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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-5-30
pubmed:abstractText
The ability of O(6)-benzylguanine (BG) to inactivate alkyltransferase (AGT) to potentiate the antitumor efficacy of 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) is being tested in clinical trials. As of now, there are no examples of acquired resistance to BG+BCNU in the clinical setting. However, we hypothesized that genetically unstable tumors might develop resistance to the combination after repeated drug-exposures to achieve therapeutic efficacy. To evaluate this possibility, we treated three colon cancer cell lines that are either proficient in mismatch repair (MMR) [SW480 (MMR wild type)] or deficient in MMR [HCT116 (hMLH1 mutant) and HCT15 (hMSH6 mutant)] with three cycles of BG+BCNU. After drug-treatments, HCT116 and HCT15 were completely resistant to BG-potentiated cytotoxicity of BCNU. In these two cell lines, the acquired BG resistance resulted from two de novo and different mutations at amino acid 165 in AGT: 165-lysine (K) to glutamic acid (E) (K165E in HCT116), and 165-lysine to asparagine (N) (K165N in HCT15). Both K165-mutated AGTs had markedly decreased enzymatic activity because of unstable AGT protein but were remarkably resistant to BG inactivation. FISH analysis showed that only one copy of MGMT gene exists in HCT116 cells, and the status of promoter methylation of MGMT in HCT15 showed that one allele of the MGMT promoter has an aberrant methylation. Thus, the MGMT gene expressing AGT either from one copy (HCT116) or from unmethylated allele (HCT15) was mutated because of the exposure to BG+BCNU in these two MMR-deficient cell lines. Conversely, MMR-proficient SW480 cells, treated with three cycles of BG+BCNU, maintained wt AGT and the sensitivity to BG-potentiated BCNU-cytotoxicity. To confirm that K165-mutated AGT proteins were responsible for resistance to BG+BCNU, we transfected K165E and K165N MGMT cDNAs into Chinese hampster ovary (CHO) cells. Transfected CHO cells had low AGT activity but increased IC(50) for either BCNU or temozolomide (TMZ), compared with parental CHO cells. BG did not potentiate the cytotoxicity of these two alkylating agents at concentrations up to 200 microM; in contrast, BG, at 25 microM, sensitized CHO-AGT (transfected with wt MGMT cDNA) cells to BCNU or TMZ-cytotoxicity by 3-4 fold. These results suggest that K165 AGT mutants arising in MMR-deficient tumor cells after treatment with chemotherapeutic agents are both resistant to BG-inactivation and are active in the repair of alkylated DNA adducts.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Alkyl and Aryl Transferases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carmustine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Guanine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MLH1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Neoplasm Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nuclear Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/O(6)-Methylguanine-DNA..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/O(6)-benzylguanine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, Messenger
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
62
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3070-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Alkyl and Aryl Transferases, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Base Pair Mismatch, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-CHO Cells, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Carmustine, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Colonic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-DNA Repair, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Drug Resistance, Multiple, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Drug Synergism, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Genes, p53, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Guanine, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-O(6)-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:12036916-Tumor Cells, Cultured
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Chemotherapy-induced O(6)-benzylguanine-resistant alkyltransferase mutations in mismatch-deficient colon cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4937, USA. lxl32@po.cwru.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.