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Renewed efforts are underway in the pharmaceutical industry to address the growing problem of antibiotic resistant pathogens. With this rededication to novel antibiotic discovery, new tools and technologies are being deployed to understand critical therapeutic intervention points in bacterial metabolism.
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Dougherty TJ, Pucci MJ, Beaulieu D, Thanassi JA, Casperson ME, Ferraro CA, Barrett JF, Frosco M. 98th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2005; 7:1539-57. [PMID: 15992051 DOI: 10.1517/13543784.7.9.1539] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The 98th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology was held from May 17-21, 1998, in Atlanta, Georgia and was attended by well over 10,000 scientists. The theme of antibiotic resistance dominated the meeting with numerous presentations on resistance mechanisms, new targets and potential antimicrobial agents. Many new insights into the understanding of microbial physiology were provided. Microbial genomics was shown to be revolutionizing the way in which scientists can probe and explore bacteria and fungi.
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- T J Dougherty
- Department 104, Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., 5 Research Parkway, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492, USA
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- D B Davison
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, CT, USA.
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Lobel J, MacDonald IJ, Ciesielski MJ, Barone T, Potter WR, Pollina J, Plunkett RJ, Fenstermaker RA, Dougherty TJ. 2-[1-hexyloxyethyl]-2-devinyl pyropheophorbide-a (HPPH) in a nude rat glioma model: implications for photodynamic therapy. Lasers Surg Med 2002; 29:397-405. [PMID: 11891727 DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In this study, we evaluated 2-[1-hexyloxyethyl]-2-devinyl pyropheophorbide-alpha (HPPH or Photochlor) as a photosensitizer for the treatment of malignant gliomas by photodynamic therapy (PDT). STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed in vivo reflection spectroscopy in athymic rats to measure the attenuation of light in normal brain tissue. We also studied HPPH pharmacokinetics and PDT effects in nude rats with brain tumors derived from stereotactically implanted U87 human glioma cells. Rats implanted with tumors were sacrificed at designated time points to determine the pharmacokinetics of HPPH in serum, tumor, normal brain, and brain adjacent to tumor (BAT). HPPH concentrations in normal brain, BAT and tumor were determined using fluorescence spectroscopy. Twenty-four hours after intravenous injection of HPPH, we administered interstitial PDT treatment at a wavelength of 665 nm. Light was given in doses of 3.5, 7.5 or 15 J/cm at the tumor site and at a rate of 50 mW/cm. RESULTS In vivo spectroscopy of normal brain tissue showed that the attenuation depth of 665 nm light is approximately 30% greater than that of 630 nm light used to activate Photofrin, which is currently being evaluated for PDT as an adjuvant to surgery for malignant gliomas. The t1/2 of disappearance of drug from serum and tumor was 25 and 30 hours, respectively. CONCLUSION Twenty-four hours after injection of 0.5 mg/kg HPPH, tumor-to-brain drug ratios ranged from 5:1 to 15:1. Enhanced survival was observed in each of the HPPH/PDT-treated animal groups. These data suggest that HPPH may be a useful adjuvant for the treatment of malignant gliomas.
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- J Lobel
- Department of Neurosurgery, State University of New York School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Zheng G, Graham A, Shibata M, Missert JR, Oseroff AR, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Synthesis of beta-galactose-conjugated chlorins derived by enyne metathesis as galectin-specific photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy. J Org Chem 2001; 66:8709-16. [PMID: 11749598 DOI: 10.1021/jo0105080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A first report on the synthesis and biological evaluation of the beta-galactose-conjugated purpurinimides (a class of chlorins containing a six-membered fused imide ring system) as Gal-1 (galectin-1) recognized photosensitizers, prepared from purpurin-N-propargylimide via enyne metathesis, is discussed. On the basis of examination of the available crystal structure of the galectin-1 N-acetyllactose amine complex, it was considered that the chlorin-based photosensitizers could be introduced into a carbohydrate skeleton to expand the repertoire of the galectin-1-specific ligands. Preliminary molecular modeling analysis utilizing the modeled photosensitizers and the available crystal structures of galectin-carbohydrate complexes indicated that addition of the photosensitizer to the carbohydrate moiety at an appropriate position does not interfere with the galectin-carbohydrate recognition. Under similar drug and light doses, compared to the free purpurinimide analogue, the purpurinimides conjugated either with galactose or with lactose (Gal(beta1-4)-Glc) produced a considerable increase in photosensitizing efficacy in vitro. This indicates the possibility for development of a new class of specific photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy (PDT) based on recognition of a cellular receptor.
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- G Zheng
- Photodynamic Therapy Center, Department of Dermatology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Hartman-Neumann S, DenBleyker K, Pelosi LA, Lawrence LE, Barrett JF, Dougherty TJ. Selection and genetic characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae mutants resistant to the des-F(6) quinolone BMS-284756. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2001; 45:2865-70. [PMID: 11557482 PMCID: PMC90744 DOI: 10.1128/aac.45.10.2865-2870.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Existing quinolones are known to target the type II topoisomerases in bacteria. In order to determine which of these targets are of key importance in Streptococcus pneumoniae treated with BMS-284756 (T-3811ME), a novel des-F(6) quinolone, resistant mutants were selected in several steps of increasing resistance by plating pneumococci on a series of blood agar plates containing serial twofold-increasing concentrations of drug. After incubation, colonies that arose were selected and passaged twice on antibiotic-containing media at the selection level. Mutants generally showed increases in resistance of four- to eightfold over the prior level of susceptibility. Mutants in the next-higher level of resistance were selected from the previous round of resistant mutants. Subsequently, chromosomal DNA was prepared from parental (R6) pneumococci and from at least three clones from each of four levels of increasing antibiotic resistance. Using PCR primers, 500- to 700-bp amplicons surrounding the quinolone resistance determining regions (QRDR) of gyrA, gyrB, parC, and parE genes were prepared from each strain. Internal primers were used to sequence both DNA strands in the regions of approximately 400 bp centered on the QRDR. Mutations identified with increasing levels of resistance included changes in GyrA at Ser-81 and Glu-85 and changes in ParC at Ser-79 and Asp-83. Changes in GyrB and ParE were not observed at the levels of resistance obtained in this selection. The resistance to comparator quinolones (levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and moxifloxacin) also increased in four- to eightfold steps with these mutations. The intrinsically greater level of antibacterial activity and thus lower MICs of BMS-284756 observed at all resistance levels in this study may translate to coverage of these resistant pneumococcal strains in the clinic.
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- S Hartman-Neumann
- Dept. of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, 5 Research Parkway, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA
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Efflux is the process in which bacteria transport compounds outside the cell which are potentially toxic, such as drugs or chemicals or compounds. Efflux pumps can be identified not only by biochemical, microbiological, or molecular means but with the availability of microbial genomic sequences, by the application of bioinformatics analysis of DNA sequences for key conserved structure motifs. Efflux has been identified as a relevant contributor to bacterial resistance in the clinic and is now recognised as one of the most important causes of intrinsic antibiotic resistance in bacteria, especially in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. With the recognition of efflux as a major factor in bacterial resistance, several companies have invested in the identification and development of bacterial efflux pump inhibitors. Among those, Microcide, Pfizer, Paratek and several academic laboratories are in the process of exploring efflux pump inhibitors from synthetic, natural products and peptidomimetics. Inhibiting bacterial efflux with a non-antibiotic inhibitor would restore activity of an antibiotic subject to efflux (similar to the use of beta-lactamase inhibitors to combat beta-lactamase production by bacteria). The feasibility of such an approach has been experimentally demonstrated in vitro and in vivo for efflux reversal of levofloxacin.
