Inosine analogs as chemotherapeutic agents for African trypanosomes: metabolism in trypanosomes and efficacy in tissue culture.
AUTOR(ES)
Fish, W R
RESUMO
Certain purine analogs, the pyrazolopyrimidines, are effective chemotherapeutic agents against Leishmania spp. and Trypanosoma cruzi both in vitro and in some clinical models. Heretofore they have not been effective against the African trypanosomes; this suggested that these organisms were not comparable to the other pathogens with respect to their purine metabolism. We have studied the efficacy and metabolism of the pyrazolopyrimidine bases allopurinol and thiopurinol, their respective ribonucleosides, and the C-nucleosides formycin B and 9-deazainosine in Trypanosoma brucei subsp. gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei subsp. rhodesiense. The efficacy of these compounds was dependent on the purine content of the culture medium. The C-nucleosides were the most effective, with 90% effective doses for formycin B and 9-deazainosine of 0.01 and 2 micrograms/ml, respectively. Metabolism was the same in both the bloodstream and culture forms and identical to that reported for Leishmania spp. and T. cruzi. Both agents were phosphorylated to the ribonucleotide and then aminated to produce adenine nucleotide analogs. Growth inhibition studies were performed with three inosine analogs (allopurinol riboside, formycin B, and 9-deazainosine) on trypomastigotes grown in bone marrow tissue culture. Both C-nucleosides eradicated the infection at a concentration of 0.25 micrograms/ml. Unlike formycin B, 9-deazainosine is not known to be aminated by mammalian cells and appears to be relatively nontoxic in three different mammalian tissue culture systems. This nucleoside was very active against all pathogenic leishmaniae and trypanosomes investigated and is worthy of further study.
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