title: Role for aldehyde dehydrogenase in survival of progenitors for murine blast cell colonies after treatment with 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide in vitro.
abstract: We have studied the effects of 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide (4-HC) on murine hemopoietic progenitors. We found dose-dependent killing and differential sensitivities of colony forming cells with burst forming units-erythrocyte being most sensitive and colony-forming units-granulocyte/erythrocyte/macrophage/megakaryocyte most resistant. We also tested the effects of 4-HC on more primitive murine progenitors which were identifiable in our assay system when the addition of interleukin-3 was delayed until Day 7. We found that the sensitivities of the progenitors for blast cell colonies are similar to those of colony-forming units-granulocyte/erythrocyte/macrophage/megakaryocyte and that late-appearing blast cell colonies were particularly resistant to 4-HC. In order to study the mechanism of differential sensitivities of murine progenitors to 4-HC, we examined the sensitivities of murine progenitors to 4-HC after brief incubation with diethylaminobenzaldehyde, an inhibitor of aldehyde dehydrogenase. Progenitors for granulocyte/macrophage colonies, granulocyte/erythrocyte/macrophage/megakaryocyte colonies, and blast cell colonies became more sensitive to 4-HC and the differential sensitivities of the progenitors disappeared following this treatment. We also tested the sensitivities of the progenitors to phenylketophosphamide, an analogue of 4-HC which is resistant to inactivation by aldehyde dehydrogenase. Various colony-forming units exhibited a similar dose response to this compound. These data indicate that intracellular levels of aldehyde dehydrogenase might play an important role in differential sensitivities of murine colony-forming units to 4-HC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Sahovic
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Colvin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hilton
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogawa
mesh_terms: D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001547:Benzaldehydes / Q000494:pharmacology; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D001547:Benzaldehydes; D003520:Cyclophosphamide; D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase; C011272:perfosfamide