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Regulatory aspects of the glutamylation of methotrexate in cultured hepatoma cells.

Abstract：

:The glutamylation of methotrexate has been evaluated in H35 hepatoma cells in vitro as a function of the conditions of culture. Glutamylation yields methotrexate polyglutamate with two to five additional glutamate residues and is a saturable process. The rate of glutamylation increases little above 10 microM extracellular methotrexate which corresponds to an intracellular concentration of approximately 4 microM. The rate of glutamylation measured over a 6-h period was stimulated by a reduction in cellular folates and prior incubation of the cells with insulin. Glutamylation was also more rapid in dividing cultures than in confluent cells. The combination of insulin inclusion and folate reduction, which was additive, caused approximately a fourfold increase in the rate of glutamylation over control cells under the conditions tested. The maximal rate of methotrexate glutamylation, which was 100 nmol/g/h, occurred in folate-depleted, insulin-supplemented cells. Supplementing folate-depleted cells with reduced folate coenzymes caused the glutamylation to be reduced by more than 90%. The turnover of methotrexate polyglutamates in cells saturated with these derivatives occurred at approximately one-half the rate of net synthesis and was stimulated to nearly the same extent by folate depletion and insulin. In addition to showing that folates can modify the rates of methotrexate polyglutamate formation, data are presented suggesting that methotrexate polyglutamates can regulate their own synthesis. The consequences of the formation of these retained forms of methotrexate in H35 hepatoma cells (M. Balinska, J. Galivan, and J.K. Coward (1981) Cancer Res. 41,2751-2756) and the effects of potential regulators of this process are discussed in terms of the glutamylation of folates in the cells and the chemotherapeutic effects of antifolates.

journal_name

Arch Biochem Biophys

journal_title

Archives of biochemistry and biophysics

authors

Nimec Z,Galivan J

doi

10.1016/0003-9861(83)90337-5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-10-15 00:00:00

pages

671-80

issue

eissn

0003-9861

issn

1096-0384

pii

0003-9861(83)90337-5

journal_volume

226

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Regulatory aspects of the glutamylation of methotrexate in cultured hepatoma cells.