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Lee J, Park H, Moon S, Do JT, Hong K, Choi Y. Expression and Regulation of CD73 during the Estrous Cycle in Mouse Uterus. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22179403. [PMID: 34502315 PMCID: PMC8431015 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22179403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Cluster of differentiation 73 (CD73, also known as ecto-5′-nucleotidase) is an enzyme that converts AMP into adenosine. CD73 is a surface enzyme bound to the outside of the plasma membrane expressed in several cells and regulates immunity and inflammation. In particular, it is known to inhibit T cell-mediated immune responses. However, the regulation of CD73 expression by hormones in the uterus is not yet clearly known. In this study, we investigated the expression of CD73 in ovariectomized mice treated with estrogen or progesterone and its regulation in the mouse uterus during the estrous cycle. The level of CD73 expression was dynamically regulated in the uterus during the estrous cycle. CD73 protein expression was high in proestrus, estrus, and diestrus, whereas it was relatively low in the metestrus stage. Immunofluorescence revealed that CD73 was predominantly expressed in the cytoplasm of the luminal and glandular epithelium and the stroma of the endometrium. The expression of CD73 in ovariectomized mice was gradually increased by progesterone treatment. However, estrogen injection did not affect its expression. Moreover, CD73 expression was increased when estrogen and progesterone were co-administered and was inhibited by the pretreatment of the progesterone receptor antagonist RU486. These findings suggest that the expression of CD73 is dynamically regulated by estrogen and progesterone in the uterine environment, and that there may be a synergistic effect of estrogen and progesterone.
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Wu J, Kong S, Guo C, Wang J, Lu J, Jiang R, Wang H. An exaggerated epinephrine-adrenergic receptor signaling impairs uterine decidualization in mice. Reprod Toxicol 2019; 90:109-117. [PMID: 31520687 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2019.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Our understanding of the relationship between stress-derived epinephrine and early pregnancy failure remains incomplete. Here, we explored the effect of epinephrine exposure on early pregnancy and pseudopregnancy in mice. Increased expression of adrenergic receptors Adra1b, Adra2b and Adrb2 was observed during decidualization and post-implantation embryogenesis was delayed or survival impaired. Epinephrine treatment also impaired decidualization in both the gravid and pseudopregnant uterus, suggesting the effect on decidualization was independent of the conceptus. This included a suppression of endometrial stroma cell proliferation and of key decidualization regulators, including COX2, BMP2 and WNT4. Collectively, these data demonstrate that maternal epinephrine exposure during early pregnancy impairs uterine decidualization and embryo development, underlying early pregnancy failure.
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- Jinxiang Wu
- The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Reproductive Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health Research, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health Research, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health Research, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China
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- Reproductive Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health Research, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China
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- Reproductive Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health Research, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China.
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- The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, People's Republic of China; Reproductive Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health Research, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China.
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Razak AA, Leach L, Ralevic V. Impaired vasocontractile responses to adenosine in chorionic vessels of human term placenta from pregnant women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes. Diab Vasc Dis Res 2018; 15:528-540. [PMID: 30130976 DOI: 10.1177/1479164118790904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is clinical and experimental evidence for altered adenosine signalling in the fetoplacental circulation in pregnancies complicated by diabetes, leading to adenosine accumulation in the placenta. However, the consequence for fetoplacental vasocontractility is unclear. This study examined contractility to adenosine of chorionic vessels from type 1 diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes mellitus and normal pregnancies. METHODS Chorionic arteries and veins were isolated from human placenta from normal, gestational diabetes mellitus and type 1 diabetes mellitus pregnancies. Isometric tension recording measured responses to adenosine and the thromboxane A2 analogue U46619 (thromboxane A2 mediates fetoplacental vasoconstriction to adenosine). Adenosine and thromboxane prostanoid receptor protein expression was determined by immunoblotting. RESULTS Adenosine elicited contractions in chorionic arteries and veins which were impaired in both gestational diabetes mellitus and type 1 diabetes mellitus. Contractions to potassium chloride were unchanged. Adenosine A2A and A2B receptor protein levels were not different in gestational diabetes mellitus and normal pregnancies. Contractions to U46619 were unaltered in gestational diabetes mellitus arteries and increased in type 1 diabetes mellitus arteries. Overnight storage of vessels restored contractility to adenosine in gestational diabetes mellitus arteries and normalized contraction to U46619 in type 1 diabetes mellitus arteries. CONCLUSION These data are consistent with the concept of aberrant adenosine signalling in diabetes; they show for the first time that this involves impaired adenosine contractility of the fetoplacental vasculature.
