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Yeo AET, Christopherson RI. Comparative effects of cycloguanil and WR99210 in human leukaemia cells and intra-erythrocyticPlasmodium. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1998.11813297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Seymour KK, Yeo AET, Rieckmann KH, Christopherson RI. dCTP levels are maintained inPlasmodium falciparumsubjected to pyrimidine deficiency or excess. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1997.11813178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Mallawaaratchy DM, McDonald KL, Sykes EK, Buckland ME, Christopherson RI, Kaufman KL. P17.54 * NOVEL PROTEINS ASSOCIATED WITH INVADOPODIA STRUCTURES IN GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME. Neuro Oncol 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou174.383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Kaufman KL, Ly L, McKay M, Mallawaaratchy DM, Mactier S, Crossett B, Molloy M, Buckland ME, McDonald KL, Christopherson RI. P17.47 * COMPREHENSIVE PROTEOMIC PROFILING OF BEVACIZUMAB-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME. Neuro Oncol 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou174.376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Henrich S, Gez S, Crossett B, Mulligan SP, Christopherson RI. Fludarabine induces differential expression of proteins in human leukemia and lymphoma cells. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 2008; 27:634-40. [PMID: 18600519 DOI: 10.1080/15257770802142287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The purine analog fludarabine (FdAMP) is widely used for chemotherapy of B-lymphoid malignancies, and multiple mechanisms of action leading to apoptosis have been proposed. We examined changes at the protein level induced in the Raji cell line (Burkitt's lymphoma) by fludarabine nucleoside (FdA). Raji cells are sensitive to FdA. Raji cells treated with FdA (3 micro M, 24 hours), accumulate multiple phosphorylated forms of p53 in the nucleus that in turn degrade to phosphorylated forms of p40. Using CD antibody microarrays to determine surface expression profiles for Raji cells treated with FdA, we found up-regulation of the following CD antigens: CD20, CD54, CD80, CD86, and CD95. FdA thus induces changes in the genetic program of the cells that might be exploited to obtain synergy with therapeutic antibodies.
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- S Henrich
- School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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MESH Headings
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/pharmacology
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Burkitt Lymphoma/pathology
- Cell Line, Tumor/drug effects
- Cell Line, Tumor/metabolism
- DNA Damage
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/genetics
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Isoelectric Point
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Molecular Weight
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Proteins/chemistry
- Neoplasm Proteins/drug effects
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Peptide Fragments/chemistry
- Peptide Fragments/metabolism
- Peptide Hydrolases/metabolism
- Phosphorylation/drug effects
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/drug effects
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/chemistry
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/drug effects
- Vidarabine/analogs & derivatives
- Vidarabine/pharmacology
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Lee M, Chan CW, Christopherson RI, Guss JM, Maher MJ. E. colidihydroorotase: loop movement and cooperativity. Acta Crystallogr A 2005. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108767305092226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Christopherson RI, Cinquin O, Shojaei M, Kuehn D, Menz RI. Cloning and expression of malarial pyrimidine enzymes. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 2005; 23:1459-65. [PMID: 15571277 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-200027678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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We have cloned genes encoding three enzymes of the de novo pyrimidine pathway using genomic DNA from Plasmodium falciparum and sequence information from the Malarial Genome Project. Genes encoding dihydroorotase (reaction 3), orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (reaction 5), and OMP decarboxylase (reaction 6) have been cloned into the plasmid pET 3a or 3d with a thrombin cleavable 9xHis tag at the C-terminus and the enzymes were expressed in Escherichia coli. To overcome the toxicity of malarial OMP decarboxylase when expressed in E. coli, and the unusual codon usage of the malarial gene, a hybrid plasmid, pMICO, was constructed which expresses low levels of T7 lysozyme to inhibit T7 RNA polymerase used for recombinant expression, and extra copies of rare tRNAs. Catalytically-active OMP decarboxylase has been purified in tens of milligrams by chromatography on Ni-NTA. The gene encoding orotate phosphoribosyltransferase includes an extension of 66 amino acids from the N-terminus when compared with sequences for this enzyme from other organisms. We have found that other pyrimidine enzymes also contain unusual protein inserts. Milligram quantities of pure recombinant malarial enzymes from the pyrimidine pathway will provide targets for development of novel antimalarial drugs.
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- R I Christopherson
- School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Amido phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) catalyzes the first step of the de novo biosynthesis of purine nucleotides, the conversion of 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate (PRPP) into 5-phosphoribosylamine (PRA). APRT is a valid target for development of inhibitors as anticancer drugs. We have developed a thin layer chromatographic assay for PRPP extracted from cells. Using coupling enzymes, PRPP with excess [2-14C]orotate (OA) is quantitatively converted to [2-14C]OMP and then [2-14C]UMP with hydrolysis of the PPi. The reaction products are isolated on poly(ethyleneimine)-cellulose (PEI-C) chromatograms. Human CCRF-CEM leukaemia cells growing in culture have been exposed to a number of antifolates and their effects upon cellular levels of PRPP determined. The steady-state level of PRPP measured in CCRF-CEM cells was 102+/-11 microM. Following addition of an antifolate to a culture, accumulation of PRPP in cells indicates the degree of inhibition of APRT. In human CCRF-CEM leukaemia cells, lometrexol (LTX), 2,4-diamino-6-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-quinazoline (PY899), methotrexate (MTX), N(alpha)(4-amino-4-deoxypteroyl)-N(delta)-hemiphthaloyl-L-ornithine (PT523), piritrexim (PTX), metoprine, 2,4-diamino-6-(3,4,5-trimethoxyanilino)-methylpyrido[3,2-d]pyrimidine (PY873) and multitargeted antifolate, N-[4-[2-(2-amino-3,4-dihydro-4-oxo-7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-5-yl)ethyl]benzoyl]-L-glutamic acid (MTA) directly or indirectly induce inhibition of APRT indicated by time-courses for accumulation of PRPP to maximum values of 3-12-fold. These data indicate that LTX induces the most potent inhibition of APRT.
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- M A Kamal
- School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Menz RI, Cinquin O, Christopherson RI. The identification, cloning and functional expression of the gene encoding orotidine 5'-monophosphate (OMP) decarboxylase from Plasmodium falciparum. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2002; 96:469-76. [PMID: 12194707 DOI: 10.1179/000349802125001230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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The coding region of a putative orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase gene from Plasmodium falciparum was identified in genomic data from the Malarial Genome Sequencing Project. The gene encodes a protein of 323 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 37.8 kDa. The gene was cloned into a bacterial expression vector and over-expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant protein was purified and shown to have orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase activity, confirming the identity of the gene.