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- B M Ryan
- Infectious Diseases-Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA.
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Zheng G, Potter WR, Camacho SH, Missert JR, Wang G, Bellnier DA, Henderson BW, Rodgers MA, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Synthesis, photophysical properties, tumor uptake, and preliminary in vivo photosensitizing efficacy of a homologous series of 3-(1'-alkyloxy)ethyl-3-devinylpurpurin-18-N-alkylimides with variable lipophilicity. J Med Chem 2001; 44:1540-59. [PMID: 11334564 DOI: 10.1021/jm0005510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Starting from methylpheophorbide-a, a homologous series of purpurinimides containing alkyl substituents at two different positions [as 3-(1(1)-O-alkyl) and 13(2)-N-alkyl] were synthesized. These compounds with variable lipophilicity (log P 5.32-16.44) exhibit long wavelength absorption near lambda(max)700 nm (epsilon: 45 000 in dichloromethane) with singlet oxygen ((1)O2) production in the range of 57-60%. The shifts in in vivo absorptions and tumor/skin uptake of these compounds were determined in C3H mice bearing RIF tumors by in vivo reflectance spectroscopy. The results obtained from a set of photosensitizers with similar lipophilicity (log P 10.68-10.88) indicate that besides the overall lipophilicity, the presence and position of the alkyl groups (O-alkyl vs N-alkyl) in a molecule play an important role in tumor uptake, tumor selectivity, and in vivo PDT efficacy. At present, all purpurinimide analogues are being evaluated at various doses, and experiments are underway to establish a quantitative structure-activity relationship on a limited set of compounds. The 1D and 2D NMR and mass spectrometry analyses confirmed the structures of the desired purpurinimides and the byproducts formed during various reaction conditions. The mechanisms of the formation of the unexpected 12-formyl- and 12-(hydroxymethyl)purpurinimides under certain reaction conditions are also discussed.
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- G Zheng
- Photodynamic Therapy Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine/Radiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Chen Y, Medforth CJ, Smith KM, Alderfer J, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Effect of Meso-Substituents on the Osmium Tetraoxide Reaction and Pinacol−Pinacolone Rearrangement of the Corresponding vic-Dihydroxyporphyrins. J Org Chem 2001; 66:3930-9. [PMID: 11375017 DOI: 10.1021/jo0100143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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To investigate the effects of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing substituents upon the reaction of porphyrins with osmium tetraoxide, and the pinacol-pinacolone rearrangement of the resulting diols, a series of meso-substituted porphyrins were prepared by total synthesis. Porphyrins with electron-donating substitutents at the meso-positions gave vic-dihydroxychlorins in which the adjacent pyrrole subunit was predominantly oxidized. No such selectivity was observed in a porphyrin containing a methoxycarbonyl as the electron-withdrawing group, whereas a formyl substituent again resulted in oxidation at the pyrrole unit adjacent to the meso-substituent. Under pinacol-pinacolone conditions, vic-dihydroxy chlorins containing 4-methoxyphenyl or 3,5-dimethoxyphenyl groups at the meso-position showed preferential migration of the ethyl group over the methyl group to give 8-ketochlorins, whereas the diol with an n-heptyl substituent under similar reaction conditions gave both 7- and 8-ketochlorins. In contrast, the diol containing a meso-formyl substituent produced the corresponding 7-ketochlorin exclusively. These results indicate that it is not possible to predict the reactivity of meso-substituted porphyrins in the osmium tetraoxide reaction nor the general substituent migratory aptitudes in the pinacol-pinacolone rearrangement based on simple electronic arguments, most likely because many parameters (e.g., meso-beta-pyrrolic steric crowding and long-range electronic effects) ultimately determine the reactivity. The structural assignments of the porphyrin diols and the keto-analogues were confirmed by extensive (1)H NMR studies; some of the dihydroxychlorins and ketochlorins were found to display unusual features in their (1)H NMR spectra.
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- Y Chen
- Chemistry Division, Photodynamic Therapy Center, NMR Facility, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Dougherty TJ, Pucci MJ, Davison DB, Barrett JF. What will genomics bring to the finish line? IDrugs 2001; 4:373-4. [PMID: 16015466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Li G, Graham A, Potter W, Grossman ZD, Oseroff A, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. A simple and efficient approach for the synthesis of fluorinated and nonfluorinated octaethylporphyrin-based benzochlorins with variable lipophilicity, their in vivo tumor uptake, and the preliminary in vitro photosensitizing efficacy. J Org Chem 2001; 66:1316-25. [PMID: 11312962 DOI: 10.1021/jo001541+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Starting from commercially available Ni(II)octaethylporphyrin (OEP), an efficient approach for the preparation of a series of fluorinated and nonfluorinated benzochlorins with variable lipophicity has been developed. Their spectroscopic properties, preliminary in vitro photosensitizing efficacy, and tumor selectivity were determined. Our methodology provides a facile approach for the preparation of the free-base and the related Zn(II) benzochlorins containing alkyl and alkyl ether side chains with variable carbon units. For the preparation of benzochlorins containing alkyl groups attached to the exocyclic phenyl ring, the Ni(II) meso-(2-formylvinyl)octaethyl porphyrin 2 was reacted with various reagents such as (trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane (TMS-CF3) or the Grignard reagents of various fluorinated or nonfluorinated alkyl halides. The corresponding intermediates 3, 6a-6e, and 8 obtained via intramolecular cyclization under acidic conditions afforded the related benzochlorins 5, 7a-d, and 9 in good yields except for 7e which was obtained in poor yield (11.4%). The alcohol 10 obtained by reacting porphyrin 2 with ethynylmagnesium chloride did not produce the expected acetylenic benzochlorin; instead the corresponding acetyl derivative 11 was obtained as a major product, which under appropriate reaction conditions was converted into a series of alkyl ether derivatives 13a-13d. To obtain a benzochlorin bearing an ester functionality (15), porphyrin 2 was first reacted with ethyl acetate/LDA and the intermediate alcohol 14 was then cyclized with sulfuric acid. Unlike most of the natural and synthetic chlorins, the Zn(II) complexes of the benzochlorin analogues exhibited a significant bathochromic shift ( approximately 10 nm) in the electronic absorption spectra, and the long wavelength absorptions were observed in the range 671-677 nm (epsilon: 43270-50360). For investigating the in vitro efficacy of these analogues, Molt-4 cells were used. At a concentration of 2.5 microM, and a light dose of 4 J/cm2, all benzochlorins produced significant photosensitizing efficacy. The tumor (RIF) and muscle uptake in C3H mice of these photosensitizers was determined by in vivo reflectance spectroscopy. These results indicate that in this series increasing the length of the alkyl or alkyl ether carbon chains at the fused phenyl ring system produced a significant increase in tumor uptake.
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- G Li
- Chemistry Division, Department of Nuclear Medicine, and Photodynamic Therapy Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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ABT-773 is a new semisynthetic derivative of erythromycin A, the ketolide class of broad spectrum antibacterial agents, in Phase II development by Abbott. With good broad spectrum activity against Gram-positive, some Gram-negative organisms and intracellular bacteria, ABT-773 is being developed as a respiratory agent. Structural changes in the ketolide class agents such as ABT-773 provides expanded activity in vitro against macrolide-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae and improved activity against MLS(B) (macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin) constitutive expressing streptococci.
