxidized glutathione was lower. Reduced glutathione and superoxide dismutase activity were lower in basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma samples. Glutathione S-transferase increased, whereas superoxide dismutase and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances decreased in melanoma samples in direct relation to the Clark levels. Higher glutathione S-transferase activity, particularly in the most invasive forms of melanoma, indicates that this type of cancer is more malignant. Similarly, a decrease in superoxide dismutase activity can also encourage progression of the tumor. These results are in accord with those from tumor cell cultures and could suggest new strategies (gene therapy) for managing skin cancer.
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- M R Nogués
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Universitat Rovinai Virgili, Reus, Spain
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Srivenugopal KS, Mullapudi SRS, Ali-Osman F. Phosphorylation of O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase: experience with a GST-fusion protein and a new pull-down assay. Cancer Lett 2002; 181:87-93. [PMID: 12430183 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(01)00823-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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We showed recently that human O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT), a key target for enhancing the efficacy of anticancer alkylating agents, is regulated by phosphorylation in brain tumor cells. This report describes the problems we encountered in using a glutathione S-transferase (GST)-tagged AGT as the substrate in our search for cellular AGT kinases, validation of a new pull-down assay for AGT phosphorylation, and its wide applicability for quantitating protein kinases in crude extracts and purified fractions. The GST-tag present in the fusion protein, by itself, was found to undergo significant phosphorylation by tumor cell extracts and contribute to spurious results. Instead, we used a histidine-tagged AGT protein, and its micro-scale purification with Talon resin as the basis for a quantitative pull-down assay, and applied it for measuring AGT phosphorylation by protein kinase C (PKC) and other cellular kinases. The pull-down procedure can be easily adopted for quantitating protein kinases in a variety of settings, as it overcomes the need for substrate immunoprecipitation when whole cell extracts are used, and eliminates the autophosphorylated kinase proteins, when purified kinases are used. Our observations call for caution in interpreting the results with GST-fusion proteins in phosphorylation studies.
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- Kalkunte S Srivenugopal
- Department of Neurosurgery, Box 64, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Yao J, Chang M, Li Y, Pisha E, Liu X, Yao D, Elguindi EC, Blond SY, Bolton JL. Inhibition of cellular enzymes by equine catechol estrogens in human breast cancer cells: specificity for glutathione S-transferase P1-1. Chem Res Toxicol 2002; 15:935-42. [PMID: 12119004 DOI: 10.1021/tx020018i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a family of detoxification isozymes that protect cells by conjugating GSH to a variety of toxic compounds, and they may also play a role in the regulation of both cellular proliferation and apoptosis. We have previously shown that human GST P1-1, which is the most widely distributed extrahepatic isozyme, could be inactivated by the catechol estrogen metabolite 4-hydroxyequilenin (4-OHEN) in vitro [Chang, M., Shin, Y. G., van Breemen, R. B., Blond, S. Y., and Bolton, J. L. (2001) Biochemistry 40, 4811-4820]. In the present study, we found that 4-OHEN and another catechol estrogen, 4,17beta-hydroxyequilenin (4,17beta-OHEN), significantly decreased GSH levels and the activity of GST within minutes in both estrogen receptor (ER) negative (MDA-MB-231) and ER positive (S30) human breast cancer cells. In addition, 4-OHEN caused significant decreases in GST activity in nontransformed human breast epithelial cells (MCF-10A) but not in the human hepatoma HepG2 cells, which lack GST P1-1. We also showed that GSH partially protected the inactivation of GST P1-1 by 4-OHEN in vitro, and depletion of cellular GSH enhanced the 4-OHEN-induced inhibition of GST activity. In addition, 4-OHEN GSH conjugates contributed about 27% of the inactivation of GST P1-1 by 4-OEHN in vitro. Our in vitro kinetic inhibition experiments with 4-OHEN showed that GST P1-1 had a lower K(i) value (20.8 microM) compared to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH, 52.4 microM), P450 reductase (PR, 77.4 microM), pyruvate kinase (PK, 159 microM), glutathione reductase (GR, 230 microM), superoxide dismutase (SOD, 448 microM), catalase (562 microM), GST M1-1 (620 microM), thioredoxin reductase (TR, 694 microM), and glutathione peroxidase (GPX, 1410 microM). In contrast to the significant inhibition of total GST activity in these human breast cancer cells, 4-OHEN only slightly inhibited the cellular GAPDH activity, and other cellular enzymes including PR, PK, GR, SOD, catalase, TR, and GPX were resistant to 4-OHEN-induced inhibition. These data suggest that GST P1-1 may be a preferred protein target for equine catechol estrogens in vivo.
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- Jiaqin Yao
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy (M/C 781), College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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Davies SM, Bhatia S, Ross JA, Kiffmeyer WR, Gaynon PS, Radloff GA, Robison LL, Perentesis JP. Glutathione S-transferase genotypes, genetic susceptibility, and outcome of therapy in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood 2002; 100:67-71. [PMID: 12070010 DOI: 10.1182/blood.v100.1.67] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes are involved in the metabolism of environmental carcinogens and of some classes of chemotherapy drugs. GSTM1 and GSTT1 genotypes are polymorphic in humans, and the phenotypic absence of enzyme activity is caused by a homozygous inherited deletion of the gene. Previous, smaller studies of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) provided contrasting data on the role of the GST genotype in susceptibility and treatment outcomes. We analyzed GST genotypes in 710 children with ALL treated by the Children's Cancer Group. Frequencies were compared with those of normal controls, and outcomes were analyzed according to genotype. Comparisons of gene frequencies in ALL case and control patients showed similar frequencies (54% vs 53% GSTM1 null in whites, P =.9; 40% versus 32% in blacks, P =.45; 16% versus 15% GSTT1 null in whites, P =.8; 17% versus 28% in blacks, P =.3). ALL was not associated with the GSTM1-null genotype or the double-null genotype in blacks or whites, in contrast to previous reports. Stratification of cases by age at diagnosis, sex, white blood cell count at diagnosis, B or T lineage, or cytogenetics revealed no differences in genotype frequencies. Analysis of treatment outcomes showed no differences in outcome according to GST genotype; in particular, there were no differences in frequencies of relapse at any site. These data, representing a larger series than any reported previously, suggest that GST genotype does not affect etiology or outcome of childhood ALL.
