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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 15, 8470-8478, 05, 1990

Mechanism of thymidylate synthase inhibition by methotrexate in human neoplastic cell lines and normal human myeloid progenitor cells

E Chu, JC Drake, D Boarman, J Baram and CJ Allegra
Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

We have studied the roles of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate (5,10- methylene-H4PteGlu) depletion and dihydrofolate (H2PteGlu) accumulation in the inhibition of de novo thymidylate synthesis by methotrexate (MTX) in human MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Using both a high pressure liquid chromatography system and a modification of the 5-fluoro-2'- deoxyuridine-5'-monophosphate radioenzymatic binding assay, we determined that the 5,10-methylene-H4PteGlu pool is 50-60% depleted in human MCF-7 breast cancer cells following exposure to 1 micron MTX for up to 21 h. Similar alterations in the 5,10-methylene-H4PteGlu pools were obtained when human promyelocytic HL-60 leukemia cells and normal human myeloid precursor cells were incubated with 1 micron MTX. The H2PteGlu pools within the MCF-7 cells increased significantly after 15 min of 1 micron MTX exposure, reaching maximal levels by 60 min. Thymidylate synthesis, as measured by labeled deoxyuridine incorporation into DNA, decreased to less than 20% of control activity within 30 min of 1 micron MTX exposure. The inhibition of thymidylate synthesis coincided temporally with the rapid intracellular accumulation of H2PteGlu, a known inhibitor of thymidylate synthase. Furthermore, inhibition of this pathway was associated in a log-linear fashion with the intracellular level of dihydrofolate. These studies provide further evidence that depletion of the thymidylate synthase substrate 5,10-methylene-H4PteGlu is inadequate to account completely for diminished thymidylate synthesis resulting from MTX treatment. Our findings suggest that acute inhibition of de novo thymidylate synthesis is a multifactorial process consisting of partial substrate depletion and direct enzymatic inhibition by H2PteGlu polyglutamates.
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