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MESH Headings
- 15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid/pharmacology
- Adenosine/pharmacology
- Arteries/drug effects
- Arteries/metabolism
- Arteries/physiopathology
- Case-Control Studies
- Chorion/blood supply
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/diagnosis
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/metabolism
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/physiopathology
- Diabetes, Gestational/diagnosis
- Diabetes, Gestational/metabolism
- Diabetes, Gestational/physiopathology
- Female
- Humans
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy in Diabetics/diagnosis
- Pregnancy in Diabetics/metabolism
- Pregnancy in Diabetics/physiopathology
- Receptor, Adenosine A2A/metabolism
- Receptor, Adenosine A2B/metabolism
- Receptor, Adenosine A3/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Term Birth
- Vasoconstriction/drug effects
- Vasoconstrictor Agents/pharmacology
- Veins/drug effects
- Veins/metabolism
- Veins/physiopathology
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- Azlina A Razak
- 1 School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
- 2 Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- 1 School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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- 1 School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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Metabolomics coupled with pathway analysis characterizes metabolic changes in response to BDE-3 induced reproductive toxicity in mice. Sci Rep 2018; 8:5423. [PMID: 29615664 PMCID: PMC5882662 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23484-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) may affect male reproductive function. 4-bromodiphenyl ether (BDE-3), the photodegradation products of higher brominated PBDEs, is the most fundamental mono-BDE in environment but is less studied. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reproductive toxicity induced by BDE-3 and explore the mechanism by metabolomics approach. In this study, mice were treated intragastrically with BDE-3 for consecutive six weeks at the dosages of 0.0015, 1.5, 10 and 30 mg/kg. The reproductive toxicity was evaluated by sperm analysis and histopathology examinations. UPLC-Q-TOF/MS was applied to profile the metabolites of testis tissue, urine and serum samples in the control and BDE-3 treated mice. Results showed the sperm count was dose-dependently decreased and percentage of abnormal sperms increased by the treatment of BDE-3. Histopathology examination also revealed changes in seminiferous tubules and epididymides in BDE-3 treated mice. Metabolomics analysis revealed that different BDE-3 groups showed metabolic disturbances to varying degrees. We identified 76, 38 and 31 differential metabolites in testis tissue, urine and serum respectively. Pathway analysis revealed several pathways including Tyrosine metabolism, Purine metabolism and Riboflavin metabolism, which may give a possible explanation for the toxic mechanism of BDE-3. This study indicates that UHPLC-Q-TOFMS-based metabolomics approach provided a better understanding of PBDEs-induced toxicity dynamically.
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Aliagas E, Vidal A, Torrejón-Escribano B, Taco MDR, Ponce J, de Aranda IG, Sévigny J, Condom E, Martín-Satué M. Ecto-nucleotidases distribution in human cyclic and postmenopausic endometrium. Purinergic Signal 2012; 9:227-37. [PMID: 23225236 DOI: 10.1007/s11302-012-9345-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2012] [Accepted: 11/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Extracellular ATP and its hydrolysis product, adenosine, acting through specific receptors collectively named purinergic receptors, regulate female fertility by influencing the endometrial fluid microenvironment. There are four major groups of ecto-nucleotidases that control the levels of extracellular ATP and adenosine and thus their availability at purinergic receptors: ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases (E-NTPDases), ecto-nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phospho-diesterases (E-NPPs), ecto-5'-nucleotidase (5'NT), and alkaline phosphatases (APs). The aim of the present work is to characterize the expression and distribution of ecto-nucleotidases in human endometrium along the menstrual cycle and after menopause, to evaluate their potential utility as fertility markers. We examined proliferative, secretory and atrophic endometria from women without endometrial pathology undergoing hysterectomy. We show that the ecto-nucleotidases are mainly present at endometrial epithelia, both luminal and glandular, and that their expression fluctuates along the cycle and also changes after menopause. An important result was identifying NPP3 as a new biological marker of tubal metaplasia. Our results emphasize the relevance of the study of purinergic signaling in human fertility.
