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Pardali V, Giannakopoulou E, Balourdas DI, Myrianthopoulos V, Taylor MC, Šekutor M, Mlinarić-Majerski K, Kelly JM, Zoidis G. Lipophilic Guanylhydrazone Analogues as Promising Trypanocidal Agents: An Extended SAR Study. Curr Pharm Des 2020; 26:838-866. [DOI: 10.2174/1381612826666200210150127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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In this report, we extend the SAR analysis of a number of lipophilic guanylhydrazone analogues with
respect to in vitro growth inhibition of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma cruzi. Sleeping sickness and Chagas
disease, caused by the tropical parasites T. brucei and T. cruzi, constitute a significant socioeconomic burden
in low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, respectively. Drug development is underfunded.
Moreover, current treatments are outdated and difficult to administer, while drug resistance is an emerging
concern. The synthesis of adamantane-based compounds that have potential as antitrypanosomal agents is
extensively reviewed. The critical role of the adamantane ring was further investigated by synthesizing and testing
a number of novel lipophilic guanylhydrazones. The introduction of hydrophobic bulky substituents onto the
adamantane ring generated the most active analogues, illustrating the synergistic effect of the lipophilic character
of the C1 side chain and guanylhydrazone moiety on trypanocidal activity. The n-decyl C1-substituted compound
G8 proved to be the most potent adamantane derivative against T. brucei with activity in the nanomolar range
(EC50=90 nM). Molecular simulations were also performed to better understand the structure-activity relationships
between the studied guanylhydrazone analogues and their potential enzyme target.
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- Vasiliki Pardali
- School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis-Zografou, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
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- School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis-Zografou, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
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- School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis-Zografou, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
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- School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis-Zografou, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
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- School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis-Zografou, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
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Xiao Y, Nguyen S, Kim SH, Volkov OA, Tu BP, Phillips MA. Product feedback regulation implicated in translational control of the Trypanosoma brucei S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase regulatory subunit prozyme. Mol Microbiol 2013; 88:846-61. [PMID: 23634831 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Human African sleeping sickness (HAT) is caused by the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei. Polyamine biosynthesis is an important drug target in the treatment of HAT. Previously we showed that trypanosomatid S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC), a key enzyme for biosynthesis of the polyamine spermidine, is activated by heterodimer formation with an inactive paralogue termed prozyme. Furthermore, prozyme protein levels were regulated in response to reduced AdoMetDC activity. Herein we show that T. brucei encodes three prozyme transcripts. The 3'UTRs of these transcripts were mapped and chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter constructs were used to identify a 1.2 kb region that contained a 3'UTR prozyme regulatory element sufficient to upregulate CAT protein levels (but not RNA) upon AdoMetDC inhibition, supporting the hypothesis that prozyme expression is regulated translationally. To gain insight into trans-acting factors, genetic rescue of AdoMetDC RNAi knock-down lines with human AdoMetDC was performed leading to rescue of the cell growth block, and restoration of prozyme protein to wild-type levels. Metabolite analysis showed that prozyme protein levels were inversely proportional to intracellular levels of decarboxylated AdoMet (dcAdoMet). These data suggest that prozyme translation may be regulated by dcAdoMet, a metabolite not previously identified to play a regulatory role.
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- Yanjing Xiao
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390-9041, USA
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The protozoan parasitesTrypanosoma bruceiandTrypanosoma cruziare the causative agents of African trypanosomiasis and Chagas disease, respectively. These are debilitating infections that exert a considerable health burden on some of the poorest people on the planet. Treatment of trypanosome infections is dependent on a small number of drugs that have limited efficacy and can cause severe side effects. Here, we review the properties of these drugs and describe new findings on their modes of action and the mechanisms by which resistance can arise. We further outline how a greater understanding of parasite biology is being exploited in the search for novel chemotherapeutic agents. This effort is being facilitated by new research networks that involve academic and biotechnology/pharmaceutical organisations, supported by public–private partnerships, and are bringing a new dynamism and purpose to the search for trypanocidal agents.
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The trypanocidal activity of the ODC (ornithine decarboxylase) inhibitor DFMO (difluoromethylornithine) has validated polyamine biosynthesis as a target for chemotherapy. As DFMO is one of only two drugs used to treat patients with late-stage African trypanosomiasis, the requirement for additional drug targets is paramount. Here, we report the biochemical properties of TbSpSyn (Trypanosoma brucei spermidine synthase), the enzyme immediately downstream of ODC in this pathway. Recombinant TbSpSyn was purified and shown to catalyse the formation of spermidine from putrescine and dcSAM (decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine). To determine the functional importance of TbSpSyn in BSF (bloodstream form) parasites, we used a tetracycline-inducible RNAi (RNA interference) system. Down-regulation of the corresponding mRNA correlated with a decrease in intracellular spermidine and cessation of growth. This phenotype could be complemented by expressing the SpSyn (spermidine synthase) gene from Leishmania major in cells undergoing RNAi, but could not be rescued by addition of spermidine to the medium due to the lack of a spermidine uptake capacity. These results therefore genetically validate TbSpSyn as a target for drug development and indicate that in the absence of a functional biosynthetic pathway, BSF T. brucei cannot scavenge sufficient spermidine from their environment to meet growth requirements.
