New enzyme for reductive cancer chemotherapy, YieF, and its improvement by directed evolution
New enzyme for reductive cancer chemotherapy, YieF, and its improvement by directed evolution
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DOI:
10.1158/1535-7163.mct-05-0365
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发表时间:
2006-01-01
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
Matin, A
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作者:
Barak, Y;Thorne, SH;Matin, A
Reductive prodrugs, mitomycin C and 5-aziridinyl-2,4-dinitrobenzamide (CB 1954), are nontoxic in their native form but become highly toxic upon reduction. Their effectiveness in cancer chemotherapy can be enhanced by delivering to tumors enzymes with improved prodrug reduction kinetics. We report the discovery of a new prodrug-reducing enzyme, YieF, from Escherichia coli, and the improvement of its kinetics for reducing mitomycin C and CB 1954. A YieF-derived enzyme, Y6, killed HeLa spinner cells with >= 5-fold efficiency than the wildtype enzymes, YieF and NfsA, at a variety of drug and enzyme concentrations and incubation times. With adhered HeLa cells and Salmonella typhimurium SL 7838 bacteria as enzyme delivery vehicle, at least an order of magnitude less of Y6-producing bacteria were required to kill >90% of tumor cells compared with bacteria expressing the wild-type enzymes, which at a comparable level killed