Deoxyuridine thymidine

Deoxyuridine, thymidine, 2 -deoxyadenosine, 2 -deoxycyti-dine, 2 -deoxyguanosine... 

EdU (5-ethynyl-2 -deoxyuridine). Thymidine, Cell migration. Cell proliferation... 

There appear also to be toxic effects. In animals, nitrous oxide has been shown to inactivate methionine synthetase which prevents the conversion of deoxyuridine to thymidine and thus has the potential for inducing megaloblastic anemia, leukopenia, and teratogenicity (44—46). A variety of epidemiologic surveys suggest positive correlations between exposure to nitrous oxide and spontaneous abortion in dental assistants (47). 

Trifluridine, C2qH22F2N20, (5-trifluoromethyl-2 -deoxyuridine [70-00-8] F TdU, 14) was first prepared (30) in 1962. It is used for topical therapy of herpes vims-infected eyes. It is especially usefiil for treating infections that are resistant to IdU therapy. Like IdU, trifluridine is incorporated into DNA in place of thymidine in both infected and uninfected cells. But it is 10 times more potent than IdU against herpes keratitis in rabbits and 10 times more soluble in water. Trifluridine is also usefiil in treating human cytomegalovims (HCMV), but its toxicity to bone marrow may limit its clinical use. 

Methotrexate (MTX, chemical structure shown in Fig. 1.) competitively inhibits the dehyrofolate reductase, an enzyme that plays an essential role in purine synthesis. The dehydrofolate reductase regenerates reduced folates when thymidine monophosphate is formed from deoxyuridine monophosphate. Without reduced folates cells are unable to synthesize thymine. Administration of N-5 tetrahydrofolate or N-5 formyl-tetrahydrofolate (folinic acid) can bypass this block and rescue cells from methotrexate activity by serving as antidote. 

A method has been reported for the quantification of the DNA oxidation products, 8-hydroxy-2 -deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG), 8-hydroxy-2 -deoxyadenosine (8-OH-dA), 5-hydroxymethyl-2-deoxyuridine (HMDU), thymidine glycol (TG) and 2-hydroxy-2 -deoxyadenosine (2-OH-dA) [37], The HPLC system employed consisted of a 2.0 X 250 mm Cig column and gradient elution from waterimethanol, (94 6) to (10 90) over 28 min, at a flow rate of 200 tilmin ... 

The methylation of deoxyuridine monophosphate (dUMP) to thymidine monophosphate (TMP), catalyzed by thymidylate synthase, is essential for the synthesis of DNA. The one-carbon fragment of methy-lene-tetrahydrofolate is reduced to a methyl group with release of dihydrofolate, which is then reduced back to tetrahydrofolate by dihydrofolate reductase. Thymidylate synthase and dihydrofolate reductase are especially active in tissues with a high rate of cell division. Methotrexate, an analog of 10-methyl-tetrahydrofolate, inhibits dihydrofolate reductase and has been exploited as an anticancer drug. The dihydrofolate reductases of some bacteria and parasites differ from the human enzyme inhibitors of these enzymes can be used as antibacterial drugs, eg, trimethoprim, and anti-malarial drugs, eg, pyrimethamine. 

In 1995, Horie et al. described a polymorphic tandem repeat found in the 5 -un-translated region of the thymidylate synthase gene [70]. Thymidylate synthase (TS TYMS) catalyzes the intracellular transfer of a methyl group to deoxyuridine-5-monophosphate (dUMP) to form deoxythymidine-5-monophosphate (dTMP), which is anabolized in cells to the triphosphate (dTTP). This pathway is the only de- novo source of thymidine, an essential precursor for DNA synthesis and repair. The methyl donor for this reaction is the folate cofactor 5,10-methylenetetrahydro-folate (CH2-THF) (Figure 24.4). 

In 1958 Taylor demonstrated SCEs, using autoradiographic techniques to detect the disposition or labeled DNA following incorporation of [3H]-thymidine. 5-Bromo-2 -deoxyuridine (drdU) has now replaced [3H]-thymidine and various staining methods have been used to show the differential incorporation of BrdU between sister chromatids fluorescent Hoechst 33258 (Latt, 1973) combined fluorescent... 