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- R I Menz
- School of Biological Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
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- O Cinquin
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Belov L, de la Vega O, dos Remedios CG, Mulligan SP, Christopherson RI. Immunophenotyping of leukemias using a cluster of differentiation antibody microarray. Cancer Res 2001; 61:4483-9. [PMID: 11389079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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Different leukemias express on their plasma membranes particular subsets of the 247 defined cluster of differentiation (CD) antigens, which may resemble those of precursor cells along the lineages of differentiation to mature myeloid and lymphoid leukocytes. The extent of use of CD antigen expression (immunophenotyping) for identification of leukemias has been constrained by the technique used, flow cytometry, which commonly specifies only three CD antigens in any one assay. Currently, leukemias and lymphomas are diagnosed using a combination of morphology, immunophenotype, cytochemistry, and karyotype. We have developed a rapid, simple procedure, which enables concurrent determination of 50 or more CD antigens on leukocytes or leukemia cells in a single analysis using a microarray of antibodies. A suspension of cells is applied to the array, and cells only bind to antibody dots for which they express the corresponding CD antigen. For patients with significantly raised leukocyte counts, the resulting dot pattern then represents the immunophenotype of those cells. For patients at earlier stages of disease, the diagnosis depends on recognition of dot patterns distinct from the background of normal leukocytes. Distinctive and reproducible dot patterns have been obtained for normal peripheral blood leukocytes, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), hairy cell leukemia, mantle cell lymphoma, acute myeloid leukemia, and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The consensus pattern for CD antigen expression found on CLL cells taken from 20 patients in descending order of cells bound was CD44, HLA-DR, CD37, CD19, CD20, CD5, CD52, CD45RA, CD22, CD24, CD45, CD23, CD21, CD71, CD11c, and CD9. The antigens that provided the best discrimination between CLL and normal peripheral blood leukocytes were CD19, CD20, CD21, CD22, CD23, CD24, CD25, and CD37. Results obtained for the expression of 48 CD antigens from the microarray compared well with flow cytometry. The microarray enables extensive immunophenotyping, and the intact cells captured on antibody dots can be further characterized using soluble, fluorescently labeled antibodies.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Antibodies/immunology
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, Neoplasm/analysis
- Burkitt Lymphoma/immunology
- Flow Cytometry
- Fluorescent Dyes
- HL-60 Cells/immunology
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping/methods
- Leukemia/blood
- Leukemia/immunology
- Leukemia, Hairy Cell/blood
- Leukemia, Hairy Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/blood
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/blood
- Leukemia, Myeloid/immunology
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/blood
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/blood
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/immunology
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/immunology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- L Belov
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Conigrave AD, van der Weyden L, Holt L, Jiang L, Wilson P, Christopherson RI, Morris MB. Extracellular ATP-dependent suppression of proliferation and induction of differentiation of human HL-60 leukemia cells by distinct mechanisms. Biochem Pharmacol 2000; 60:1585-91. [PMID: 11077040 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(00)00465-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Extracellular ATP suppressed the growth of HL-60 leukemia cells and induced their differentiation as revealed by N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine-induced beta-glucuronidase release. ATP degraded to ADP, AMP, and adenosine, and the effect of ATP on cell growth was mimicked by these metabolites added to the cultures. The stable analog alpha,beta-methylene ATP, however, had only a weak inhibitory effect on cell growth. Adenine nucleotide-induced growth suppression was reversed by uridine, suggesting the involvement of intracellular pyrimidine starvation secondary to adenosine accumulation. Consistent with this, ATP induced intracellular starvation of pyrimidine nucleotides, and this effect was also prevented by pretreatment of cells with uridine. The order of effectiveness of ATP-induced differentiation of HL-60 cells, unlike that for growth suppression, was ATP > ADP > AMP, and adenosine had no effect. Furthermore, uridine had no effect and the stable analog, alpha,beta-methylene ATP also induced HL-60 cell differentiation, suggesting that differentiation was due to ATP per se. We tested the hypothesis that ATP-induced differentiation arises from activation of adenylyl cyclase by the novel P2Y(11) receptor using the cell-permeable inhibitor of protein kinase A, Rp-CPT-cAMPS (8-(4-chlorophenylthio)adenosine-3',5'-cyclic monophosphorothioate, Rp isomer). Rp-CPT-cAMPS (1-100 microM) prevented ATP-induced differentiation of HL-60 cells as assessed by fMLP-induced beta-glucuronidase release. However, Rp-CPT-cAMPS did not prevent ATP-induced growth suppression. Taken together, the data indicate that extracellular ATP suppresses HL-60 growth and induces their differentiation by distinct mechanisms. Growth suppression arises from adenosine generation and consequent pyrimidine starvation. Differentiation arises, at least in part, from a distinct mechanism involving the activation of cell surface P2 receptors coupled to cAMP generation and activation of protein kinase A.
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- A D Conigrave
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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Dihydroorotase (DHOase, EC 3.5.2.3) is a zinc enzyme that catalyzes the reversible cyclization of N-carbamyl-L-aspartate to L-dihydroorotate in the third reaction of the de novo pathway for biosynthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides. The recombinant hamster DHOase domain from the trifunctional protein, CAD, was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified. The DHOase domain contained one bound zinc atom at the active site which was removed by dialysis against the chelator, pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate, at pH 6.0. The apoenzyme was reconstituted with different divalent cations at pH 7.4. Co(II)-, Zn(II)-, Mn(II)-, and Cd(II)-substituted DHOases had enzymic activity, but replacement with Ni(2+), Cu(2+), Mg(2+), or Ca(2+) ions did not restore activity. Atomic absorption spectroscopy showed binding of one Co(II), Zn(II), Mn(II), Cd(II), Ni(II), or Cu(II) to the enzyme, while Mg(II) and Ca(II) were not bound. The maximal enzymic activities of the active, reconstituted DHOases were in the following order: Co(II) --> Zn(II) --> Mn(II) --> Cd(II). These metal substitutions had major effects upon values for V(max); effects upon the corresponding K(m) values were less pronounced. The pK(a) values of the Co(II)-, Mn(II)-, and Cd(II)-substituted enzymes derived from pH-rate profiles are similar to that of Zn(II)-DHOase, indicating that the derived pK(a) value of 6.56 obtained for Zn-DHOase is not due to ionization of an enzyme-metal aquo complex, but probably a histidine residue at the active site. The visible spectrum of Co(II)-substituted DHOase exhibits maxima at 520 and 570 nm with molar extinction coefficients of 195 and 210 M(-1) cm(-1), consistent with pentacoordination of Co(II) at the active site. The spectra at high and low pH are different, suggesting that the environment of the metal binding site is different at these pHs where the reverse and forward reactions, respectively, are favored.
