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Bull Cancer ; 98(2): 176-81, 2011 Feb.
Article in French | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21382797

ABSTRACT

The aim of our work was to assess the potential clinical impact of therapeutic education in patients treated with anticancer drugs. One hundred-one ambulatory adult patients (mean age: 60 years, range: 24-88) treated by anticancer chemotherapy were included. The occurrence of adverse events was reported by 83% of the patients. Twenty-one percent (14/67) of the patients were not compliant with their supportive care treatment, 60% (60/101) took over-the-counter medications (one contraindication identified) and 14% (14/101) claimed they had received no counsel on risk behaviour (UV exposure, lack of contraception, driving) from health care professionals. Overall, 11% (44/397) of adverse events were associated with a lack of information. Twelve percent (4/33) of the calls to the doctor, 6% (1/17) of the visits to the physician and 21% (3/14) of the hospitalizations could be associated with a lack of therapeutic education. These data enlighten the importance of therapeutic education of cancer patients treated by chemotherapy.


Subject(s)
Antineoplastic Agents/adverse effects , Neoplasms/drug therapy , Patient Compliance , Patient Education as Topic , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use , Contraindications , Female , Health Surveys , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Prospective Studies , Risk-Taking , Self Medication , Young Adult
2.
Anticancer Res ; 30(3): 963-5, 2010 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20393020

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Delayed elimination of methotrexate associated with serious side-effects has been attributed to the co-administration of benzimidazole proton pump inhibitors. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We have retrospectively analyzed the causes of delayed methotrexate elimination in patients who had received the rescue agent glucarpidase to evaluate the potential implication of benzimidazoles. RESULTS: Between 2002 and 2008, six patients (mean age: 30 years; range: 4-74 years) were treated with glucarpidase. Delayed elimination associated with impaired renal function occured after the first cycle except in 2 patients (2nd and 8th administration of high-dose methotrexate). The possible causes of delayed elimination identified were: insufficient hydration (n=1) and drug-drug interactions (n=5). The potential drug-drug interactions included the co-administration of piperacillin/tazobactam (n=1) and proton pump inhibitors (omeprazole, n=3; esomeprazole, n=2). Impaired elimination of methotrexate was not observed either in the 3 patients who were treated further or during the previous cycles of the 2 pretreated patients in relation to the absence of co-prescription of proton pump inhibitors. CONCLUSION: In line with the recent literature and given the prohibitive cost of glucarpidase, we have advocated the cessation of proton pump inhibitors administration during methotrexate treatment.


Subject(s)
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/pharmacokinetics , Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/poisoning , Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/pharmacokinetics , Benzimidazoles/pharmacology , Methotrexate/pharmacokinetics , Methotrexate/poisoning , Proton Pump Inhibitors/pharmacology , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/administration & dosage , Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use , Benzimidazoles/administration & dosage , Bone Neoplasms/drug therapy , Bone Neoplasms/metabolism , Child , Child, Preschool , Drug Interactions , Humans , Lymphoma/drug therapy , Lymphoma/metabolism , Methotrexate/administration & dosage , Middle Aged , Neuroblastoma/drug therapy , Neuroblastoma/metabolism , Osteosarcoma/drug therapy , Osteosarcoma/metabolism , Proton Pump Inhibitors/administration & dosage , Retrospective Studies , Young Adult , gamma-Glutamyl Hydrolase/therapeutic use
3.
Nat Struct Mol Biol ; 13(12): 1092-6, 2006 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17115051

ABSTRACT

Internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) facilitate an alternative, end-independent pathway of translation initiation. A particular family of dicistroviral IRESs can assemble elongation-competent 80S ribosomal complexes in the absence of canonical initiation factors and initiator transfer RNA. We present here a cryo-EM reconstruction of a dicistroviral IRES bound to the 80S ribosome. The resolution of the cryo-EM reconstruction, in the subnanometer range, allowed the molecular structure of the complete IRES in its active, ribosome-bound state to be solved. The structure, harboring three pseudoknot-containing domains, each with a specific functional role, shows how defined elements of the IRES emerge from a compactly folded core and interact with the key ribosomal components that form the A, P and E sites, where tRNAs normally bind. Our results exemplify the molecular strategy for recruitment of an IRES and reveal the dynamic features necessary for internal initiation.


Subject(s)
Gryllidae/virology , RNA Viruses/genetics , RNA, Viral/chemistry , RNA, Viral/metabolism , Ribosomes/chemistry , Ribosomes/metabolism , Animals , Base Sequence , Cryoelectron Microscopy , Models, Molecular , Molecular Sequence Data , Nucleic Acid Conformation , Paralysis , Protein Binding , Protein Structure, Tertiary , RNA, Viral/ultrastructure , Ribosomal Proteins/chemistry , Ribosomal Proteins/metabolism , Ribosomes/ultrastructure , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/chemistry , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Structural Homology, Protein
4.
Curr Opin Struct Biol ; 16(3): 279-87, 2006 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16713707

ABSTRACT

RNA motifs can be defined broadly as recurrent structural elements containing multiple intramolecular RNA-RNA interactions, as observed in atomic-resolution RNA structures. They constitute the modular building blocks of RNA architecture, which is organized hierarchically. Recent work has focused on analyzing RNA backbone conformations to identify, define and search for new instances of recurrent motifs in X-ray structures. One current view asserts that recurrent RNA strand segments with characteristic backbone configurations qualify as independent motifs. Other considerations indicate that, to characterize modular motifs, one must take into account the larger structural context of such strand segments. This follows the biologically relevant motivation, which is to identify RNA structural characteristics that are subject to sequence constraints and that thus relate RNA architectures to sequences.


