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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
Cytosine deaminase is used in combination with 5-fluorocytosine as an enzyme-prodrug combination for targeted genetic cancer treatment. This approach is limited by inefficient gene delivery and poor prodrug conversion activities. Previously, we reported individual point mutations within the substrate binding pocket of bacterial cytosine deaminase (bCD) that result in marginal improvements in the ability to sensitize cells to 5-fluorocytosine (5FC). Here, we describe an expanded random mutagenesis and selection experiment that yielded enzyme variants, which provide significant improvement in prodrug sensitization. Three of these mutants were evaluated using enzyme kinetic analyses and then assayed in three cancer cell lines for 5FC sensitization, bystander effects, and formation of 5-fluorouracil metabolites. All variants displayed 18- to 19-fold shifts in substrate preference toward 5FC, a significant reduction in IC(50) values and improved bystander effect compared with wild-type bCD. In a xenograft tumor model, the best enzyme mutant was shown to prevent tumor growth at much lower doses of 5FC than is observed when tumor cells express wild-type bCD. Crystallographic analyses of this construct show the basis for improved activity toward 5FC, and also how two different mutagenesis strategies yield closely related but mutually exclusive mutations that each result in a significant alteration of enzyme specificity.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1538-7445
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
69
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4791-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-4-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Combined Modality Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Cytosine Deaminase, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Escherichia coli Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Flucytosine, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Gene Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-HCT116 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Mutant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Prodrugs, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Protein Engineering, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:19487291-Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Bacterial cytosine deaminase mutants created by molecular engineering show improved 5-fluorocytosine-mediated cell killing in vitro and in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Molecular Biosciences and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-6534, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural