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Correlation between ribosomal RNA production and RNA-directed fluoropyrimidine cytotoxicity.

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:The relationship between cytotoxicity and fluoropyrimidine effects on the production of mature cytoplasmic 28S and 18S ribosomal RNA was studied in S-180 cells for the fluoropyrimidines: 5-fluorouracil (FUra), 5-fluorouridine (FUrd), 5-fluorodeoxyuridine (FdUrd), and 5'-deoxy-5-fluorouridine (5'-dFUrd). After a 6-hr drug exposure, the total cytotoxicity in the absence of added thymidine (dThd) was determined by soft-agar cloning and resulted in LC90 (lethal concentration to 90% of cells) values of 0.6 microM FdUrd, 0.7 microM FUrd, 5.3 microM FUra and 93 microM 5'-dFUrd. The RNA-directed (dThd-nonreversible) cytotoxicity was assessed by cloning the cells in the presence of 10 microM dThd. This resulted in an altered order of potency and increased LC90 values to 5.5 microM FUrd, 20 microM FUra, 265 microM FdUrd and 870 microM 5'-dFUrd. The production of mature cytoplasmic rRNA was determined by measuring the amount of [3H]cytidine incorporated into the 28S and 18S rANA species following their separation by agarose gel electrophoresis, compared with the level of [3H]cytidine incorporated into the nuclear rRNA. When all four fluoropyrimidines were compared together, the degree of inhibition of cytoplasmic rRNA production was poorly predictive of the total cytotoxicity in the absence of dThd (correlation coefficient, r = 0.77). FdUrd, in particular, had a very minor effect on rRNA production even at very toxic drug concentrations. When toxicity was assessed in the presence of dThd, however, there was a strong and significant correlation between rRNA production and RNA-directed cytotoxicity (r = 0.95, P less than 0.001), for all the fluoropyrimidines tested, including FdUrd. Thus, when the inhibition of thymidylate formation was eliminated as a site of drug action and only RNA-directed cytotoxicity was assessed, the impaired production of cytoplasmic rRNA was strongly associated with cytotoxicity. These results demonstrate that the inhibition of mature cytoplasmic rRNA production may be an important common mechanism of RNA-directed cytotoxicity for all the fluoropyrimidines, and not limited to FUrd or FUra.

journal_name

Biochem Pharmacol

journal_title

Biochemical pharmacology

authors

Takimoto CH,Tan YY,Cadman EC,Armstrong RD

doi

10.1016/0006-2952(87)90640-x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-10-01 00:00:00

pages

3243-8

issue

eissn

0006-2952

issn

1873-2968

pii

0006-2952(87)90640-X

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Correlation between ribosomal RNA production and RNA-directed fluoropyrimidine cytotoxicity.