PMID: 2504483Sep 15, 1989Paper

Evidence for enzymatic activation and oxygen involvement in cytotoxicity and antitumor activity of N,N',N''-triethylenethiophosphoramide

Cancer Research
B A TeicherE Frei

Abstract

The cytotoxicity of N,N',N''-triethylenethiophosphoramide (thiotepa) was studied in vitro in the MCF-7 human breast carcinoma cell line and in vivo using the EMT6 mouse mammary tumor model, under various conditions of oxygenation and in the presence and absence of Aroclor 1254-induced liver preparations. The cytotoxicity of thiotepa toward exponentially growing MCF-7 cells was markedly dependent on the presence of oxygen during the period of drug exposure, with 3 log greater cell kill at 500 microM thiotepa being observed when the cells were normally oxygenated compared with hypoxic cells. Incubation of thiotepa with an Aroclor 1254-induced rat liver S-9 homogenate, in the presence of a NADPH-regenerating system, resulted in an 8-fold increase in cytotoxicity towards the MCF-7 cells over a wide range of drug concentrations. Thiotepa was shown to be metabolized under these conditions in a NADPH- and O2-dependent reaction that was catalyzed by one or more microsomal cytochrome P-450 enzymes that were present in the S-9 fraction. The thiotepa metabolite triethylene phosphoramide, which hydrolyzes significantly faster than thiotepa, was significantly less cytotoxic toward the MCF-7 cells than was thiotepa itself, suggesting that it...Continue Reading

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