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Selection of nitrogen mustard resistance in a rat tumor cell line results in loss of guanine-O6-alkyl transferase activity

SW Dean, NW Gibson and KD Tew

Cell killing, DNA-interstrand crosslinks, and DNA-protein crosslinks were assayed in nitrogen mustard-resistant Walker 256 carcinoma (WR) cells and the parent cell line (WS) after treatment with 5-[3-(2- chloroethyl)-1-triazenyl]imidazo-4-carboxamide (MCTIC). The WR cells, which also express collateral sensitivity to chloroethylnitrosoureas, were approximately twice as sensitive to the cytotoxic effects of MCTIC as were WS cells. Following treatment with 100 microM MCTIC, there was a rapid accumulation of both DNA-interstrand and DNA-protein crosslinks in the WR cell line, which reached a maximum at 6 and 12 hr, respectively. There was considerably less crosslinking in the WS cells and both cell lines were proficient in repairing most of the crosslinks by 24 hr. Measurement of guanine-O6-alkyl transferase activity showed the enzyme to be present in WS but not in WR cells. These data indicate that the collateral sensitivity of nitrogen mustard-resistant WR cells to chloroethylating drugs is in part due to the loss of guanine-O6- alkyl transferase activity which is present in the parent line.

Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 77-80, 07/01/1986
Copyright © 1986 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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