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- D T Huang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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Manthey MK, Huang DT, Bubb WA, Christopherson RI. Synthesis and enzymic evaluation of 4-mercapto-6-oxo-1, 4-azaphosphinane-2-carboxylic acid 4-oxide as an inhibitor of mammalian dihydroorotase. J Med Chem 1998; 41:4550-5. [PMID: 9804694 DOI: 10.1021/jm970814z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The design, synthesis, and enzymic evaluation of cis- and trans-4-mercapto-6-oxo-1,4-azaphosphinane-2-carboxylic acid 4-oxide 5 against mammalian dihydroorotase is presented. The design strategy for 5 was based on the strong affinity of phosphinothioic acids for zinc and that 5 also resembles the postulated tetrahedral transition state for the enzyme-catalyzed reaction. The synthesis of 5 utilized a novel protection/deprotection sequence upon 4-hydroxy-6-oxo-1, 4-azaphosphinane-2-carboxylic acid 4-oxide 4, followed by incorporation of alpha-phenyl benzenemethanethiol and exhaustive deprotection to afford 5 in 40% overall yield from 4. The activities of both isomers of 5 as inhibitors of mammalian dihydroorotase were marginally greater than that of the parent phosphinic acid 4, indicating a weak binding enhancement due to the phosphinothioic acid moiety.
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- M K Manthey
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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UNLABELLED BACKGROUND and aims. To compare the metabolic effects induced by the anticancer drugs, 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP), 6-thioguanine (6-TG) and 6-methylmercaptopurine riboside (MMPR), which may inhibit the de novo biosynthesis of purine nucleotides or be mis-incorporated into DNA or RNA. METHODS Leukaemia cells were grown in culture, exposed to a thiopurine and cell extracts were analyzed for NTPs, dNTPs, drug metabolites and P-Rib-PP. RESULTS In leukaemia cells, 6-MP was converted to MPR-MP, thio-XMP, thio-GMP, thio-GDP and thio-GTP. Metabolites of 6-TG included thio-XMP, thio-GMP, thio-GDP and thio-GTP, while MMPR-MP was the only major metabolite of MMPR, MMPR (25 microM, 4 h) induced a 16-fold increase in P-Rib-PP and 6-MP (25 microM, 4 h) induced a delayed 5.2-fold increase. MPR-MP, thio-GMP and MMPR-MP are inhibitors of amido phosphoribosyltransferase from leukaemia cells with Ki values of 114 +/- 7.10 microM, 6.20 +/- 2.10 microM and 3.09 +/- 0.30 microM, respectively. CONCLUSION The nucleoside-5'-monophosphate derivatives of the 3 thiopurines inhibit amido phosphoribosyltransferase in growing leukaemia cells but there is also an initial inhibition of the further conversion of IMP in the pathway. In growing cells, MMPR acts solely as an inhibitor of de novo purine biosynthesis while 6-TG and to a lesser extent, 6-MP, are converted to significant concentrations of di- and tri-phosphate derivatives which may have other mechanisms of cytotoxicity.
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- R Z Shi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Syed SK, Christopherson RI, Roufogalis BD. Reversal of vinblastine transport by chlorpromazine in membrane vesicles from multidrug-resistant human CCRF-CEM leukaemia cells. Br J Cancer 1998; 78:321-7. [PMID: 9703277 PMCID: PMC2063016 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1998.493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The mechanism of action of 2-chlorpromazine (2-chloro-10-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-phenothiazine) as a reversal agent for P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance was investigated using inside out-orientated membrane vesicles prepared from vinblastine-resistant human CCRF-CEM leukaemia cells (VBL1000). 2-Chlorpromazine (10 microM) completely inhibited ATP-dependent P-glycoprotein-mediated vinblastine accumulation in the vesicles. Whereas in the absence of added ligands VBL transport was described by a hyperbolic function of vinblastine concentration, in the presence of 2-chlorpromazine vinblastine transport was a sigmoidal function. 2-Chlorpromazine was shown previously [Syed SK, Christopherson RI and Roufogalis BD (1996) Biochem Mol Biol Int 39: 687-696] to be actively transported into vesicles from multidrug-resistant cells. Colchicine (10 microM) and phenoxybenzamine (10 microM) blocked vinblastine transport but had no effect on 2-chlorpromazine transport into vesicles. The results were consistent with a two-state concerted model in which P-glycoprotein exists in two conformational states, P(A) and P(B), where 2-chlorpromazine is transported by the conformer, P(A), and vinblastine by the conformer, P(B). In the presence of 2-chlorpromazine, the conformer P(A) predominates and vinblastine transport is inhibited. Addition of 2-chlorpromazine during the steady state of vinblastine accumulation blocked uptake and resulted in enhanced vinblastine efflux from the vesicles. The findings were similar when vinblastine was added at the steady state of 2-chlorpromazine transport. We propose a minimal kinetic model whereby in these preloaded vesicles the complex VV.P(A).CC is formed, where two internal binding sites of P-glycoprotein (P(A)) are occupied by vinblastine (V) and the two external sites are occupied by 2-chlorpromazine (C). When the two binding sites on both the inside and outside of P-glycoprotein are saturated with ligands vinblastine is effluxed at a very rapid rate, and vice versa when vesicles are preloaded with 2-chlorpromazine and vinblastine is added outside. These unexpected observations and the concerted model developed provide an alternative mechanism of action for reversal agents that sensitize multidrug-resistant cancer cells to anti-cancer drugs.
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- S K Syed
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The bifunctional enzyme, IMP synthase, contains 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide (AICAR) transformylase and IMP cyclohydrolase activities and catalyses the ninth and tenth reactions of the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of purine nucleotides (AICAR-->FAICAR-->IMP). The spatial relationship between the two active sites on IMP synthase has been investigated along with the possibility that the intermediate, FAICAR, may be channelled between the two sites. METHODS The two catalytic activities and the overall reaction (AICAR-->FAICAR-->IMP) were assayed using 3H-labelled AICAR or FAICAR with isolation of the reaction products by thin-layer chromatography. RESULTS Inhibition constants for the interactions of six purine nucleoside 5'-monophosphate derivatives with AICAR transformylase and IMP cyclohydrolase were 24- to 820-fold higher for the transformylase. N-ethylmaleimide inactivated IMP cyclohydrolase but not AICAR transformylase. The rate of IMP synthesis from AICAR was consistent with a high local concentration of FAICAR at the cyclohydrolase site but addition of exogenous unlabelled FAICAR reduced the amount of [3H]AICAR formed from [3H]AICAR indicating that the channelling of FAICAR was not absolute. CONCLUSION The AICAR transformylase and IMP cyclohydrolase active sites of IMP synthase are distinct but sufficiently close for the FAICAR produced by a transformylase site to be preferentially utilized as a substrate by a cyclohydrolase site on the same molecule if dimeric, bifunctional IMP synthase.