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- Elisabet Aliagas
- Departament de Patologia i Terapèutica Experimental, Facultat de Medicina, Campus de Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Zhang K, Zhu X, Wang J, Xu L, Li G. Strategy to fabricate an electrochemical aptasensor: application to the assay of adenosine deaminase activity. Anal Chem 2010; 82:3207-11. [PMID: 20345118 DOI: 10.1021/ac902771k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A novel strategy for the fabrication of electrochemical aptasensor is proposed in this work, and the strategy has been employed to develop an aptasensor for the assay of adenosine deaminase activity. While a well-designed oligonucleotide containing three functional regions (an adenosine aptamer region, a G-quadruplex halves region, and a linker region) is adopted in our strategy as the core element, the enzymatic reaction of adenosine catalyzed by adenosine deaminase plays a key role as well in the regulation of the binding of the G-quadruplex halves with hemin, the electroactive probe, which is to reflect the activity of the enzyme indirectly but accurately. The detection limit of the fabrication biosensor can be lowered to 0.2 U mL(-1) of adenosine deaminase, and 1 nM of the inhibitor erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl) adenine hydrochloride is enough to present distinguishable electrochemical response. Moreover, since the electroactive probe is not required to be bound with the oligonucleotide, this strategy may integrate the advantages of both the labeled and label-free strategies.
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- Kai Zhang
- Laboratory of Biosensing Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR China
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Aliagas E, Torrejón-Escribano B, Lavoie EG, de Aranda IG, Sévigny J, Solsona C, Martín-Satué M. Changes in expression and activity levels of ecto-5'-nucleotidase/CD73 along the mouse female estrous cycle. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2010; 199:191-7. [PMID: 20136797 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02095.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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AIM Extracellular ATP and its hydrolysis product adenosine modulate various reproductive functions such as those requiring contraction, hormone synthesis and maintenance of fluid composition. Moreover, adenosine is a key molecule for sperm capacitation. Extracellular nucleotide and nucleoside levels are affected by cell surface ectonucleotidases, amongst which the ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase (E-NTPDase) family is the most abundant and effective to hydrolyse ATP and ADP to AMP. In the female reproductive tract three members of this family have been recently identified: NTPDase1, NTPDase2 and NTPDase3 (Histochem. Cell Biol.131, 2009, 615). The purpose of the present study was to characterize in this system the expression profile of ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73), the enzyme generating adenosine from AMP. METHODS Immunological techniques and in situ enzymatic assays were used to characterize the ecto-5'-nucleotidase expression in the mouse female reproductive tract along the four stages of the estrous cycle, that were determined by vaginal smear examination. RESULTS Ecto-5'-nucleotidase was abundantly detected in the corpora lutea of the ovaries, as well as in several epithelia, such as that of oviducts, uterus and endometrial glands. Marked changes in endometrial ecto-5'-nucleotidase expression and activity along the estrous cycle are described, these being maximum at estrus phase, coinciding with optimal female sexual receptivity. CONCLUSION The adenosine generated thereby, besides other functions, might contribute to sperm capacitation, thus significantly influencing fertility.
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- E Aliagas
- Departament Patologia i Terapèutica Experimental, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain
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Cometti B, Dubey RK, Imthurn B, Jackson EK, Rosselli M. Oviduct cells express the cyclic AMP-adenosine pathway. Biol Reprod 2003; 69:868-75. [PMID: 12724271 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.017962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The extracellular cAMP-adenosine pathway refers to the local production of adenosine mediated by cAMP egress into the extracellular space, conversion of cAMP to AMP by ectophosphodiesterase (PDE), and the metabolism of AMP to adenosine by ecto-5'-nucleotidase. The goal of this study was to assess whether the cAMP-adenosine pathway is expressed in oviduct cells. Studies were conducted in cultured bovine oviduct cells (mixed cultures of fibroblasts and epithelial cells, 1:1 ratio). Confluent monolayers of oviduct cells were exposed to cAMP (0.01-100 micromol/L) in the presence and absence of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX, 1 mmol/L, an inhibitor of both extracellular and intracellular PDE activity), 1,3-dipropyl-8-p-sulfophenylxanthine (DPSPX, 100 micromol/L, a xanthine that can inhibit extracellular or ecto-PDE activity at high concentrations), or alpha,beta-methylene-adenosine-5'-diphosphate (AMPCP, 100 micromol/L, an ecto-5'-nucleotidase inhibitor) for 0-60 min. The medium was then sampled and assayed for AMP, adenosine, and inosine. Addition of exogenous cAMP to oviduct cells increased extracellular levels of AMP, adenosine, and inosine in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. This effect was attenuated by blockade of total (extracellular and intracellular) PDE activity (IBMX), ecto-PDE activity (DPSPX), or ecto-5'-nucleotidase (AMPCP). The functional relevance of the cAMP-adenosine pathway is supported by the findings that treatment with adenylyl cyclase stimulants (forskolin plus isoproterenol) resulted in the egress of cAMP (97% extracellular) into the extracellular space and its conversion into adenosine. The extracellular cAMP-adenosine pathway exists in oviduct cells and may play an important role in regulating the biology and physiology of the oviduct. This pathway also may play a critical role in regulating sperm function, fertilization, and early embryo development.
