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11455012

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-7-16
pubmed:abstractText
The multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase of Drosophila melanogaster (Dm-dNK) can be expressed in human cells with retained enzymatic activity. The cells expressing Dm-dNK exhibit increased sensitivity to several cytotoxic nucleoside analogs. In this study, we further evaluated Dm-dNK as a potential novel suicide gene in combination with (E)-5-(2-bromovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine (BVDU) as the prodrug. We used two human cancer cell lines transduced with a retrovirus encoding the Dm-dNK cDNA and investigated whether the cells expressing the enzyme can induce cell death of untransduced cells, a phenomenon known as the "bystander effect". A bystander effect was observed in a thymidine kinase-deficient human osteosarcoma cell line but not in the MIA PaCa-2 human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line. The cytotoxicity of BVDU increased in both cell lines when the compound was used in combination with subtoxic concentrations of hydroxyurea. Hydroxyurea also enhanced the bystander effect in the osteosarcoma cells, but not in the MIA PaCa-2 cells, treated with BVDU. These findings indicate that BVDU phosphorylated by Dm-dNK in transduced cancer cells may also induce bystander cell death in certain cell lines.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0026-895X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
60
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
262-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Bystander effects of cancer cell lines transduced with the multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase of Drosophila melanogaster and synergistic enhancement by hydroxyurea.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Clinical Virology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't