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- E Szabados
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Wilson PK, Szabados E, Mulligan SP, Christopherson RI. Comparative effects of cladribine, fludarabine and pentostatin on nucleotide metabolism in T- and B-cell lines. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 1998; 30:833-42. [PMID: 9722988 DOI: 10.1016/s1357-2725(98)00024-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS the purine nucleoside analogues cladribine (CdA), fludarabine (F-Ara-AMP) and pentostatin (dCf), are effective therapy for a range of T- and B-cell lymphoid malignancies. The effects upon nucleotide metabolism in human CCRF-CEM T-cell leukaemia and Raji B-cell lymphoma cell lines of these drugs have been compared to assess possible mechanisms of cytotoxicity. METHODS Leukaemia cells were exposed to a purine nucleoside analogue and perchloric acid extracts were analysed by HPLC for 2'-deoxynucleoside-5'-triphosphates (dNTPs), nucleoside-5'-triphosphates (NTPs) and drug metabolites. RESULTS After addition of a purine nucleoside analogue, CdA-TP and F-Ara-ATP accumulate in cells while the levels of dCf-TP formed were not detectable by ultra-violet absorbance. In response to accumulating concentrations of drug triphosphate, the cellular levels of dNTPs initially decrease (0-4 h), then accumulate above their initial levels (4-10 h) before slowly declining beyond 10 h. NTPs also accumulate during the period 4-10 h before declining at later times. CONCLUSION The temporal effects on the levels of dNTPs and NTPs of the 3 purine nucleoside analogues are similar against CCRF-CEM and Raji cells. However, CdA induces major depletions of dTTP, dGTP and dATP in CCRF-CEM cells and F-Ara-A induces a major accumulation of dATP in Raji cells.
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- P K Wilson
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Christopherson RI, Seymour KK, Yeo AE. Pyrimidine antagonists and antifolates as antimalarial drugs. Adv Exp Med Biol 1998; 431:705-9. [PMID: 9598156 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5381-6_136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- E Szabados
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Yeo AE, Christopherson RI. Comparative effects of cycloguanil and WR99210 in human leukaemia cells and intra-erythrocytic Plasmodium. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1998; 92:331-3. [PMID: 9713549 DOI: 10.1080/00034989859906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- A E Yeo
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Szabados E, Manthey MK, Wilson PK, Christopherson RI. Inosine-5'-monophosphate analogues as inhibitors of human IMP cyclohydrolase and cellular growth. Biochem Mol Biol Int 1998; 44:617-23. [PMID: 9556223 DOI: 10.1080/15216549800201652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The catalytic mechanism for the enzyme, IMP cyclohydrolase, may involve a reaction intermediate with negative charge in the 2-position of the purine ring (Szabados, E., Hindmarsh, E., Phillips, L., Duggleby, R.G. & Christopherson, R.I. (1994) Biochemistry 33, 14237-14245). Three analogues of IMP have been synthesised where fluorine, chlorine or bromine has been substituted in the 2-position on the purine ring. These analogues with an electronegative substituent may resemble a reaction intermediate for IMP cyclohydrolase; 2-fluoro IMP is a potent inhibitor of the enzyme with a Ki value of 0.19 microM, while 2-chloro IMP has a Ki of 1.9 microM and 2-bromo IMP is not inhibitory. However, IMP cyclohydrolase is not inhibited in human CCRF-CEM leukaemia cells exposed to 2-fluoro inosine although it is toxic to these cells with an IC50 value of 4.9 microM.
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- E Szabados
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Yeo AE, Rieckmann KH, Christopherson RI. Indirect inhibition by antibiotics of nucleotide and deoxynucleotide biosynthesis in Plasmodium falciparum. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 1998; 29:24-6. [PMID: 9740262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The effects of the antibiotics, doxycycline, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin and chloramphenicol, upon levels of nucleoside-5'-triphosphates (NTPs) and 2'-deoxynucleoside-5'-triphosphates (dNTPs) have been compared in the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, and in human CCRF-CEM leukemia cells. All 4 antibiotics had more severe effects upon levels of NTPs and dNTPs in P. falciparum compared with leukemia cells providing an explanation for their selective toxicity against malaria and their utility as antimalarial drugs. In bacteria, the first 3 drugs inhibit protein synthesis while ciprofloxacin inhibits topoisomerase II. The observed depletions of NTPs and dNTPs would be a secondary effect of the drug but may result in death of the parasite.
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- A E Yeo
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Seymour KK, Yeo AE, Rieckmann KH, Christopherson RI. dCTP levels are maintained in Plasmodium falciparum subjected to pyrimidine deficiency or excess. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1997; 91:603-9. [PMID: 9425362 DOI: 10.1080/00034989760699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The pyrimidine antagonists, 6-L-thiodihydroorotate (TDHO) and atovaquone, are known to induce inhibition of de-novo pyrimidine biosynthesis in Plasmodium falciparum growing in erythrocytic culture, at reactions catalysed by dihydroorotase and dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, respectively. In the present study, TDHO and atovaquone induced decreases in the levels of UTP, CTP and dTTP but not dCTP in P. falciparum. Addition of orotate with either antagonist increased UTP, CTP and dTTP but depressed GTP, ATP, dATP and dCTP, suggesting that these drugs indirectly modulate the activity of ribonucleotide reductase. The changes induced in the levels of dNTP by these pyrimidine antagonists are similar to those previously described for the antifolates, cycloguanil and WR99210.
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- K K Seymour
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) is an actin monomer-sequestering actin binding protein (ABP) that inhibits the rate and extent of actin polymerisation in vitro by forming a high affinity, stoichiometric 1:1 complex. Using capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), we have studied the interaction between G-actin and DNase I to evaluate the capability of CZE to determine the dissociation constant (K(d) value) for this interaction. We used (i) an uncoated fused-silica capillary and ultraviolet (UV) detection at 214 nm; (ii) a hydrophilic-coated capillary with UV detection at 214 nm; and (iii) a hydrophilic-coated capillary with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection. Using procedure (ii), a K(d) value of approximately 0.03 microM was obtained by simulation of binding data. We conclude that CZE combined with a LIF detector has the capacity to extend the determination of K(d) values from the micromolar range to the nanomolar range. Subsequent determination of K(d) values for other actin-binding proteins should provide information on interactions between the binding sites on actin for these proteins and their spatial relationship.
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- L K Carter
- Institute for Biomedical Research, and Department of Anatomy and Histology, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Schoettle SL, Crisp LB, Szabados E, Christopherson RI. Mechanisms of inhibition of amido phosphoribosyltransferase from mouse L1210 leukemia cells. Biochemistry 1997; 36:6377-83. [PMID: 9174353 DOI: 10.1021/bi962598m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Amido phosphoribosyltransferase (amido PRTase) catalyses the first step of the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of purine nucleotides. The enzyme is subject to inhibition by purine nucleoside 5'-monophosphates (AMP, IMP, and GMP), by dihydrofolate polyglutamates, and by the antifolate piritrexim [Sant, M. E., Lyons, S. D., Phillips, L., & Christopherson, R. I. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 11038-11045). Using a coupled radioassay, we have determined the substrate dissociation constants as 80.4 +/- 13.2 microM for 5-phosphoribosyl 1-pyrophosphate (P-Rib-PP) and 421 +/- 193 microM for L-glutamine with P-Rib-PP bound first with positive cooperativity for interaction with a second site on the catalytically active dimer (interaction factor of 0.247 +/- 0.042). Analysis of inhibition patterns for amido PRTase shows that the antifolate piritrexim is a noncompetitive inhibitor bound with positive cooperativity at two allosteric sites of an inactive dimer with a dissociation constant of 66.0 +/- 17.8 microM for interaction with the free enzyme and an interaction factor of 0.187 +/- 0.113 with P-Rib-PP as the varied substrate. With L-glutamine as the varied substrate, a dissociation constant of 62.3 +/- 15.6 microM for interaction with the enzyme-P-Rib-PP complex and an interaction factor of 0.0958 +/- 0.0585 microM were obtained. AMP binds as a competitive inhibitor with respect to P-Rib-PP with a dissociation constant of 40.0 +/- 8.1 microM for interaction with the free enzyme and as a noncompetitive inhibitor with respect to L-glutamine with a dissociation constant of 16.4 +/- 5.2 mM for interaction with the enzyme-P-Rib-PP complex. Sucrose density gradient centrifugation of partially purified amido PRTase showed three molecular forms of the enzyme: an inactive tetramer (10.2 S) formed in the presence of AMP, an active dimer (6.7 S) formed with P-Rib-PP, and an inactive dimer (7.2 S) with piritrexim. The latter species may predominate in cells containing high levels of dihydrofolate polyglutamates.
