A sensitive new method for clinically monitoring cytarabine concentrations at the DNA level in leukemic cells.

Abstract:

:Cytarabine (ara-C), a major antileukemic agent, is phosphorylated in the cell to cytarabine triphosphate (ara-CTP), which is then partly incorporated into DNA. The drug incorporation into DNA poisons the extending primer against further incorporation of deoxyribonucleotides including dCTP, ultimately inhibiting DNA synthesis. While intracellular ara-CTP concentration has been found to predict clinical outcome, cytotoxicity in vitro is determined primarily by the extent of drug incorporation into DNA. However, clinically appropriate quantitation methods for ara-C at the DNA level have not been available. We developed a sensitive new method for monitoring ara-C incorporated into DNA in vivo. After DNA from leukemic cells was fractionated using the Schmidt-Thannhauser-Schneider method, it was degraded to constituent nucleosides to release ara-C, which was isolated from the nucleosides using HPLC and then measured by radioimmunoassay. Recovery for DNA fractionation, ara-C release by degradation, and ara-C isolation were 92.0+/-6.4%, 90.7+/-9.4%, and 98.5+/-1.4%, respectively. The method was found to determine ara-C incorporation into DNA of ara-C-treated HL 60 cells in vitro with minimal interassay variation. The values determined were compatible with those determined by scintillation counting in parallel experiments using tritiated ara-C. Our method could be used to monitor DNA-incorporated ara-C concentrations during ara-C therapy, together with plasma ara-C and intracellular ara-CTP concentrations. ara-C incorporation into DNA appeared to be associated with intracellular retention of ara-CTP or persistence of plasma ara-C. Thus, the present method is sensitive, accurate, precise, and may permit therapeutic drug monitoring at the DNA level for better individualization of antileukemic regimens.

journal_name

Biochem Pharmacol

journal_title

Biochemical pharmacology

authors

Yamauchi T,Ueda T

doi

10.1016/j.bcp.2005.03.013

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-06-15 00:00:00

pages

1795-803

issue

12

eissn

0006-2952

issn

1873-2968

pii

S0006-2952(05)00191-7

journal_volume

69

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