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Ticlopidine in its prodrug form is a selective inhibitor of human NTPDase1.

Abstract
Nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-1 (NTPDase1), like other ectonucleotidases, controls extracellular nucleotide levels and consequently their (patho)physiological responses such as in thrombosis, inflammation, and cancer. Selective NTPDase1 inhibitors would therefore be very useful. We previously observed that ticlopidine in its prodrug form, which does not affect P2 receptor activity, inhibited the recombinant form of human NTPDase1 (K i = 14 μM). Here we tested whether ticlopidine can be used as a selective inhibitor of NTPDase1. We confirmed that ticlopidine inhibits NTPDase1 in different forms and in different assays. The ADPase activity of intact HUVEC as well as of COS-7 cells transfected with human NTPDase1 was strongly inhibited by 100 µM ticlopidine, 99 and 86%, respectively. Ticlopidine (100 µM) completely inhibited the ATPase activity of NTPDase1 in situ as shown by enzyme histochemistry with human liver and pancreas sections. Ticlopidine also inhibited the activity of rat and mouse NTPDase1 and of potato apyrase. At 100 µM ticlopidine did not affect the activity of human NTPDase2, NTPDase3, and NTPDase8, nor of NPP1 and NPP3. Weak inhibition (10-20%) of NTPDase3 and -8 was observed at 1 mM ticlopidine. These results show that ticlopidine is a specific inhibitor of NTPDase1 that can be used in enzymatic and histochemistry assays.
AuthorsJoanna Lecka, Michel Fausther, Beat Künzli, Jean Sévigny
JournalMediators of inflammation (Mediators Inflamm) Vol. 2014 Pg. 547480 ( 2014) ISSN: 1466-1861 [Electronic] United States
PMID25180024 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antigens, CD
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases
  • Pyrophosphatases
  • ectoATPase
  • nucleoside-triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 3
  • Apyrase
  • CD39 antigen
  • Ticlopidine
Topics
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases (metabolism)
  • Animals
  • Antigens, CD (metabolism)
  • Apyrase (metabolism)
  • COS Cells
  • Chlorocebus aethiops
  • Enzyme Activation (drug effects)
  • Enzyme Inhibitors (chemistry, pharmacology)
  • Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
  • Humans
  • Pyrophosphatases (metabolism)
  • Ticlopidine (chemistry, pharmacology)

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