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Brabender J, Lord RV, Wickramasinghe K, Metzger R, Schneider PM, Park JM, Hölscher AH, DeMeester TR, Danenberg KD, Danenberg PV. Glutathione S-transferase-pi expression is downregulated in patients with Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg 2002; 6:359-67. [PMID: 12022988 DOI: 10.1016/s1091-255x(02)00003-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a family of enzymes that play an important role in the prevention of cancer by detoxifying numerous potentially carcinogenic compounds. GSTs conjugate reduced glutathione to a variety of electrophilic and hydrophobic compounds, converting them into more soluble, more easily excretable compounds. Decreased glutathione S-transferase-pi (GSTPI) enzyme activity has been reported in Barrett's esophagus, and an inverse correlation was demonstrated between GST enzyme activity and tumor incidence in the gastrointestinal tract, but the role of GSTPI messengerRNA (mRNA) expression in Barrett's esophagus and associated adenocarcinomas is uncertain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of GSTPI mRNA and protein expression in the development and progression of the Barrett's metaplasia-dysplasia-adenocarcinoma sequence, and to investigate the potential of GSTPI quantitation as a biomarker in the clinical management of this disease. GSTPI mRNA expression levels, in relation to the housekeeping gene beta-actin, were analyzed using a quantitative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction method (TaqMan) in 111 specimens from 19 patients with Barrett's esophagus without carcinoma (BE group), 21 patients with Barrett's-associated adenocarcinoma (EA group), and a control group of 10 patients without evidence of Barrett's esophagus or chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease. GSTPI mRNA expression was detectable in all 111 samples investigated. Analyzed according to histopathologic group, the median GSTPI mRNA expression was highest in normal squamous esophagus epithelium, intermediate in Barrett's esophagus, and lowest in adenocarcinoma tissues (P < 0.001). The median GSTPI expression was significantly decreased in Barrett's esophagus tissues compared to matching normal squamous esophagus from either the BE group (P = 0.001) or the EA group (P = 0.023). GSTPI expression levels in adenocarcinoma tissues were decreased compared to matching normal esophagus tissues from the patients with adenocarcinoma (P = 0.011). Furthermore, GSTPI mRNA expression values were significantly different between metaplastic, dysplastic, and adenocarcinoma tissues (P = 0.026). GSTPI expression levels were also significantly lower in histologically normal squamous esophagus tissues from patients with cancer (EA group) compared to both normal esophagus tissues from patients without cancer (BE group; P = 0.007) and normal esophagus tissues from the control group with no esophageal abnormality (P = 0.002). GSTPI protein expression was generally highest in the basal layer of normal squamous esophagus epithelium and lowest in adenocarcinoma cells, with Barrett's cells showing intermediate staining intensity. Our results show that downregulation of GSTPI expression is an early event in the development of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. Loss of GSTPI expression may have an important role in the development and progression of this disease.
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- Jan Brabender
- Department of Biochemistry, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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Bloom D, Dhakshinamoorthy S, Jaiswal AK. Site-directed mutagenesis of cysteine to serine in the DNA binding region of Nrf2 decreases its capacity to upregulate antioxidant response element-mediated expression and antioxidant induction of NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase1 gene. Oncogene 2002; 21:2191-200. [PMID: 11948402 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1205288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2001] [Revised: 01/03/2002] [Accepted: 01/07/2002] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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NF-E2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a CNC/b-zip protein that regulates antioxidant response element (ARE)-mediated expression, and antioxidant induction, of detoxifying enzyme genes, including NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase1 (NQO1). A comparison of Nrf2 from different species, and with other b-zip proteins, revealed the presence of a highly conserved cysteine residue at position 506 in the DNA binding domain of Nrf2. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to mutate this cysteine to serine. Transfection/over expression experiments in human hepatoblastoma (Hep-G2) cells demonstrated that mutant Nrf2 (mNrf2), containing the C506S mutation, was significantly less efficient in activating ARE-mediated gene expression, and induction in response to tert-butyl hydroquinone (t-BHQ), as copmpared with wild-type Nrf2. N-ethyl malemide (NEM), a sulfhydryl cross-linker, inhibited Nrf2 but not mNrf2C506S-mediated expression of NQO1. This further implicated the cysteine at position 506 in Nrf2 regulation of ARE-mediated gene expression. Nuclear localization experiments revealed that C506S mutation did not affect the retention of Nrf2 by INrf2/Keap1 in the cytosol, or its release in response to antioxidants. However, band and supershift assays showed a significant reduction in the binding of mNrf2C506S to the NQO1 gene ARE as compared with wild-type Nrf2. Therefore, the C506S mutation in Nrf2 lowered its affinity for the ARE, leading to decreased expression, and antioxidant induction, of NQO1.