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- T J Dougherty
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Department of Microbiology, 5 Research Parkway, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA
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Moesta KT, Ebert B, Handke T, Nolte D, Nowak C, Haensch WE, Pandey RK, Dougherty TJ, Rinneberg H, Schlag PM. Protoporphyrin IX occurs naturally in colorectal cancers and their metastases. Cancer Res 2001; 61:991-9. [PMID: 11221895] [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: 02/19/2023]
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Colorectal cancers exhibit a red fluorescence. The nature of the responsible fluorophore and its eventual diagnostic potential were investigated. Thirty-three consecutive colorectal resection specimen, 32 of which with histologically confirmed cancer, and a total of 1053 palpable mesenteric nodes were fluorimetrically characterized ex vivo. Furthermore, frozen material from 28 patients was analyzed, selected for the availability of primary tumor material and metastatic tissue, e.g., lymphatic and liver metastases from the same patient. Biochemical characterization was carried out through chemical extraction and reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The fluorescence spectra of tissues, tissue extracts, and standard solutions of porphyrins were determined using a pulsed solid-state laser system for excitation and an imaging polychromator, together with an intensified CCD camera for time-delayed observation. Protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) was identified as the predominant fluorophore in primary tumors and their metastases. The fluorophore occurred in the absence of necrosis and in sterile locations. In untreated cases (n = 24), PpIX fluorescence discriminates metastatically involved lymph nodes from all other palpable nodes with a sensitivity of 62% at a specificity of 78% (P < 0.0001). After neoadjuvant treatment of rectal cancer, the PpIX fluorescence level of the primary tumors was reduced and a discrimination of lymph nodes based on PpIX-fluorescence was impossible. We conclude that colorectal cancer metastases accumulate diagnostic levels of endogenous PpIX as a result of a tumor-specific metabolic alteration.
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- K T Moesta
- Robert-Roessle-Hospital at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine, Charité, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany.
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Dougherty TJ, Pucci MJ, Zawadzke L, Barrett JF. American Society of Microbiology - 100th General Meeting. IDrugs 2000; 3:857-60. [PMID: 16059795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Symposium sessions on genomics, surveillance, and pharmaceutical intervention opportunities were highlights of this annual ASM meeting. Two-component signal transduction was highlighted by both academic and industrial representatives, as was prokaryotic genomics. Recurring themes throughout the meeting were the contribution of efflux mechanisms to worldwide resistance, target modifications responsible for fluoroquinolone resistance, and the role of structural biology in the discovery and exploitation of bacterial targets.
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- T J Dougherty
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Department of Infectious Diseases - Microbiology, 5 Research Parkway, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA
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Dougherty TJ, Pucci MJ, Bronson JJ, Davison DB, Barrett JF. Antimicrobial resistance--why do we have it and what can we do about it? Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2000; 9:1707-9. [PMID: 11060769 DOI: 10.1517/13543784.9.8.1707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Rungta A, Zheng G, Missert JR, Potter WR, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Purpurinimides as photosensitizers: effect of the presence and position of the substituents in the in vivo photodynamic efficacy. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2000; 10:1463-6. [PMID: 10888333 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(00)00274-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This study presents a novel approach for the regioselective synthesis of a series of alkyl ether analogues of purpurin-18-N-alkylimide. In the purpurinimide series, this is the first example which demonstrates that the presence and position of the substituents in the macrocycle makes a remarkable difference in the in vivo PDT efficacy.
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- A Rungta
- Photodynamic Therapy Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of photodynamic therapy in the management of residual neoplasms of the perianal skin. METHODS This is a retrospective review. Five patients with pathologic confirmation of residual perianal neoplasms were treated with photodynamic therapy. There were three females. The mean age was 52 (range, 33-79) years. Pathology consisted of Bowen's disease in two patients, squamous-cell carcinoma in two patients, and extramammary Paget's disease in one patient. Four patients received one photodynamic therapy treatment and one patient received two treatments three months apart. RESULTS Treatment was followed by immediate perianal erythema, subsequent blister formation in 36 to 48 hours, and sloughing of the treated area in 72 hours. With a mean follow-up of 5.2 (range, 1-8) years, there were two recurrences. One recurrence was in a patient four years after treatment for Paget's disease, and the other was in a patient nine months after treatment for Bowen's disease. The latter was managed successfully with wide local excision. Treatment-related toxicities included significant perianal pain in four patients, controlled with analgesia management. CONCLUSIONS Photodynamic therapy can successfully be used after wide local excision for residual neoplasms of the perianal skin. Treatment can be rendered with acceptable morbidity.
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- M A Runfola
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14263, USA
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Dimitroff CJ, Klohs W, Sharma A, Pera P, Driscoll D, Veith J, Steinkampf R, Schroeder M, Klutchko S, Sumlin A, Henderson B, Dougherty TJ, Bernacki RJ. Anti-angiogenic activity of selected receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors, PD166285 and PD173074: implications for combination treatment with photodynamic therapy. Invest New Drugs 2000; 17:121-35. [PMID: 10638483 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006367032156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from an existing vasculature, is requisite for tumor growth. It entails intercellular coordination of endothelial and tumor cells through angiogenic growth factor signaling. Interruption of these events has implications in the suppression of tumor growth. PD166285, a broad-spectrum receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor, and PD173074, a selective FGFR1TK inhibitor, were evaluated for their anti-angiogenic activity and anti-tumor efficacy in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT). To evaluate the anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor activities of these compounds, RTK assays, in vitro tumor cell growth and microcapillary formation assays, in vivo murine angiogenesis and anti-tumor efficacy studies utilizing RTK inhibitors in combination with photodynamic therapy were performed. PD166285 inhibited PDGFR-beta-, EGFR-, and FGFR1TKs and c-src TK by 50% (IC50) at concentrations between 7-85 nM. PD173074 displayed selective inhibitory activity towards FGFR1TK at 26 nM. PD173074 demonstrated (>100 fold) selective growth inhibitory action towards human umbilical vein endothelial cells compared with a panel of tumor cell lines. Both PD166285 and PD173074 (at 10 nM) inhibited the formation of microcapillaries on Matrigel-coated plastic. In vivo anti-angiogenesis studies in mice revealed that oral administration (p.o.) of either PD166285 (1-25 mg/kg) or PD173074 (25-100 mg/kg) generated dose dependent inhibition of angiogenesis. Against a murine mammary 16c tumor, significantly prolonged tumor regressions were achieved with daily p.o. doses of PD166285 (5-10 mg/kg) or PD173074 (30-60 mg/kg) following PDT compared with PDT alone (p<0.001). Many long-term survivors were also noted in combination treatment groups. PD166285 and PD173074 displayed potent anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor activity and prolonged the duration of anti-tumor response to PDT. Interference in membrane signal transduction by inhibitors of specific RTKs (e.g. FGFR1TK) should result in new chemotherapeutic agents having the ability to limit tumor angiogenesis and regrowth following cytoreductive treatments such as PDT.
