The turnover of deoxyuridine triphosphate during the HeLa cell cycle |
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Authors: | Suneeta Mahagaokar Antonio Orengo Potu N Rao |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Developmental Therapeutics The University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA;2. Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA |
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Abstract: | The synthesis and breakdown of deoxyuridine triphosphate (dUTP) was studied to determine whether a dUTP pool is present at any stage of the HeLa cell cycle. Although cell extracts were found to be capable of phosphorylating dUMP to dUTP, only minimal quantities of intracellular dUMP, dUDP or dUTP could be detected. When thymidylate synthetase was blocked with FUdR the dUMP pool increased but no substantial increase in dUDP or dUTP was seen. A powerful and specific dUTP nucleotidohydrolase (dUTPase, EC3.6.1.23) which hydrolyses dUTP to dUMP and PPi was detected. The activity of this enzyme as well as that of the dUTP synthesizing enzymes was low in G1, rose through S and G2 and reached a maximum just prior to cell division. Pulsing experiments with 5-3H]UdR and 14C]TdR suggest that the size of the dUTP pool is 1% of the dTTP pool. |
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