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- David Bloom
- Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas, TX 77030, USA
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Sayed Y, Hornby JAT, Lopez M, Dirr H. Thermodynamics of the ligandin function of human class Alpha glutathione transferase A1-1: energetics of organic anion ligand binding. Biochem J 2002; 363:341-6. [PMID: 11931663 PMCID: PMC1222484 DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3630341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In addition to their catalytic functions, cytosolic glutathioneS-transferases (GSTs) are a major reserve of high-capacity binding proteins for a large variety of physiological and exogenous non-substrate compounds. This ligandin function has implicated GSTs in numerous ligand-uptake, -transport and -storage processes. The binding of non-substrate ligands to GSTs can inhibit catalysis. In the present study, the energetics of the binding of the non-substrate ligand 8-anilino-1-naphthalene sulphonate (ANS) to wild-type human class Alpha GST with two type-1 subunits (hGSTA1-1) and its DeltaPhe-222 deletion mutant were studied by isothermal titration calorimetry. The stoichiometry of binding to both proteins is one ANS molecule per GST subunit with a greater affinity for the wild-type (K(d)=65 microM) than for the DeltaPhe-222 mutant (K(d)=105 microM). ANS binding to the wild-type protein is enthalpically driven and it is characterized by a large negative heat-capacity change, DeltaC(p). The negative DeltaC(p) value for ANS binding indicates a specific interface with a significant hydrophobic component in the protein-ligand complex. The negatively charged sulphonate group of the anionic ligand is apparently not a major determinant of its binding. Phe-222 contributes to the binding affinity for ANS and the hydrophobicity of the binding site.
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- Yasien Sayed
- Protein Structure-Function Research Programme, School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa
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Kelders WPA, Oude Ophuis MB, Roelofs HMJ, Peters WHM, Manni JJ. The association between glutathione S-transferase P1 genotype and plasma level in head and neck cancer. Laryngoscope 2002; 112:462-6. [PMID: 12148855 DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200203000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Glutathione S-transferase P1-1 (GSTP1-1) is an important enzyme because it plays a major role in many detoxification reactions, including tobacco-related metabolic products. GSTP1-1 is the most abundant of all glutathione S-transferase (GST) enzymes in normal human head and neck epithelium, whereas it is overexpressed in head and neck malignancies. At least three different GSTP1 genotypes exist, AA, AB, and BB, which have been correlated with reduced enzyme activity. Many authors have studied the GSTP1 genotypes in relation to the risk for human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). A correlation between GSTP1-1 genotype and GSTP1-1 plasma levels has not been made before. We investigated the correlation between GSTP1 genotype and GSTP1-1 plasma levels. STUDY DESIGN To evaluate the possible association between the genetic polymorphisms in GSTP1 and the phenotypic expression (GSTP1-1 plasma levels) in patients with HNSCC. METHODS GSTP1 genotype and GSTP1-1 plasma level were established in 87 patients with HNSCC and 51 patients with benign head and neck lesions who served as control subjects. RESULTS For all GSTP1 genotypes (AA, AB, and BB) in patients with HNSCC, the mean plasma GSTP1-1 values were significantly higher compared with the control subjects. There was no significant difference in the plasma GSTP1-1 levels between the different genotypes in patients with HNSCC. CONCLUSION There is no association between GSTP1 genotype and GSTP1-1 plasma levels in patients with head and neck cancer.
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- Willem P A Kelders
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Hatagima A. Genetic polymorphisms and metabolism of endocrine disruptors in cancer susceptibility. CAD SAUDE PUBLICA 2002; 18:357-77. [PMID: 11923879 DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2002000200002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Epidemiological studies have estimated that approximately 80% of all cancers are related to environmental factors. Individual cancer susceptibility can be the result of several host factors, including differences in metabolism, DNA repair, altered expression of tumor suppressor genes and proto-oncogenes, and nutritional status. Xenobiotic metabolism is the principal mechanism for maintaining homeostasis during the body's exposure to xenobiotics. The balance of xenobiotic absorption and elimination rates in metabolism can be important in the prevention of DNA damage by chemical carcinogens. Thus the ability to metabolize and eliminate xenobiotics can be considered one of the body's first protective mechanisms. Variability in individual metabolism has been related to the enzymatic polymorphisms involved in activation and detoxification of chemical carcinogens. This paper is a contemporary literature review on genetic polymorphisms involved in the metabolism of endocrine disruptors potentially related to cancer development.
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- Ana Hatagima
- Laboratório de Genética Humana, Departamento de Genética, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21045-900, Brasil.
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Chen YK, Lin LM, Hsue SS, Lin DT. The mRNA expression of placental glutathione S-transferase isoenzyme in hamster buccal-pouch carcinomas using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Oral Oncol 2002; 38:158-62. [PMID: 11854063 DOI: 10.1016/s1368-8375(01)00039-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Placental glutathione S-transferase (GST-P) may facilitate cell proliferation and inhibit apoptosis, hence allowing for the expansion of a population of initiated tumor cells. The enhanced expression of GST-P at the protein level has been reported previously in chemically induced oral carcinomas in hamster buccal-pouch mucosa but the expression of GST-P at the mRNA level has not yet been demonstrated. The purpose of the present study was to assess the GST-P mRNA expression in 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced hamster buccal-pouch carcinomas using a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Thirty-five outbred, young (6 weeks old), male, Syrian golden hamsters (Mesocricatus auratus) were randomly divided into one experimental group (15 animals), and two control groups (10 animals each). Bilateral pouches of a group of 15 animals of the experimental group were painted with a 0.5% DMBA solution three times a week for 12 weeks while each animal of one of the control groups was similarly treated with mineral oil. Another control group of 10 animals was untreated throughout the experiment. Areas of dysplasia and squamous-cell carcinomas with a 100% tumor incidence developed in all of the DMBA-treated buccal pouches. The mineral oil-treated and untreated pouches revealed no obvious changes. Placental glutathione S-transferase mRNA was demonstrated to be present amongst all the 12-week DMBA-treated hamster buccal-pouch mucosa animals, but not for the untreated animals or the animals for which the buccal pouch was treated with mineral oil. Multiple potential regulatory pathways including gene amplification, enhanced mRNA stability, chromosomal translocation/gene rearrangement, and hypomethylation of the promoter region can contribute to the overexpression of GST-P mRNA in DMBA-induced hamster buccal-pouch carcinomas. Further study is necessary to completely understand which candidate mechanism(s) will contribute principally to the increased GST-P mRNA expression in oral experimental carcinogenesis.
