INCREASED RESISTANCE TO N,N',N''-TRIETHYLENETHIOPHOSPHORAMIDE (THIOTEPA) IN CELLS EXPRESSING THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE-DNA GLYCOSYLASE

Citation
Rd. Gill et al., INCREASED RESISTANCE TO N,N',N''-TRIETHYLENETHIOPHOSPHORAMIDE (THIOTEPA) IN CELLS EXPRESSING THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE-DNA GLYCOSYLASE, Cancer research, 56(16), 1996, pp. 3721-3724
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00085472
Volume
56
Issue
16
Year of publication
1996
Pages
3721 - 3724
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-5472(1996)56:16<3721:IRTN(>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Thiotepa (N,N',N ''-triethylenethiophosphoramide) is an alkylating age nt used in cancer chemotherapy. A reaction pathway by which thiotepa a lkylates purified DNA involves hydrolysis to aziridine, which forms N- 7-aminoethyl guanine and aminoethyl adenine. These lesions are repaire d in Escherichia coli by the formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (Fpg) protein. To determine whether such lesions are formed by thiotepa in mammalian cells, we have overexpressed the E. coli Fpg protein in Chin ese hamster ovary cells. The transfected cells were more resistant to the lethal and mutagenic effects of thiotepa than the parental cells. The number of replication-blocking lesions formed by thiotepa, measure d by quantitative PCR analysis, was lower in the transfected cells. Th ese results show that expression of the Fpg protein increases the cell resistance to thiotepa and suggest that this compound produces ring-o pened guanines, which are involved in its cytotoxic action.