Pharmacogene Variation Consortium Gene Introduction: NUDT15
Pharmacogene Variation Consortium Gene Introduction: NUDT15
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DOI:
10.1002/cpt.1268
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发表时间:
2019-05-01
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Gaedigki, Andrea
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作者:
Yang, Jun J.;Whirl-Carrillo, Michelle;Gaedigki, Andrea
The Pharmacogene Variation (PharmVar) Consortium is the successor of the Human Cytochrome P450 (CYP) Allele Nomenclature website that served the pharmacogenetics community by designating CYP star (*) alleles. The aim of PharmVar is to continue the mission of serving as an official allele designation authority for the global pharmacogenetics community. 1 Herein, we describe the introduction of the first non-CYP gene to PharmVar. Pharmacogenetic variation of NUDT15 plays a significant role in thiopurine response variability and toxicity.THE NUDT15 GENE NUDT15 is a member of a large phosphatase protein family that shares a common NUDIX catalytic domain and metabolizes a wide range of nucleotide substrates (Table 1). Originally characterized as a pyrophosphatase, NUDT15 converts oxidized GTP to its monophosphate form, preventing the integration of the damaged purine nucleotides into DNA and subsequent mismatch repair. However, 8-oxo-GTP is a weak substrate for NUDT15 compared with its main metabolizer NUDT1; thus, the physiological functions of NUDT15 remain unclear. NUDT15 has been linked to xenobiotic drug metabolism in genome-wide association studies of drug toxicity, and subsequent mechanistic studies have demonstrated that it plays a key role in the conversion of the active thiopurine metabolite thioguanosine triphosphate to thioguanosine monophosphate. 2 NUDT15 variants encoding no or severely decreased function predispose patients to excessive thiopurine activation and hematopoietic toxicities when receiving this class of drugs for either benign (eg, inflammatory bowel diseases) or malignant (eg, acute lymphoblastic leukemia) conditions. Given the compelling underlying biology and clinical relevance of this pharmacogenetic association, there is a growing interest in preemptive NUDT15-guided thiopurine dosing to avoid severe adverse events. The importance of including NUDT15 genetic information in dosing recommendations for preventing thiopurine toxicity is further evidenced by the updated Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC)