Cytosolic 5′-nucleotidase III (NT5C3): Gene sequence variation and functional genomics

Pinar Aksoy, Min Jia Zhu, Krishna R. Kalari, Irene Moon, Linda L. Pelleymounter, Bruce W. Eckloff, Eric D. Wieben, Vivien C. Yee, Richard M. Weinshilboum, Liewei Wang

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: 5′-Nucleotidases play a critical role in nucleotide pool balance and in the metabolism of nucleoside analogs such as gemcitabine and cytosine arabinoside (AraC). We previously performed an expression array association study with gemcitabine and AraC cytotoxicity using 197 human lymphoblastoid cell lines. One gene that was significantly associated with gemcitabine cytotoxicity was a nucleotidase family member, NT5C3. Very little is known with regard to the pharmacogenomics of this family of enzymes. METHODS: We set out to identify common genetic variation in NT5C3 by resequencing the gene and to determine the effect of that variation on NT5C3 protein function and potential effect on response to cytidine analogs. We identified 61 NT5C3 polymorphisms, 48 of which were novel, by resequencing 240 ethnically defined DNA samples. Functional studies were performed with one nonsynonymous (G847C, Asp283His) and four synonymous cSNPs (T9C, C276T, T306C, and G759A),as well as three combined variants (T276/His283, T276/C306, T276/C9). RESULTS: The His283 and T276/His283 constructs showed decreased levels of enzyme activity and protein. Substrate kinetic analysis showed no significant differences in Km values between wild type and His283 when cytidine monophosphate, AraCMP, and GemMP were used as substrates. An association study between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and NT5C3 expression in the 240 cell lines from which DNA was extracted to resequence NT5C3 identified four SNPs that were significantly associated with NT5C3 expression. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that two of those SNPs, I4(-114) and I6(9), altered DNA-protein binding patterns. These findings suggest that genetic variation in NT5C3 might affect protein function and potentially influence drug response.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)567-576
Number of pages10
JournalPharmacogenetics and genomics
Volume19
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2009

Keywords

  • Cytosine arabinoside
  • Cytosolic 50-nucleotidase III
  • Functional genomics
  • Gemcitabine
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Single nucleotide polymorphisms

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics(clinical)
  • General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Medicine
  • Molecular Biology

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