Validation of FLT uptake as a measure of thymidine kinase-1 activity in A549 carcinoma cells

JS Rasey, JR Grierson, LW Wiens… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2002 - Soc Nuclear Med
… We studied A549 lung carcinoma cells because they become markedly growth arrested (only
3%–5% of cells in DNA synthesis) when they reach a high density in culture with no …

… -regulated kinase 1/2-dependent thymidylate synthase and thymidine phosphorylase contributes to cisplatin resistance in human non–small-cell lung cancer cells

JC Ko, MS Tsai, YF Chiu, SH Weng, YH Kuo… - Journal of Pharmacology …, 2011 - ASPET
… Using A549 and H1975 human lung cancer cell lines, we found that increased TS and TP
expression was correlated with drug resistance to cisplatin. In addition, combined treatment …

A simple quantitative assay for the activity of thymidine kinase 1 in solid tumors

JS Brockenbrough, JS Rasey, JR Grierson… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2007 - Elsevier
… growing A549 human lung carcinoma cells was used as a … exponentially growing A549 human
lung carcinoma cells (mean=… in both groups, with A549 cell extracts exhibiting evidence of …

Effect of p53 activation on cell growth, thymidine kinase-1 activity, and 3′-deoxy-3′ fluorothymidine uptake

JL Schwartz, Y Tamura, R Jordan, JR Grierson… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2004 - Elsevier
… Percentage of cell in G1, S, and G2/M in A549-LXSN and A549-E6 cells as a function of time
after exposure to 0 (open circles), 2 (open triangles), and 10 Gy (filled circles) gamma rays. …

Gene therapy for carcinoembryonic antigen-producing human lung cancer cells by cell type-specific expression of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene

T Osaki, Y Tanio, I Tachibana, S Hosoe, T Kumagai… - Cancer research, 1994 - AACR
… , a clone of A549 cells given the anti-sense TKgene, nor A549 parentalcell … A549/TK-S34
cells, and there was no significant difference in the growth rate between A549 tumor and tumors

Monitoring tumor cell proliferation by targeting DNA synthetic processes with thymidine and thymidine analogs

JL Schwartz, Y Tamura, R Jordan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2003 - Soc Nuclear Med
… in tumor cells. The processing of TdR into DNA has multiple steps. The initial step in TdR
metabolism is phosphorylation by thymidine kinase-… 3 were human tumor cell lines (A549, WiDr, …

Thymidine phosphorylase influences [18F]fluorothymidine uptake in cancer cells and patients with non-small cell lung cancer

SJ Lee, JS Yeo, HJ Lee, EJ Lee, SY Kim… - European journal of …, 2014 - Springer
… by nucleoside transporters, and then phosphorylated by thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) into [ 18
F]… cellular thymidine levels in A431, A549, and HT29 cells. The inhibitor significantly increased …

Selective killing of lung cancer cells using carcinoembryonic antigen promoter and double suicide genes, thymidine kinase and cytosine deaminase (pCEA-TK/CD)

Y Qiu, GL Peng, QC Liu, FL Li, XS Zou, JX He - Cancer letters, 2012 - Elsevier
… 5-FC stagnates cancer cells in the G 1 phase whereas GCV arrests cells in the S phase,
as shown by our observation on cyclomorphosis in A549/TK+CD and SPC-A-1/TK+CD cells. …

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
… that thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) is significantly overexpressed in tumor samples from lung
adenocarcinoma (… We found that TK1 knockdown in A549 cells results in significantly reduced …

A chimeric poxvirus with J2R (thymidine kinase) deletion shows safety and anti-tumor activity in lung cancer models

S Chaurasiya, NG Chen, J Lu, N Martin, Y Shen… - Cancer gene …, 2020 - nature.com
thymidine kinase) gene replaced with a GFP expression cassette (CF33-GFP) in lung cancer
from the fact that we used 5 × 10 6 A549 cells but only 5 × 10 4 LLC1 cells to generate each …