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- Barbara Cometti
- Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Wubah JA, Setzer RW, Lau C, Charlap JH, Knudsen TB. Exposure-disease continuum for 2-chloro-2'-deoxyadenosine, a prototype ocular teratogen. 1. Dose-response analysis. TERATOLOGY 2001; 64:154-69. [PMID: 11514946 DOI: 10.1002/tera.1059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Treatment of pregnant mice with 2-chloro-2'-deoxyadenosine (2CdA) on day 8 of gestation induces microphthalmia through a mechanism coupled to the p53 tumor suppressor gene. The present study defines 2CdA dosimetry with respect to exposure (pharmacokinetics), p53 protein induction, and disease (microphthalmia). METHODS Pregnant CD-1 mice dosed with 0.5-10.0 mg/kg 2CdA on day 8 provided fetuses for teratological evaluation; 2CdA was measured by HPLC in the antimesometrium through 180 min postexposure, and p53 was assessed with immunostaining of the embryo through 270 min. 5'-/3'-RACE was used to sequence the candidate gene for 2CdA bioactivation from target cells. RESULTS Microphthalmia appeared first in the dose-response curve. The highest 2CdA dose having no observable adverse effect (NOAEL) was 1.5 mg/kg; the benchmark dose that produced an extra 5% risk of microphthalmia (BMD(5)) was 2.5 mg/kg, and the lower confidence limit (BMDL) was 2.0 mg/kg. Pharmacokinetic parameters for doses encompassing the threshold (1.5-2.5 mg/kg) were modeled at 1.0-1.8 microM (C(max)) and 30-80 microM-min (AUC). The p53 response was not detected below the BMDL; however, a low-grade response appeared 4.5 hr after a teratogenic dose (5.0 mg/kg), and high-grade induction followed an embryolethal dose (10.0 mg/kg). RACE identified a novel splice variant of mitochondrial deoxyguanosine kinase, dGK-3, as the likely candidate for 2CdA bioactivation in the embryo. CONCLUSIONS Microphthalmia represented the critical effect malformation of 2CdA. The findings suggest a mitochondrial mechanism for 2CdA bioactivation, leading to an embryonic p53 response only after 2CdA elimination and implying pharmacodynamic coupling to the exposure-disease continuum. Published 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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- J A Wubah
- Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Cristalli G, Costanzi S, Lambertucci C, Lupidi G, Vittori S, Volpini R, Camaioni E. Adenosine deaminase: functional implications and different classes of inhibitors. Med Res Rev 2001; 21:105-28. [PMID: 11223861 DOI: 10.1002/1098-1128(200103)21:2<105::aid-med1002>3.0.co;2-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is an enzyme of the purine metabolism which catalyzes the irreversible deamination of adenosine and deoxyadenosine to inosine and deoxyinosine, respectively. This ubiquitous enzyme has been found in a wide variety of microorganisms, plants, and invertebrates. In addition, it is present in all mammalian cells that play a central role in the differentiation and maturation of the lymphoid system. However, despite a number of studies performed to date, the physiological role played by ADA in the different tissues is not clear. Inherited ADA deficiency causes severe combined immunodeficiency disease (ADA-SCID), in which both B-cell and T-cell development is impaired. ADA-SCID has been the first disorder to be treated by gene therapy, using polyethylene glycol-modified bovine ADA (PEG-ADA). Conversely, there are several diseases in which the level of ADA is above normal. A number of ADA inhibitors have been designed and synthesized, classified as ground-state and transition-state inhibitors. They may be used to mimic the genetic deficiency of the enzyme, in lymphoproliferative disorders or immunosuppressive therapy (i.e., in graft rejection), to potentiate the effect of antileukemic or antiviral nucleosides, and, together with adenosine kinase, to reduce breakdown of adenosine in inflammation, hypertension, and ischemic injury.
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- G Cristalli
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Camerino, Via S. Agostino 1, 62032 Camerino, Italy.
