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  • Title: Bisphosphonates are incorporated into adenine nucleotides by human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase enzymes.
    Author: Rogers MJ, Brown RJ, Hodkin V, Blackburn GM, Russell RG, Watts DJ.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1996 Jul 25; 224(3):863-9. PubMed ID: 8713136.
    Abstract:
    Bisphosphonates are synthetic pyrophosphate analogues and are therapeutic inhibitors of bone resorption, although their exact mechanisms of action are unclear. Some bisphosphonates can be metabolised into non-hydrolysable ATP analogues by Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, in a back-reaction catalysed by several Class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. We have found that the same enzymes in cell-free extracts of several human cell lines are also capable of metabolising in vitro the same bisphosphonates that are metabolised by Dictyostelium. These results indicate that human cells, following drug internalisation, should be capable of metabolising certain bisphosphonates. The toxic effects of these bisphosphonates towards bone-resorbing osteoclasts may therefore be due to accumulation of non-hydrolysable ATP analogues or inhibition of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase enzymes.
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