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Sabine Kirner Philip E. Hammer D. Steven Hill Annett Altmann Ilona Fischer Laura J. Weislo Mike Lanahan Karl-Heinz van Pée James M. Ligon 《Journal of bacteriology》1998,180(7):1939-1943
Pyrrolnitrin is a secondary metabolite derived from tryptophan and has strong antifungal activity. Recently we described four genes, prnABCD, from Pseudomonas fluorescens that encode the biosynthesis of pyrrolnitrin. In the work presented here, we describe the function of each prn gene product. The four genes encode proteins identical in size and serology to proteins present in wild-type Pseudomonas fluorescens, but absent from a mutant from which the entire prn gene region had been deleted. The prnA gene product catalyzes the chlorination of l-tryptophan to form 7-chloro-l-tryptophan. The prnB gene product catalyzes a ring rearrangement and decarboxylation to convert 7-chloro-l-tryptophan to monodechloroaminopyrrolnitrin. The prnC gene product chlorinates monodechloroaminopyrrolnitrin at the 3 position to form aminopyrrolnitrin. The prnD gene product catalyzes the oxidation of the amino group of aminopyrrolnitrin to a nitro group to form pyrrolnitrin. The organization of the prn genes in the operon is identical to the order of the reactions in the biosynthetic pathway.The antibiotic pyrrolnitrin [3-chloro-4-(2′-nitro-3′-chlorophenyl)pyrrole] (PRN) is produced by many pseudomonads and has broad-spectrum antifungal activity (1, 5, 12–14, 17). PRN has been implicated as an important mechanism of biological control of fungal plant pathogens by several Pseudomonas strains (12–14), including P. fluorescens BL915, from which the prn genes were isolated (10).Tryptophan was identified as the precursor for PRN, based on the feeding of cultures with isotopically labeled and substituted tryptophan (2, 7, 8, 17, 25). Biosynthetic pathways were proposed as early as 1967 (7) and have been refined on the basis of tracer studies and the isolation of intermediates (Fig. (Fig.1)1) (2, 8, 17, 19, 23, 25). Recently, Hammer et al. (9) described the cloning and characterization of a 5.8-kb DNA region which encodes the PRN biosynthetic pathway. This DNA region confers the ability to produce PRN when expressed heterologously in Escherichia coli and contains four genes, prnABCD, each of which is required for PRN production. In the research described here, we used mutants in which each of the four genes was disrupted and strains which overexpress the individual genes to elucidate the function of each gene product in PRN biosynthesis. Open in a separate windowFIG. 1Biosynthetic pathways for PRN as proposed by van Pée et al. (23) (A) and by Chang et al. (2) (B). The reactions catalyzed by the PRN biosynthetic enzymes encoded by the prnABCD genes are indicated above the appropriate reaction arrows.
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Open in a separate windowa+, PRN detected; −, PRN not detected. Hohaus et al. (11) presented additional evidence of the chlorinating activity of the prnA gene product, specifically, the chlorination of l-tryptophan to form 7-CLT by cell extracts from P. fluorescens strains which expressed the prnA gene, but which did not contain any of the other prn genes. To clarify which isomer was produced, Hohaus et al. (11) extracted 7-CLT from the bacteria and oxidized it to the corresponding indole-3-pyruvic acid with amino acid oxidases. Since the isolated 7-CLT was degraded by l-amino acid oxidase, but not by d-amino acid oxidase (11), it must be in the l configuration. The deduced amino acid sequence for prnA contains a consensus NAD binding site (9), and, indeed, NADH is a required cofactor for the prnA gene product.Cultures of BL915ΔORF2 produced 7-CLT, but 7-chloro-d-tryptophan (11) and other PRN biosynthetic intermediates were not detected (Fig. (Fig.3).3). BL915ΔORF2 produced PRN when supplied with exogenous MDA or APRN, but not when supplied with 7-CT (Table (Table2).2). When prnB was expressed in strain BL915ΔORF1–4, exogenously supplied 7-CT was converted to MDA (Fig. (Fig.4).4). These results indicate that the prnB gene product catalyzes the rearrangement of the indole ring to a phenylpyrrole and the decarboxylation of 7-CLT to convert 7-CLT to MDA. While it is somewhat surprising that a single enzyme carries out both the ring rearrangement and decarboxylation, Chang et al. (2) postulated a mechanism for such a reaction on a single enzyme some 16 years ago. The prnB gene product also catalyzed the production of APP (Fig. (Fig.4),4), presumably by using tryptophan as a substrate. Open in a separate windowFIG. 