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Tumor growth is a multifactorial process that, in addition to mutations leading to dysregulated expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressive genes, requires specific conditions that provide a supportive physiological environment at the primary and metastatic sites of the disease. Adenosine is one of the factors potentially contributing to tumor growth that thus far has not received adequate attention, despite evidence for a broad range of cytoprotective, growth-promoting, and immunosuppressive activities. Adenosine accumulates in solid tumors at high concentrations, and has been shown to stimulate tumor growth and angiogenesis and to inhibit cytokine synthesis, adhesion of immune cells to the endothelial wall, and the function of T-cells, macrophages, and natural killer cells. However, the mechanisms whereby adenosine accumulates in cancer and the specific effects that result from this accumulation are not well understood. This article surveys the available evidence that supports an important role of adenosine in cancer.
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- J Spychala
- Department of Pharmacology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7295, USA.
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Xu PA, Kellems RE. Function of murine adenosine deaminase in the gastrointestinal tract. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 269:749-57. [PMID: 10720488 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency in humans leads to a combined immunodeficiency characterized by severe T and B cell lymphopenia. ADA-deficient humans also display defective development of gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT). They lack lymphoid cells, and the Peyer's patches are without germinal centers. In mice, ADA-deficient fetuses die perinatally due to liver damage, but they also exhibit pathology in the thymus, spleen, and the small intestine. The GI phenotype associated with ADA-deficient humans prompted us to examine the effect of ADA-deficiency on mouse small intestine tissue. The work presented here focuses on understanding the physiological role of ADA in the GI tract, using ADA-deficient mice rescued from perinatal lethality by restoring Ada expression to trophoblast cells. Histologically and immunologically, the GALT was compromised at all sites in ADA-/- mice, with the most dramatic changes seen in the Peyer's patches. Profound disturbances in purine metabolism were detected in all the gastrointestinal tissues. In particular, adenosine and deoxyadenosine, the ADA substrates, increased markedly while the product inosine decreased. The activity of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase decreased throughout the GI tract, indicating a possible disruption of cellular transmethylation and activation of apoptotic pathways. There were also disturbances in the purine metabolic pathway with a decrease in the production of downstream nucleosides hypoxanthine and xanthine.
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- P A Xu
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Jaakkola K, Jokimaa V, Kallajoki M, Jalkanen S, Ekholm E. Pre-eclampsia does not change the adhesion molecule status in the placental bed. Placenta 2000; 21:133-41. [PMID: 10736235 DOI: 10.1053/plac.1999.0460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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During normal placentation trophoblast cells invade maternal tissues and remodel the uterine arteries into low-resistance channels. In pre-eclampsia, trophoblast invasion is impaired and this, along with endothelial dysfunction, has been suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia. We studied the expression of adhesion molecules important for leukocyte extravasation in the placental bed with immunohistochemistry and compared the expression in pre-eclampsia to that in normal pregnancy. Our major finding was that only invasive trophoblasts expressed cutaneous lymphocyte antigen-1 (CLA-1) in the third trimester of pregnancy, whereas villous trophoblasts did not. In the first trimester both villous trophoblasts and invasive trophoblast cells in decidua remained negative for CLA-1. Pre-eclampsia did not change the expression of leukocyte-endothelium adhesion or lymphocyte homing-associated antigens, ICAM-1, ICAM-2, VCAM, P-selectin, E-selectin, L-selectin, CLA-1, CD73, VAP-1 and alphaEbeta7 in the placental bed. Furthermore, pre-eclampsia was not associated with an aberrant accumulation of lymphocytes carrying antigens of any particular known organ-specific homing systems. The results on the unchanged pattern of adhesion molecule expression in pre-eclampsia suggests that there is no major change in the adhesive properties of the endothelium of the placental bed in pre-eclampsia.
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- K Jaakkola
- National Public Health Institute and MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Tykistökatu 6 a, Turku, FIN-20520, Finland
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Blackburn MR, Wubah JA, Chunn JL, Thompson LF, Knudsen TB. Transitory expression of the A2b adenosine receptor during implantation chamber development. Dev Dyn 1999; 216:127-36. [PMID: 10536053 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0177(199910)216:2<127::aid-dvdy4>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Adenosine is a short-range signal molecule that surges in the mouse uterus immediately after blastocyst implantation (Blackburn et al. [1992] Dev. Dyn. 194:155-168). The present study has investigated patterns of uterine adenosine receptor expression during early post-implantation development. Strong expression of the A2b adenosine receptor was observed. Utilizing northern blot analysis, in situ hybridization, and immunostaining, the source of expression was mapped to the primary and secondary decidua of the antimesometrial region, between days 4-8 of gestation. Distribution of the A2b receptor protein followed that of the corresponding transcript by about one gestational day and reflected the dynamics of antimesometrial tissue organization during implantation chamber development. Uterine adenosine surges to levels sufficient for A2b receptor engagement during a defined period (i.e., days 4-6) after blastocyst implantation. Decidual A2b receptor expression thus defines a transitory window of murine gestation that corresponds to a period of human gestation encompassing most spontaneous pregnancy losses. Because adenosine receptors are sensitive to metabolically stable adenosine analogues, their differential expression during implantation chamber development may hold therapeutic potential in the prevention of early pregnancy loss. Dev Dyn 1999;216:127-136.