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- C J Dimitroff
- Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Pucci MJ, Dougherty TJ, Barrett JF. Targets, targets everywhere--so where are the new antibacterial drugs? IDrugs 2000; 3:249-50. [PMID: 16103924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Zheng G, Shibata M, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Wittig reactions on photoprotoporphyrin IX: new synthetic models for the special pair of the photosynthetic reaction center. J Org Chem 2000; 65:543-57. [PMID: 10813970 DOI: 10.1021/jo991254+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A first example of spirochlorin-chlorin dimer with fixed distances and orientations as potential model for the "special pair" of the photosynthetic reaction center is discussed. For the preparation of such a novel structure, the Wittig reagent of the desired "spacer" 5 was reacted with photoprotoporphyrin IX dimethyl ester 3 to produce the intermediate dimer 6, which on intramolecular [4 + 2] Diels-Alder cycloaddition gave an unexpected spirochlorin-chlorin dimer 9. Dehydration of dimer 6 under acid-catalyzed conditions generated the corresponding spirochlorin-porphyrin dimer 16 in quantitative yield. The asymmetry in dimer 6 caused by the biphenyl-type anisotropic effect was confirmed by NMR and model studies. The formation of dihydrobenzoporphyrin 14 by reacting chlorin 3 with the phosphonium salt of p-methylbenzylbromide 10 and isolation of 8-phenanthrenevinylporphyrin 19 from chlorin 7 further confirmed our proposed mechanism for the formation of a spirochlorin-chlorin dimer 9. Following a similar approach, chlorin 3 on reacting with bis-phosphonium salt of 4, 4'-bischloromethylbiphenyl produced conjugated chlorin dimer 25. The spectroscopic data obtained from these dimers suggest that, in these compounds, the individual chromophores are not behaving as an individual molecule, but as a single macrocycle. To examine whether the pi-pi interaction exhibited by dimer 9 resembles the structural arrangement of bacteriochlorophylls in reaction center (RC), we investigated the geometrical parameters used to characterize the pi-pi interactions in tetrapyrrolic macrocycles. Starting from the crystallographic coordinates of 9, the molecular mechanics energy minimization was performed to obtain the model dimer structure. The geometrical parameters that measure the single pyrrole ring overlap were used to compare the model structure with the crystallographic coordinates of the special pair in photosynthetic reaction center. The results indicated that the ring A of spirochlorin and the ring C of chlorin in our model dimer 9 mimic the ring A-ring A interaction found in the crystallographic special pairs, which are strategically placed by the surrounding photosynthetic reaction center protein matrix.
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- G Zheng
- Chemistry Division, Photodynamic Therapy Center, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, and Department of Nuclear Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Zheng G, Potter WR, Sumlin A, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Photosensitizers related to purpurin-18-N-alkylimides: a comparative in vivo tumoricidal ability of ester versus amide functionalities. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2000; 10:123-7. [PMID: 10673094 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(99)00649-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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For a comparative study, 3-(alkyloxyethyl)-3-devinylpurpurin-18-N-hexylimides with ester and amide functionalities were investigated for tumor selectivity and in vivo photosensitizing efficacy. Compared to amide analogues, the related photosensitizers with ester functionalities were found to be more effective. Among these compounds the 3-devinyl-(3-hexyloxyethyl)-purpurin-18-N-hexylimide as methyl ester 12 showed excellent tumor uptake (tumor versus muscle ratio: 8:1), and produced 100% tumor cure on day 30 at a dose of 1.0 micromol/kg. The mice were treated with light (135 J/cm2, 705 nm) at 24 h post injection of the drug.
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- G Zheng
- Photodynamic Therapy Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Mettath S, Li G, Srikrishnan T, Mehta R, Grossman ZD, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Effect of substituents in directing the formation of benzochlorins and isobacteriochlorins in porphyrin and chlorin systems. Org Lett 1999; 1:1961-4. [PMID: 10836054 DOI: 10.1021/ol990311i] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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[formula: see text] A first synthesis of free-base fluorinated benzochlorins by acid-catalyzed cyclization of 20-(2-trisiloxy-trifluoromethylvinyl)octaethylporphyrin++ + is achieved. Under similar reaction conditions, the purpurin-18-N-hexylimide analogues produced the corresponding fluorinated and nonfluorinated ethylidene-substituted isobacteriochlorins and fluorinated chlorin, respectively. The structure of the porphyrin based fluorinated benzochlorin was also confirmed by X-ray analysis.
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- S Mettath
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, and Molecular & Cellular Biophysics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Potter WR, Henderson BW, Bellnier DA, Pandey RK, Vaughan LA, Weishaupt KR, Dougherty TJ. Parabolic quantitative structure-activity relationships and photodynamic therapy: application of a three-compartment model with clearance to the in vivo quantitative structure-activity relationships of a congeneric series of pyropheophorbide derivatives used as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy. Photochem Photobiol 1999; 70:781-8. [PMID: 10568170] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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An open three-compartment pharmacokinetic model was applied to the in vivo quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) data of a homologous series of pyropheophorbide photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy (PDT). The physical model was a lipid compartment sandwiched between two identical aqueous compartments. The first compartment was assumed to clear irreversibly at a rate K0. The measured octanol-water partition coefficients, P(i) (where i is the number of carbons in the alkyl chain) and the clearance rate K0 determined the clearance kinetics of the drugs. Solving the coupled differential equations of the three-compartment model produced clearance kinetics for each of the sensitizers in each of the compartments. The third compartment was found to contain the target of PDT. This series of compounds is quite lipophilic. Therefore these drugs are found mainly in the second compartment. The drug level in the third compartment represents a small fraction of the tissue level and is thus not accessible to direct measurement by extraction. The second compartment of the model accurately predicted the clearance from the serum of mice of the hexyl ether of pyropheophorbide a, one member of this series of compounds. The diffusion and clearance rate constants were those found by fitting the pharmacokinetics of the third compartment to the QSAR data. This result validated the magnitude and mechanistic significance of the rate constants used to model the QSAR data. The PDT response to dose theory was applied to the kinetic behavior of the target compartment drug concentration. This produced a pharmacokinetic-based function connecting PDT response to dose as a function of time postinjection. This mechanistic dose-response function was fitted to published, single time point QSAR data for the pheophorbides. As a result, the PDT target threshold dose together with the predicted QSAR as a function of time postinjection was found.
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- W R Potter
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute, PDT Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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MacDonald IJ, Morgan J, Bellnier DA, Paszkiewicz GM, Whitaker JE, Litchfield DJ, Dougherty TJ. Subcellular localization patterns and their relationship to photodynamic activity of pyropheophorbide-a derivatives. Photochem Photobiol 1999; 70:789-97. [PMID: 10568171] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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To determine if subcellular localization is important to photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficacy, an in vitro fluorescence microscopy study was conducted with a congeneric series of pyropheophorbide-a derivatives in human pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (FaDu) cells and murine radiation-induced fibrosarcoma (RIF) mutant cells. In the FaDu cells the octyl, decyl and dodecyl ether derivatives localized to the lysosomes at extracellular concentrations less than needed to produce a 50% cell kill (LD50). At extracellular concentrations equal or greater than the LD50 the compounds localized mainly to mitochondria. The propyl, pentyl, hexyl and heptyl ether derivatives localized mainly to the mitochondria at all concentrations studied. This suggested that mitochondria are a sensitive PDT target for these derivatives. Similar experiments were performed with two Photofrin-PDT resistant RIF cell lines, one of which was found to be resistant to hexyl ether derivative (C6) mediated-PDT and the other sensitive to C6-PDT relative to the parent line. At extracellular concentrations of C6 below the LD50 of each cell line, the mutants exhibited lysosomal localization. At concentrations above these values the patterns shifted to a mainly mitochondrial pattern. In these cell lines mitochondrial localization also correlated with PDT sensitivity. Localization to mitochondria or lysosomes appeared to be affected by the aggregation state of the congeners, all of which are highly aggregated in aqueous medium. Monomers apparently were the active fraction of these compounds because equalizing the extracellular monomer concentrations produced equivalent intracellular concentrations, photoxicity and localization patterns. Compounds that were mainly aggregates localized to the lysosomes where they were rendered less active. Mitochondria appear to be a sensitive target for pyropheophorbide-a-mediated photodamage, and the degree of aggregation seems to be a determinant of the localization site.