4In vivo conversion of PRN biosynthetic intermediates by the products of single prn genes. Individual genes were expressed on plasmids in the host strain BL915ΔORF1–4, and biosynthetic intermediates were added to the culture medium as indicated. Culture extracts were separated by TLC on silica plates with toluene as the mobile phase. Metabolites were visualized with van Urk’s reagent. Arrows indicate the positions of APP (dark green), MDA (olive green), APRN (reddish brown), and PRN (purple).MDA accumulated in cultures of BL915ΔORF3, but APP, APRN, and PRN were not detected (Fig. (Fig.3).3). BL915ΔORF3 was able to produce PRN when supplied with APRN in the culture medium, but not when supplied with 7-CT or MDA (Table (Table2).2). Strain BL915ΔORF1–4 expressing prnC converted exogenously supplied MDA to APRN (Fig. (Fig.4).4). These data indicate that the prnC gene product catalyzes the chlorination of MDA to form APRN. Cell extracts of the P. fluorescens strain which overexpresses the prnC gene (but does not contain the other prn genes) can also catalyze the chlorination of MDA to form APRN (11).The prnC gene is homologous to the chl gene from Streptomyces aureofaciens, which encodes a chlorinating enzyme for tetracycline biosynthesis (3, 9). Like prnA, the prnC deduced amino acid sequence contains a consensus NAD binding region (9), and NADH is required for the chlorination of MDA (11). While both prnA and prnC encode halogenating enzymes, they show no homology to previously cloned haloperoxidases (9) or to each other. Furthermore, in contrast to haloperoxidases (16), the two NADH-dependent halogenating enzymes in the PRN biosynthesis pathway are substrate specific (i.e., the tryptophan halogenase does not catalyze the chlorination of MDA and vice versa) (11).APRN accumulated in cultures of BL915ΔORF4 (Fig. (Fig.3),3), and this mutant was not able to produce PRN when supplied with any of the known PRN biosynthetic intermediates. Strain BL915ΔORF1–4 expressing prnD converted exogenously supplied APRN to PRN (Fig. (Fig.4).4). These results indicate that the prnD gene product catalyzes the oxidation of the amino group of APRN to a nitro group forming PRN. In vitro experiments by Kirner and van Pée (15) had suggested that this reaction is catalyzed by a chloroperoxidase; however, gene disruption experiments demonstrated that chloroperoxidases are not involved in PRN biosynthesis in vivo (16). Instead, this oxidation is more likely to be catalyzed by a class IA oxygenase (20), as suggested by the homology of prnD with these enzymes (9).We have shown that each prn gene encodes a protein found in the wild-type BL915 strain and have demonstrated in vivo that these four gene products carry out four biochemical steps which convert l-tryptophan to PRN. None of the conversions were observed in strain BL915ΔORF1–4, from which the entire 5.8-kb prn gene region has been deleted (Fig. (Fig.4).4). The arrangement of the genes in the operon is identical to the sequence of reactions in the biosynthetic pathway proposed by van Pée et al. (23) (Fig. (Fig.11).Chang et al. (2) proposed an alternate biosynthetic scheme (Fig. (Fig.1B)1B) and reported the conversion of exogenously supplied APP to PRN in vivo. Similarly, Zhou et al. (25) reported the conversion of APP to APRN in a cell-free system. These workers concluded that APP is an intermediate in PRN biosynthesis and that ring rearrangement precedes