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ArticleProtein engineering, design & selection : PEDS2016

Creation of zebularine-resistant human cytidine deaminase mutants to enhance the chemoprotection of hematopoietic stem cells.

Hongmei Ruan, Songbo Qiu, Brian C Beard, Margaret E Black

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Article in Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cytidine and dCMP Deaminases-Current Methods of Activity Analysis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hongmei RuanSchool of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, PO Box 647520, Pullman, WA 99164-7520, USA.
Songbo QiuSchool of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, PO Box 647520, Pullman, WA 99164-7520, USA.
Brian C BeardFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Margaret E BlackSchool of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, PO Box 647520, Pullman, WA 99164-7520, USA blackm@vetmed.wsu.edu.
Washington State University · USFred Hutch Cancer Center · US

Funding

Engineering enzymes for anti-tumor suicide gene therapyR01CA097328 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI STODDARD, BARRY L. · 2003 to 2010
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA097328
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human cytidine deaminase (hCDA) is a biomedically important enzyme able to inactivate cytidine nucleoside analogs such as the antileukemic agent cytosine arabinoside (AraC) and thereby limit antineoplastic efficacy. Potent inhibitors of hCDA have been developed, e.g. zebularine, that when administered in combination with AraC enhance antineoplastic activity. Tandem hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation and combination chemotherapy (zebularine and AraC) could exhibit robust antineoplastic potency, but AraC-based chemotherapy regimens lead to pronounced myelosuppression due to relatively low hCDA activity in HSCs, and this approach could exacerbate this effect. To circumvent the pronounced myelosuppression of zebularine and AraC combination therapy while maintaining antineoplastic potency, zebularine-resistant hCDA variants could be used to gene-modify HSCs prior to transplantation. To achieve this, our approach was to isolate hCDA variants through random mutagenesis in conjunction with selection for hCDA activity and resistance to zebularine in an Escherichia coli genetic complementation system. Here, we report the identification of nine novel variants from a pool of 1.6 × 10

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Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationMutationProtein EngineeringAmino Acid SequenceCytarabineCytidineCytidine DeaminaseDrug ResistanceEscherichia coliHumansMutagenesisCytarabineCytidineCytidine Deaminasepyrimidin-2-one beta-ribofuranosidecytidine deaminasecytosine arabinosidehematopoietic stem cellsrandom mutagenesiszebularine

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PMID27160178
PMCPMC5181380
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