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1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Search for Novel Anti-cancer Drugs Targetting DNA Replication and Repair

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08557131
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section展開研究
Research Field Biological pharmacy
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

HANAOKA Fumio  Osaka Univ., IMCB,Professor, 細胞生体工学センター, 教授 (50012670)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAKEYA Hideaki  REKEN,Antibiotics Lab., Research Scientist, 抗生物質研究室, 研究員 (00270596)
MAEKAWA Takafumi  Osaka Univ., IMCB,Research Assistant, 細胞生体工学センター, 助手 (90273721)
MASUTANI Chikahide  Osaka Univ., IMCB,Research Assistant, 細胞生体工学センター, 助手 (40241252)
OHKUMA Yoshiaki  Osaka Univ., IMCB,Associate Professor, 細胞生体工学センター, 助教授 (70192515)
Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1997
KeywordsDNA replication / DNA repair / cell-free system / inhibitors / anti-cancer drugs / saponin / DNA helicase / SV40T antigen
Research Abstract

We have screened more than one hundred of culture supernatants of Actinomycetes and Eumycetes using cell-free systems for SV40 DNA replication and the nucleotide excision repair (NER) with UV-irradiated SV40 minichromosomes to obtain either inhibitors or stimulators for DNA replication and repair. As s result of these screening, we obtained a couple of samples for replication inhibitors and NER inhibitors.
One of the replication inhibitors (RK606) was purified, and its structure was identified as a kind of soybean saponin (soyasaponin II). RK606 also inhibited SV40 DNA replication with purified proteins, therefore, we examined the effect of RK606 on individual enzymes and proteins. It turned out that RK606 specifically inhibited DNA helicase activity of SV40 T antigen. Interestingly, a cellular DNA helicase was not inhibited by this compound, indicating that RK606 might be a specific inhibitor of T antigen helicase. To our knowledge, this is the first inhibitor besides ATP analogues for any DNA helicase.
One of the repair inhibitors (RK679) was examined for its stability at different pH and for its extractability by several solvents. The behaviors of the repair inhibitor were similar to those of some kinds of tyrosine kinase inhibitors, genistein and daizein, therefore, we checked the effect of these tyrosine kinase inhibitors on cell-free NER assay. However, we could not find any effect of these compounds on NER,suggesting that RK679 is not either genistein or daizein but is rather different compound.

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] van der Spek, P.J.et al.: "XPC and human homologs of RAD23 : intracellular localization and relationship to other nucleotide excision repair complexes." Nucl.Acids Res.24. 2551-2559 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Sugasawa, K.et al.: "HHR23B,a human Rad23 homolog, Stimulates XPC protein in nucleotide excision repair in vitro." Mol.Cell.Biol.16. 4852-4861 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Ito, K.et al.: "c-Jun stimulates origin-dependent DNA unwiading by polyomavirus large T antigen." EMBO J.15. 5636-5646 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Withers-Ward, E.S.et al.: "Human immuradeficiany virus type 1 Vpr interacts with HHR23A,a cellular protein implicated in nucleotide excision DNA repair." J.Virol.71. 9732-9742 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Masutani, C.et al.: "Ideatification and characterization of XPC-binding domain of hHR23B" Mol.Cell.Biol.17. 6915-6923 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Sugasawa, K.et al.: "Two numan homologues of Rad23 are functionally interchangeable in complex formation and stimulation of XPC repair activity." Mol.Cell.Biol.17. 6924-6931 (1997)

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  • [Publications] van der Spek, P.J., Visser, C.E., Hanaoka, F., Smit, B., Hagemeijer, A., Bootsma, D., and Hoeijmakers, J.H.J.: "Cloning, comparative mapping, and RNA expression of the mouse homologues of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae nucleotide excision repair gene RAD23." Genomics. 31. 20-27 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Sugasawa, K., Masutani, C., Uchida, A., Maekawa, T., van der Spek, P.J., Bootsma, D., Hoeijmakers, J.H.J., and Hanaoka, F.: "HHR23B,a human Rad23 homolog, stimulates XPC protein in nucleotide excision repair in vitro." Mol.Cell.Biol.16. 4852-4861 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Ito, K., Asano, M., Highes, P., Kohzaki, H., Masutani, C., Hanaoka, F., Curran, T., and Ito, Y.: "c-Jun stimutates origin-dependent DNA unwinding by polyomavirus large T antigen." EMBO J.15. 5636-5646 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Withers-Ward, E.S., Jowett, J.B., Stewart, S.A., Xie, Y.M., Garfinkel, A., Shibagaki, Y., Chow, S.A., Shah, N., Hanaoka, F., Sawitz, D.G., Armstrong, R.W., Souza, L.M., and Chen, I.S.: "Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Vpr interacts with HHR23A,a cellular protein implicated in nucleotide excision DNA repair." J.Virol.71. 9732-9742 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Masutani, C., Araki, M., Sugasawa, K., van der Spek, P.J., Yamada, A., Uchida, A., Maekawa, T., Bootsma, D., Hoeijmakers, J.H.J., and Hanaoka, F.: "Identification and characterization of XPC-binding domain of hHR23B." Mol.Cell.Biol.17. 6915-6923 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Sugasawa, K., Ng, J.M.Y., Masutani, C., Maekawa, T., Uchida, A., van der Spek, P.J., Eker, A.P.M., Rademakers, S., Visser, C., Aboussekhra, A., Wood, R.D., Hanaoka, F., Bootsma, D., and Hoeijmakers, J.H.J.: "Two human homologues of Rad23 are functionally interchangeable in complex formation and stimulation of XPC repair activity." Mol.Cell.Biol.17. 6924-6931 (1997)

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