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. 2009 May;22(4):456-61.
doi: 10.1002/nbm.1361.

Modulation of choline kinase activity in human cancer cells observed by dynamic 31P NMR

Cristina Gabellieri  1 , Mounia Beloueche-Babari, Yann Jamin, Geoffrey S Payne, Martin O Leach, Thomas R Eykyn
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Modulation of choline kinase activity in human cancer cells observed by dynamic 31P NMR

Cristina Gabellieri et al. NMR Biomed. 2009 May.

Abstract

Choline metabolites are widely studied in cancer research as biomarkers of malignancy and as indicators of therapeutic response. However, endogenous phosphocholine levels are determined by a number of processes that confound the interpretation of these measurements, including membrane transport rates and a series of enzyme catalysed reactions in the Kennedy pathway. Employing a dynamic (31)P NMR assay that is specific to choline kinase (ChoK) we have measured the rates of this enzyme reaction in cell lysates of MDA-MB-231 breast, PC-3 prostate and HeLa cervical cancer cells and in solutions of purified human ChoK. The rates are sensitive to inhibition by hemicholinium-3 (HC-3), a competitive ChoK inhibitor, and to N-[2-bromocinnamyl(amino)ethyl]-5-isoquinolinesulphonamide (H-89), an agent commercialized as a specific cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) inhibitor.

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