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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1993 85(9):711-721; doi:10.1093/jnci/85.9.711
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 85, No. 9, 711-721, May 5, 1993
© 1993 Oxford University Press

Role of Antioxidant Enzymes in the Induction of Increased Experimental Metastasis by Hydroxyurea

Allen E. Eskenazi, Jan Pinkas, John C. Whitin, Francisco Arguello, Harvey J. Cohen, Christopher N. Frantz

Department of Pediatrics and the Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
Department of Pediatrics and the Cancer Center, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester,N.Y.

Correspondence to: Allen E. Eskenazi, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 S.Greene St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

Background: Treatment of tumor cells with hydroxyurea and other DNA-damaging agents has been shown to increase the experimental metastatic potential of these cells. Purpose: We sought to elucidate some of the biochemical and genetic changes that promote tumor cell metastasis in hydroxyurea-treated cells. We hypothesized that drug treatment induces resistance to oxidative damage and that elimination of this resistance reverses the drug-induced experimental metastatic capabilities of tumor cells. Methods: We examined the effect of hydroxyurea treatment on B16 melanoma cells with respect to experimental metastatic potential, resistance to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), glutathione peroxidase activity and messenger RNA (mRNA) level, glutathione reductase activity, glutathione levels, glutathione-S-transferase activity, and catalase activity and mRNA level. Results: Hydroxyurea-treated cells were transiently more metastatic following intravenous injection in syngeneic mice and transiently more resistant than untreated cells to exogenous H2O2. Hydroxyurea-induced experimental me-tastases and H2O2 resistance were eliminated by depletion of intracellular glutathione with buthionine sulfox-imine. Glutathione peroxidase activity and mRNA level, glutathione reductase activity, and reduced glutathione levels were all transiently increased in hydroxyurea-treated cells, whereas the increase in glutathione-S-transferase activity was sustained. Catalase activity was modestly increased with no increase in its mRNA levels. Conclusions: In B16 melanoma cells, experimental metastasis induced by hydroxyurea appears to depend on a process that requires glutathione. Hydroxyurea treatment also induces resistance to exogenous H2O2, which may be due to induction of glutathione and antioxidant enzyme activity. Implications: The role of antioxidants in B16 melanoma cells offers new insights into the metastatic process and the cellular response to chemotherapy. [J Natl Cancer Inst 85: 711–721, 1993]


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