Substrate/Inhibitor Specificities of Human Deoxycytidine Kinase (DCK) and Thymidine Kinases (TK1 and TK2)
- 1 January 1998
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- Vol. 431, 623-627
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5381-6_120
Abstract
Substrate/inhibitor specificities of nucleoside analogues with modified sugar moieties towards highly purified deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) and thymidine kinases (TK1 and TK2) from human leukemic spleen have been examined. Substrate activities of cyto-sine nucleosides vs dCK were as follows: 2′-fluoro-dC > 2′-O-methyl-C > araC > 2′- fluoro-2′-deoxy-araC > 3′-O-methyl-dC = 3′-fluoro-2′,3′-ddC > cytosine β-L-riboside > 2′,3′-ddC > C = l-(4-hydroxy-l,2-butadienyl)-cytosine (cytalene) = 2′-azido-dC. Modified purine nucleosides were only feeble substrates: ara-A> 2′-fluoro-2′, 3-dideoxy-ara-A = 2′-O-methyl-A. With TK1 and TK2, similar sugar-modified analogues of dU and dT were feeble substrates. Surprisingly α-dT was a relatively good substrate, as well some β-L-ribonucleo-sides. Several 5′-substituted analogues of dC were good non-substrate inhibitors of dCK and, to a lesser extent, of TK2. The overall data are relevant to the role of these enzymes in “activation” (by phosphorylation) of nucleoside analogues with antiviral and antitumor activities.Keywords
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