Thymidine kinase 1 as a tumor biomarker: technical advances offer new potential to an old biomarker

KK Jagarlamudi, M Shaw - Biomarkers in medicine, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… [ 18 F] thymidine derivatives uptake can be used to study cell proliferation in both in vitro
culture [Citation12,Citation58] and xenografts [Citation59] making it a translatable biomarker. …

The expression and activity of thymidine kinase 1 and deoxycytidine kinase are modulated by hydrogen peroxide and nucleoside analogs

R Sun, S Eriksson, L Wang - Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… used as oral anti-cancer drugs in combination with thymidine phosphorylase inhibitor in the
treatment of refractory colorectal cancer. [ Citation 26 ] Upon uptake into the cells TFT can be …

Dual addressing of thymidine synthesis pathways for effective targeting of proliferating melanoma

T Miran, ATJ Vogg, L El Moussaoui, HJ Kaiser… - Cancer …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… enzymes thymidylate synthase (TS) and thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) was evaluated in …
Pretreatment with FdUrd strongly increased the cellular uptake and the DNA incorporation …

The relationship between endogenous thymidine concentrations and [18F]FLT uptake in a range of preclinical tumour models

K Heinzmann, DJ Honess, DY Lewis, DM Smith… - EJNMMI research, 2016 - Springer
cell proliferation. [ 18 F]FLT is phosphorylated, and consequently trapped in cells, by thymidine
kinase … maximum in the late G1 and S phases of the cell cycle [2]. However, although [ 18 …

Loss of thymidine kinase 1 inhibits lung cancer growth and metastatic attributes by reducing GDF15 expression

P Malvi, R Janostiak, A Nagarajan, G Cai… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… Metabolic alterations that are critical for cancer cell growth and metastasis are one of the
key hallmarks of cancer. Here, we show that thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) is significantly …

Correlation of 4′-[methyl-11C]-thiothymidine uptake with human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1 and thymidine kinase-1 expressions in patients with newly …

Y Takami, Y Yamamoto, M Ueno, Y Chiba… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2018 - Springer
… In the present study including 19 patients with newly diagnosed gliomas, all but two showed
focally increased 4DST uptake. Efficient cellular uptake requires the presence of specialized …

3′-Deoxy-3′-[18F]Fluorothymidine Uptake Is Related to Thymidine Phosphorylase Expression in Various Experimental Tumor Models

S Schelhaas, K Heinzmann, DJ Honess… - Molecular Imaging and …, 2018 - Springer
… ), where it is phosphorylated by thymidine kinase 1 (TK1). As an alternative … thymidine is
degraded. Consequently, lower amounts of thymidine compete with [ 18 F]FLT for cellular uptake

Thymidine kinase 1 drives hepatocellular carcinoma in enzyme-dependent and-independent manners

Q Li, L Zhang, Q Yang, M Li, X Pan, J Xu, C Zhong… - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
… Using a large-scale transcriptomic database and survival correlation screening, we identify
thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) as a key driver. The progression of HCC is robustly mitigated by …

Bioavailability and cytosolic kinases modulate response to deoxynucleoside therapy in TK2 deficiency

C Lopez-Gomez, H Hewan, C Sierra, HO Akman… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
… TK2 is a nuclear gene encoding the mitochondrial matrix protein thymidine kinase 2 (TK2),
a critical enzyme in the mitochondrial nucleotide salvage pathway. Deficiency of TK2 activity …

Giardia intestinalis thymidine kinase is a high-affinity enzyme crucial for DNA synthesis and an exploitable target for drug discovery

S Krakovka, F Ranjbarian, LA Luján, A Saura… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
… of thymidine kinases from the TK1 family. A, alignment overview of TK1 family members
including thymidine kinases … performed with three of the thymidine kinases. The G. intestinalis …