Anticancer efficacy in vivo and in vitro, synergy with 5-fluorouracil, and safety of recombinant methioninase release_46tttsml3bftxgp7u6ndy24yqa

by T Yoshioka, T Wada, N Uchida, H Maki, H Yoshida, N Ide, H Kasai, K Hojo, K Shono, R Maekawa, S Yagi, R M Hoffman (+1 others)

Published in Cancer Research.

1998   Volume 58, Issue 12, p2583-7

Abstract

The elevated exogenous-methionine dependency of tumors for growth has been observed in all major cancer cell types. We have previously cloned a methioninase (rMETase) from Pseudomonas putida to deplete methionine. Growth inhibition followed by apoptotic cell death was induced by treatment of tumor cells with rMETase in vitro. A single i.p. injection of 300 units of rMETase can lower the serum methionine level in the mice from 70 microM to less than 1 microM within 2 h and maintain this depleted level for 8 h. Repeated dosing of rMETase of tumor-bearing mice could be administered without acute immune-hypersensitivity. rMETase treatment demonstrated growth inhibitory activity against human tumors in nude mice, including those which were multiple drug-resistant. No body weight loss or hematotoxicity, except a slight anemia, was found throughout the therapy. The combined treatment of the Lewis lung carcinoma with a fixed rMETase dose and increasing doses of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) resulted in a dose-dependent enhanced antitumor efficacy for survival as well as tumor growth inhibition. Thus, methionine depletion by rMETase potentiates the antitumor efficacy of 5-FU. The data presented in this report thus indicate that rMETase is active alone, is synergistic in combination with 5-FU, and has negligible toxicity suggesting a novel clinical approach for effective cancer therapy.
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