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Nozaki T, Ali V, Tokoro M. Sulfur-Containing Amino Acid Metabolism in Parasitic Protozoa. ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY 2005; 60:1-99. [PMID: 16230102 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-308x(05)60001-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Sulfur-containing amino acids play indispensable roles in a wide variety of biological activities including protein synthesis, methylation, and biosynthesis of polyamines and glutathione. Biosynthesis and catabolism of these amino acids need to be carefully regulated to achieve the requirement of the above-mentioned activities and also to eliminate toxicity attributable to the amino acids. Genome-wide analyses of enzymes involved in the metabolic pathways of sulfur-containing amino acids, including transsulfuration, sulfur assimilatory de novo cysteine biosynthesis, methionine cycle, and degradation, using genome databases available from a variety of parasitic protozoa, reveal remarkable diversity between protozoan parasites and their mammalian hosts. Thus, the sulfur-containing amino acid metabolic pathways are a rational target for the development of novel chemotherapeutic and prophylactic agents against diseases caused by protozoan parasites. These pathways also demonstrate notable heterogeneity among parasites, suggesting that the metabolism of sulfur-containing amino acids reflects the diversity of parasitism among parasite species, and probably influences their biology and pathophysiology such as virulence competence and stress defense.
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- Tomoyoshi Nozaki
- Department of Parasitology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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Lu ZJ, Markham GD. Catalytic Properties of the Archaeal S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase from Methanococcus jannaschii. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:265-73. [PMID: 14573607 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308793200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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S-Adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) is a pyruvoyl cofactor-dependent enzyme that participates in polyamine biosynthesis. AdoMetDC from the Archaea Methanococcus jannaschii is a prototype for a recently discovered class that is not homologous to the eucaryotic enzymes or to a distinct group of microbial enzymes. M. jannaschii AdoMetDC has a Km of 95 microm and the turnover number (kcat) of 0.0075 s(-1) at pH 7.5 and 22 degrees C. The turnover number increased approximately 38-fold at a more physiological temperature of 80 degrees C. AdoMetDC was inactivated by treatment with the imine reductant NaCNBH3 only in the presence of substrate. Mass spectrometry of the inactivated protein showed modification solely of the pyruvoyl-containing subunit, with a mass increase corresponding to reduction of a Schiff base adduct with decarboxylated AdoMet. The presteady state time course of the AdoMetDC reaction revealed a burst of product formation; thus, a step after CO2 formation is rate-limiting in turnover. Comparable D2O kinetic isotope effects of were seen on the first turnover (1.9) and on kcat/Km (1.6); there was not a significant D2O isotope effect on kcat, suggesting that product release is rate-limiting in turnover. The pH dependence of the steady state rate showed participation of acid and basic groups with pK values of 5.3 and 8.2 for kcat and 6.5 and 8.3 for kcat/Km, respectively. The competitive inhibitor methylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone) binds at a single site per (alphabeta) heterodimer. UV spectroscopic studies show that methylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone) binds as the dication with a 23 microm dissociation constant. Studies with substrate analogs show a high specificity for AdoMet.
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- Zichun J Lu
- Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111-2497, USA
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Keiser J, Stich A, Burri C. New drugs for the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis: research and development. Trends Parasitol 2001; 17:42-9. [PMID: 11137740 DOI: 10.1016/s1471-4922(00)01829-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Chemotherapy of human African trypanosomiasis is problematic because of the high frequency of severe adverse events, the long duration and high cost of treatment, and an increasing number of treatment-refractory cases. New cost-efficient, easy-to-use drugs are urgently needed. Whereas basic research on potential drug targets is anchored in academia, the complex, highly regulated and very expensive process of preclinical and clinical drug development is almost exclusively in the hands of pharmaceutical companies. Jennifer Keiser, August Stich and Christian Burri here review, from the angle of industrial drug research and development, the past ten years of research activities at different stages of the development of trypanocidal drugs, and assess future prospects. The absence of compounds in clinical development Phases I-III indicates no new drugs will become available in the next few years.
