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. 2003 Jun;23(3):349-64.
doi: 10.1023/a:1023640721630.

Extracellular metabolism of nucleotides in neuroblastoma x glioma NG108-15 cells determined by capillary electrophoresis

Marko Kaulich  1 , Ramatullah Qurishi, Christa E Müller
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Extracellular metabolism of nucleotides in neuroblastoma x glioma NG108-15 cells determined by capillary electrophoresis

Marko Kaulich et al. Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2003 Jun.

Abstract

1. The metabolism of extracellular nucleotides in NG108-15 cells, a neuroblastoma x glioma hybrid cell line, was studied by means of capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) and micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MECC). 2. In NG108-15 cells ATP, ADP, AMP, UTP, UDP, and UMP were hydrolyzed to the nucleosides adenosine and uridine indicating the presence of ecto-nucleotidases and ectophosphatases. The hydrolysis of the purine nucleotides ATP and ADP was significantly faster than the hydrolysis of the pyrimidine nucleotides UTP and UDP. 3. ATP and UTP breakdown appeared to be mainly due to an ecto-nucleotide-diphosphohydrolase. ADP, but not UDP, was initially also phosphorylated to some extent to the corresponding triphosphate, indicating the presence of an adenylate kinase on NG108-15 cells. The alkaline phosphatase (ALP) inhibitor levamisole did not only inhibit the hydrolysis of AMP to adenosine and of UMP to uridine, but also the degradation of ADP and to a larger extent that of UDP. ATP and UTP degradation was only slightly inhibited by levamisole. 4. These results underscore the important role of ecto-alkaline phosphatase in the metabolism of adenine as well as uracil nucleotides in NG108-15 cells Dipyridamole, a potent inhibitor of nucleotide breakdown in superior cervical ganglion cells, had no effect on nucleotide degradation in NG108-15 cells. 5. Dipyridamole, which is a therapeutically used nucleoside reuptake inhibitor in humans, reduced the extracellular adenosine accumulation possibly by allosteric enhancement of adenosine reuptake into the cells.

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