chlorination (Fig. (Fig.1B).1B). In the present study, APP accumulated only in strains which overexpressed the prnB gene. Furthermore, APP was not detected in cultures of BL915ΔORF1, which contains functional prnBCD genes expressed from the native promoter, as would be expected if the ring rearrangement (catalyzed by the prnB gene product) occurs before the first chlorination step (catalyzed by the prnA gene product). Like Hamill et al. (8) and van Pée et al. (23), we demonstrated that exogenously supplied 7-CT is converted to PRN. These results, together with the finding that the gene product of prnA catalyzes the NADH-dependent chlorination of l-tryptophan to 7-CLT (11), support the biosynthetic pathway proposed by van Pée et al. (23) (Fig. (Fig.1A)1A) and suggest that APP is a side product or dead-end metabolite. Purification and kinetic characterization of the prnA and prnB gene products, including investigations of substrate specificity and regioselectivity, will further clarify the roles of 7-CLT and APP in the PRN biosynthetic pathway.If APP is indeed a dead-end metabolite, it would be advantageous to tightly regulate the amount of prnB gene product present in cells, thus minimizing the diversion of substrate into APP. The prnB gene begins with GTG (9), which is a two- to threefold-less-efficient initiation codon than ATG (18); however, the prnB open reading frame is apparently translationally coupled to the prnA open reading frame (9). Coupling increases translational efficiency and is thought to be a mechanism to ensure coordinate expression of the coupled genes (18). In PRN biosynthesis, translational coupling of prnA and prnB may be a mechanism to regulate the level of prnB gene product present in cells and minimize the diversion of tryptophan to APP. 相似文献
Bacterial strains and plasmids.
The bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study are described in Table Table1.1. Pseudomonas strains were cultured in Luria-Bertani medium at 28°C. Antibiotics, when used, were added at the following concentrations: tetracycline, 30 μg/ml; and kanamycin, 50 μg/ml. The expression vector pPEH14 consists of the Ptac promoter and rrnB ribosomal terminator from pKK223-3 (Pharmacia, Uppsala, Sweden) cloned into the BglII site of the broad-host-range plasmid pRK290 (4). Ptac is a strong constitutive promoter in Pseudomonas (unpublished data). The PRN biosynthetic genes are the coding regions described by Hammer et al. (9). Each coding region was cloned from the translation initiation codon to the stop codon by PCR with restriction sites added to the ends to facilitate cloning. For prnB, the native GTG initiation codon was changed to ATG. The clones were sequenced after PCR.TABLE 1
Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study| P. fluorescens strain or plasmid | Characteristics | Source or reference |
|---|---|---|
| Strains | ||
| BL915 | Wild type | 10 |
| BL915ΔORF1 | Deletion in prnA of BL915, Prn−, Kmr | 9 |
| BL915ΔORF2 | Deletion in prnB of BL915, Prn−, Kmr | 9 |
| BL915ΔORF3 | Deletion in prnC of BL915, Prn−, Kmr | 9 |
| BL915ΔORF4 | Deletion in prnD of BL915, Prn−, Kmr | 9 |
| BL915ΔORF1–4 | Deletion in prnABCD of BL915, Prn−, Kmr | 9 |
| Plasmids | ||
| pPEH14(prnA) | pRK290 carrying Ptac functionally fused to the 1.6-kb prnA coding region | This study |
| pPEH14(prnB) | pRK290 carrying Ptac functionally fused to the 1.1-kb prnB coding region | This study |
| pPEH14(prnC) | pRK290 carrying Ptac functionally fused to the 1.7-kb prnC coding region | This study |
| pPEH14(prnD) | pRK290 carrying Ptac functionally fused to the 1.1-kb prnD coding region | This study |
Chemical standards.
7-Cl-d,l-tryptophan (7-CT) was synthesized as described by van Pée et al. (24). Monodechloroaminopyrrolnitrin (MDA) was extracted from cultures of P. aureofaciens and verified as described by van Pée et al. (23). Aminopyrrolnitrin (APRN) was prepared from PRN by reduction with sodium dithionite (22). PRN was synthesized according to the method of Gosteli (6).Western analysis.