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- S L Schoettle
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Yeo AE, Seymour KK, Rieckmann KH, Christopherson RI. Effects of dual combinations of antifolates with atovaquone or dapsone on nucleotide levels in Plasmodium falciparum. Biochem Pharmacol 1997; 53:943-50. [PMID: 9174107 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(96)00835-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The triazine antifolates, cycloguanil and 4,6-diamino-1,2-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-1-[(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy)propy loxy]-1,3,5-triazine hydrobromide (WR99210), and their parent biguanide compounds, proguanil and N-[3-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy)propyloxy]-n-(1-methylethyl)-imido dicarbonimidic-diamine hydrochloride (PS-15), were tested in combination with a series of antimalarial drugs for synergism against Plasmodium falciparum growing in erythrocytic culture. Four synergistic combinations were found: cycloguanil dapsone, WR99210-dapsone, proguanil-atovaquone, and PS-15-atovaquone. Cycloguanil-dapsone or WR99210-dapsone had a profound suppressive effect on the concentration of dTTP in parasites while that of dATP increased. Depletion of dTTP is consistent with cycloguanil or WR99210 inhibiting dihydrofolate reductase and dapsone inhibiting dihydropteroate synthase. For the combinations proguanil-atovaquone and PS-15-atovaquone, the levels of nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) and dNTPs were generally suppressed, suggesting that inhibition is not through nucleotide pathways but probably through another metabolic mechanism(s). Combinations of two synergistic pairs of antimalarial drugs, (proguanil-atovaquone)-(cycloguanil-dapsone) and (PS-15-atovaquone)-(WR99210-dapsone), were tested, and it was found that NTPs and dNTPs decreased much more than for a single synergistic combination. Dual synergistic combinations could play an important role in the therapy of multidrug-resistant malaria, just as combination chemotherapy is used to treat cancer.
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- A E Yeo
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Christopherson RI. Partial inactivation of chorismate mutase-prephenate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli in the presence of analogues of chorismate. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 1997; 29:589-94. [PMID: 9363636 DOI: 10.1016/s1357-2725(96)00176-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Chorismate-5,6-epoxide, chorismate-5,6-diol, various adamantane derivatives and 2-hydroxy-phenyl acetate are structural analogues of chorismate that act as competitive inhibitors of both the chorismate mutase and prephenate dehydrogenase activities of the bifunctional enzyme, hydroxyphenylpyruvate synthase. The interactions of these chorismate analogues with both activities of the synthase are investigated further. Chorismate mutase and prephenate dehydrogenase activities were assayed spectrophotometrically at 290 and 340 nm, respectively. Data were fit by non-linear regression to appropriate equations describing the time-dependent formation of product or decay of enzymic activity. In the presence of these chorismate analogues, both the mutase and dehydrogenase activities undergo a time-dependent partial inactivation. Progress curves for synthesis of product by the mutase or dehydrogenase in the presence of chorismate-5,6-epoxide, chorismate-5,6-diol or adamantane-1,3-diacetate resemble time-courses characteristic of slow-binding inhibition. However, if the bifunctional enzyme was preincubated with a chorismate analogue prior to addition of substrate, only a minor proportion of enzymic activity was recovered, excluding the possibility of reversible, slow-binding inhibition. When hydroxyphenylpyruvate synthase binds certain chorismate analogues to form an EI complex, there is a slow conformational transition to an ET complex, which may be susceptible to oxidation leading to partial inactivation. Some protection against this inactivation is provided by high concentrations of dithiothreitol (20 mM), suggesting that the inactivation may be due to chemical oxidation.
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Yeo AE, Seymour KK, Rieckmann KH, Christopherson RI. Effects of folic and folinic acids in the activities of cycloguanil and WR99210 against Plasmodium falciparum in erythrocytic culture. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1997; 91:17-23. [PMID: 9093425 DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1997.11813107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The in-vitro effects of folinic acid on the antimalarial activities of the triazine antifolates, cycloguanil and WR99210, were compared with those of their parent biguanides, proguanil and PS-15, a dihydrofolate-reductase inhibitor, pyrimethamine, and a pyrimidine antagonist, atovaquone. It was found that the minimum inhibitory concentrations of cycloguanil and WR99210 were not affected by physiological concentrations of folic or folinic acids in human serum. Experiments with Plasmodium falciparum growing in erythrocytic culture showed that the antimalarial effect of cycloguanil is readily antagonised by folinic acid, whereas WR99210 is much more refractory. Plasmodium falciparum exposed to cycloguanil (2.5 microM, 6 h) and WR99210 (1 microM, 6 h), showed depressed levels of thymidine 5'-triphosphate (dTTP) in the absence and presence of folinic acid (25 microM and 10 microM, respectively). The decrease in dTTP may be attributed to inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase. However, as the addition of folinic acid did not restore dTTP levels in the parasites, the drugs may have an additional or different mechanism of toxicity.
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- A E Yeo
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Human lymphocytes lacking adenosine deaminase die and T-cell leukemias are killed by deoxycoformycin (dCf), an inhibitor of adenosine deaminase, due to impaired metabolism of dAdo. The initial metabolism of exogenous adenosine (Ado) and deoxyadenosine (dAdo) has been compared in human erythrocytes and CCRF-CEM leukemia cells and the data obtained have been simulated using kinetic constants obtained in vitro for the enzymes involved. Cells were mixed with 3H-labelled Ado and dAdo, samples were taken at 3 sec intervals and progress curves for the 3H-labelled metabolites formed were determined by quantitative two-dimensional thin layer chromatography. Erythrocytes rapidly take up Ado and the predominant metabolite after 60 sec is hypoxanthine (Hyp), while for dAdo, deoxyinosine (dIno) predominates. By contrast, leukemia cells convert to Ado predominantly to AMP, while dAdo is converted first to Hyp and the to AMP. The presence of dCf had little effect upon Ado metabolism by induced accumulation of dAdo. Erythrocytes rapidly degrade Ado and dAdo to Hyp, although the phosphorolysis of dIno is relatively slow. Human CCRF-CEM leukemia cells convert most of the Ado or dAdo to AMP after 60 sec. For dAdo, the sequence of reactions would be dAdo-->dIno-->Hyp-->IMP-->sAMP-->AMP. dCf does not significantly affect the conversion of Ado-->AMP, but dCf blocks AMP accumulation from dAdo, consistent with the reaction sequence shown above. A computer model has been developed for the metabolism of Ado and dAdo, but some of the kinetic constants determined in vitro for this model do not pertain to intact cells.