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- M R Blackburn
- Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsyvlania 19107, USA
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CD73 or ecto-5'-nucleotidase (5'-NT) is a widely expressed ecto-enzyme which catalyzes the dephosphorylation of AMP and other nucleoside monophosphates. CD73 participates in purine salvage through this enzymatic activity, supplying cells with precursors for energy metabolism and nucleic acid biosynthesis. As an enzyme that produces adenosine, CD73 can also regulate adenosine receptor engagement in many tissues. However, CD73 also has functions independent of its enzyme activity. Like many glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored molecules, it transmits potent activation signals in T cells when ligated by antibodies. Less compelling evidence suggests that CD73 may function as a cell adhesion molecule. In the human immune system, CD73 is expressed on subsets of T and B cells, on germinal center follicular dendritic cells, and on thymic medullary reticular fibroblasts and epithelial cells. Many challenging areas remain to be explored before the role of CD73 in the immune system will be fully understood. These include an evaluation of the role of adenosine receptors in lymphoid development, the identification of physiological CD73 ligands, a functional assessment of the GPI anchor, and an analysis of the intricate cell-type-specific and developmental regulation of CD73 expression.
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Affiliation(s)
- R Resta
- Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, USA
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Blackburn MR, Knudsen TB, Kellems RE. Genetically engineered mice demonstrate that adenosine deaminase is essential for early postimplantation development. Development 1997; 124:3089-97. [PMID: 9272950 DOI: 10.1242/dev.124.16.3089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is an essential enzyme of purine metabolism that is enriched at the maternal-fetal interface of mice throughout postimplantation development. During early postimplantation stages Ada is highly expressed in both maternally derived decidual cells and zygotically derived trophoblast cells. For the current study we utilized genetically modified mice to delineate the relative contribution and importance of decidual and trophoblast ADA at the maternal-fetal interface. In females genetically engineered to lack decidual ADA a striking pattern of expression was revealed in giant trophoblast cells that surround the early postimplantation embryo. Embryos within gestation sites lacking both decidual and trophoblast ADA died during the early postimplantation period, whereas expression in trophoblast cells alone was sufficient for survival through this period. Severe disturbances in purine metabolism were observed in gestation sites lacking decidual ADA, including the accumulation of the potentially toxic ADA substrates adenosine and 2′-deoxyadenosine. These experiments provide genetic evidence that Ada expression at the maternal-fetal interface is essential for early postimplantation development in mice.
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- M R Blackburn
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- R Resta
- Immunobiology and Cancer Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104, USA. regina
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Resta R, Hooker SW, Laurent AB, Jamshedur Rahman SM, Franklin M, Knudsen TB, Nadon NL, Thompson LF. Insights into thymic purine metabolism and adenosine deaminase deficiency revealed by transgenic mice overexpressing ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73). J Clin Invest 1997; 99:676-83. [PMID: 9045870 PMCID: PMC507850 DOI: 10.1172/jci119211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The adenosine producing enzyme ecto-5'-nucleotidase (5'-NT) is not normally expressed during thymocyte development until the medullary stage. To determine whether earlier expression would lead to adenosine accumulation and/or be deleterious for thymocyte maturation, thymic purine metabolism, and T cell differentiation were studied in lckNT transgenic mice overexpressing 5'-NT in cortical thymocytes under the control of the lck proximal promoter. In spite of a 100-fold elevation in thymic 5'-NT activity, transgenic adenosine levels were unchanged and T cell immunity was normal. Inosine, the product of adenosine deamination, was elevated more than twofold, however, indicating that adenosine deaminase (ADA) can prevent the accumulation of adenosine, even with a dramatic increase in 5'-NT activity, and demonstrating the availability of 5'-NT substrates in the thymus for the first time. Thymic adenosine concentrations of mice treated with the ADA inhibitor 2'-deoxycoformycin (dCF) were elevated over 30-fold, suggesting that high ADA activity, rather than an absence of 5'-NT, is mainly responsible for low thymic adenosine levels. The adenosine concentrations in dCF-treated mice are sufficient to cause adenosine receptor-mediated thymocyte apoptosis in vitro, suggesting that adenosine accumulation could play a role in ADA-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency.
