Nucleobase and nucleoside analogues: resistance and re-sensitisation at the level of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and metabolism

N Tsesmetzis, CBJ Paulin, SG Rudd, N Herold - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Antimetabolites, in particular nucleobase and nucleoside analogues, are cytotoxic drugs
that, starting from the small field of paediatric oncology, in combination with other …

Pharmacogenetics of thiopurines for inflammatory bowel disease in East Asia: prospects for clinical application of NUDT15 genotyping

Y Kakuta, Y Kinouchi, T Shimosegawa - Journal of Gastroenterology, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The thiopurine drugs 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and azathiopurine (AZA) are widely
used to treat inflammatory bowel disease. However, the incidence of adverse reactions is …

Understanding the origins of loss of protein function by analyzing the effects of thousands of variants on activity and abundance

M Cagiada, KE Johansson, A Valanciute… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Understanding and predicting how amino acid substitutions affect proteins are keys to our
basic understanding of protein function and evolution. Amino acid changes may affect …

A comprehensive structural, biochemical and biological profiling of the human NUDIX hydrolase family

J Carreras-Puigvert, M Zitnik, AS Jemth… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The NUDIX enzymes are involved in cellular metabolism and homeostasis, as well as
mRNA processing. Although highly conserved throughout all organisms, their biological …

Massively parallel variant characterization identifies NUDT15 alleles associated with thiopurine toxicity

CC Suiter, T Moriyama, KA Matreyek… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
As a prototype of genomics-guided precision medicine, individualized thiopurine dosing
based on pharmacogenetics is a highly effective way to mitigate hematopoietic toxicity of this …

NUDT15 codon 139 is the best pharmacogenetic marker for predicting thiopurine-induced severe adverse events in Japanese patients with inflammatory bowel …

Y Kakuta, Y Kawai, D Okamoto, T Takagawa… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Despite NUDT15 variants showing significant association with thiopurine-
induced adverse events (AEs) in Asians, it remains unclear which variants of NUDT15 or …

Novel variants in NUDT15 and thiopurine intolerance in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia from diverse ancestry

T Moriyama, YL Yang, R Nishii, H Ariffin… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Prolonged exposure to thiopurines (eg, mercaptopurine [MP]) is essential for curative
therapy in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but is also associated with frequent dose …

Mechanisms of telomerase inhibition by oxidized and therapeutic dNTPs

SL Sanford, GA Welfer, BD Freudenthal… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Telomerase is a specialized reverse transcriptase that adds GGTTAG repeats to
chromosome ends and is upregulated in most human cancers to enable limitless …

Targeted NUDT5 inhibitors block hormone signaling in breast cancer cells

BDG Page, NCK Valerie, RHG Wright, O Wallner… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
With a diverse network of substrates, NUDIX hydrolases have emerged as a key family of
nucleotide-metabolizing enzymes. NUDT5 (also called NUDIX5) has been implicated in …

Optimal predictor for 6-mercaptopurine intolerance in Chinese children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: NUDT15, TPMT, or ITPA genetic variants?

H Zhou, L Li, P Yang, L Yang, JE Zheng, Y Zhou, Y Han - BMC cancer, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) contributes substantially to remarkable
improvement in the survival of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients …