Application | Comment | Organism |
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pharmacology | applicability of gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy using the capability of human adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AT-MSC) as cellular vehicles expressing cytosine deaminase, CDy-AT-MSC/5FC-system, analyzed in cell lines and xenografts | Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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stable transduction of human mesenchymal stem cells derived from adipose tissue (AT-MAS) with retroviral pST2 vector bearing yeast fusion cytosine deaminase, GP+E-86 cells and GP+envAM12 used as retroviral packaging mouse cell line, NIH-3T3 mouse fibroblast cells used for titration of viral inoculum | Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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cytosine + H2O | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | - |
uracil + NH3 | - |
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Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Q12178 | recombinant protein | - |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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Specific Activity Minimum [µmol/min/mg] | Specific Activity Maximum [µmol/min/mg] | Comment | Organism |
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additional information | - |
capability of human adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AT-MSC) as vehicles for gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy, fusion product of cytosine deaminase derived from yeast in combination with systemic 5-fluorocytosine (5-Fc), expression and antitumoral effects of fusion constructs tested in cell lines and xenograft models, in vivo analysis in immunodeficient mouse model, regression in 89% of tumors achieved, therapeutic cell homing into subcutaneous melanoma and inhibition of tumor growth | Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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5-fluorocytosine + H2O | recombinant cytosine deaminase in gene therapy, expression and function in transgenic cell lines and xenograft tumors | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 5-fluorouracil + NH3 | - |
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cytosine + H2O | - |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae | uracil + NH3 | - |
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Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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CD | - |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae |