Comparison of DNA lesions produced by tumor-inhibitory 1,2-bis(sulfonyl)hydrazines and chloroethylnitrosoureas
Comparison of DNA lesions produced by tumor-inhibitory 1,2-bis(sulfonyl)hydrazines and chloroethylnitrosoureas
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DOI:
10.1016/s0006-2952(99)00328-7
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发表时间:
2000-02-01
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
Sartorelli, AC
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作者:
Penketh, PG;Shyam, K;Sartorelli, AC
1,2-Bis(sulfonyl)hydrazine derivatives, designed to generate several of the electrophilic species classically believed to be responsible for the alkylating (chloroethylating) and/or carbamoylating activities of the chloroethylnitrosoureas (CNUs), were compared with respect to the cross-linking and nicking of T7 DNA to that caused by 1,3-bis(2-chloraethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), 1-(2-chloroethyl) 3-cyclohexyl-1-nitroso (CCNU), and 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-(4-trans-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea (MeCCNU). In the case of BCNU, a large proportion of T7 DNA strand nicking was found to be due to the generation of 2-chloroethylamine, produced from the hydrolysis of 2-chloroethylisocyanate, in rum formed during the decomposition of the parental nitrosourea. 1,2-Bis(methylsulfonyl)-1-(2-chloroethyl)hydrazine (compound 1) gave a greater yield of DNA cross-links than the CNUs. Compound I, as well as its derivatives that were incapable of generating 2-chloroethylisocyanate, did not produce detectable Levels of strand nicking, indicating that N-7-alkylation of guanine did not occur to a significant extent with these agents. Since compound 1 and its derivatives are believed to generate chloronium and chloroethyldiazonium ions, it would appear that these species could not be significantly involved in the N-7-alkylation of guanine caused by the CNUs. The relatively low level of N-7-alkylation of guanine residues and the relatively high yield of cross-links generated by some of the 1,2-bis(sulfonyl)-1-(2 chloroethyl)hydrazine derivatives implies that they are more exclusive O-6-guanine chloroethylating agents than the CNUs. O-6-Guanine chloroethylation is believed to be the therapeutically relevant event: produced by the CNUs; therefore, compound 1 derivatives represent promising new canter chemotherapeutic agents, since they appear to generate lower quantities of therapeutically unimportant, get carcinogenic lesions, and more of the therapeutically relevant O-6-guanine chloroethylation than the CNUs.