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Abstract

2-Methyladenosine (methyl-ado) has demonstrated selective activity against , which indicates that differences in the substrate preferences between mycobacterial and human purine metabolic enzymes can be exploited to develop novel drugs for the treatment of mycobacterial diseases. Therefore, in an effort to better understand the reasons for the anti-mycobacterial activity of methyl-ado, its metabolism has been characterized in . In a wild-type strain, methyl-ado was phosphorylated by adenosine kinase to methyl-AMP, which was further converted to methyl-ATP and incorporated into RNA. In contrast, a mutant strain of was isolated that was resistant to methyl-ado, deficient in adenosine kinase activity and was not able to generate methyl-ado metabolites in cells treated with methyl-ado. These results indicated that phosphorylated metabolites of methyl-ado were responsible for the cytotoxic activity of this compound. Methyl-ado was not a substrate for either adenosine deaminase or purine-nucleoside phosphorylase from . Treatment of with methyl-ado resulted in the inhibition of ATP synthesis, which indicated that a metabolite of methyl-ado inhibited one of the enzymes involved in purine synthesis. These studies demonstrated the importance of adenosine kinase in the activation of methyl-ado to toxic metabolites in

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