Abstract：
:The effect of lowering intracellular glutathione (GSH) concentrations on the toxicity of alkylating agents, and RNA synthesis inhibitor and topoisomerase 1 and 2 inhibitors to a number of human leukaemic cell lines were evaluated. By using the GSH synthesis inhibitor DL-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO), GSH levels were artificially reduced. Cells with low GSH concentrations were exposed to a number of cytotoxic agents and the resultant mode of cell death was analysed using morphological and biochemical criteria. It was found that untreated cells exposed to the above drugs underwent apoptosis to varying extents. However, the toxicity of alkylating agents was dramatically increased to all cell lines on lowering GSH levels, with the mode of cell death switching from apoptosis to necrosis. The reduction of GSH levels had no effect on the toxicity of actinomycin-D, camptothecin or etoposide, nor did it affect the mode of cell death induced by these agents. These observations suggest that modulation of GSH levels effect the toxicity of alkylating agents and that GSH influences the mode of cell death induced by alkylating agents.
journal_name
Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Fernandes RS,Cotter TGdoi
10.1016/0006-2952(94)90044-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-08-17 00:00:00pages
675-81issue
4eissn
0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
0006-2952(94)90044-2journal_volume
48pub_type
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