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Effects of chemical modification of nitrobenzylthioinosine on its binding to high-affinity membrane binding sites and inhibition of nucleoside transport.

Abstract
Nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBTI) was systematically modified by attachment of substituents at the 2-, 5'-, 3'- and 2'-positions in order to assess the importance of these positions in the binding of NBTI to high-affinity membrane binding sites (Kd < or = 1 nM) and the inhibition of NBTI-sensitive, equilibrative nucleoside transport by mammalian cells. We determined the effect of the derivatives on the equilibrium binding of 1 nM [3H]NBTI to human erythrocytes and mouse P388 leukemia cells and on the inhibition of zero-trans influx of formycin B in P388 cells and equilibrium exchange of uridine in human erythrocytes. Placement of substituent groups at the 5'-position of NBTI had relatively little effect on its binding to high-affinity binding sites or its inhibition of nucleoside transport, regardless of the size of the substituent group (up to about 1000 kDa). All substituents at the 2-position considerably reduced the affinity of NBTI to membrane binding sites and its potency as an inhibitor of nucleoside transport, but some substituent groups reduced the affinity of binding more than the inhibition of nucleoside transport. The effect of the 2-substituents was not directly related to their size. Attachment of a succinate at the 3'- or 5'-position also reduced to a greater extent the binding of NBTI than its inhibition of nucleoside transport, which was relatively little affected. Attachment of succinates at both the 3' and 5'-positions almost completely abolished both binding to high-affinity sites and inhibition of nucleoside transport. Both functions of NBTI were abolished completely by the simultaneous blockage of the 2'- and 3'-positions. None of the NBTI derivatives significantly inhibited NBTI-resistant equilibrative formycin B transport in P388 and Novikoff rat hepatoma cells at concentrations of < or = 1 microM.
AuthorsB Ziemnicka-Merchant, J M Aran, P G Plagemann, G A Krafft
JournalBiochemical pharmacology (Biochem Pharmacol) Vol. 44 Issue 8 Pg. 1577-83 (Oct 20 1992) ISSN: 0006-2952 [Print] England
PMID1417982 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Formycins
  • Nucleosides
  • formycin B
  • Thioinosine
  • 4-nitrobenzylthioinosine
  • Uridine
Topics
  • Animals
  • Binding Sites (drug effects)
  • Biological Transport (drug effects)
  • Cell Membrane (drug effects, metabolism)
  • Erythrocyte Membrane (drug effects, metabolism)
  • Formycins (metabolism)
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Nucleosides (metabolism)
  • Rats
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Thioinosine (analogs & derivatives, chemistry, metabolism, pharmacology)
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured (drug effects, metabolism)
  • Uridine (metabolism)

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