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- R Resta
- Immunobiology and Cancer Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104, USA
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CD73 (ecto-5'-nucleotidase), a glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchored purine salvage enzyme expressed on the surface of human T and B lymphocytes, catalyzes the conversion of purine and pyrimidine ribo- and deoxyribonucleoside monophosphates to the corresponding nucleosides. The cellular distribution, cDNA sequence, and structure of CD73 are reviewed. CD73 serves as a costimulatory molecule in activating T cells. A Jurkat.T cell line transfected with the CD73 cDNA revealed that neither enzymatic activity nor the GPI anchor is necessary for T cell activation in vitro via CD73, while expression of p56kk, CD45 and the T cell receptor are required. Models for the transmission of signals via CD73 and other GPI-anchored proteins are discussed. CD73 generated adenosine functions in cell signalling in many physiologic systems, including intestinal epithelium, ischemic myocardium, and cholinergic synapses. The hypothesis that CD73 produces adenosine that is important for T cell development is presented.
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- R Resta
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Immunobiology and Cancer Program, Oklahoma City, USA
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Blackburn MR, Kellems RE. Regulation and function of adenosine deaminase in mice. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 55:195-226. [PMID: 8787611 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60194-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- M R Blackburn
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Jenuth JP, Mably ER, Snyder FF. Modelling of purine nucleoside metabolism during mouse embryonic development: relative routes of adenosine, deoxyadenosine, and deoxyguanosine metabolism. Biochem Cell Biol 1996; 74:219-25. [PMID: 9213430 DOI: 10.1139/o96-022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The individual activities for adenosine kinase, deoxyadenosine kinase, adenosine deaminase, deoxyguanosine kinase, and purine nucleoside phosphorylase were determined during days 7 to 13 of mouse embryonic development. Adenosine deaminase increased 74-fold between days 7 and 9; deoxyadenosine kinase increased 5.4-fold during the same interval. Adenosine kinase, deoxyguanosine kinase, and purine nucleoside phosphorylase exhibited less than 2-fold changes in activity between days 7 and 13. Using Michaelis constants for each enzyme and the maximal velocities determined from enzyme assay, the relative routes of adenosine and deoxyadenosine metabolism via phosphorylation or deamination were modeled as a function of nucleoside concentration for days 7 through 13. For days 7 and 8, phosphorylation of adenosine is the principle route of metabolism at physiological concentrations. A switch occurred at day 9 and following where deamination is at least 5-fold greater than phosphorylation at all substrate concentrations. Deoxyadenosine phosphorylation was at most 10% of deamination at day 7 and then declined to less than 1% for days 9 to 13. Phosphorolysis was the principle route of deoxyguanosine metabolism through the 7 to 13 day period. Thus catabolism rather than phosphorylation was the principle pathway for purine deoxynucleoside metabolism during this period.
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- J P Jenuth
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Canada
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Hansen KR, Resta R, Webb CF, Thompson LF. Isolation and characterization of the promoter of the human 5'-nucleotidase (CD73)-encoding gene. Gene 1995; 167:307-12. [PMID: 8566797 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00574-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Ecto-5'-nucleotidase (NT, CD73) is a purine salvage-pathway enzyme located on the surface of various cell types, including subsets of human lymphocytes and certain leukemias and lymphomas. In addition to purine salvage, NT has proposed roles in lymphocyte maturation and activation, and its expression has been associated with the resistance of some tumor cell lines to chemotherapeutic agents. To better understand the regulation of NT gene expression in normal lymphocyte development and the elevated expression seen in some drug-resistant tumor cell lines, we isolated NT genomic clones containing the promoter region. The genomic DNA upstream from the NT start codon is high in G+C content, with one cAMP-responsive element and five consensus Sp-1 binding sites, but no TATAA box. RNase protection assays identified a cluster of potential transcription start points (tsp). One tsp, at -63 bp relative to the start codon, was confirmed as authentic by 5'-RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) cloning. Transient transfection experiments utilizing luc as a reporter gene have demonstrated that a 155-bp NT genomic DNA segment inclusive of the tsp functions as a promoter in both NT+ (WI-L2 and MG) and NT- (Jurkat, Hela and Raji) cell lines. The addition of 5'-flanking sequences extending as far as -1.9 kb did not confer cell-type-specific expression to the core promoter. However, nuclear run-on analysis of nascent NT transcripts suggested that differential transcription initiation is at least partially responsible for the regulation of NT expression. Thus, additional information is necessary, either at the chromatin level, or within elements outside of the promoter region, to direct tissue-specific expression of NT.
