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  • Title: Comparison of the inactivation of mammalian and bacterial O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferases by O6-benzylguanine and O6-methylguanine.
    Author: Dolan ME, Pegg AE, Dumenco LL, Moschel RC, Gerson SL.
    Journal: Carcinogenesis; 1991 Dec; 12(12):2305-9. PubMed ID: 1747932.
    Abstract:
    The inactivation of human and Escherichia coli O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase by O6-methylguanine and O6-benzylguanine was compared. When HT29 cell extracts or E. coli Ada protein were incubated in the presence of 200 microM O6-methylguanine for 1 h, alkyltransferase activity was reduced to 44 and 39% of control levels respectively. However, under the same conditions O6-benzylguanine completely depleted alkyltransferase activity in the extract from human cells but had virtually no effect on the Ada protein. Incubation of the HT29 cell alkyltransferase with O6-benzyl[3H]guanine resulted in a time-dependent production of [3H]guanine. No similar production of [3H]guanine was observed in the presence of the Ada protein. In CHO cells transfected with the bacterial ada gene (CHO-ada) or the human alkyltransferase cDNA (CHO-MGMT), treatment with 500 microM O6-methylguanine inhibited both alkyltransferases by greater than 85%. In contrast, 2 microM O6-benzylguanine inhibited human alkyltransferase expressed in CHO-MGMT cells by greater than 99% though concentrations as high as 25 microM for 24 h had no inhibitory effects on the bacterial alkyltransferase expressed in CHO-ada cells. This selective inhibition was also observed in vivo in transgenic mice expressing ada in the liver where O6-benzylguanine caused a decrease of only 40% in total hepatic alkyltransferase activity compared to 95% in non-transgenic mice, consistent with inhibition of only the mammalian alkyltransferase and maintenance of bacterial alkyltransferase activity in these animals. Thus, while O6-methylguanine at high concentrations inactivates both bacterial and mammalian alkyltransferases, O6-benzylguanine is a substrate only for the mammalian protein and is unable, perhaps due to steric hindrance, to inhibit the Ada protein.
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