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- Y K Chen
- Oral Pathology Department, School of Dentistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, 100 Shih-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Lien S, Larsson AK, Mannervik B. The polymorphic human glutathione transferase T1-1, the most efficient glutathione transferase in the denitrosation and inactivation of the anticancer drug 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea. Biochem Pharmacol 2002; 63:191-7. [PMID: 11841793 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(01)00846-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A member of the Theta class of human glutathione transferases (GST T1-1) was found to display the greatest catalytic activity towards the cytostatic drug 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) of the GSTs studied. In this investigation (the most extensive to date), enzymes from four classes of the soluble human GSTs were heterologously expressed, purified, and kinetically characterized. From the 12 enzymes examined, only GST M2-2, GST M3-3 and GST T1-1 had significant activities with BCNU. This establishes that the activity is not a characteristic of a particular class of GSTs. Although GST M3-3 was previously reported to have the greatest activity with BCNU, the current investigation demonstrates that GST M2-2 is equally active and that GST T1-1 has an approximately 20-fold higher specific activity than either of the Mu class enzymes. A more rigorous kinetic analysis of GST T1-1 gave the following parameters with BCNU: a k(cat) of 0.035 +/-0.003s(-1) and a K(M) of 1.0 +/- 0.1mM. The finding that GST T1-1 has the highest activity towards BCNU is significant since GST T1-1 is expressed in the brain, a common target for BCNU treatment. Furthermore, the existence of a GST T1-1 null allele in up to 60% in some populations, may influence both the sensitivity of tumors to chemotherapy and the severity of adverse side-effects in patients treated with this agent.
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- Samantha Lien
- Department of Biochemistry, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23, Uppsala, Sweden
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Kobayashi S, Kidou S, Ejiri S. Detection and characterization of glutathione S-transferase activity in rice EF-1betabeta'gamma and EF-1gamma expressed in Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 288:509-14. [PMID: 11676472 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Plant elongation factor EF-1 consists of four subunits (EF-1alphabetabeta'gamma). EF-1alpha. GTP catalyses the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome. EF-1beta and EF-1beta' catalyze the GDP/GTP exchange on EF-1alpha. GDP. However, the function of EF-1gamma, a subunit detected in eukaryotes, but not in prokaryotes remained unknown. This report demonstrates that rice EF-1betabeta'gamma and recombinant EF-1gamma possess glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity. The EF-1betabeta'gamma- or EF-1gamma-dependent GST activity is about one-fiftieth of the rice GST activity. The Km values of EF-1betabeta'gamma, EF-1gamma, and rice GST for glutathione and 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene are of about the same order. Although recombinant EF-1gamma is heat labile, active EF-1gamma was obtained by purifying it in the presence of 20% glycerol.
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- S Kobayashi
- Cryobiosystem Research Center, Iwate University, Ueda, Morioka, 3-8-18, Japan
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Wei SH, Clark AG, Syvanen M. Identification and cloning of a key insecticide-metabolizing glutathione S-transferase (MdGST-6A) from a hyper insecticide-resistant strain of the housefly Musca domestica. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 31:1145-1153. [PMID: 11583927 DOI: 10.1016/s0965-1748(01)00059-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Strains of the housefly, Musca domestica, highly resistant to organophosphate (OP) and other insecticides are known because they overproduce glutathione S-transferases (GSTs). Previous work has shown that overproduction in these strains involved numerous isozymes with glutathione conjugating activities (Pesticide Biochem. Physiol., 25 (1986) 169; Mol. General Genetics, 227 (1991) 355; J. Biol. Chem., 267 (1992) 1840; Mol. General Genetics, 245 (1994) 236; J. Mol. Evol., 43 (1996) 236). The current work describes the purification and identification of a M. domestica GST isozyme (pI 7.1) broadly specific for substrates from a housefly strain, Cornell-HR, that is highly resistant against OP-insecticides, and the isolation of two new MdGST genes using the antibody made against it. This isozyme, which was identified from amongst more than 20 isoelectric forms of GSTs of the same subunit size, was highly active for conjugating GSH to the model substrate 3,4-dichloronitrobenzne (DCNB). When expressed in Escherichia coli, one of the cloned GSTs, MdGST-6A, produces an enzyme that conjugates glutathione to the insecticides methyl parathion and lindane. On indication that it was the most active isozyme toward several xenobiotics among several MdGSTs tested, we advance the notion that MdGST-6A probably plays an important role in M. domestica Cornell-HR's resistance towards OP-insecticides. MdGST-6A and a second closely related one found in this work, MdGST-6B, are members of the traditional insect class I family (theta-class) and share the greatest homologies with a cluster of Drosophila GSTs on locus 55. In addition to having the unusually broad substrate specificity, the sequence of the new group of enzymes reveals that it has a highly diverged hydrophobic motif in its active site as compared to other class I GSTs from insects.