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- I J MacDonald
- Photodynamic Therapy Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Potter WR, Henderson BW, Bellnier DA, Pandey RK, Vaughan LA, Weishaupt KR, Dougherty TJ. Parabolic Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships and Photodynamic Therapy: Application of a Three-Compartment Model with Clearance to the In Vivo Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships of a Congeneric Series of Pyropheophorbide Derivatives Used as Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy. Photochem Photobiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb08283.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Kozyrev AN, Zheng G, Shibata M, Alderfer JL, Dougherty TJ, Pandey RK. Thermolysis of vic-dihydroxybacteriochlorins: a new approach for the synthesis of chlorin-chlorin and chlorin-porphyrin dimers. Org Lett 1999; 1:1193-6. [PMID: 10825969 DOI: 10.1021/ol990150i] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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[formula: see text] A novel approach for the preparation of symmetrical (chlorin-chlorin), and unsymmetrical (chlorin-porphyrin) dimers joined with carbon-carbon linkages as models to study the "intramolecular" charge transfer is discussed.
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- A N Kozyrev
- Chemistry Section, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Bernstein ZP, Wilson BD, Oseroff AR, Jones CM, Dozier SE, Brooks JS, Cheney R, Foulke L, Mang TS, Bellnier DA, Dougherty TJ. Photofrin photodynamic therapy for treatment of AIDS-related cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma. AIDS 1999; 13:1697-704. [PMID: 10509571 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199909100-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Kaposi's sarcoma, the most common malignancy in AIDS patients, often presents with painful cutaneous lesions that are difficult to treat effectively despite a wide variety of therapeutic approaches. We used photodynamic therapy in an attempt to provide effective palliative treatment for this disease. METHODS Photodynamic therapy utilizes the activation by light of a photosensitizing drug that preferentially accumulates in tumor tissue such as Kaposi's sarcoma. We enrolled 25 patients who received 1.0 mg/kg of Photofrin 48 h before exposure to 100-400 J/cm2 of 630 nm light. RESULTS Of the 348 lesions treated, 289 were evaluable: 32.5% had complete clinical response, 63.3% had partial clinical response and 4.2% were clinical failures. There was a strong correlation between response and light dose: 54% of lesions achieved a complete clinical response at optimum light dose (> 250 J/cm2). There was no correlation of response with CD4 cell count nor was there a change in CD4 cell count post-treatment. At 400 J/cm2 full field scabbing and necrosis occurred in 90% of the treated fields. Thus, the maximum tolerated dose was determined to be 300 J/cm2. At light doses of 250 J/cm2 and below the toxicities were limited to erythema and edema in the treatment field. Forty-three biopsies were taken 0.5 h to 4 months post-treatment. These showed little change in the B and T cell infiltrates identified. Kaposi's sarcoma cells disappeared post-treatment in certain lesions. CONCLUSION Photofrin is effective palliative treatment for HIV-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.
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- Z P Bernstein
- Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Potter WR, Henderson BW, Bellnier DA, Pandey RK, Vaughan LA, Weishaupt KR, Dougherty TJ. Parabolic Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships and Photodynamic Therapy: Application of a Three-Compartment Model with Clearance to the In Vivo Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships of a Congeneric Series of Pyropheophorbide Derivatives Used as Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy. Photochem Photobiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(1999)070<0781:pqsrap>2.3.co;2] [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: 11/19/2022]
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The set of proteins which are conserved across families of microbes contain important targets of new anti-microbial agents. We have developed a simple and efficient computational tool which determines concordances of putative gene products that show sets of proteins conserved across one set of user specified genomes and not present in another set of user specified genomes. The thresholds and the homology scoring criterion are selectable to allow the user to decide the stringency of the homologies. The system uses a relational database to store protein coding regions from different genomes, and to store the results of a complete comparison of all sequences against all sequences using the FASTA program. Using Web technology, the display of all the related proteins for a given sequence and calculation of multiple sequence alignments (using CLUSTALW) can be performed with the click of a button. The current database holds 97 365 sequences from 19 complete or partial genomes and 8798905 FASTA comparison results. A example concordance is presented which demonstrates that the target of the quinolone antibiotics could have been identified using this tool.
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- R E Bruccoleri
- Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, PO Box 4000, Princeton, NJ 08543-4000, USA.
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BACKGROUND Conventional therapy for pleural mesothelioma has met with disappointing results. METHODS From 1991 to 1996, 40 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma were treated with surgical resection followed by immediate intracavitary photodynamic therapy. RESULTS The series included 9 women and 31 men with a mean age of 60 years. Morbidity and treatment-related mortality rates for the entire series, pleurectomy, and extrapleural pneumonectomy were 45% and 7.5%, 39% and 3.6%, and 71% and 28.6%, respectively. Median survival and the estimated 2-year survival rate for the entire series, stages I and II patients (n = 13), and stages III and IV patients (n = 24) were 15 months and 23%, 36 months and 61%, and 10 months and 0%, respectively. Multivariate analysis identified stage, length of hospital stay, photodynamic therapy dose, and nodal status as independent prognostic indicators for survival. CONCLUSIONS Surgical intervention and photodynamic therapy offer good survival results in patients with stage I or II pleural mesothelioma. For patients in stage III or IV, better treatment modalities need to be developed. Improvements in early detection and preoperative staging are necessary for proper patient selection for treatment.
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- T L Moskal
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Nseyo UO, DeHaven J, Dougherty TJ, Potter WR, Merrill DL, Lundahl SL, Lamm DL. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) in the treatment of patients with resistant superficial bladder cancer: a long-term experience. J Clin Laser Med Surg 1998; 16:61-8. [PMID: 9728133 DOI: 10.1089/clm.1998.16.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Photodynamic therapy (PDT) combines a photosensitizer such as Photofrin with red laser light (630 nm) to destroy cancer cells. Investigators have reported effectiveness of PDT in the management of patients with recurrent superficial bladder cancer. We retrospectively reviewed our experience in 58 patients to assess the long-term role of PDT in the management of resistant superficial transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) including Ta, T1, and refractory carcinoma in situ (CIS) of the urinary bladder. MATERIALS AND METHODS All 58 patients had failed at least one course of standard intravesical therapy or had contraindication for intravesical chemo- or immunotherapy. Patients with malignancy present (Ta-T1/Grade I-III, CIS) were accepted for ablative PDT. Patients undergoing prophylactic PDT after complete resection were confirmed to be tumor-free by cystoscopy and bladder was cytology before PDT. Post-PDT evaluations included weekly telephone contact to assess acute adverse reactions and assessment of efficacy and bladder toxicity at three months and quarterly thereafter. RESULTS These 58 patients underwent a single PDT treatment with 2.0 or 1.5 mg/kg of Photofrin and 10-60 J/cm2 light (630 nm). At three months, complete response rates were 84% and 75% for residual resistant papillary TCC and refractory CIS respectively; and 90% of patients treated prophylactically had not had recurrences. At a median followup of 50 months (range 9-110), 59% (34/58) of the responders are alive, with 31/34 still disease-free. CONCLUSION PDT using 1.5 mg/kg of Photofrin and 15 J/cm2 of light (630 nm) should be considered a safe and effective treatment for refractory CIS or recurrent papillary TCC.
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- U O Nseyo
- West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA.
