Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
- Volume 28 Issue 2
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- Pages.79-84
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- 1990
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- 2982-5164(pISSN)
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- 1738-0006(eISSN)
Effects of pyrimidine salvage inhibitors on uracil incorporation of Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasma gondii의 활성화된 uracil 도입 과정에 미치는 pyrimidine 대사 억제제의 영향
Abstract
Metabolic inhibitors which act in the process of pyrimidine salvage influenced on the uracil incorporation into nucleic acids of Toxoplasma. Inhibitors of dihydrofolate reductase, pyrimethamine and methotrexate, and inhibitors of thymidylate synthase, fluoro-uridine, fluoro·dUMP and fluoro-uracil, diminished isotopic uracil uptake in dose-dependent manners. Azauridine which suppresses do novo pyrimidine biosynthesis did not affect the salvage even in a relatively high dose. These results suggested that the activation of uracil salvage should be closely related with the function of TMP biosynthetic enzymes. The pattern of thymidine uptake had no differences between control HL-60 cells and Toxoplasma infected cells, which did not reject the specific proliferation of Texoplasma. It can be exploited to characterize the elects of various compounds related with the proliferation of Toxoplasma, especially its DNA synthesis. Key words: Toxoplasma gondii, uracil salvage, dihydrofolate reductase, thymidylate synthase TMP biosynthesis.
Pyrimidine salvage과정 및 de novo 합성과정에 작용하는 억제제들이 Toxeplasma gondii의 특이한 uracil 도입 과정에 미치는 영향을 방사능을 표지한 uracil과 thymidine을 사용하여 검토하였다. Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)에 작용하는 억제제인 methotreBate, pyrimethamine 그리고 thymidylate synthase(75)의 경쟁적 억제제인 fluoro-uridine, fluoro-dUMP, fluoro-uracil을 각각 처리한 경우, 그 농도에 비례적으로 uracil 표지가 감소 하였다. OMP decarboxylase에 작용하는 억제제인 azauridine에 대해서는 100
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