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Thioguanine Action Pathway
Homo sapiens
Drug Action Pathway
Thioguanine is an antineoplastic compound used to treat acute leukemia. It is usually administered orally and delivered to the site of action through the blood. Thioguanine has similar properties to 6-mercaptopurine as they share similar metabolites with the exception of 6-meraptopurine inhibiting the purine de novo synthesis pathway. Thioguanine's metabolites thiodeoxyguanosine-5'-triphosphate and thioguanosine 5'-triphosphate can be incorporated into DNA and RNA respectively which causes proliferation and protein synthesis to be inhibited. Thioguanosine 5'-triphosphate also inhibits ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 a small GTPase membrane protein responsible for regulating cellular functions like cell growth, antimicrobial cytotoxicity, apoptosis regulation of lymphocytes. With ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 being inhibited, apoptosis of T and B lymphocytes is no longer regulated and they are killed off. This leads to immunosuppression.
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Thioguanine Pathway References
Ashraf T, Kao A, Bendayan R. Chapter Three - Functional Expression of Drug Transporters in Glial Cells: Potential Role on Drug Delivery to the CNS. Advances in Pharmacology 71:45-111, 2014.
Young J. D, Yao S. Y. M, Baldwin J. M, Cass C. E, Baldwin S. A, The human concentrative and equilibrative nucleoside transporter families, SLC28 and SLC29. Molecular Aspects of Medicine 34(2-3): 529-547, 2013.
Wishart DS, Feunang YD, Guo AC, Lo EJ, Marcu A, Grant JR, Sajed T, Johnson D, Li C, Sayeeda Z, Assempour N, Iynkkaran I, Liu Y, Maciejewski A, Gale N, Wilson A, Chin L, Cummings R, Le D, Pon A, Knox C, Wilson M: DrugBank 5.0: a major update to the DrugBank database for 2018. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D1074-D1082. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1037.
Pubmed: 29126136
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