INCREASED TOXICITY OF 9‐β‐D‐ARABINOFURANOSYLADENINE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN INHIBITOR OF ADENOSINE DEAMINASE *
INCREASED TOXICITY OF 9‐β‐D‐ARABINOFURANOSYLADENINE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN INHIBITOR OF ADENOSINE DEAMINASE *
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在腺苷脱氨酶抑制剂存在下,9-β-D-阿拉伯呋喃糖腺嘌呤的毒性增加*
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1977.tb21939.x
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Seymour S. Cohen
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作者:
W. Plunkett;Seymour S. Cohen
The adenine nucleoside analog 9-p-~-arabinofuranosyladenine (ara-A) is an effective antiviral agent in humans (reviewed in Reference I ) . Studies in humans and clinical trials have demonstrated that ara-A and some derivatives also possess promising anticancer activity in Studies in this laboratory had shown that incubation of mouse fibroblasts (L cells) with ara-A and the 5'-phosphate results in an inhibition of D N A synthesis6 and the subsequent loss of cell viability."" Injection of ara-A into tumor-bearing mice inhibits tumor cell D N A synthesisg and increases the survival time of the host.H-*' Enzymic studies suggested that these effects resulted from the inhibition of DNA polymerase by 9-fi-~-arabinofuranosyladenine 5'-triphosphate (ara-ATP)l2-l4 and possibly from inhibition of ribonucleotide reductase by 9-pD-arabinofuranosyladenine 5'-diphosphate (ara-ADP) and ara-ATP.l2-l5 During a 4-hr incubation with 100 pM ara-A, ara-ATP accumulated to 20 pM in L cells,'6 a level 20-fold greater than the Ki of ara-ATP for a mammalian DNA polymerase." I n addition, ara-ATP serves as a substrate for DNA polymerase and is incorporated into internucleotide linkage in DNA.'+'" Some of these phenomena may explain the damaging effect of ara-A on chromosomes.'" However, deamination of ara-A by adenosine deaminase to the relatively nontoxic 9-p-~-arabinofuranosylhypoxanthine (ara-Hx) limits the potential therapeutic effectiveness of ara-A.fi,Q When exponentially growing L cells were incubated with 2 x lo-' M ara-A, more than half of the cells were killed in 24 hr, as determined by the ability of the cells to form colonies after being washed from ara-A-containing medium6-H (FIGURE I ) . Analysis of the growth medium after 4 hr indicated that 48% of the ara-A had been deaminated to ara-Hx, and by 24 hr, only ara-Hx remained. As shown in FIGURE I , the growth rate of cells incubated with 2 x M ara-Hx is only slightly less than the control cells. Therefore, the renewed cell growth after 24 hr of incubation with ara-A may be attributed to the total deamination of ara-A accompanied by the turnover and decrease of cellular ara-ATP to less than inhibitory levels.