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- S H Wei
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Hitchens TK, Mannervik B, Rule GS. Disorder-to-order transition of the active site of human class Pi glutathione transferase, GST P1-1. Biochemistry 2001; 40:11660-9. [PMID: 11570866 DOI: 10.1021/bi010909+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Glutathione transferases comprise a large family of cellular detoxification enzymes that function by catalyzing the conjugation of glutathione (GSH) to electron-deficient centers on carcinogens and other toxins. NMR methods have been used to characterize the structure and dynamics of a human class pi enzyme, GST P1-1, in solution. Resonance assignments have been obtained for the unliganded enzyme and the GSH and S-hexylglutathione (GS-hexyl) complexes. Differences in chemical shifts between the GSH and GS-hexyl complexes suggest more extensive structural differences between these two enzyme-ligand complexes than detected by previous crystallographic methods. The NMR studies reported here clearly show that an alpha-helix (alpha2) within the GSH binding site exists in multiple conformations at physiological temperatures in the absence of ligand. A single conformation of alpha2 is induced by the presence of either GSH or GS-hexyl or a reduction in temperature to below 290 K. The large enthalpy of the transition ( approximately 150 kJ/mol) suggests a considerable structural rearrangement of the protein. The Gibbs free energy for the transition to the unfolded form is on the order of -4 to -6 kJ/mol at physiological temperatures (37 degrees C). This order-to-disorder transition contributes substantially to the overall thermodynamics of ligand binding and should be considered in the design of selective inhibitors of class pi glutathione transferases.
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- T K Hitchens
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Turcotte S, Averill-Bates DA. Sensitization to the cytotoxicity of melphalan by ethacrynic acid and hyperthermia in drug-sensitive and multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cells. Radiat Res 2001; 156:272-82. [PMID: 11500136 DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2001)156[0272:sttcom]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The ability of physical and pharmacological modulators to increase the cytotoxicity of melphalan was investigated in Chinese hamster ovary cells using a clonogenic cell survival assay. Hyperthermia has potential for use in cancer treatment, particularly as an adjuvant to chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Ethacrynic acid is a glutathione S-transferase inhibitor and also undergoes conjugation with glutathione. Interactions between hyperthermia (41-43 degrees C), ethacrynic acid and melphalan were evaluated in multidrug-resistant (CH(R)C5) cells with overexpression of P-glycoprotein (33.69-fold), and in drug-sensitive (AuxB1) cells. GST alpha was expressed at a higher level (3.65-fold) in CH(R)C5 cells than in sensitive cells, whereas levels of isoforms pi and mu were the same. GST pi was the most highly expressed isoform in the two cell populations. Ethacrynic acid was cytotoxic at elevated temperatures, while it caused little or no cytotoxicity at 37 degrees C. This effect occurred in drug-resistant and drug-sensitive cells, and attributes thermosensitizing properties to ethacrynic acid. Ethacrynic acid (20 microM) alone did not alter the cytotoxicity of melphalan at 37 degrees C. Hyperthermia potentiated drug cytotoxicity in cells, both with and without ethacrynic acid treatment. Ethacrynic acid could be useful in cancer treatment by acting as a thermosensitizer when combined with heat and by enhancing the cytotoxicity of melphalan at elevated temperatures. A major advantage arising from the use of regional hyperthermia is the ability to target drug cytotoxicity to the tumor volume. A useful finding is that ethacrynic acid, heat and/or melphalan are also effective against multidrug-resistant cells with overexpression of P-glycoprotein.
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- S Turcotte
- Département de Chimie et Biochimie/TOXEN, Université du Québec à Montréal, CP 8888, Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada
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Cabelguenne A, Loriot MA, Stucker I, Blons H, Koum-Besson E, Brasnu D, Beaune P, Laccourreye O, Laurent-Puig P, De Waziers I. Glutathione-associated enzymes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and response to cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Int J Cancer 2001; 93:725-30. [PMID: 11477586 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.1392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are metabolic phase II enzymes that promote reactive metabolite elimination by conjugating them to glutathione (GSH). Because of their important role in xenobiotic metabolism and detoxification, they have been implicated in carcinogenesis processes, especially epithelium transformation. Moreover, their influence on response to chemotherapy in cancer patients has been demonstrated. Genetic polymorphisms for GSTM1, GSTT1 and GSTP1 have been found in human populations and have been shown to have phenotypic consequences. To investigate the role of GST enzymes in carcinogenesis and in response to chemotherapy in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), GSTP1, GSTM1 and GSTT1 were studied prospectively in a large series of HNSCC patients. Correlations between GST alterations, p53 mutation status and clinical response to chemotherapy were investigated. We showed that the risk of developing laryngeal cancer was increased by 2.6-fold [95% CI 1.6--6.1] in patients with the GSTM1 null genotype and by 2.8-fold [95% CI 0.9--8.1] in patients with the homozygous GSTP1 val105 genotype. Furthermore, individuals with this latter genotype were over-represented in the p53 mutation group (p = 0.05). After storage duration and hemolysis adjustment, a significantly lower plasmatic GSTP1 level was observed in complete responders compared with partial and non-responders (mean: 4.4 +/- 0.06 microg/l, 4.7 +/- 0.06 microg/l and 4.7 +/- 0.07 microg/l; p = 0.05), respectively. The prevalence of p53-mutated tumors was significantly higher in the group of non-responders (81%) compared with partial (60%) and complete responders (64%) (p = 0.05). Two types of multivariate analysis were performed including parameters that have been shown to influence response to chemotherapy significantly in univariate analysis. p53 mutations and high tumor stage are independent factors of non-response to chemotherapy, whereas plasmatic GSTP1 levels and low tumor stage are independent factors of complete response. Our data suggest that GST enzymes are associated with larynx cancer and that their use as predictive factors and treatment targets should be further explored.
