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Nature ; 559(7715): 632-636, 2018 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29995852

ABSTRACT

The chemotherapeutic drug methotrexate inhibits the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase1, which generates tetrahydrofolate, an essential cofactor in nucleotide synthesis2. Depletion of tetrahydrofolate causes cell death by suppressing DNA and RNA production3. Although methotrexate is widely used as an anticancer agent and is the subject of over a thousand ongoing clinical trials4, its high toxicity often leads to the premature termination of its use, which reduces its potential efficacy5. To identify genes that modulate the response of cancer cells to methotrexate, we performed a CRISPR-Cas9-based screen6,7. This screen yielded FTCD, which encodes an enzyme-formimidoyltransferase cyclodeaminase-that is required for the catabolism of the amino acid histidine8, a process that has not previously been linked to methotrexate sensitivity. In cultured cancer cells, depletion of several genes in the histidine degradation pathway markedly decreased sensitivity to methotrexate. Mechanistically, histidine catabolism drains the cellular pool of tetrahydrofolate, which is particularly detrimental to methotrexate-treated cells. Moreover, expression of the rate-limiting enzyme in histidine catabolism is associated with methotrexate sensitivity in cancer cell lines and with survival rate in patients. In vivo dietary supplementation of histidine increased flux through the histidine degradation pathway and enhanced the sensitivity of leukaemia xenografts to methotrexate. The histidine degradation pathway markedly influences the sensitivity of cancer cells to methotrexate and may be exploited to improve methotrexate efficacy through a simple dietary intervention.


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Histidine/metabolism , Methotrexate/pharmacology , Methotrexate/therapeutic use , Neoplasms/drug therapy , Neoplasms/metabolism , Ammonia-Lyases/deficiency , Ammonia-Lyases/genetics , Ammonia-Lyases/metabolism , Animals , CRISPR-Cas Systems/genetics , Cell Line, Tumor , Female , Folic Acid Antagonists/pharmacology , Folic Acid Antagonists/therapeutic use , Glutamate Formimidoyltransferase/deficiency , Glutamate Formimidoyltransferase/genetics , Glutamate Formimidoyltransferase/metabolism , Histidine/pharmacology , Humans , Male , Mice , Mice, Inbred NOD , Mice, SCID , Multifunctional Enzymes , Nucleotides/biosynthesis , Reduced Folate Carrier Protein/genetics , Reduced Folate Carrier Protein/metabolism , Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase/metabolism , Tetrahydrofolates/deficiency , Tetrahydrofolates/metabolism , Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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Mol Genet Genomic Med ; 5(6): 795-799, 2017 11.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29178637

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Elevated plasma and urine formiminoglutamic acid (FIGLU) levels are commonly indicative of formiminoglutamic aciduria (OMIM #229100), a poorly understood autosomal recessive disorder of histidine and folate metabolism, resulting from formiminotransferase-cyclodeaminase (FTCD) deficiency, a bifunctional enzyme encoded by FTCD. METHODS: In order to further understanding about the molecular alterations that contribute to FIGLU-uria, we sequenced FTCD in 20 individuals with putative FTCD deficiency and varying laboratory findings, including increased FIGLU excretion. RESULTS: Individuals tested had biallelic loss-of-function variants in protein-coding regions of FTCD. The FTCD allelic spectrum comprised of 12 distinct variants including 5 missense alterations that replace conserved amino acid residues (c.223A>C, c.266A>G, c.319T>C, c.430G>A, c.514G>T), an in-frame deletion (c.1373_1375delTGG), with the remaining alterations predicted to affect mRNA processing/stability. These included two frameshift variants (c.990dup, c.1366dup) and four nonsense variants (c.337C>T, c.451A>T, c.763C>T, c.1607T>A). CONCLUSION: We observed additional FTCD alleles leading to urinary FIGLU elevations, and thus, providing molecular evidence of FTCD deficiency in cases identified by newborn screening or clinical biochemical genetic laboratory testing.


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Ammonia-Lyases/genetics , Glutamate Formimidoyltransferase/deficiency , Metabolism, Inborn Errors/genetics , Alleles , Amino Acid Sequence , Codon, Nonsense , Frameshift Mutation , Gene Deletion , Genotype , Glutamate Formimidoyltransferase/genetics , Humans , Metabolism, Inborn Errors/diagnosis , Mutation, Missense , Open Reading Frames/genetics , Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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