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L-Methionase: A Therapeutic Enzyme to Treat Malignancies
Joint Authors
Kanwar, Shamsher Singh
Sharma, Bhupender
Singh, Sukhdev
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-08-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Cancer is an increasing cause of mortality and morbidity throughout the world.
L-methionase has potential application against many types of cancers.
L-Methionase is an intracellular enzyme in bacterial species, an extracellular enzyme in fungi, and absent in mammals.
L-Methionase producing bacterial strain(s) can be isolated by 5,5′-dithio-bis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) as a screening dye.
L-Methionine plays an important role in tumour cells.
These cells become methionine dependent and eventually follow apoptosis due to methionine limitation in cancer cells.
L-Methionine also plays an indispensable role in gene activation and inactivation due to hypermethylation and/or hypomethylation.
Membrane transporters such as GLUT1 and ion channels like Na2+, Ca2+, K+, and Cl− become overexpressed.
Further, the α-subunit of ATP synthase plays a role in cancer cells growth and development by providing them enhanced nutritional requirements.
Currently, selenomethionine is also used as a prodrug in cancer therapy along with enzyme methionase that converts prodrug into active toxic chemical(s) that causes death of cancerous cells/tissue.
More recently, fusion protein (FP) consisting of L-methionase linked to annexin-V has been used in cancer therapy.
The fusion proteins have advantage that they have specificity only for cancer cells and do not harm the normal cells.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Sharma, Bhupender& Singh, Sukhdev& Kanwar, Shamsher Singh. 2014. L-Methionase: A Therapeutic Enzyme to Treat Malignancies. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1016332
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Sharma, Bhupender…[et al.]. L-Methionase: A Therapeutic Enzyme to Treat Malignancies. BioMed Research International No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1016332
American Medical Association (AMA)
Sharma, Bhupender& Singh, Sukhdev& Kanwar, Shamsher Singh. L-Methionase: A Therapeutic Enzyme to Treat Malignancies. BioMed Research International. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1016332
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1016332