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- A Cabelguenne
- Laboratoire de Toxicologie Moléculaire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM U490), Paris, France
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Zeindl-Eberhart E, Klugbauer S, Dimitrijevic N, Jungblut PR, Lamer S, Rabes HM. Proteome analysis of rat hepatomas: carcinogen-dependent tumor-associated protein variants. Electrophoresis 2001; 22:3009-18. [PMID: 11565795 DOI: 10.1002/1522-2683(200108)22:14<3009::aid-elps3009>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Proteome analysis led to the identification and characterization of tumor-associated protein variants by two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. We focused on comparing the influence of genotoxic nitroso compounds N-methyl-N-nitrosourea, diethylnitrosamine and N-nitrosomorpholine and the nongenotoxic peroxisome proliferator Nafenopin as tumor-inducing agents on the protein pattern of rat hepatomas. We found several tumor-associated variants that represent members of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily. Their induction and/or inhibition was specifically related to the carcinogen used for tumor induction. The most prominent tumor-associated protein, rat aldose reductase-like protein-1 (rARLP-1) (69% sequence identity to lens aldose reductase) and three additional types of rARLP-1 were detected in nitroso compound-induced rat hepatomas, while rat aldo-keto reductase protein-c (Rak-c), a novel tumor-associated variant (65% sequence identity with 3alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase) was discovered in N-methyl-N-nitrosourea-induced hepatomas only. 3Alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and delta4-3-ketosteroid-5beta-reductase, both liver-specific enzymes, were reduced in amount in all hepatomas investigated, independent of their mode of induction. We conclude, that detoxification enzymes like 3alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3alpha-HSD) and delta4-3-ketosteroid-5beta-reductase (5beta-Red) might be replaced in hepatomas by tumor-associated proteins that are often present in the embryonal state, like the rARLPs or the Rak-c protein. Their induction appears to reflect an altered constitutive pattern of detoxification enzymes, detoxifying toxic aldehydes being induced by nitroso compounds. In contrast, members of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily have not been found in Nafenopin-induced hepatomas. The pattern of tumor-associated protein variants is apparently characteristic for a given group of initiating carcinogens. The hypothesis is proposed that carcinogens leave specific fingerprints at the proteome level of manifest liver tumors.
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MESH Headings
- Aldehyde Reductase/analysis
- Aldehyde Reductase/chemistry
- Aldehyde Reductase/genetics
- Aldo-Keto Reductases
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Carcinogens/pharmacology
- Carcinogens/toxicity
- Diethylnitrosamine/pharmacology
- Diethylnitrosamine/toxicity
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- Fetal Proteins/analysis
- Fetal Proteins/genetics
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Inactivation, Metabolic/genetics
- Isoenzymes/analysis
- Isoenzymes/genetics
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/chemically induced
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/chemistry
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism
- Male
- Methylnitrosourea/pharmacology
- Methylnitrosourea/toxicity
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nafenopin/pharmacology
- Nafenopin/toxicity
- Neoplasm Proteins/analysis
- Neoplasm Proteins/biosynthesis
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Nitrosamines/pharmacology
- Nitrosamines/toxicity
- Organ Specificity
- Peroxisome Proliferators/pharmacology
- Peroxisome Proliferators/toxicity
- Proteome
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
- Subtraction Technique
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van Maanen MJ, Huitema AD, Rodenhuis S, Beijnen JH. Urinary excretion of thioTEPA and its metabolites in patients treated with high-dose cyclophosphamide, thioTEPA and carboplatin. Anticancer Drugs 2001; 12:519-24. [PMID: 11459998 DOI: 10.1097/00001813-200107000-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The urinary excretion of N,N',N"-triethylenethiophosphoramide (thioTEPA), and its metabolites N,N',N"-triethylenephosphoramide (TEPA), N,N'-diethylene,N"-2-chloroethylphosphoramide (monochloroTEPA) and thioTEPA--mercapturate was determined in patients receiving thioTEPA as part of a high-dose combination chemotherapy regimen with cyclophosphamide and carboplatin. The thioTEPA dose was 40 or 60 mg/m(2) in short infusions, twice daily, during 4 days. Urine samples were collected after each voiding on each day of drug administration until 24--48 h after the last thioTEPA infusion. ThioTEPA, TEPA and monochloroTEPA concentrations were determined with gas chromatography and thioTEPA--mercapturate with liquid chromatography--mass spectrometry with direct sample injection. ThioTEPA was present in urine 30 min after infusion and was still excreted 18 h after the last infusion. All metabolites were detected in urine 1 h after infusion. Patients with a creatinine clearance above 140 ml/minl showed higher excretion of TEPA than patients with a creatinine clearance below 140 ml/min (12.8 versus 4.9%, p=0.01). The excretion of monochloroTEPA relative to the excreted amount of TEPA increased at lower pH values of the urine. The excretion of thioTEPA--mercapturate relative to the dose was higher in patients treated with 60 mg/m(2). Excretion of thioTEPA and monochloroTEPA both accounted for only 0.5% of the dose, while TEPA and thioTEPA--mercapturate both accounted for 11.1%.