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- E Szabados
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C) is used to treat leukemias, with complete remission induced by combination chemotherapy in approximately 70% of cases of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Ara-CTP acts as a competitive inhibitor of DNA polymerase and may also be incorporated into DNA. Accumulation of deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) induced by Ara-C may indicate disruption of DNA synthesis in susceptible leukemia cells. A procedure has been developed for the quantification of Ara-CTP and dNTPs from small samples of leukaemia cells from patients (4 x 10(7) cells) activated with concanavalin A (10 micrograms/ml, 48 hr) and grown in the presence of [32P]orthophosphate (1.1 microM, 9 x 10(6) Ci/mol, 16 hr). The susceptibilities to Ara-C of the human leukemia cell lines CCRF-CEM (IC50 = 6.30 nM), CCRF-HSB-2 (IC50 = 10.4 nM) and MOLT-4 (IC50 = 10.0 nM) may be correlated with their abilities to accumulate high concentrations of Ara-CTP (> 1000 amol/cell) with increases of between 1.3- and 3.4-fold in dATP, dGTP and dTTP for the four cell lines, while dCTP decreased between 0.23- and 0.78-fold. By contrast, an Ara-C-resistant derivative of HL-60 cells (IC50 = 400 nM) accumulated only low concentrations of Ara-CTP (71 amol/cell) without significant changes in dNTPs. High concentrations of Ara-CTP in leukemia cells induce accumulations of dATP, dGTP and dTTP due to inhibition of DNA synthesis, and depletion of dCTP. This imbalance in the pools of the four dNTPs could lead to genetic miscoding and cell death.
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- L B Crisp
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Syed SK, Christopherson RI, Roufogalis BD. Chlorpromazine transport in membrane vesicles from multidrug resistant CCRF-CEM cells. Biochem Mol Biol Int 1996; 39:687-96. [PMID: 8843336 DOI: 10.1080/15216549600201761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The mechanism by which chlorpromazine (2-chloro-10-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-phenothiazine) reverses P-glycoprotein (P-gp2) mediated multidrug resistance was investigated using membrane vesicles prepared from human CCRF-CEM leukaemia cells. Chlorpromazine was transported in an ATP-dependent manner into membrane vesicles prepared from vinblastine resistant (VBL1000) cells but not from drug-sensitive cells. The chlorpromazine uptake was sensitive to osmotic pressure, indicating true transport into the vesicle lumen. The ATP-dependent chlorpromazine uptake was inhibited about 30% by the addition of ammonium chloride, indicating that a pH or electrical gradient could not account for the majority of ATP-dependent chlorpromazine uptake. The results of this study show that chlorpromazine is actively transported my P-glycoprotein and that chemosensitization by phenothiazines may occur by competition of these agents for active transport of anticancer agents by P-glycoprotein.
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- S K Syed
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Musk P, Clark JM, Thompson D, Dunn IS, Christopherson RI, Szabados E, Rose SE, Parsons PG. Purine deoxynucleoside metabolism in human melanoma cells with a high spontaneous mutation rate. Mutat Res 1996; 350:229-38. [PMID: 8657185 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(95)00111-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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A human melanoma cell line (MM96L) had a spontaneous mutation rate at the HGPRT locus of approx. 7 times normal. The cells had elevated dATP and dGTP pools, lacked purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) and were sensitive to killing by deoxyadenosine, deoxyinosine and related purines but not to inosine or hypoxanthine. Four other melanoma cell lines exhibited a range of nucleoside sensitivities and dNTP pool sizes. Failure of intact MM96L cells to degrade exogenous deoxyadenosine and deoxyinosine to hypoxanthine was confirmed by NMR of culture medium. Normal melanocytes were PNP+ and were insensitive to deoxyinosine. Comparison of the metabolites of [14C]deoxyinosine from MM96L and a PNP+ cell line of similar doubling time (HeLa) showed that both cell types produced 14C-labelled guanine and adenine nucleotides, with [14C]dATP and [14C]dADP being found in MM96L. This indicates that human sAMP synthetase or a similar enzyme catalyses the conversion of dIMP to dAMP, the resultant elevation of dATP causing base misincorporation and a mutator phenotype.
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- P Musk
- Queensland Cancer Fund Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Australia
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A radioassay has been developed to quantify the uptake and initial metabolism of adenosine (Ado) or deoxyadenosine (dAdo) by human erythrocytes. Cell suspension and [3H]Ado are mixed at 3-s intervals with a novel dual-syringe apparatus, and uptake and metabolism of Ado is stopped by centrifuging the cells through a dibutylphthalate layer into perchloric acid. The neutralized cell extract is analyzed by two-dimensional chromatography on poly(ethyleneimine)-cellulose plates by two procedures using combinations of solvents optimised for the separation of nucleosides and nucleobases, and for nucleotides derived from the exogenous [3H]Ado.