Subject(s)
Models, Molecular , RNA/chemistry , Base Pairing , Base Sequence , Computational Biology/methods , Conserved Sequence , Nucleic Acid Conformation
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RNA ; 12(1): 83-93, 2006 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16373494

ABSTRACT

The three-way junctions contained in X-ray structures of folded RNAs have been compiled and analyzed. Three-way junctions with two helices approximately coaxially stacked can be divided into three main families depending on the relative lengths of the segments linking the three Watson-Crick helices. Each family has topological characteristics with some conservation in the non-Watson-Crick pairs within the linking segments as well as in the types of contacts between the segments and the helices. The most populated family presents tertiary interactions between two helices as well as extensive shallow/minor groove contacts between a linking segment and the third helix. On the basis of the lengths of the linking segments, some guidelines could be deduced for choosing a topology for a three-way junction on the basis of a secondary structure. Examples and prediction bas'ed on those rules are discussed.


Subject(s)
Crystallography , Nucleic Acid Conformation , RNA/chemistry , Base Pairing , Base Sequence , Models, Molecular , RNA/ultrastructure
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Plant Cell ; 17(7): 1877-85, 2005 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15937227

ABSTRACT

The hammerhead ribozyme (HHRz) is an autocatalytic RNA motif found in subviral plant pathogens and transcripts of repetitive DNA sequences in animals. Here, we report the discovery and characterization of unique HHRzs encoded in a plant genome. Two novel sequences were identified on chromosome IV of Arabidopsis thaliana in a database search, which took into account recently defined structural requirements. The HHRzs are expressed in several tissues and coexist in vivo as both cleaved and noncleaved species. In vitro, both sequences cleave efficiently at physiological Mg(2+) concentrations, indicative of functional loop-loop interactions. Kinetic analysis of loop nucleotide variants was used to determine a three-dimensional model of these tertiary interactions. Based on these results, on the lack of infectivity of hammerhead-carrying viroids in Arabidopsis, and on extensive sequence comparisons, we propose that the ribozyme sequences did not invade this plant by horizontal transfer but have evolved independently to perform a specific, yet unidentified, biological function.


Subject(s)
Arabidopsis/genetics , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/genetics , Genome, Plant , RNA, Catalytic/genetics , RNA, Plant/genetics , Arabidopsis/metabolism , Arabidopsis/virology , Base Sequence/genetics , Magnesium/metabolism , Models, Molecular , Nucleotides/genetics , Viroids/genetics
7.
Nucleic Acids Res ; 33(8): 2395-409, 2005.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15860776

ABSTRACT

The occurrences of two recurrent motifs in ribosomal RNA sequences, the Kink-turn and the C-loop, are examined in crystal structures and systematically compared with sequence alignments of rRNAs from the three kingdoms of life in order to identify the range of the structural and sequence variations. Isostericity Matrices are used to analyze structurally the sequence variations of the characteristic non-Watson-Crick base pairs for each motif. We show that Isostericity Matrices for non-Watson-Crick base pairs provide important tools for deriving the sequence signatures of recurrent motifs, for scoring and refining sequence alignments, and for determining whether motifs are conserved throughout evolution. The systematic use of Isostericity Matrices identifies the positions of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides relative to the structurally characterized examples of motifs and, most importantly, specifies whether these changes result in new motifs. Thus, comparative analysis coupled with Isostericity Matrices allows one to produce and refine structural sequence alignments. The analysis, based on both sequence and structure, permits therefore the evaluation of the conservation of motifs across phylogeny and the derivation of rules of equivalence between structural motifs. The conservations observed in Isostericity Matrices form a predictive basis for identifying motifs in sequences.


Subject(s)
RNA, Ribosomal/chemistry , Sequence Alignment , Sequence Analysis, RNA/methods , Base Pairing , Models, Molecular , Nucleic Acid Conformation , Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
9.
Nat Struct Biol ; 10(9): 708-12, 2003 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12881719

ABSTRACT

The hammerhead ribozyme (HHRz) is a small, naturally occurring ribozyme that site-specifically cleaves RNA and has long been considered a potentially useful tool for gene silencing. The minimal conserved HHRz motif derived from natural sequences consists of three helices that intersect at a highly conserved catalytic core of 11 nucleotides. The presence of this motif is sufficient to support cleavage at high Mg2+ concentrations, but not at the low Mg2+ concentrations characteristic of intracellular environments. Here we demonstrate that natural HHRzs require the presence of additional nonconserved sequence elements outside of the conserved catalytic core to enable intracellular activity. These elements may stabilize the HHRz in a catalytically active conformation via tertiary interactions. HHRzs stabilized by these interactions cleave efficiently at physiological Mg2+ concentrations and are functional in vivo. The proposed role of these tertiary interacting motifs is supported by mutational, functional, structural and molecular modeling analysis of natural HHRzs.


Subject(s)
RNA, Catalytic/chemistry , Amino Acid Motifs , Base Sequence , Catalysis , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Genes, Reporter , Genetic Vectors , Kinetics , Magnesium/chemistry , Molecular Sequence Data , Mutation , Nucleic Acid Conformation , Plasmids/metabolism , Protein Binding , Protein Conformation , RNA/metabolism , Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid , Time Factors
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