This enzyme [EC 1.14.11.3], also known as thymidine 2-oxoglutarate dioxygenase, catalyzes the reaction of 2-deoxyuridine with a-ketoglutarate (or, 2-oxoglutarate) and dioxygen to produce uridine, succinate, and carbon dioxide. The enzyme, which also can act on thymidine, requires iron ions and ascorbate. 

The lifetimes of the 9 main thymidine hydroperoxides 5-7 that were determined in pure aqueous solutions at 37 °C were found to vary from 1 h for the two trans diastereomers of 6-hydroperoxides (Table 1) to several weeks for 5-(hydroperoxymethyl)-2 -deoxyuridine. It may be added that the cis diastereomers are more stable than the trans homologues, irrespective of the pair of diastereomeric hydroperoxides. Interestingly, at neutral or slightly acidic pH values a specific hydrolytic decomposition pathway was observed for the two classes of hydroxyhydroperoxides. Thus, it was found that the trans and... 

The HPLC-MS/MS method has been recently applied for the measurement of the cis and trans diastereomers of 5,6-dihydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymidine (8), 5-formyl-2 -deoxyuridine (11) and 5-(hydroxymethyl)-2 -deoxyuridine (10) within cellular DNA exposed to ionizing radiation and heavy particles. The two methyl oxidation products 10 and 11 and thymidine glycols 8 (Chart 3) that are produced within the range of 20 to 100 lesions per 10 normal bases and per Gy (Table 3) are likely to be derived from the decomposition of 5-(hydroperoxymethyl)-2 -deoxyuridine (7) and 5-(6)-hydroperoxy-6-(5)-hydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymidine 5 and 6, respectively. 

FUdR, or floxuridine, is converted by thymidine or deoxyuridine phosphorylases into 5-FU. It is therefore not surprising that the pharmacology and toxicity of both agents are similar. Hoxuridine is also administered parenterally, since oral absorption is unpredictable and incomplete. It is primarily used... 

Thymidylate synthase (TS) is the enzyme that converts 2-deoxyuridine monophosphate into thymidine monophosphate. This is a key step in the biosynthesis of DNA. This enzymatic reaction of methylation involves the formation of a ternary complex between the substrate, the enzyme, and tetrahydrofolic acid (CH2FAH4). The catalytic cycle involves the dissociation of this complex and the elimination of FAH4. It is initiated by pulling out the proton H-5, thus generating an exocyclic methylene compound. As the release of a F" " ion is energetically forbidden, the fluorine atom that replaces the proton H-5 cannot be pulled out by the base. This leads to inhibition of the enzyme (Figure 7.2). 

The most important pyrimidine derivatives are those upon which biological organisms depend. Cytosine 1018 and uracil 1019 are found in ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the form of their ribonucleotides, cytidine 1020 and uridine 1021, while in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), cytosine and thymine 1022 are found in the form of their 2 -deoxyribonucleotides, 2 -deoxycytidine 1023 and thymidine 1024. 5-Methylcytosine 1025 is also found to a small extent (c. 5%) in human DNA in the form of its 2 -deoxyriboside 1026, and 5-(hydroxymethyl)cytosine-2 -deoxyriboside 1027 has also been detected in smaller amounts <2005CBI1>. Many variants of cytosine and uracil can be found in RNA including orotic acid 1028 in the form of its ribonucleotide orotidine 1029. Other pyrimidine derivatives to have been isolated from various biological sources include 2 -deoxyuridine 1030, alloxan 1031, and toxopyrimidine (pyramine) 1032 (Figure 2). 

Fig. lA. Anabolic and catabolic pathways of 5-FU. DPD dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, DP di-hydropyrimidinase, pUP beta-ureidopropionase, UP uridine phosphorylase, OPRT orotate phospho-ribosyl transferase, UK uridine kinase, TP thymidine phosphorylase, TK thymidine kinase, RNR ribonucleotide reductase. The three active metabolites (shown in rectangles) are FdUMP (5-fluoro-2 -deoxyuridine 5 -monophosphate) inhibiting TS (thymidylate synthase), and FUTP (5-fluorouridine 5 -triphosphate) and FdUTP (5-fluoro 2 -deoxyuridine 5 -triphosphate) interfering with RNA and DNA, respectively. 

Fairbanks LD, Marinaki AM, Carrey EA, Hammans SR, Duley JA (2002) Deoxyuridine accumulation in urine in thymidine phosphorylase deficiency (MNGIE) J Inherit Metab Dis 25 603-604... 

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