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CANCER GENE THERAPY
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 23-29Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cgt.7700520
Keywords
gene therapy; E coli purine nucleoside phosphorylase; 2-fluoro-2 '-deoxyadenosine; 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl-2-fluoroadenine-5 '-monophosphate; 9-(2-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)-6-methylpurine
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA67763] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [U19CA067763] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The selective expression of Escherichia coli purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) in solid tumors has been successfully used to activate two purine nucleoside analogs [9-(2-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)-6-methylpurine (MeP-dR) and 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl-2-fluoroadenine (F-araA)] resulting in lasting tumor regressions and cures. E. coli PNP also cleaves 2-fluoro-2'-deoxyadenosine (F-dAdo) to 2-F-adenine, which is the toxic purine analog liberated from F-araA that has high bystander activity and is active against nonproliferating tumor cells. As F-dAdo is 3000 times better than F-araA as a substrate for E coli PNP, we have evaluated its antitumor activity against D54 gliomas that express E. coli PNP and have characterized its in vivo metabolism in order to better understand its mechanism of action with respect to the other two agents. Like MeP-dR and F-araA-5'-monophosphate (F-araAMP, a prodrug of F-araA), treatment of mice bearing D54 tumors that express E coli PNP with F-dAdo resulted in excellent antitumor activity. Although F-dAdo was as active as MeP-dR and better than F-araAMP, it was not dramatically better than either compound because of its short plasma half-life and the limited activation of F-adenine to toxic metabolites. Regardless, these results indicated that F-dAdo was also an excellent prodrug for use with gene vectors that deliver E. coli PNP to tumor cells.
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