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- M J van Maanen
- Division of Drug Toxicology, Utrecht University, Sorbonnelaan 16, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Pettigrew NE, Brush EJ, Colman RF. 3-Methyleneoxindole: an affinity label of glutathione S-transferase pi which targets tryptophan 38. Biochemistry 2001; 40:7549-58. [PMID: 11412109 DOI: 10.1021/bi002840w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The compound 3-methyleneoxindole (MOI), a photooxidation product of the plant auxin indole-3-acetic acid, functions as an affinity label of the dimeric pi class glutathione S-transferase (GST) isolated from pig lung. MOI inactivates the enzyme to a limit of 14% activity. The k for inactivation by MOI is decreased 20-fold by S-hexylglutathione but only 2-fold by S-methylglutathione, suggesting that MOI does not react entirely within the glutathione site. The striking protection against inactivation provided by S-(hydroxyethyl)ethacrynic acid indicates that MOI reacts in the active site region involving both the glutathione and the xenobiotic substrate sites. Incorporation of [(3)H]MOI up to approximately 1 mol/mol of enzyme dimer concomitant with maximum inactivation suggests that there are interactions between subunits. Fractionation of the proteolytic digest of [(3)H]MOI-modified GST pi yielded Trp38 as the only labeled amino acid. The crystal structure of the human GST pi-ethacrynic acid complex (2GSS) shows that the indole of Trp38 is less than 4 A from ethacrynic acid. Similarly, MOI may bind in this substrate site. In contrast to its effect on the pi class GST, MOI inactivates much less rapidly and extensively alpha and mu class GSTs isolated from the rat. These results show that MOI reacts preferentially with GST pi. Such a compound may be useful in novel combination chemotherapy to enhance the efficacy of alkylating cancer drugs while minimizing toxic side effects.
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- N E Pettigrew
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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BACKGROUND Inherited polymorphisms that influence carcinogen metabolism or the composition of bile may influence the risk for the development of colorectal cancer. METHODS The frequency of polymorphisms involving N-acetyltransferase 1 (NAT1), NAT2, cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1), CYP2D6, CYP2E1, glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1), GSTT1 and apolipoprotein E were compared in 219 white adults with sporadic colorectal cancer and 200 white controls attending for blood donation at a blood bank. Polymorphisms were determined by using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) after amplification of genomic DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Data were analyzed by using standard statistical methods for a case- control study, and reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). RESULTS None of the genotypes, either alone or in combination, showed a strong association with colorectal cancer. Inheritance of the GSTT1 null genotype conferred a twofold risk of cancer that was statistically significant with crude data (OR 2.18; 95% CI 1.38-3.43), but not after adjustment for age (OR 1.91; 95% CI 0.99-3.70). There was also a trend towards a lower risk for proximal (right-sided) cancers in patients with apolipoprotein epsilon4 (OR 0.64; 95% CI 0.31-1.33). CONCLUSION No strong associations have been found between metabolic genotypes and colorectal cancer risk in Australia. Large studies will be required to confirm weak associations and to establish relationships between cancer risk, metabolic genotypes and exposure to dietary or other environmental carcinogens.
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- W J Butler
- Department of Gastroenterology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Satoh T, Nishida M, Tsunoda H, Kubo T. Expression of glutathione S-transferase pi (GST-pi) in human malignant ovarian tumors. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2001; 96:202-8. [PMID: 11384808 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-2115(00)00473-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVES In recent years, glutathione S-transferase pi (GST-pi) has attracted much attention and has been studied as a mechanism of multidrug resistance of tumors to anticancer drugs. In the present study, we immunohistologically measured the expression of GST-pi in tumor tissues using surgical specimens obtained from patients with malignant ovarian tumors. METHODS Of 137 patients with malignant ovarian tumors treated and managed during a period of 20 years since the establishment of Tsukuba University Hospital, 117 patients were selected as subjects because of the presence of complete data on their clinical courses as well as paraffin blocks preserved in a good condition. GST-pi in these specimens was immunohistochemically stained to determine the correlation between GST-pi stainability and clinical outcomes. Stainability was graded as 0 when GST-pi was completely absent, 1 when less than 20% of tumor cells were stained, 2 when 20--60% were stained, and 3 when more than 60% were stained. RESULTS When the correlation between stainability and clinical outcomes was analyzed with Kaplan--Meier method, excluding stage Ia cases that did not receive adjuvant chemotherapy at our hospital, significantly better clinical outcomes were observed in the low stainable group, compared with the high stainable group (P<0.01--0.05, Cox--Mantel test, Wilcoxon's test). CONCLUSION Since the stainability for GST-pi was high in tumors of histological types with strong resistance to anticancer drugs, and better clinical outcomes were observed in cases having a lower stainability score, the expression of GST-pi was thought to play some role in the resistance of malignant ovarian tumors to anticancer drugs.