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- J Keiser
- Swiss Tropical Institute, PO Box, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland
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Stoppini L, Buchs PA, Brun R, Muller D, Duport S, Parisi L, Seebeck T. Infection of organotypic slice cultures from rat central nervous tissue with Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Int J Med Microbiol 2000; 290:105-13. [PMID: 11043987 DOI: 10.1016/s1438-4221(00)80113-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We recently described a new procedure to grow nervous tissue as organotypic culture. The main feature of these slice cultures is to maintain a well preserved, three-dimensional organisation of the central nervous tissue. As these cultures can be kept for several weeks (up to three months), we have used this in vitro approach to study the complex interactions between host tissue and parasites during late stages of cerebral African trypanosomiasis. Light and electron microscopical studies, as well as electrophysiological recordings demonstrate that the structure and function of the nervous tissue is not severely affected even after several weeks of trypanosome infection. The presence of a large number of parasites does not seem to be deleterious to neuronal survival. Secondly, most of the trypanosomes are located around the periphery of the nervous tissue, but many of them also penetrate into the nervous parenchyma. Thirdly, trypanosomes with well-conserved morphology are found within the cytoplasm of glial cells, which in some cases were identified as astrocytes. These "intracellular parasites" seem to actively invade the target cells. Our study demonstrates that the presence of proliferating trypanosomes does not per se interfere with the neural activity of CNS tissues. Secondly, it provides, to the best of our knowledge, the first in vitro demonstration of intracellular forms of African trypanosomes.
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- L Stoppini
- Department of Pharmacology, Centre Médical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
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Kinch LN, Scott JR, Ullman B, Phillips MA. Cloning and kinetic characterization of the Trypanosoma cruzi S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1999; 101:1-11. [PMID: 10413038 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-6851(98)00181-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The gene for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC), a rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of polyamines, has been cloned from a Trypanosoma cruz cDNA library. The cDNA clone contains a 1.1 kb open reading frame predicted to encode a 42 kDa protein that shares 31% sequence identity to the human proenzyme. T. cruzi AdoMetDC expressed and purified from E. coli is auto-catalytically processed into two subunits of 32 kDa (alpha) and 10 kDa (beta). The catalytic activity of the purified recombinant enzyme is activated by the addition of putrescine to the reaction. To determine the effect of putrescine on the kinetics of the reaction, the velocity data collected at various substrate and putrescine concentrations were fit to the rate equation describing a non-essential activator. In the presence of fully saturating putrescine, k(cat) increases by 9-fold over the unactivated rate to 0.06 s(-1). The model derived Km for AdoMet is 0.05 mM in the absence of putrescine and the model-derived Kd for putrescine binding to free enzyme is 2.5 mM. The Km for AdoMet increases by alpha 2-fold when the enzyme is fully saturated with putrescine. Unlike human AdoMetDC, cadaverine activates the T. cruzi enzyme to a similar extent as putrescine.
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- L N Kinch
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75235, USA
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Calonge M, Johnson R, Balaña-Fouce R, Ordóñez D. Effects of cationic diamidines on polyamine content and uptake on Leishmania infantum in in vitro cultures. Biochem Pharmacol 1996; 52:835-41. [PMID: 8781500 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(96)00348-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The effect of a series of cationic diamidines recently synthesized by Ciba Geigy, bearing diarylic (CGP040215A and CGP039937A) or monoarylic moieties (CGP033829A, CGP035537A and CGP036958A), was analyzed on some metabolic targets and cell proliferation of in vitro cultures of Leishmania infantum promastigotes (insect form). The action of these compounds on intracellular polyamine pools and putrescine transport suggests that diarylic structures were more effective than their monoarylic counterparts in depleting polyamine levels and inhibiting putrescine transport, although these processes correlate poorly with the antiproliferative rate of these compounds. Finally, the displacement of cationic diamidines to kDNA observed in the presence of several concentrations of spermidine suggests a possible combined mode of action of these molecules, first depleting intracellular polyamine pools and, then, displacing spermidine from its site of interaction to kDNA.
