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- Title
Increased DNA-incorporated thiopurine metabolite as a possible mechanism for leukocytopenia through cell apoptosis in inflammatory bowel disease patients with NUDT15 mutation.
- Authors
Toyonaga, Takahiko; Kobayashi, Taku; Kuronuma, Satoshi; Ueno, Aito; Kiyohara, Hiroki; Okabayashi, Shinji; Takeuchi, Osamu; Redfern, Christopher P. F.; Terai, Hideki; Ozaki, Ryo; Sagami, Shintaro; Nakano, Masaru; Coulthard, Sally A.; Tanaka, Yoichi; Hibi, Toshifumi
- Abstract
Background and Aims: Polymorphisms in the nucleotide diphosphate-linked moiety X-type motif 15 (NUDT15) gene are associated with thiopurine-induced leukopenia in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). NUDT15-associated subcellular thiopurine metabolism has not been investigated in primary lymphocytes. We hypothesized that NUDT15 mutation increases DNA-incorporated deoxythioguanosine (dTG) and induces apoptosis in lymphocytes. Methods: DNA-incorporated dTG in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and 6-thioguanine nucleotides (6-TGN) in red blood cells were measured in patients with IBD undergoing thiopurine treatment. The association of a single nucleotide polymorphism for NUDT15 (rs116855232) with dTGPBMC was examined. The pro-apoptotic effect of DNA-incorporated dTG was examined ex vivo in association with NUDT15 genotypes by co-culturing patient-derived peripheral CD4+ T lymphocytes with 6-thioguanine (6-TG). Results: dTGPBMC was significantly higher in NUDT15 variants than in non-variants. dTGPBMC, but not 6-TGNRBC, negatively correlated with peripheral lymphocyte counts (r = – 0.31 and – 0.12, p = 0.012 and 0.173, respectively). DNA-incorporated dTG significantly accumulated to a greater extent in lymphocytes from NUDT15 variants when co-cultured with 6-TG ex vivo than in those from non-variants and was associated with decreased proliferation and increased apoptosis. Conclusion: Increased DNA-incorporated dTG may be responsible for thiopurine-induced leukocytopenia through cell apoptosis in IBD patients with NUDT15 mutation.
- Subjects
INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases; MONONUCLEAR leukocytes; PYROPTOSIS; ERYTHROCYTES; LEUCOPENIA; CELL death
- Publication
Journal of Gastroenterology, 2021, Vol 56, Issue 11, p999
- ISSN
0944-1174
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00535-021-01820-0