To produce antigen, each prn gene was subcloned into a pET3 vector and transformed into E. coli BL21(De3) (Novagen, Inc., Madison, Wis.). Inclusion bodies were purified from induced cultures with protocols from Novagen. Inclusion body protein (100 μg) was run on a preparative Laemmli polyacrylamide electrophoresis gel, blotted to nitrocellulose filters, and stained with Ponceau S. The major band was excised, solubilized in dimethyl sulfoxide, and used by Duncroft, Inc. (Lovettsville, Va.), to immunize goats and produce antiserum against each PRN protein.Cultures of P. fluorescens BL915 were grown for 48 h in Luria-Bertani medium with the appropriate antibiotics. The cells were pelleted and resuspended in a small volume of Tris-EDTA. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western analysis were performed as described by Sambrook et al. (21). The primary antiserum (goat anti-PRN protein) was diluted 1/1,000, and the secondary antibody (rabbit anti-goat immunoglobulin G conjugated to peroxidase; Pierce, Rockford, Ill.) was diluted 1/3,000. Bands were visualized with an enhanced chemiluminescence kit (Amersham, Arlington Heights, Ill.). This Western analysis demonstrated that each antibody recognized a single protein band from wild-type BL915, and these bands were not present in BL915ΔORF1–4 (Fig. (Fig.2).2). The molecular weights of the recognized proteins were consistent with the sizes predicted from the gene sequences. Each prn gene was expressed on a plasmid in BL915ΔORF1–4. In each case, the protein product of the cloned gene reacted only with the expected antibody and was identical in size to the band detected by that antibody in wild-type BL915 (Fig. (Fig.2).2). Open in a separate windowFIG. 2Western blot analysis of the protein products of prn genes cloned from P. fluorescens BL915. Individual genes were expressed on plasmids in the host strain BL915ΔORF1–4. BL915 wild-type and BL915ΔORF1–4 controls are included on each blot. Blots A, B, C, and D were probed with antibodies raised against the products of prnA, prnB, prnC, and prnD, respectively. Arrows indicate the positions of the 60- and 42-kDa molecular mass markers.Intermediate analysis and feeding experiments.
To determine which biosynthetic intermediates were produced by the prn gene deletion mutants, 2-day-old cultures were extracted with an equal volume of ethyl acetate. The organic phase was dried under vacuum, and the residue was dissolved in a small volume of methanol. Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was performed on silica-coated plates with toluene or hexane-ethyl acetate (2:1) as the mobile phase. PRN, APRN, MDA, and aminophenylpyrrole (APP) were visualized with van Urk’s reagent as described previously (22).To further clarify which biosynthetic step was blocked in each deletion mutant, intermediate feeding experiments were conducted. Cultures (10 ml) were incubated at 28°C for 48 h. Biosynthetic intermediates were dissolved in a small volume of methanol and added to 4 ml of culture at the following final concentrations: 7-CT, 2.5 μg/ml; MDA, 25 μg/ml; APRN, 12.5 μg/ml. The cultures were incubated for an additional 4 h at 28°C and then extracted with ethyl acetate and analyzed by TLC and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry as described above.MDA, APRN, and PRN were not detected in cultures of BL915ΔORF1 (Fig. (Fig.3),3), indicating that this mutant is blocked at an early step in PRN biosynthesis. BL915ΔORF1 was able to produce PRN when 7-CT, MDA, or APRN was supplied exogenously (Table (Table2).2). When prnA was expressed in the absence of other prn genes (i.e., in BL915ΔORF1–4), 7-chloro-l-tryptophan (7-CLT) accumulated. The identity of 7-CLT was verified by comparison of results of high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectra with chemically synthesized 7-CT. These results indicate that the prnA gene product catalyzes the chlorination of l-tryptophan. Open in a separate windowFIG. 3Accumulation of PRN biosynthetic intermediates in P. fluorescens BL915 and prn gene deletion mutants derived from it. Extracts from 2-day-old cultures were separated by TLC on silica plates with hexane-ethyl acetate (2:1 [vol/vol]) as the mobile phase. Metabolites were visualized with van Urk’s reagent. Arrows indicate the positions of MDA (olive green), APRN (reddish brown), and PRN (purple).TABLE 2
Production of PRN by deletion mutants when supplied with biosynthetic intermediates in the growth medium| Strain | Result with intermediate added to culturesa
| ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 7-CT | MDA | APRN | |
| BL915ΔORF1 | + | + | + |
| BL915ΔORF2 | − | + | + |
| BL915ΔORF3 | − | − | + |
| BL915ΔORF4 | − | − | − |
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Pruitt JR Batt DG Wacker DA Bostrom LL Booker SK McLaughlin E Houghton GC Varnes JG Christ DD Covington M Das AM Davies P Graden D Kariv I Orlovsky Y Stowell NC Vaddi KG Wadman EA Welch PK Yeleswaram S Solomon KA Newton RC Decicco CP Carter PH Ko SS 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2007,17(11):2992-2997
DPC168, a benzylpiperidine-substituted aryl urea CCR3 antagonist evaluated in clinical trials, was a relatively potent inhibitor of the 2D6 isoform of cytochrome P-450 (CYP2D6). Replacement of the cyclohexyl central ring with saturated heterocycles provided potent CCR3 antagonists with improved selectivity against CYP2D6. The favorable preclinical profile of DPC168 was maintained in an acetylpiperidine derivative, BMS-570520. 相似文献
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Ilona Jurek Ilona Góral Zofia Mierzyńska Barbara Moniuszko-Szajwaj Kamil Wojciechowski 《生物化学与生物物理学报:生物膜》2019,1861(3):556-564
The effect of a saponin-rich extract from rhizomes of Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis L) and four synthetic surfactants: sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS), sodium laureth sulphate (SLES), ammonium lauryl sulphate (ALS) and cocamidopropyl betaine (CAPB) on two model lipid monolayers is analyzed using surface pressure, surface dilatational rheology and fluorescence microscopy. The following monolayers were employed: dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol mixture in a molar ratio of 7:3 (DPPC/CHOL) and Ceramide [AP]/stearic acid/cholesterol in a molar ratio of 14:14:10 (CER/SA/CHOL). They mimicked a general bilayer structure and an intercellular lipid mixture, respectively. Both lipid mixtures on Milli-Q water were first compressed to the initial surface pressure, Π0 = 30 mN/m and then the subphase was exchanged with the respective (bio)surfactant solution at 1% (w/w). All four synthetic surfactants behaved in a similar way: they increased surface pressure to about 40 mN/m and reduced the storage modulus of surface dilational surface rheology, E′, to the values close to zero. The corresponding fluorescence microscopy pictures confirmed that the lipids mimicking the stratum corneum components were almost completely removed by the synthetic surfactants under the present experimental conditions. The components of the Soapwort extract (SAP) increased surface pressure to significantly higher values than the synthetic surfactants, but even more spectacular increase was observed for the storage modulus of the SAP-penetrated lipid monolayers (up to E′= 715 mN/m). 相似文献
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Magdalena Remisiewicz Zephné Bernitz Herman Bernitz Marc S. Burman Jacobus M.H. Raijmakers Johannes H.F.A. Raijmakers Les G. Underhill Anna Rostkowska Yahkat Barshep Sergej A. Soloviev Ilona Siwek 《Ibis》2019,161(4):824-838
Trade‐offs between moult and fuelling in migrant birds vary with migration distance and the environmental conditions they encounter. We compared wing moult and fuelling at the northern and southern ends of migration in two populations of adult Common Whitethroats Sylvia communis. The western population moults most remiges at the breeding grounds in Europe (e.g. Poland) and migrates 4000–5000 km to western Africa (e.g. Nigeria). The eastern population moults all remiges at the non‐breeding grounds and migrates 7000–10 000 km from western Asia (e.g. southwestern Siberia) to eastern and southern Africa. We tested the hypotheses that: (1) Whitethroats moult their wing feathers slowly in South Africa, where they face fewer time constraints than in Poland, and (2) fuelling is slower when it coincides with moulting (Poland, South Africa) than when it occurs alone (Siberia, Nigeria). We estimated moult timing of primaries, secondaries and tertials from moult records of Polish and South African Whitethroats ringed in 1987–2017 and determined fuelling patterns from the body mass of Whitethroats ringed in all four regions. The western population moulted wing feathers in Poland over 55 days (2 July–26 August) at a varying rate, up to 13 feathers simultaneously, but fuelled slowly until departure in August–mid‐September. In Nigeria, during the drier period of mid‐February–March they fuelled slowly, but the fuelling rate increased three‐fold in April–May after the rains before mid‐April–May departure. The eastern population did not moult in Siberia but fuelled three times faster before mid‐July–early August departure than did the western birds moulting in Poland. In South Africa, the Whitethroats moulted over 57 days (2 January–28 February) at a constant rate of up to nine feathers simultaneously and fuelled slowly from mid‐December until mid‐April–May departure. These results suggest the two populations use contrasting strategies to capitalize on food supplies before departure from breeding and non‐breeding grounds. 相似文献
