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Increased renal elimination of endogenous and synthetic pyrimidine nucleosides in concentrative nucleoside transporter 1 deficient mice.

ABSTRACT: Concentrative nucleoside transporters (CNTs) are active nucleoside influx systems, but their in vivo roles are poorly defined. By generating CNT1 knockout (KO) mice, here we identify a role of CNT1 in the renal reabsorption of nucleosides. Deletion of CNT1 in mice increases the urinary excretion of endogenous pyrimidine nucleosides with compensatory alterations in purine nucleoside metabolism. In addition, CNT1 KO mice exhibits high urinary excretion of the nucleoside analog gemcitabine (dFdC), which results in poor tumor growth control in CNT1 KO mice harboring syngeneic pancreatic tumors. Interestingly, increasing the dFdC dose to attain an area under the concentration-time curve level equivalent to that achieved by wild-type (WT) mice rescues antitumor efficacy. The findings provide new insights into how CNT1 regulates reabsorption of endogenous and synthetic nucleosides in murine kidneys and suggest that the functional status of CNTs may account for the optimal action of pyrimidine nucleoside analog therapeutics in humans.

SUBMITTER: Persaud AK

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10235067 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Increased renal elimination of endogenous and synthetic pyrimidine nucleosides in concentrative nucleoside transporter 1 deficient mice.

Persaud Avinash K AK Bernier Matthew C MC Massey Michael A MA Agrawal Shipra S Kaur Tejinder T Nayak Debasis D Xie Zhiliang Z Weadick Brenna B Raj Ruchika R Hill Kasey K Abbott Nicole N Joshi Arnav A Anabtawi Nadeen N Bryant Claire C Somogyi Arpad A Cruz-Monserrate Zobeida Z Amari Foued F Coppola Vincenzo V Sparreboom Alex A Baker Sharyn D SD Unadkat Jashvant D JD Phelps Mitch A MA Govindarajan Rajgopal R

Nature communications 20230601 1

Concentrative nucleoside transporters (CNTs) are active nucleoside influx systems, but their in vivo roles are poorly defined. By generating CNT1 knockout (KO) mice, here we identify a role of CNT1 in the renal reabsorption of nucleosides. Deletion of CNT1 in mice increases the urinary excretion of endogenous pyrimidine nucleosides with compensatory alterations in purine nucleoside metabolism. In addition, CNT1 KO mice exhibits high urinary excretion of the nucleoside analog gemcitabine (dFdC), ...[more]

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Project description:Transporters are specialized integral membrane proteins, which mediate the passage of virtually all molecules through cell membranes. They are expressed in a broad range of human and animal tissues and play important roles in both normal and disease states. For these reasons, they are evaluated when developing and testing drugs. Two major families of drug transporters, the adenosine 5'-triphosphate-binding cassette and solute carrier transporters (SLC), have critical roles in the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of drugs. The SLC family contains known nucleoside transporters and therefore are important when nucleoside analogs are used as drugs to prevent or treat viral infections. In this study, we wanted to determine if it was possible to locate one member of the SLC family, the human concentrative nucleoside transporter 3 (CNT3) in human vaginal epithelial cells. The CNT3 protein has important roles in drug delivery, subsequent drug tissue distribution, and, hence, efficacy. Vaginal epithelial cells, taken from two human volunteers (one Caucasian and one African American), were labeled for light and electron microscopy, with a commercial antibody to a cytoplasmic domain of CNT3, the protein product of the SLC28A3 gene. Fluorescent secondary antibodies or protein A-gold were used to detect antibody binding. By electron microscopy, gold particle binding was quantified to determine labeling specificity. By light microscopy, positive labeling with anti-CNT3 antibodies was detected on human vaginal epithelial cells, but specificity to any intracellular structure was not easily determined, most likely a result of specimen preparation. Electron microscopy revealed that the CNT3 transporter protein was present predominantly on microvilli located on one side of some human vaginal epithelial cells. Quantification confirmed specific anti-CNT3 labeling over human vaginal epithelial cell microvilli. The CNT3 protein, present in the microvilli of human vaginal epithelial cells, may have a role in redistributing nucleoside homologues delivered to the vaginal tract. Transporter proteins such as CNT3 could shuttle nucleosides and their analogs through the vaginal epithelium to immune cells located in lower cell layers. Outer layers of cells, which are eventually shed from the epithelium, may remove accumulated nucleoside drug analogs from the vaginal tract.

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Increased renal elimination of endogenous and synthetic pyrimidine nucleosides in concentrative nucleoside transporter 1 deficient mice.

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Increased renal elimination of endogenous and synthetic pyrimidine nucleosides in concentrative nucleoside transporter 1 deficient mice.

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