PMID: 9639692Jun 26, 1998Paper

Efficient protection of cells from the genotoxicity of nitrosoureas by the retrovirus-mediated transfer of human O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase using bicistronic vectors with human multidrug resistance gene 1

Mutation Research
M SuzukiT Tsuruo

Abstract

Retrovirus-mediated transfer of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT; E.C. 2.1.1.63) and a human multidrug-resistance gene (MDR1) confers resistance to nitrosoureas and natural product antitumor agents, respectively. In a previous study, we constructed two bicistronic retroviral vectors, Ha-MDR-IRES-MGMT and Ha-MGMT-IRES-MDR, that allow co-expression of the MGMT gene and the MDR1 gene to protect cells from the toxicity of combination chemotherapy. Each cell transduced with Ha-MDR-IRES-MGMT or Ha-MGMT-IRES-MDR showed high-level resistance to vincristine and 1-(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3-nitrosou rea (ACNU), indicating that the two drug-resistance genes can be functionally co-expressed from these vectors. In the present study, we examined whether the expression of MGMT from these MDR1-MGMT bicistronic retroviral vectors could protect cells from the genotoxicity of nitrosoureas. Three independent Ha-MDR-IRES-MGMT-transduced clones and three independent Ha-MGMT-IRES-MDR-transduced clones of HeLa MR cells showed 12-23-fold and 27-30-fold higher MGMT activity than the parental cells. These clones are more resistant to ACNU mutagenicity measured by the frequency of the emergence of 6-thioguanine-...Continue Reading

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