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Corrado Marcenò Riccardo Guarino Javier Loidi Mercedes Herrera Maike Isermann Ilona Knollová Lubomír Tichý Rossen T. Tzonev Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta Úna FitzPatrick Dmytro Iakushenko John A. M. Janssen Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro Zygmunt Kącki Iva Keizer‐Sedláková Vitaliy Kolomiychuk John S. Rodwell Joop H. J. Schaminée Urban Šilc Milan Chytrý 《应用植被学》2018,21(3):533-559
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Hakala M Tuominen I Keränen M Tyystjärvi T Tyystjärvi E 《Biochimica et biophysica acta》2005,1706(1-2):68-80
Photoinhibition of PSII occurs at the same quantum efficiency from very low to very high light, which raises a question about how important is the rate of photosynthetic electron transfer in photoinhibition. We modulated electron transfer rate and light intensity independently of each other in lincomycin-treated pea leaves and in isolated thylakoids, in order to elucidate the specific effects of light and PSII electron transport on photoinhibition. Major changes in the rate of electron transport caused only small changes in the rate of photoinhibition, suggesting the existence of a significant photoinhibitory pathway that contains an electron-transfer-independent phase. We compared the action spectrum of photoinhibition with absorption spectra of PSII components that could function as photoreceptors of the electron-transfer-independent phase of photoinhibition and found that the absorption spectra of Mn(III) and Mn(IV) compounds resemble the action spectrum of photoinhibition, showing a steep decrease from UV-C to blue light and a low visible-light tail. Our results show that the release of a Mn ion to the thylakoid lumen is the earliest detectable step of both UV- and visible-light-induced photoinhibition. After Mn release from the oxygen-evolving complex, oxidative damage to the PSII reaction center occurs because the Mn-depleted oxygen-evolving complex cannot reduce P680+ normally. 相似文献
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Ilona Schonn Jana Hennesen Dorothee C. Dartsch 《Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death》2010,15(2):162-172
The topoisomerase IIα inhibitor etoposide is a ‘broad spectrum’ anticancer agent and a potent inducer of DNA double strand breaks. DNA damage response of mammalian cells usually involves cell cycle arrest and DNA repair or, if unsuccessful, cell death. We investigated these processes in the human colon cancer cell line HT-29 treated with three different etoposide regimens mimicking clinically relevant plasma concentrations of cancer patients. Each involved a period of drug-free incubation following etoposide exposure to imitate the decline of plasma levels between the cycles of chemotherapy. We found a massive induction of double strand breaks that were rapidly and nearly completely fixed long before the majority of cells underwent apoptosis or necrosis. An even greater percentage of cells lost clonogenicity. The occurrence of double strand breaks was accompanied by a decrease in the levels of Ku70, Ku86 and DNA-PKcs as well as an increase in the level of Rad51 protein. Twenty-four hours after the first contact with etoposide we found a pronounced G2/M arrest, regardless of the duration of drug exposure, the level of double strand breaks and the extent of their repair. During the subsequent drug-free incubation period, the loss of clonogenicity correlated well with the preceding G2/M arrest as well as with the amount of cell death found several days after exposure. However, it correlated neither with early apoptosis or necrosis nor with any of the other investigated parameters. These results suggest that the G2/M arrest is an important determinant in the cytostatic action of etoposide and that the removal of DNA double strand breaks is not sufficient to ensure cell survival. 相似文献