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- K R Hansen
- Immunobiology and Cancer Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104, USA
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Hansen KR, Resta R, Webb CF, Thompson LF. Ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73): genomic cloning and characterization of regions upstream of the translation start site. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1995; 370:689-92. [PMID: 7660997 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2584-4_143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- K R Hansen
- Immunobiology and Cancer Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104, USA
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Gao X, Blackburn MR, Knudsen TB. Activation of apoptosis in early mouse embryos by 2'-deoxyadenosine exposure. TERATOLOGY 1994; 49:1-12. [PMID: 8171392 DOI: 10.1002/tera.1420490103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Adenosine deaminase (ADA) catalyzes the irreversible hydrolytic deamination of adenosine and deoxyadenosine to nontoxic derivatives. The importance of this reaction in the female reproductive tract of mice is suggested by pronounced utero-placental expression of ADA, and by embryolethality of the potent ADA-inhibitor deoxycoformycin (dCF) on day 7-8 of gestation. The present study investigated the effects of dCF, adenosine, and deoxyadenosine on the mouse neurula. Morphological cell death was monitored by the acridine orange reaction (AOR), and biochemical cell death by internucleosomal DNA cleavage (IDC). A strong AOR appeared in day 7-8 embryos between 3 and 4.5 hr post-exposure to dCF in utero; there was no apparent effect on day 6 or day 9 embryos. Most embryonic tissues were responsive, although the heart and extraembryonic membranes were resistant. Up to 75% of the embryonic chromatin was degraded in a regular pattern in concert with the AOR. Immediate activation of "whole-body" apoptosis was reproduced in short-term whole embryo culture with 0.1 mM deoxyadenosine in the presence of 0.01 mM dCF. This was not activated by exposure to dCF alone nor to adenosine; however, high concentrations of adenosine completely blocked the response to deoxyadenosine, whereas niacinamide inhibited the AOR without changing IDC. The cytotoxic effect of deoxyadenosine was correlated with an expansion of embryonic dATP pools determined by high-performance liquid chromatography analysis. The results suggest that deoxyadenosine is the embryotoxic metabolite which accumulates in the antimesometrium of pregnant mice treated with dCF. Exposure to this metabolic toxin activates apoptosis in day 7-8 embryos through an adenosine-sensitive, NAD-dependent mechanism.
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- X Gao
- Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
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Resta R, Hooker SW, Hansen KR, Laurent AB, Park JL, Blackburn MR, Knudsen TB, Thompson LF. Murine ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73): cDNA cloning and tissue distribution. Gene 1993; 133:171-7. [PMID: 8224905 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(93)90635-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The murine cDNA, encoding the purine catabolic enzyme, ecto-5'-nucleotidase (NT), was cloned and the tissue-specific distribution of both the mRNA and enzyme activity was examined. Starting with kidney RNA and primers based on the known rat sequence, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was utilized to obtain the complete sequence for the translated portion of the murine cDNA. Murine NT is 94% identical to human NT at the amino acid (aa) level and 86% identical at the nucleotide (nt) level. NT enzyme assays revealed greater than tenfold more NT activity in mature vs. immature murine T- and B-lymphocytes. A similar increase in NT activity was also found when the pre-B-cell line, 70Z/3, was induced to produce surface kappa light chains with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and gamma-interferon (gamma-IFN). Thus, culture systems in which murine lymphocytes mature may be useful for examining the mechanisms of NT gene regulation, as well as the function of NT in the immune system. In tissues, enzyme activity varied over 30-fold, from the lowest levels in skeletal muscle, thymus and spleen to highest in placenta, kidney and forestomach. Levels of mRNA, as determined by RNase protection assay, showed increased NT expression in the early gestation site, as compared to non-pregnant uterus, and in day-19.5 placenta, as compared to day-13 chorioallantoic placenta. Messenger RNA levels were in general proportional to enzyme activity, except in the lung and glandular stomach where mRNA levels were higher than expected, based on enzyme activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R Resta
- Immunobiology and Cancer Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104
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The highest levels of purine catabolic enzymes in mice are present in the proximal small intestine. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)49521-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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