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- M Calonge
- Departmento de Fisiología, Farmacología y Toxicología, Universidad de León, Spain
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Reguera RM, Fouce RB, Cubría JC, Bujidos ML, Ordóñez D. Fluorinated analogues of L-ornithine are powerful inhibitors of ornithine decarboxylase and cell growth of Leishmania infantum promastigotes. Life Sci 1994; 56:223-30. [PMID: 7823781 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(94)00916-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Fluorinated analogues of L-ornithine have been tested on growth and ornithine decarboxylase arising from L.infantum cytosolic extracts. EC50 values estimated from dose/response curves were 38 microM, 2.62 microM and 4.64 microM for alpha-DFMO, delta-MFMO and delta-MFMOme respectively. Also the inhibition produced by all three compounds was effectively reverted by exogenous putrescine, pointing towards the inhibition of L.infantum ODC. ODC from logarithmic phase cytosolic extracts was physicochemically and kinetically characterized, showing a long half-life (more than 24 h) and a km value for L-ornithine of 98 microM. Finally, the inhibitory effect of fluorinated analogues of L-ornithine was analysed on L.infantum ODC showing a time-dependent irreversible behavior, with Ki values estimated on 125 microM, T1/2 3.5 min for alpha-DFMO; 13.3 microM, T1/2 1.8 min for delta-MFMO and 4.3 microM, T1/2 4 min for delta-MFMOme.
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- R M Reguera
- Departamento de Fisiología, Farmacología y Toxicología, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, Spain
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This review outlines the metabolism of polyamines in African trypanosomes and summarizes evidence to indicate that trypanosome polyamine metabolism differs in several important aspects from that of the mammalian host. These differences relate to the halflife, turnover, substrate specificity and regulation of enzymes within the mainstream of polyamine synthesis and the related pathway of transmethylation. The common denominator for the uniqueness of parasite polyamine metabolism concerns S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) whose synthesis is unregulated and, upon accumulating in the cell, appears to result in abnormally high transmethylation activity. Similarly, the catabolism of the AdoMet product of polyamine synthesis, methylthioadenosine, is governed by a phosphorylase having broad substrate specificity, and which, if presented with substrate analogs, can generate cytotoxic metabolites.
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- C J Bacchi
- Pace University, Haskins Laboratories, New York, NY 10038-1502
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The polyamine biosynthetic pathway has attracted much interest as a therapeutic target. Many studies have shown the potential value of inhibitors of the first enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway, ornithine decarboxylase, which forms putrescine. In order to convert putrescine into the polyamines, spermidine and spermine, the aminopropyl donor, decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine, is needed. Therefore, S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC, EC 4.1.1.50) is essential for polyamine synthesis. Early studies of the inhibition of this enzyme were carried out with compounds such as methylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone) that lack specificity and also lack potency since they are competitive inhibitors whose effects are overcome by a compensatory increase in the amount of the target enzyme. Recently, powerful irreversible inhibitors of AdoMetDC have become available including 5'-([(Z)-4-amino-2-butenyl]methylamino)-5'-deoxyadenosine, an enzyme activated inhibitor and 5'-deoxy-5'-[(3-hydrazinopropyl)methylamino]adenosine which binds to the active site and forms a covalent bond with the pyruvate prosthetic group. This review describes the current state of knowledge of the structure and properties of AdoMetDC, the available inhibitors of this enzyme, their mechanism of action and their effects on polyamines and on the growth of tumors and protozoan parasites. These effects indicate that AdoMetDC inhibitors may be of therapeutic value either alone or in combination with ornithine decarboxylase inhibitors and that further trials of these compounds should be considered.
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- A E Pegg
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033
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Tekwani BL, Bacchi CJ, Pegg AE. Putrescine activated S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase from Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Mol Cell Biochem 1992; 117:53-61. [PMID: 1480164 DOI: 10.1007/bf00230410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Trypanosoma brucei brucei contained a S-adenosyl-L-methionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) strongly activated by putrescine. The enzyme was also activated to a lesser extent by cadaverine and 1,3-diaminopropane. Spermidine and spermine had no effect on basal activity of the enzyme. However, they interfered with putrescine activation of trypanosomal AdoMetDC. The trypanosomal enzyme could not be precipitated with antiserum against human AdoMetDC. The trypanosomal AdoMetDC enzyme subunit was labeled by reaction with 35S-decarboxylated AdoMet in the presence of NaCNBH4, and found to have a molecular weight of 34 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The subunit was readily degraded on storage to a form with a molecular weight of 26 kDa. The specificity of labeling of AdoMetDC by this procedure was confirmed by the prevention of 35S-decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) binding in the presence of specific AdoMetDC inhibitors [either methylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone (MGBG), a reversible inhibitor, or 5'-deoxy-5'-[(2-hydrazinoethyl)methylamino]adenosine (MHZEA), an irreversible inactivator]. As compared to human AdoMetDC, the trypanosomal enzyme showed weaker binding to a column of MGBG-Sepharose and also was significantly less sensitive to inhibition by MGBG and its congener ethylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone) (EGBG). Thus, the trypanosomal AdoMetDC differs significantly from its mammalian and bacterial counterparts and may therefore be exploited as a specific target for chemotherapy of trypanosomiasis.
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- B L Tekwani
- Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033
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