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2-Chloroadenosine but not adenosine induces apoptosis in rheumatoid fibroblasts independently of cell surface adenosine receptor signalling.

1. The apoptotic effect of adenosine and its analogues was studied in fibroblast-like synoviocytes derived from rheumatoid arthritis patients (RA-FLSs). Evoked cell death was quantitatively examined by assessing DNA fragmentation using an enzyme-liked immunosorbent assay and by measuring phosphatidylserine exposure through flow cytometric analysis of annexin V binding. 2. Exposing cells for 24 h to 2-chloroadenosine (2-CADO), a nonspecific, adenosine deaminase (ADA)-resistant, adenosine receptor (AdoR) agonist, induced DNA fragmentation, and thus apoptosis, in RA-FLSs at concentrations > or =50 microM. By contrast, incubation with adenosine for up to 72 h did not evoke DNA fragmentation, even in the presence of ADA inhibitor coformycin and nucleoside transporter inhibitor nitrobenzylmercaptopurin (NBMPR). Transcription of all four AdoR isoforms was detected in RA-FLSs; nevertheless selective AdoR agonists similarly failed to induce DNA fragmentation. 3. DNA fragmentation evoked by 2-CADO was inhibited by NBMPR and by 5'-iodotubercidin, an adenosine kinase inhibitor, but not by xanthine amine congener, an A(1) and A(2) receptor antagonist, or by selective AdoR antagonists. 4. The nonspecific caspase inhibitor benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp fluoromethyl ketone abolished the apoptotic effect of 2-CADO. 5. These results suggest that 2-CADO induces apoptosis in RA-FLSs independently of AdoR-mediated signalling. Instead, 2-CADO, but not adenosine, is taken up into RA-FLSs via human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1, where it is phosphorylated by adenosine kinase. The resultant phospho-2-CADO induces DNA fragmentation by activating a caspase pathway.[1]

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  1. 2-Chloroadenosine but not adenosine induces apoptosis in rheumatoid fibroblasts independently of cell surface adenosine receptor signalling. Koshiba, M., Kosaka, H., Nakazawa, T., Hayashi, N., Saura, R., Kitamura, N., Kumagai, S. Br. J. Pharmacol. (2002) [Pubmed]
 
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