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PD 141955 and CI-972: 9-deazaguanine analog purine nucleoside phosphorylase inhibitors. I. Suppression of the human mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR).

Inhibitors of purine nucleoside phosphorylase ( PNP) are of interest as potential T-cell-selective immunosuppressive agents and for other uses. PD 141955 (9-deaza-9-(3-thienylmethyl)guanine; 2-amino-3,5-dihydro-7-(3-thienylmethyl)-4H-pyrrolo[3,2-d]pyrimidin -4-one) is 12- to 100-fold more potent than CI-972 (8-amino-9-deaza-9-(3-thienylmethyl)guanine; 2,6-diamino-3,5-dihydro-7-(3-thienylmethyl)-4H-pyrrolo[3,2-d]pyrim idin-4- one) in PNP enzyme inhibition assays. In the human MLR, PD 141955 has IC50s of 2.8 and 12.8 microM in the presence and absence, respectively, of 15 microM GdR (means from 10 assays), while the IC50s of CI-972 tested in parallel are > 30 microM. Concentration-dependent accumulation of dGTP occurs in PD 141955-treated MLRs under conditions in which CI-972 lacks detectable activity. Thus, consistent with its greater PNP inhibitory activity in a cell free system, PD 141955 is significantly more potent than CI-972 in its ability to suppress the MLR.[1]

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