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- T Satoh
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ibaraki Seinan Central Hospital, Ibaraki 306-0433, Japan
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Gsur A, Haidinger G, Hinteregger S, Bernhofer G, Schatzl G, Madersbacher S, Marberger M, Vutuc C, Micksche M. Polymorphisms of glutathione-S-transferase genes (GSTP1, GSTM1 and GSTT1) and prostate-cancer risk. Int J Cancer 2001; 95:152-5. [PMID: 11307147 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0215(20010520)95:3<152::aid-ijc1026>3.0.co;2-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Several polymorphic glutathione-S-transferase (GST) enzymes are involved in the metabolism of a number of potential prostate carcinogens and are thought to engage in the transport of steroid hormones. A case-control study was conducted to determine the association of the GSTP1, GSTM1 and GSTT1 polymorphisms and prostate-cancer risk. The study population consisted of 166 patients with previously untreated, histologically proven prostate cancer and 166 age-matched control patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), all of them Caucasians. In the GSTP1 gene, 2 polymorphic alleles, GSTP1*B and GSTP1*C, have been described in addition to the wild-type allele, GSTP1*A. Both polymorphic GSTP1 alleles have an A-to-G transition in exon 5, causing an isoleucine-to-valine change. The GSTP1*C allele has an additional transition from C to T. For GSTM1 as well as GSTT1, the polymorphic allele is a deletion of the gene. The proportion of individuals homozygous for the GSTP1 variant alleles (GSTP1*B/*B, GSTP1*B/*C and GSTP1*C/*C) was significantly lower in prostate-cancer patients (4.8%) than in BPH controls (14.5%), and the odds ratio (OR) was 0.24 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.09-0.61). The heterozygous genotypes (GSTP1*A/*B and GSTP1*A/*C) were also lower in the cancer group, though this was not significant. On the contrary, no significant effect on prostate-cancer risk was detectable for either GSTM1 (OR = 0.86, 95% CI = 0.55-1.36) or GSTT1 (OR = 0.78, 95% CI = 0.43-1.42). Of the polymorphic GSTs, GSTP1 is the most interesting candidate as a biomarker for prostate-cancer risk as we found a 76% reduced risk in men homozygous for the polymorphic GSTP1 alleles compared to those with wild-type GSTP1.
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- A Gsur
- Division of Applied and Experimental Oncology, Institute of Cancer Research, University of Vienna, Borschkegasse 8a, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Vanhaecke T, Derde MP, Vercruysse A, Rogiers V. Hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin as delivery system for thyroid hormones, regulating glutathione S-transferase expression in rat hepatocyte co-cultures. Biochem Pharmacol 2001; 61:1073-8. [PMID: 11301040 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(01)00557-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Thyroid hormones play a role in the regulation of glutathione S-transferase (GST) expression. Here, co-cultures of rat hepatocytes with bile duct epithelial cells have been used to study the direct effects of both triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) on GST activities and proteins. Because T3 and T4 are poorly water soluble and organic solvents used to dissolve them often interfere with biotransformation pathways, an alternative delivery system namely hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin (HPBC) has been applied. Appropriate control cultures contained either 0.02 or 0.10% (w/v) HPBC, the concentrations necessary to supply T3 and T4 (10(-9) to 10(-5) M) to the cells, respectively. No effect of the vehicle HPBC on the different GST isoenzyme activities and proteins could be observed. On the contrary, after 10 days of co-culture, T3 and T4 decreased GST protein concentrations as well as GST activities measured by 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (broad spectrum), 1,2-dichloro-4-nitrobenzene (Mu class M1/M2-specific) and 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (Alpha class A1/2-specific) in a concentration-dependent manner. The Alpha class subunits A1/2 and A3, and the Mu class subunit M2 were mostly affected. No effect was observed on the Pi class enzyme. These findings indicate that a combination of co-cultured hepatocytes with an HPBC-based delivery system for hydrophobic compounds represents a powerful in vitro tool in drug development.
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- T Vanhaecke
- Department of Toxicology, Free University Brussels, Laarbeeklaan 103, B-1090 Brussels, Belgium.
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Chang M, Shin YG, van Breemen RB, Blond SY, Bolton JL. Structural and functional consequences of inactivation of human glutathione S-transferase P1-1 mediated by the catechol metabolite of equine estrogens, 4-hydroxyequilenin. Biochemistry 2001; 40:4811-20. [PMID: 11294649 DOI: 10.1021/bi002513o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The inactivation mechanism(s) of human glutathione S-transferase P1-1 (hGST P1-1) by the catechol metabolite of Premarin estrogens, 4-hydroxyequilenin (4-OHEN), was (were) studied by means of site-directed mutagenesis, electrospray ionization mass spectrometric analysis, titration of free thiol groups, kinetic studies of irreversible inhibition, and analysis of band patterns on nonreducing sodium dodecyl sulfate--polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The four cysteines (Cys 14, Cys 47, Cys 101, and Cys 169 in the primary sequence) in hGST P1-1 are susceptible to electrophilic attack and/or oxidative damage leading to loss of enzymatic activity. To investigate the role of cysteine residues in the 4-OHEN-mediated inactivation of this enzyme, one or a combination of cysteine residues was replaced by alanine residues (C47A, C101A, C47A/C101A, C14A/C47A/C101A, and C47A/C101A/C169A mutants). Mutation of Cys 47 decreased the affinity for the substrate GSH but not for the cosubstrate 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB). However, the Cys 47 mutation did not significantly affect the rate of catalysis since V(max) values of the mutants were similar or higher compared to that of wild type. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometric analyses of wild-type and mutant enzymes treated with 4-OHEN showed that a single molecule of 4-OHEN-o-quinone attached to the proteins, with the exception of the C14A/C47A/C101A mutant where no covalent adduct was detected. 4-OHEN also caused oxidative damage as demonstrated by the appearance of disulfide-bonded species on nonreducing SDS--PAGE and protection of 4-OHEN-mediated enzyme inhibition by free radical scavengers. The studies of thiol group titration and irreversible kinetic experiments indicated that the different cysteines have distinct reactivity for 4-OHEN; Cys 47 was the most reactive thiol group whereas Cys 169 was resistant to modification. These results demonstrate that hGST P1-1 is inactivated by 4-OHEN through two possible mechanisms: (1) covalent modification of cysteine residues and (2) oxidative damage leading to proteins inactivated by disulfide bond formation.
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- M Chang
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy (M/C 781), College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7231, USA
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