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Mechanism of deoxyadenosine-induced catabolism of adenine ribonucleotides in adenosine deaminase-inhibited human T lymphoblastoid cells.

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Bagnara, AS; Hershfield, MS
Published in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
April 1982

Loss of ATP accompanying accumulation of dATP has recently been reported to occur in the erythrocytes and lymphoblasts of patients with T lymphocytic leukemia during treatment with deoxycoformycin, an inhibitor of adenosine deaminase (adenosine aminohydrolase, EC 3.5.4.4) that causes the accumulation of deoxyadenosine. We have studied the mechanisms responsible for adenine ribonucleotide depletion in cultured human CEM T lymphoblastoid cells treated with deoxycoformycin and deoxyadenosine. Accumulation of dATP was accompanied by depletion of total soluble adenine ribonucleotides without change in the adenylate energy charge, by the route ATP --> AMP --> IMP --> inosine --> hypoxanthine; conversion of IMP to AMP and de novo purine synthesis were inhibited in these cells. ATP degradation did not occur in a mutant of CEM that was incapable of phosphorylating deoxyadenosine, or in a B cell line with very limited ability to accumulate dATP. We found that dATP and ATP were both able to stimulate markedly the deamination of AMP by lymphoblast AMP deaminase; dAMP was a poor substrate for this enzyme (K(m) = 2.4 mM, vs. 0.4 mM for AMP). Similarly, dATP as well as ATP caused marked activation of IMP dephosphorylation by a lymphoblast cytoplasmic nucleotidase. Inhibition of intracellular AMP deaminase with coformycin prevented degradation of adenine ribonucleotides without affecting dATP accumulation. We propose that ATP-dependent phosphorylation of deoxyadenosine generates ADP and AMP. Simultaneously, dATP accumulation stimulates deamination of AMP, but not dAMP, and the dephosphorylation of IMP to inosine. Coupling of AMP degradation to ATP utilization in deoxyadenosine phosphorylation maintains the adenylate energy charge despite net depletion of cellular ATP.

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

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0027-8424

Publication Date

April 1982

Volume

79

Issue

8

Start / End Page

2673 / 2677

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • T-Lymphocytes
  • Pentostatin
  • Nucleotidases
  • Nucleoside Deaminases
  • Leukemia, Lymphoid
  • Kinetics
  • Humans
  • Deoxyadenosines
  • Coformycin
  • Cell Line
 

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Bagnara, A. S., & Hershfield, M. S. (1982). Mechanism of deoxyadenosine-induced catabolism of adenine ribonucleotides in adenosine deaminase-inhibited human T lymphoblastoid cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 79(8), 2673–2677. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.79.8.2673
Bagnara, A. S., and M. S. Hershfield. “Mechanism of deoxyadenosine-induced catabolism of adenine ribonucleotides in adenosine deaminase-inhibited human T lymphoblastoid cells.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 79, no. 8 (April 1982): 2673–77. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.79.8.2673.
Bagnara, A. S., and M. S. Hershfield. “Mechanism of deoxyadenosine-induced catabolism of adenine ribonucleotides in adenosine deaminase-inhibited human T lymphoblastoid cells.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 79, no. 8, Apr. 1982, pp. 2673–77. Pubmed, doi:10.1073/pnas.79.8.2673.
Journal cover image

Published In

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

DOI

ISSN

0027-8424

Publication Date

April 1982

Volume

79

Issue

8

Start / End Page

2673 / 2677

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • T-Lymphocytes
  • Pentostatin
  • Nucleotidases
  • Nucleoside Deaminases
  • Leukemia, Lymphoid
  • Kinetics
  • Humans
  • Deoxyadenosines
  • Coformycin
  • Cell Line