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ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 321, 期 1, 页码 38-43出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2697(03)00432-9
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DNA repair; alkyltransferase; drug resistance; tumor therapy
The DNA repair protein O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT, alkyltransferase) is an important suicide enzyme involved in defense against O-6-alkylating endogenous metabolites and environmental carcinogens. It also plays a pivotal role in primary and acquired resistance of tumors to alkylating anticancer drugs targeting the O-6-position of guanine (i.e., methylating and chloroethylating agents). MGMT can thus be considered a crucial biomarker for individual susceptibility to alkylating carcinogens and tumor drug resistance. This implies a need for a fast and convenient method for determination of MGMT. Routinely, MGMT is being quantified by radioactive assays which are relatively laborious. Here we report a nonradioactive MGMT enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for quantification of MGMT in cell and tissue homogenates. We compared the MGMT-ELISA with the standard radioactive assay and found it to be as sensitive but less time consuming. Therefore, it represents an alternative for the quantification of MGMT in cell and tissue homogenates. We applied the assay for determining MGMT in normal and tumor tissue of testes. In both normal and tumor tissue MGMT was quite variable, ranging from zero to 1300 fmol/mg protein. In various tumor samples MGMT was lower than MGMT in the normal tissue from the same patient or was even not detectable. The MGMT-ELISA might become a useful tool for MGMT determination in clinical routine and health control. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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