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Henderson BW, Bellnier DA, Greco WR, Sharma A, Pandey RK, Vaughan LA, Weishaupt KR, Dougherty TJ. An in vivo quantitative structure-activity relationship for a congeneric series of pyropheophorbide derivatives as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy. Cancer Res 1997; 57:4000-7. [PMID: 9307285] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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An in vivo quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study was carried out on a congeneric series of pyropheophorbide photosensitizers to identify structural features critical for their antitumor activity in photodynamic therapy (PDT). The structural elements evaluated in this study include the length and shape (alkyl, alkenyl, cyclic, and secondary analogs) of the ether side chain. C3H mice, harboring the radiation-induced fibrosarcoma tumor model, were used to study three biological response endpoints: tumor growth delay, tumor cell lethality, and vascular perfusion. All three endpoints revealed highly similar QSAR patterns that constituted a function of the alkyl ether chain length and drug lipophilicity, which is defined as the log of the octanol:water partition coefficient (log P). When the illumination of tumor, tumor cells, or cutaneous vasculature occurred 24 h after sensitizer administration, activities were minimal with analogs of log P < or = 5, increased dramatically between log P of 5-6, and peaked between log P of 5.6-6.6. Activities declined gradually with higher log P. The lack of activity of the least-lipophilic analogs was explained in large part by their poor biodistribution characteristics, which yielded negligible tumor and plasma drug levels at the time of treatment with light. The progressively lower potencies of the most lipophilic analogs cannot be explained through the overall tumor and plasma pharmacokinetics of photosensitizer because tumor and plasma concentrations progressively increased with lipophilicity. When compensated for differences in tumor photosensitizer concentration, the 1-hexyl derivative (optimal lipophilicity) was 5-fold more potent than the 1-dodecyl derivative (more lipophilic) and 3-fold more potent than the 1-pentyl analog (less lipophilic), indicating that, in addition to the overall tumor pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamic factors may influence PDT activity. Drug lipophilicity was highly predictive for photodynamic activity. QSAR modeling revealed that direct antitumor effects and vascular PDT effects may be governed by common mechanisms, and that the mere association of high levels of photosensitizer in the tumor tissue is not sufficient for optimal PDT efficiency.
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- B W Henderson
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Pucci MJ, Thanassi JA, Discotto LF, Kessler RE, Dougherty TJ. Identification and characterization of cell wall-cell division gene clusters in pathogenic gram-positive cocci. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:5632-5. [PMID: 9287029 PMCID: PMC179445 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.17.5632-5635.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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] Open
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Clusters of peptidoglycan biosynthesis and cell division genes (DCW genes) were identified and sequenced in two gram-positive cocci, Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis. The results indicated some similarities in organization compared with previously reported bacterial DCW gene clusters, including the presence of penicillin-binding proteins at the left ends and ftsA and ftsZ cell division genes at the right ends of the clusters. However, there were also some important differences, including the absence of several genes, the comparative sizes of the div1B and ftsQ genes, and a wide range of amino acid sequence similarities when the genes of the gram-positive cocci were translated and compared to bacterial homologs.
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- M J Pucci
- Department of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492, USA.
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Pandey RK, Constantine S, Tsuchida T, Zheng G, Medforth CJ, Aoudia M, Kozyrev AN, Rodgers MA, Kato H, Smith KM, Dougherty TJ. Synthesis, photophysical properties, in vivo photosensitizing efficacy, and human serum albumin binding properties of some novel bacteriochlorins. J Med Chem 1997; 40:2770-9. [PMID: 9276023 DOI: 10.1021/jm9702894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The synthesis, photophysical characteristics, in vivo photosensitizing efficacy, human serum albumin (HSA) binding properties, and skin phototoxicity of some stable bacteriochlorins were investigated. The novel bacteriochlorins, obtained from chlorophyll-a, have long-wavelength absorptions in the range lambda max = 734-758 nm. Preferential migration of ethyl over methyl substituents among ketobacteriochlorins obtained in the pinacol-pinacolone rearrangements of vic-dihydroxybacteriochlorins was confirmed by NOE studies. The bacteriochlorins show relatively low fluorescence quantum yields. Among all the bacteriochlorins the triplet states were quenched by ground state molecular oxygen in a relatively similar manner, yielding comparable singlet oxygen quantum yields. In preliminary in vivo studies (DBA/2 mice, transplanted with SMT/F tumors), ketobacteriochlorins were found to be more photodynamically active than the related vic-dihydroxy analogues. Replacement of the methyl ester functionalities with di-tert-butylaspartic acids enhanced the in vivo efficacy. Site specific human serum albumin (HSA) binding studies indicated a direct correlation between the ability of the compound to bind to the diazepam binding site (albumin site II) and the in vivo photosensitizing efficacy.
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- R K Pandey
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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A method for determining the concentration of Photofrin in tissues and biological fluids was developed. The procedure is based on the dissolution of biological material with Solvable, a commercially available tissue solubilizer, followed by porphyrin-specific fluorescence detection and measurement. It was found necessary to use a quadratic standard curve for the estimation of unknown Photofrin concentrations. While this method is limited to compounds that are stable in strong base, it has the advantages of being sensitive, rapid and low cost.
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- D A Bellnier
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
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Tsuchida T, Zheng G, Pandey RK, Potter WR, Bellnier DA, Henderson BW, Kato H, Dougherty TJ. Correlation between site II-specific human serum albumin (HSA) binding affinity and murine in vivo photosensitizing efficacy of some Photofrin components. Photochem Photobiol 1997; 66:224-8. [PMID: 9277141 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb08647.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Human serum albumin (HSA) is one of the key components in human blood that may influence drug distribution. As such, it is important to know the affinity of any drug for albumin. Previously, Photofrin, a mixture of monomeric, dimeric and oligomeric porphyrins, has been subjected to HSA binding studies. However, due to its complex nature, binding studies on Photofrin or other hematoporphyrin derivatives with HSA are inconclusive. In this report, the binding properties of some components (dimers and trimers) of Photofrin and the relationship between murine photosensitizing efficacy and those binding properties were investigated. The interaction of these porphyrins with HSA was investigated by direct ultrafiltration and fluorescent titration techniques with fluorescent probes such as dansyl-L-proline (DP), which is known to interact selectively with site II on HSA. Porphyrins also were tested for antitumor activity in a mouse model following intravenous administration and exposure to laser light. Together, the results suggest that the photosensitizers that were preferentially bound to site II of HSA were most effective at controlling murine tumor regrowth.
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- T Tsuchida
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263-0001, USA
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Dougherty TJ, Kennedy K, Kessler RE, Pucci MJ. Direct quantitation of the number of individual penicillin-binding proteins per cell in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1996; 178:6110-5. [PMID: 8892807 PMCID: PMC178478 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.21.6110-6115.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [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: 02/02/2023] Open
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The penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are a set of enzymes that participate in the terminal stages of bacterial peptidoglycan assembly. As their name implies, these proteins also covalently bind and are inhibited by beta-lactam antibiotics. Although many studies have examined the relative binding affinities of a number of beta-lactam antibiotics, a surprisingly small number of studies have addressed the absolute numbers of each of the PBPs present in the bacterial cell. In the present study, the PBP values initially reported in Escherichia coli almost 20 years ago by B. G. Spratt (Eur. J. Biochem. 72:341-352, 1977) were refined. The individual PBPs from a known number of bacteria radiolabeled with [3H]benzylpenicillin were separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The radioactive bands were located, excised, and quantitatively extracted from the gel slices. The radioactivity was measured by scintillation counting, and the absolute disintegrations per minute were calculated. From the specific activity of the labeled penicillin, the absolute disintegrations per minute, and the CFU per milliliter, a determination of the number of each of the PBPs per cell was made. The measurements were performed on multiple samples to place statistical limits on the numbers obtained. The values for the individual PBPs found in E. coli deviated in several ways from the previously reported observations. Of particular significance is the higher number of molecules of PBP 2 and 3 observed, since these PBPs are known to participate in cell morphogenesis. The PBP content in both rich Luria broth medium and M9 minimal medium was determined, with the slower-growing cells in minimal medium possessing fewer of the individual PBPs per cell.
