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ReviewCurrent drug metabolism2008

Structure/function evaluations of single nucleotide polymorphisms in human N-acetyltransferase 2.

Jason M Walraven, Yu Zang, John O Trent, David W Hein

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Review in Current drug metabolism, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Human N-acetyltransferase 2 (Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason M WalravenDepartment of Pharmacology & Toxicology, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA.
Yu Zang
John O Trent
David W Hein
University of Louisville Hospital · US

Funding

UOFL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAMT32ES011564 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI David W Hein, John Pierce Wise · 2004 to 2026
$7.1M
Strategic Vision & Impact on Environmental HealthP30ES014443 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI PROUGH, RUSSELL ALLEN · 2007 to 2010
$4.4M
PHARMACOGENETICS OF DRUG &CARCINOGEN METABOLISMR01CA034627 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA · PI HEIN, DAVID W · 1985 to 2009
$3.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA034627NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES014443NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES011564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) modifies drug efficacy/toxicity and cancer risk due to its role in bioactivation and detoxification of arylamine and hydrazine drugs and carcinogens. Human NAT2 alleles possess a combination of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with slow acetylation phenotypes. Clinical and molecular epidemiology studies investigating associations of NAT2 genotype with drug efficacy/toxicity and/or cancer risk are compromised by incomplete and sometimes conflicting information regarding genotype/phenotype relationships. Studies in our laboratory and others have characterized the functional effects of SNPs alone, and in combinations present in alleles or haplotypes. We extrapolate this data generated following recombinant expression in yeast and COS-1 cells to assist in the interpretation of NAT2 structure. Whereas previous structural studies used homology models based on templates of N-acetyltransferase enzyme crystal structures from various prokaryotic species, alignment scores between bacterial and mammalian N-acetyltransferase protein sequences are low (approximately 30%) with important differences between the bacterial and mammalian protein structures. Recently, the crystal structure of human NAT2 was released from the Protein Data Bank under accession number 2PFR. We utilized the NAT2 crystal structure to evaluate the functional effects of SNPs resulting in the protein substitutions R64Q (G191A), R64W (C190T), I114T (T341C), D122N (G364A), L137F (A411T), Q145P (A434C), E167K (G499A), R197Q (C590A), K268R (A803G), K282T (A845C), and G286E (G857A) of NAT2. This analysis advances understanding of NAT2 structure-function relationships, important for interpreting the role of NAT2 genetic polymorphisms in bioactivation and detoxification of arylamine and hydrazine drugs and carcinogens.

Indexed as

AllelesAnimalsArylamine N-AcetyltransferaseHumansIsoenzymesPhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideStructure-Activity RelationshipArylamine N-AcetyltransferaseIsoenzymesNAT2 protein, human

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PMID18680467
PMCPMC2507886
OpenAlexW2052510996

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