title: Phosphorylation of thymidylate synthase affects slow-binding inhibition by 5-fluoro-dUMP and N(4)-hydroxy-dCMP.
abstract: Endogenous thymidylate synthases, isolated from tissues or cultured cells of the same specific origin, have been reported to show differing slow-binding inhibition patterns. These were reflected by biphasic or linear dependence of the inactivation rate on time and accompanied by differing inhibition parameters. Considering its importance for chemotherapeutic drug resistance, the possible effect of thymidylate synthase inhibition by post-translational modification was tested, e.g. phosphorylation, by comparing sensitivities to inhibition by two slow-binding inhibitors, 5-fluoro-dUMP and N(4)-hydroxy-dCMP, of two fractions of purified recombinant mouse enzyme preparations, phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated, separated by metal oxide/hydroxide affinity chromatography on Al(OH)3 beads. The modification, found to concern histidine residues and influence kinetic properties by lowering Vmax, altered both the pattern of dependence of the inactivation rate on time from linear to biphasic, as well as slow-binding inhibition parameters, with each inhibitor studied. Being present on only one subunit of at least a great majority of phosphorylated enzyme molecules, it probably introduced dimer asymmetry, causing the altered time dependence of the inactivation rate pattern (biphasic with the phosphorylated enzyme) and resulting in asymmetric binding of each inhibitor studied. The latter is reflected by the ternary complexes, stable under denaturing conditions, formed by only the non-phosphorylated subunit of the phosphorylated enzyme with each of the two inhibitors and N(5,10)-methylenetetrahydrofolate. Inhibition of the phosphorylated enzyme by N(4)-hydroxy-dCMP was found to be strongly dependent on [Mg(2+)], cations demonstrated previously to also influence the activity of endogenous mouse TS isolated from tumour cells.
authors.affiliation: Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, 3 Pasteur Street, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland. rode@nencki.gov.pl.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ludwiczak
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maj
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wilk
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Frączyk
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ruman
authors.forename: Borys
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kierdaszuk
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jarmuła
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rode
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003843:Deoxycytidine Monophosphate / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D003856:Deoxyuracil Nucleotides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D051379:Mice; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D051381:Rats; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013940:Thymidylate Synthase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003856:Deoxyuracil Nucleotides; D003843:Deoxycytidine Monophosphate; C007267:2'-deoxyuridylic acid; D013940:Thymidylate Synthase