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- T J Dougherty
- Department of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492, USA
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- T J Dougherty
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Photofrin is a light-activated compound used for photodynamic therapy (PDT) of malignant tumors. Although PDT with this drug has been approved for clinical use in the United States, Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands there are few published reports on the biodistribution of Photofrin in humans. In this study we report measurable amounts of Photofrin in human serum up to approximately 1 year following injection of two different Photofrin doses. Concentration-time data were collected from 3, 12, 19, and 10 patients after 0.75, 0.875, 1, and 2 mg Photofrin/kg body weight. Patients who received 2 mg Photofrin/kg were scheduled to undergo intraoperative PDT for the treatment of mesothelioma or carcinoma of the lung. Patients receiving 0.75, 0.875, or 1 mg Photofrin/kg were treated for basal cell carcinoma; 1 mg Photofrin/kg is now a standard dose for PDT of cutaneous malignancies at this institute. For the 1 mg Photofrin/kg dose, a triexponential 3-compartment pharmacokinetic model was fitted to 30 data points pooled from the 19 patients, as if we had one "superpatient." The alpha, beta, and gamma halflives were approximately 16 h, 7.53 days, and 155.56 days, respectively. The mean (+/- SEM) serum concentrations 48 after injection (when most tumors are exposed to drug-activating light) of 0.875, 1, or 2 mg Photofrin/kg were 2.70 +/- 0.47, 4.00 +/- 0.66, and 3.47 +/- 0.97 micrograms Photofrin/ml, respectively. No porphyrin fluorescence could be detected in serum collected from patients 560 to 1335 days after Photofrin injection.
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- D A Bellnier
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Pandey RK, Sumlin AB, Constantine S, Aoudla M, Potter WR, Bellnier DA, Henderson BW, Rodgers MA, Smith KM, Dougherty TJ. Alkyl ether analogs of chlorophyll-a derivatives: Part 1. Synthesis, photophysical properties and photodynamic efficacy. Photochem Photobiol 1996; 64:194-204. [PMID: 8787014 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb02442.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The synthesis, preliminary in vivo biological activity, singlet oxygen and fluorescence yields of a series of alkyl ether derivatives of chlorophyll-alpha analogs are described. For short-chain carbon ethers (1-7 carbon units), it was observed that the biological activity increased by increasing the length of the carbon chain, being maximum in compounds with n-hexyl and n-heptyl chains. Related sensitizers prepared by reacting 2-(1-bromoethyl)-2-devinylpyropheophorbide-alpha with (sec)alcohols were found to be less effective. Under similar treatment conditions, photosensitizers containing cis- and trans- 3-hexenyl side chains were ineffective. Thus, both stereochemical and steric factors caused differences in sensitizing activity. In general, pyropheophorbide-alpha analogs were found to be more active than related chlorin e6 derivatives, in which the isocyclic ring (ring "E") was cleaved. Related photosensitizers in the 9-deoxy- series were found to be as effective as the corresponding pyropheophorbide-alpha analogs. The photosensitizers prepared from pyropheophorbide-alpha methyl ester and chlorin e6 trimethyl ester have long wavelength absorption at 660 nm (epsilon 45 000 to 50 000). Reduction of the carbonyl group in the pyropheophorbide-alpha to methylene (ring E) resulted in a blue shift to 648 nm (epsilon 38 000).
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- R K Pandey
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263-0001, USA
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Fung-Tomc JC, Gradelski E, Huczko E, Dougherty TJ, Kessler RE, Bonner DP. Differences in the resistant variants of Enterobacter cloacae selected by extended-spectrum cephalosporins. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1996; 40:1289-93. [PMID: 8723487 PMCID: PMC163312 DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.5.1289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 02/01/2023] Open
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The rates of development of resistance to ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, cefepime, and cefpirome in 10 strains of Enterobacter cloacae were determined by daily transfer for 7 days to fresh medium containing twofold serial dilutions of the antibiotics. Development of resistance to ceftriaxone was the most rapid; this was followed by ceftazidime, cefpirome, and cefepime. Resistant variants selected by ceftriaxone and ceftazidime were cross-resistant and produced very high levels of beta-lactamase. On the other hand, resistant variants selected by cefepime and cefpirome often had moderately high levels of beta-lactamase and diminished levels of the 39- to 40-kDa porin protein.
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- J C Fung-Tomc
- Department of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492, USA
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The anti-cancer activity of dimers joined with ether, ester or carbon-carbon bonds by photodynamic therapy (PDT) was compared by using DBA/2 mice transplanted with SMT/F tumors. Dimers with ether and carbon-carbon linkages were found to be more effective than those linked with ester bonds. Variation of the substituents at peripheral positions made a significant difference in in vivo efficacy. Among the ether and carbon-carbon linked dimers, the divinyl analogs were found to be most effective. The preliminary in vivo results also suggest that the position(s) of the hydrophilic substituents in the molecules make a remarkable difference in photosensitizing activity. An unsymmetrical dimer with an amide linkage, obtained from 2-(1-hexyloxyethyl)-2-devinyl pyropheophorbide-a (HPPH) was found to be less effective than HPPH.
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- R K Pandey
- Department of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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A total of 31 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma disease, limited to one hemithorax, were entered into a phase II study of surgery and intracavitary photodynamic therapy. Photofrin, 2 mg/kg, was injected intravenously, and 48 hours later the patient was taken to the operating room. Bulk tumor was excised by a pleuropneumonectomy or pleurectomy. The patient then received 20-25 J/cm2 of 630 nm light energy from an argon dye laser. The overall estimated median survival of patients of all stages was 12 months. Survival of stage III and stage IV patients was 8 months. The median survival of 9 patients with stage I and II disease was 21 months. We plan to continue this clinical trial; however, entry will be limited to patients with stage I and II disease. The light dose for photodynamic therapy will be carefully increased to find the maximal tolerated dose.