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- E Szabados
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Christopherson RI, Williams NK, Schoettle SL, Szabados E, Hambley TW, Manthey MK. Inhibitors of dihydro-orotase, amidophosphoribosyltransferase and IMP cyclohydrolase as potential drugs. Biochem Soc Trans 1995; 23:888-93. [PMID: 8654860 DOI: 10.1042/bst0230888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Williams NK, Manthey MK, Hambley TW, O'Donoghue SI, Keegan M, Chapman BE, Christopherson RI. Catalysis by hamster dihydroorotase: zinc binding, site-directed mutagenesis, and interaction with inhibitors. Biochemistry 1995; 34:11344-52. [PMID: 7547862 DOI: 10.1021/bi00036a007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Hamster dihydroorotase is the central domain of a trifunctional protein which has been cloned, overexpressed, and purified from Escherichia coli. Using the cDNA encoding the dihydroorotase domain, site-directed mutagenesis of amino acid residues conserved between species has enabled identification of three ligands of zinc at the catalytic site as His15, 17 and 158. The underlined amino acids of the nonapeptide sequence Ile12-Asp13-Val14-His15-Val16-His17- Leu18-Arg19-Glu20 from hamster are conserved between dihydroorotases from 8 species. It is proposed that the residues Asp13-His15-->ZnII form a triad at the active site and that Arg19, for which even the conservative mutation Arg19-->Lys yields an inactive enzyme, is involved in substrate binding. Site-directed mutagenesis of the conserved His186-->Ala yielded a mutant enzyme with a reduced affinity for 65Zn2+. The Km for dihydroorotate (DHO) increased from 4.0 to 11 microM, while the Vmax decreased from 1.2 to 0.53 mumol min-1 (mg of protein)-1, implicating this residue in only a minor way with binding of DHO and in catalysis. The mutation Asp230-->Glu resulted in a 14-fold increase in Km and a 16-fold decrease in Vmax, indicating involvement of this conserved residue in both binding and catalysis. The mutation Lys239-->Gly increased the Km for DHO 110-fold with a 2-fold increase in Vmax, suggesting that this residue may form a hydrogen bond with the substrate.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- N K Williams
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, Australia
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Williams NK, Isaac EL, Peide Y, Christopherson RI. The catalytic mechanism of hamster dihydroorotase. Adv Exp Med Biol 1995; 370:549-53. [PMID: 7660968 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2584-4_116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- N K Williams
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- S L Schoettle
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Szabados E, Hindmarsh EJ, Phillips L, Duggleby RG, Christopherson RI. 5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide transformylase-IMP cyclohydrolase from human CCRF-CEM leukemia cells: purification, pH dependence, and inhibitors. Biochemistry 1994; 33:14237-45. [PMID: 7947835 DOI: 10.1021/bi00251a036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The bifunctional enzyme 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide (AICAR) transformylase-IMP cyclohydrolase has been purified 780-fold to apparent homogeneity from human CCRF-CEM leukemia cells, completed with chromatography on Affi-Gel Blue followed by AICAR-Sepharose 4B. Using a sensitive radioassay, IMP cyclohydrolase has a Ks value for 5-formamidoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide (FAICAR) at pH 7.4 of 0.87 +/- 0.11 microM. The following purine nucleotide derivatives were potent competitive inhibitors of IMP cyclohydrolase: 2-mercaptoinosine 5'-monophosphate (Ki = 0.094 +/- 0.024 microM), xanthosine 5'-monophosphate (Ki = 0.12 +/- 0.01 microM), 2-fluoroadenine arabinoside 5'-monophosphate (Ki = 0.16 +/- 0.02 microM), 6-mercaptopurine riboside 5'-monophosphate (Ki = 0.20 +/- 0.02 microM), adenosine N1-oxide 5'-monophosphate (Ki = 0.28 +/- 0.03 microM), and N6-(carboxymethyl)adenosine 5'-monophosphate (Ki = 1.7 +/- 0.42 microM). The pH dependencies of Vmax and Vmax/Ks values for IMP cyclohydrolase are consistent with a single ionizable amino acid residue (pKa = 7.57 +/- 0.09) of the enzyme which must be unprotonated for catalysis to occur and a residue (pKa = 7.57 +/- 0.14) which must be unprotonated for FAICAR to bind. The pKa values of 5.81 +/- 0.03 and 9.41 +/- 0.04 determined for FAICAR indicate that ionization of the substrate does not contribute significantly to the pH effects observed. Chemical modification of IMP cyclohydrolase provides evidence for arginine and cysteine residues at the active site, and roles for these residues in the mechanism of catalysis are proposed.
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- E Szabados
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Szabados E, Christopherson RI. Radioassay of bifunctional 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide transformylase-IMP cyclohydrolase by thin-layer chromatography. Anal Biochem 1994; 221:401-4. [PMID: 7810885 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1994.1433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A radioassay has been developed for the bifunctional enzyme, AICAR transformylase-IMP cyclohydrolase, which catalyzes reactions 9 and 10 of the de novo pathway for biosynthesis of purine nucleotides (AICAR-->FAICAR-->IMP). 3H-labeled AICAR or FAICAR is converted enzymically to product(s) which are separated by one-dimensional thin-layer chromatography prior to quantification by scintillation counting. Using this sensitive radioassay, a dissociation constant of IMP cyclohydrolase for FAICAR of 0.87 microM has been determined and AICAR, FAICAR, and IMP can be quantified in assay mixtures for AICAR transformylase-IMP cyclohydrolase. The ratio of specific enzymic activities for AICAR transformylase:IMP cyclohydrolase is 1:44.
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- E Szabados
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Jeitner TM, Kneale CL, Christopherson RI, Hunt NH. Thiol-bearing compounds selectively inhibit protein kinase C-dependent oxidative events and proliferation in human T cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 1994; 1223:15-22. [PMID: 8061047 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(94)90068-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The aminothiol cysteamine at 10(-5) to 10(-4) M concentrations inhibited both the proliferation of mitogenically stimulated human peripheral mononuclear cells and the phorbol myristate acetate-mediated oxidation of 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein within these cells. Both 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein oxidation and the proliferative response were maximally sensitive to cysteamine-induced inhibition during the first 2 h of mitogenic stimulation. This period of sensitivity indicates that cysteamine preferentially arrests cells transiting from G0 to G1 and is the first such demonstration, of an early cell cycle site of arrest for this compound. 2,3-Dimercapto-1-propane-sulfonic acid and WR 1065 were found to be more effective than cysteamine in attenuating T cell replication but not N-acetylcysteine. Aminothiols preferentially inhibited the intracellular oxidation of 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein, rather than the activity of protein kinase C, which initiates the oxidation, indicating that oxidative events are one of a number of crucial and independent events required for the successful transition through G0-G1. Since aminothiols affect both lectin and PMA/ionomycin-directed proliferation, these aminothiol-sensitive events may serve to integrate and regulate common pathways in T cell activation.
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- T M Jeitner
- Department of Pathology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Seymour KK, Lyons SD, Phillips L, Rieckmann KH, Christopherson RI. Cytotoxic effects of inhibitors of de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis upon Plasmodium falciparum. Biochemistry 1994; 33:5268-74. [PMID: 7909690 DOI: 10.1021/bi00183a033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum can only synthesize pyrimidine nucleotides via the de novo pathway which is therefore a suitable target for development of antimalarial drugs. New assay procedures have been developed using high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) which enable concurrent measurement of pyrimidine intermediates in malaria. Synchronized parasites growing in erythrocytes were pulse-labeled with [14C]bicarbonate at 6-h intervals around the 48-h asexual life cycle. Analysis of malarial extracts by HPLC showed tht incorporation of [14C]bicarbonate into pyrimidine nucleotides was maximal during the transition from trophozoites to schizonts. The reaction, N-carbamyl-L-aspartate-->L-dihydroorotate (CA-asp-->DHO) catalyzed by malarial dihydroorotase is inhibited by L-6-thiodihydroorotate (TDHO) in vitro (Ki = 6.5 microM), and TDHO, as the free acid or methyl ester, induces a major accumulation of CA-asp in malaria. Atovaquone, a naphthoquinone, is a moderate inhibitor of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase in vitro (Ki = 27 microM) but induces major accumulations of CA-asp and DHO. Pyrazofurin induces accumulation of orotate and orotidine in malaria, consistent with inhibition of orotidine 5'-monophosphate (OMP) decarboxylase with subsequent dephosphorylation of the OMP accumulated. Although TDHO, atovaquone, and pyrazofurin arrest the growth of P. falciparum, only moderate decreases in UTP, CTP, and dTTP were observed. 5-Fluoroorotate also arrests the growth of P. falciparum with major accumulations of 5-fluorouridine mono-, di-, and triphosphates and the most significant inhibition of de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides.
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- K K Seymour
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The synthesis of the phosphinic acid 4-hydroxy-6-oxo-1,4-azaphosphinane-2-carboxylic acid 4-oxide (11) is described. The phosphinic acid (11) was designed as a transition state analogue inhibitor of dihydroorotase.
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Syed SK, Christopherson RI, Roufogalis BD. Vinblastine transport by membrane vesicles from human multidrug-resistant CCRF-CEM leukaemia cells: inhibition by taxol and membrane permeabilising agents. Biochem Mol Biol Int 1993; 30:743-53. [PMID: 8104621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Inside-out membrane vesicles prepared from multidrug resistant human leukemic cells (CEM/VBL1000), but not from sensitive cells, transported [3H]-labelled vinblastine (VBL) in an ATP-dependent manner, reaching a plateau level by 15 min. The transport occurred with an apparent Km of 60 +/- 20nM. Verapamil (10 microM), and taxol (IC50 = 1 microM) prevented VBL uptake and evoked VBL diffusion from vesicles when added after VBL uptake had reached steady state. The channel forming agent alamethicin prevented net uptake of VBL and addition of alamethicin to the vesicles after the steady-state had been reached resulted in the rapid efflux of [3H]VBL. Very low concentrations of Triton X-100 (0.01 % v/v) also prevented net uptake of VBL, whilst addition of Triton X-100 and making the medium hypo-osmotic after the steady state had been reached caused the [3H]VBL to rapidly diffuse out of the vesicles. These observations indicate that VBL is actively transported into the lumen of inside-out vesicles from multidrug resistant leukaemia cells.
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- S K Syed
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Williams NK, Peide Y, Seymour KK, Ralston GB, Christopherson RI. Expression of catalytically active hamster dihydroorotase domain in Escherichia coli: purification and characterization. Protein Eng 1993; 6:333-40. [PMID: 8099439 DOI: 10.1093/protein/6.3.333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Dihydroorotase is the central domain of trifunctional L-dihydroorotate synthetase which also contains carbamyl phosphate synthetase at the N-terminus and aspartate transcarbamylase at the C-terminus. The cDNA, corresponding to the active dihydroorotase domain as isolated after digestion of dihydroorotate synthetase with elastase, has been sub-cloned into the expression vector pCW12 which was then used to transform Escherichia coli S phi 1263 pyrC- lacking dihydroorotase activity. However, induction of this recombinant strain with IPTG produced large amounts of the dihydroorotase domain which were completely inactive. A number of cDNAs were expressed which were longer on the C-terminal side; all cDNAs expressed active dihydroorotase domain down to a minimal extension of 12 amino acids (-Val-Pro-Pro-Gly-Tyr-Gly-Gln-Asp-Val-Arg-Lys-Trp) into the bridge region between the dihydroorotase and aspartate transcarbamylase domains. Part of this dodecapeptide may form an amphipathic helix which in some way constrains the isolated, recombinant dihydroorotase domain to an active conformation. The recombinant hamster dihydroorotase purified from a cell-free extract of E. coli in four steps has a turnover number of 297 mol/min/(mol domain) for the conversion of L-dihydroorotate back to N-carbamyl-L-aspartate with Ks = 8.7 +/- 1.5 microM for L-dihydroorotate, a subunit molecular weight of 39,008 determined from the sequence and 37,900 +/- 400 when subjected to SDS-PAGE, and an isoelectric point of 5.7. Ultracentrifugal analysis of the recombinant domain showed a single species of s20,w = 4.1 S and a single molecular species of M(r) = 76,000 corresponding to a dimer.
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- N K Williams
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Hambley TW, Phillips L, Poiner AC, Christopherson RI. A crystallographic and molecular mechanics study of inhibitors of dihydroorotase. Acta Crystallogr B Struct Sci 1993. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108768192007821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Sant ME, Lyons SD, Phillips L, Christopherson RI. Antifolates induce inhibition of amido phosphoribosyltransferase in leukemia cells. J Biol Chem 1992; 267:11038-45. [PMID: 1597445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The pathway for de novo biosynthesis of purine nucleotides contains two one-carbon transfer reactions catalyzed by glycinamide ribotide (GAR) and 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide (AICAR) transformylases in which N10-formyltetrahydrofolate is the one-carbon donor. We have found that the antifolates methotrexate (MTX) and piritrexim (PTX) completely block the de novo purine pathway in mouse L1210 leukemia cells growing in culture but with only minor accumulations of GAR and AICAR to less than 5% of the polyphosphate derivatives of N-formylglycinamide ribotide (FGAR) which accumulate when the pathway is blocked completely by azaserine. This azaserine-induced accumulation of FGAR polyphosphates is completely abolished by MTX, indicating that inhibition of the pathway is at or before GAR transformylase (reaction 3; Lyons, S. D., and Christopherson, R. I. (1991) Biochem. Int. 24, 187-197). Three h after the addition of MTX (0.1 microM), cellular 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate has accumulated 3.4-fold while 6-methyl-mercaptopurine riboside (25 microM) induces a 6.3-fold accumulation. These data suggest that amido phosphoribosyltransferase catalyzing reaction 1 of the pathway is the primary site of inhibition. In support of this conclusion, we have found that dihydrofolate-Glu5, which accumulates in MTX-treated cells, is a noncompetitive inhibitor of amido phosphoribosyltransferase with a dissociation constant of 3.41 +/- 0.08 microM for interaction with the enzyme-glutamine complex in vitro. Folate-Glu5, MTX-Glu5, PTX, dihydrotriazine benzenesulfonyl fluoride, and AICAR also inhibit amido phosphoribosyltransferase.
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- M E Sant
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Schöbitz B, Wolf S, Christopherson RI, Brand K. Nucleotide and nucleic acid metabolism in rat thymocytes during cell cycle progression. Biochim Biophys Acta 1991; 1095:95-102. [PMID: 1718437 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(91)90070-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A complete cell cycle of mature, concanavalin A (Con A) stimulated rat thymocytes was documented by analyzing the cell number as well as the content and synthesis of DNA and RNA. Cell cycle progression is accompanied by an elevation of class I, II and III RNA polymerase activities (about 10-fold) in the S phase maximum, 48 h after stimulation. Moreover, maximal cellular contents of DNA, ATP, ADP and AMP were observed at this culture period, whereas the RNA level peaked at 60 h. The synthesis of purine and pyrimidine nucleotides de novo was detected by use of [14C]HCO3-. Maximal incorporation rates of [14C]HCO3- into nucleotides (de novo synthesis) and of [3H]adenine into adenylates ('salvage pathway') occur during the S phase. However, the de novo synthesis rates were markedly lower than those of the 'salvage pathway'. The highest cellular level of the nucleotide precursor 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate (8.4-fold increase) also coincided with the S phase.
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- B Schöbitz
- Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
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