Abstract：
:The importance of polyglutamation for the activation of natural folates and classical antifolates and recent evidence for the role of dietary folate as a biochemical modulator of antifolate efficacy led us to investigate the influence of changes in dietary folate on folylpolyglutamate synthetase (FPGS) activity. Activities were measured using lometrexol (6R-5,10-dideazatetrahydrofolic acid) as a substrate for FPGS with extracts of murine tissues, murine tumors, and human tumor xenografts from mice on standard diet or low folate diet. Tissues and tumors from mice on standard diet exhibited a 6-fold range of FPGS activity. Kidney had the lowest activity (36 pmol/hr.mg protein), followed by the human xenograft PANC-1 pancreatic carcinoma (46 pmol/hr.mg protein), liver (109 pmol/hr.mg protein), murine C3H mammary tumor (112 pmol/hr.mg protein), and the human xenograft MX-1 mammary carcinoma (224 pmol/hr.mg protein). In response to restricted dietary folate, four out of five tissues had significantly increased (25-50%) FPGS activity. Only the tumor with highest FPGS activity under standard diet conditions (MX-1 mammary) did not respond to low folate diet. The results indicate that changes in dietary folate intake can modulate FPGS activity significantly in vivo and suggest that the tissue distribution and toxicities of classical antifolates requiring polyglutamation for activation and cellular retention will be influenced significantly by folate status of the host.
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Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Gates SB,Worzalla JF,Shih C,Grindey GB,Mendelsohn LGdoi
10.1016/s0006-2952(96)00554-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-11-08 00:00:00pages
1477-9issue
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0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
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52pub_type
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