Journal
AMINO ACIDS
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 213-223Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-007-0531-2
Keywords
ornithine decarboxylase; DFMO; oncogenic transformation; polyamines
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA082768] Funding Source: Medline
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The activity of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC1), the first enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis, is induced during carcinogenesis by a variety of oncogenic stimuli. Intracellular levels of ODC and the polyamines are tightly controlled during normal cell growth, and regulation occurs at the levels of transcription, translation and protein degradation. Several known proto-oncogenic pathways appear to control ODC transcription and translation, and dysregulation of pathways downstream of ras and myc result in the constitutive elevation of ODC activity that occurs with oncogenesis. Inhibition of ODC activity reverts the transformation of cells in vitro and reduces tumor growth in several animal models, suggesting high levels of ODC are necessary for the maintenance of the transformed phenotype. The ODC irreversible inactivator DFMO has proven to be not only a valuable tool in the study of ODC in cancer, but also shows promise as a chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agent in certain types of malignancies.
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