5'-deoxy-5'-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase--II. Role of the enzyme in the metabolism and antineoplastic action of adenine-substituted analogs of 5'-deoxy-5'-methylthioadenosine

Biochemical Pharmacology
T M SavareseR E Parks

Abstract

The biological activities of several previously synthesized [J. A. Montgomery et al., J. med. Chem. 17, 1197 (1974)] adenine-substituted analogs of 5'-deoxy-5'-methylthio- or 5'-deoxy-5'-ethyl-thioadenosine, including the 2-fluoroadenine, 2-chloroadenine, 2,6-diaminopurine, 8-azaadenine, and 4-aminopyrazolo [3,4-d]pyrimidine-containing derivatives, have been reexamined. It is demonstrated that many of these analogs are cleaved to their respective free base analogs by 5'-deoxy-5'-methyl-thioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAPase), an enzyme associated with polyamine biosynthesis, and that this reaction is necessary for the cytotoxic action of these MTA analogs to be fully expressed. Evidence to support this includes: (1) the growth of two MTAPase-containing human colon carcinoma cell lines (the HCT-15 and DLD-1 lines) was inhibited by these analogs, whereas an MTAPase-deficient cell line, the CCRF-CEM human T-cell leukemia, was relatively insensitive to their cytotoxic action; (2) extracts of the MTAPase-containing colon carcinoma cell lines were able to cleave these analogs to their respective free base analogs; in contrast, extracts of MTAPase-deficient CCRF-CEM cells were unable to cleave these analogs; (3) intact colon carcinoma c...Continue Reading

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