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- H Takita
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- T J Dougherty
- Department of Radiation Biology and Photodynamic Therapy, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
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Ho HT, Falk PJ, Ervin KM, Krishnan BS, Discotto LF, Dougherty TJ, Pucci MJ. UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine functions as an activator in the regulation of the Escherichia coli glutamate racemase activity. Biochemistry 1995; 34:2464-70. [PMID: 7873525 DOI: 10.1021/bi00008a009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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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D-Glutamate is an essential component of the bacterial peptidoglycan. In Escherichia coli, the biosynthesis of D-glutamate is catalyzed by a glutamate racemase (encoded by the dga gene) and is regulated by UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine [Doublet et al. (1994) Biochemistry 33, 5285], a bacterial peptidoglycan subunit precursor. Investigation was conducted to elucidate the interaction between the enzyme and its regulator. Whole and N-terminal truncated enzymes, encoded by individual constructs containing either a full-length or an N-terminal truncated dga gene, were evaluated. In the absence of the regulator, the purified whole enzyme showed a low-level basal racemase activity for which a Km value of 18.9 mM and a Vmax of 0.4 mumol/(min.mg) were determined, using D-glutamate as the substrate. Using the same substrate, in the presence of 6.5 microM UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine, a Km value of 4.2 mM and a Vmax of 34 mumol/(min.mg) were measured. Similar kinetic parameters for the activated enzyme were obtained using L-glutamate as the substrate. The N-terminal truncated E. coli enzyme, with a 21 amino acid region removed, is similar in size to the Pediococcus pentosaceus glutamate racemase. Effects of the regulator on the full-length and the N-terminal truncated enzyme in the dialyzed cell lysate were compared. A host cell line, E. coli WM335 delta recA, containing a nonfunctional chromosomal dga gene was used to minimize the background interference. With 6.5 microM regulator added, the N-terminal truncated enzyme displayed a loss of more than 80% of the activity compared to the full-length enzyme.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- H T Ho
- Department of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492
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The uptake of tobramycin was measured in Escherichia coli membrane vesicles prepared in KMES [K(+)-2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid] buffer at pH 6.6. Uptake occurred in vesicles energized with ascorbic acid and phenazine methosulfate, in which the electrical potential (delta psi) was -120 mV, but not in vesicles energized with D-lactate (delta psi = -95 mV). The addition of nigericin to vesicles energized with D-lactate did not induce tobramycin uptake despite an increase in delta psi to -110 mV. However, when delta psi was increased or decreased by the addition of nigericin or valinomycin, respectively, uptake in vesicles energized with ascorbic acid and phenazine methosulfate was stimulated or inhibited, respectively, confirming studies with whole cells showing that uptake of aminoglycosides is gated by delta psi rather than by proton motive force (delta microH+) or delta pH. N-ethylmaleimide prevented uptake, suggesting that the aminoglycoside transporter is a cytoplasmic membrane protein with accessible sulfhydryl groups. The observation that uptake is gated in vesicles as well as in whole cells suggested that diffusion occurs through a voltage-gated channel. In vesicles preloaded with tobramycin, no efflux occurred after the addition of the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone. In susceptible cells, aminoglycosides themselves decreased the magnitude of delta psi. We propose a mechanism of aminoglycoside-induced killing in which aminoglycosides themselves close the voltage-gated channel by decreasing the magnitude of delta psi. Channel closure causes aminoglycosides accumulated prior to the fall in delta psi to be trapped, which in turn causes irreversible uptake and subsequent bactericidal effects.
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- I M Leviton
- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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Pucci MJ, Thanassi JA, Ho HT, Falk PJ, Dougherty TJ. Staphylococcus haemolyticus contains two D-glutamic acid biosynthetic activities, a glutamate racemase and a D-amino acid transaminase. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:336-42. [PMID: 7814322 PMCID: PMC176596 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.2.336-342.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 01/27/2023] Open
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Two D-glutamic acid biosynthetic activities, glutamate racemase and D-amino acid transaminase, have been described previously for bacteria. To date, no bacterial species has been reported to possess both activities. Genetic complementation studies using Escherichia coli WM335, a D-glutamic acid auxotroph, and cloned chromosomal DNA fragments from Staphylococcus haemolyticus revealed two distinct DNA fragments containing open reading frames which, when present, allowed growth on medium without exogenous D-glutamic acid. Amino acid sequences of the two open reading frames derived from the DNA nucleotide sequences indicated extensive identity with the amino acid sequence of Pediococcus pentosaceous glutamate racemase in one case and with that of the D-amino acid transaminase of Bacillus spp. in the second case. Enzymatic assays of lysates of E. coli WM335 strains containing either the cloned staphylococcal racemase or transminase verified the identities of these activities. Subsequent DNA hybridization experiments indicated that Staphylococcus aureus, in addition to S. haemolyticus, contained homologous chromosomal DNA for each of these genes. These data suggest that S. haemolyticus, and probably S. aureus, contains genes for two D-glutamic acid biosynthetic activities, a glutamate racemase (dga gene) and a D-amino acid transaminase (dat gene).
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- M J Pucci
- Department of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492-7660
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Takita H, Mang TS, Loewen GM, Antkowiak JG, Raghavan D, Grajek JR, Dougherty TJ. Operation and intracavitary photodynamic therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: a phase II study. Ann Thorac Surg 1994; 58:995-8. [PMID: 7944821 DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(94)90443-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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From April 1991 to May 1993, 23 patients entered a phase II clinical study of surgical resection and adjuvant intracavitary photodynamic therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Two days preoperatively, patients received an intravenous injection of 2 mg/kg of the photosensitizer Photofrin. Six patients underwent a pleuro-pneumonectomy, and 15 patients a pleurectomy, after which intracavitary photodynamic therapy was administered. A total light energy dose of 20 to 25 J/cm2 was given. In 2 patients the tumor was unresectable due to intrapericardial invasion. Postoperative complications were noted in more than 50 percent of patients; 2 patients died of postoperative complications. Postoperative survival was analyzed according to intraoperative staging proposed by the American Joint Committee for Cancer Staging, published in 1992. The overall estimated median survival is 12 months; that of stage III and IV patients is 7 months. Five patients with stage I and II diseases (who had grossly complete resection by pleurectomy) are alive, disease-free, for 11, 17, 18, 21, and 33 postoperative months. Intraoperative staging is important in carrying out further clinical studies of malignant pleural mesothelioma.
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- H Takita
- Division of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology (Department of Surgical Oncology), New York State Department of Health, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo
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Dougherty TJ, Pucci MJ. Penicillin-binding proteins are regulated by rpoS during transitions in growth states of Escherichia coli. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1994; 38:205-10. [PMID: 8192444 PMCID: PMC284427 DOI: 10.1128/aac.38.2.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 01/29/2023] Open
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Attention has been recently focused on the role of the rpoS (formerly katF) gene product as a regulator during the transition from the exponential growth phase to the stationary phase as well as during nutritional starvation. It has been demonstrated that RpoS is an alternate sigma factor which would bind to promoters of genes induced at these times. It was previously noted that rpoS mutants do not undergo a transition to short rods during entry into the stationary phase. Because of their well-established role in morphogenesis, we investigated the status of the penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) in Escherichia coli wild-type and isogenic rpoS mutants. Samples from cultures of E. coli ZK126 and ZK1000 (rpoS::kan) were taken in the midlogarithmic, early stationary, and late (24 h) stationary phases. The increase in PBP 6 seen upon entry of the wild-type strain into the stationary phase was not observed with the rpoS::kan cells, even after 24 h. There was also a marked decrease of PBP 3 in wild-type stationary-phase cells; PBP 3 has a known influence on morphogenesis. This decrease in PBP 3 was found to be markedly affected by the disruption of rpoS. Similar observations were made after prolonged starvation of the two strains for either glucose or a required amino acid. Inasmuch as PBPs are involved in peptidoglycan synthesis, we also examined two properties of peptidoglycan, autolysis and cross-linkage, that might be altered by the PBP differences. However, neither of these properties, which are known to undergo changes in the stationary phase, appeared to be influenced by the status of RpoS.
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- T J Dougherty
- Department of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492-7660
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Pucci MJ, Novotny J, Discotto LF, Dougherty TJ. The Escherichia coli Dga (MurI) protein shares biological activity and structural domains with the Pediococcus pentosaceus glutamate racemase. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:528-30. [PMID: 7904596 PMCID: PMC205080 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.2.528-530.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The Pediococcus pentosaceus glutamate racemase gene product complemented the D-glutamate auxotrophy of Escherichia coli WM335. Amino acid sequence analysis of the two proteins revealed 28% identity, primarily in six clusters scattered throughout the sequence. Further analyses indicated secondary structure similarities between the two proteins. These data support a recent report that the dga (murI) gene product is a glutamate racemase.
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- M J Pucci
- Department of Microbiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492-7660
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