Fluoropyrimidine Toxicity : the Hidden Secrets of DPYD

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BACKGROUND: Fluoropyrimidine-induced toxicity is a main limitation of therapy. Currently, polymorphisms in the DPYD gene, which encodes the 5-FU activation enzyme dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD), are used to adjust the dosage and prevent toxicity. Despite the predictive value of DPYD genotyping, a great proportion of fluoropyrimidine toxicity cannot be solely explained by DPYD variations.

OBJECTIVE: We herein summarize additional sources of DPD enzyme activity variability, spanning from epigenetic regulation of DPYD expression, factors potentially inducing protein modifications, as well as drug-enzyme interactions that contribute to fluoropyrimidine toxicity.

RESULTS: While seminal in vitro studies provided evidence that DPYD promoter methylation downregulates DPD expression, the association of DPYD methylation with fluoropyrimidine toxicity was not replicated in clinical studies. Different non-coding RNA molecules, such as microRNA, piwi-RNAs, circular-RNAs and long non-coding RNAs, are involved in post-transcriptional DPYD regulation. DPD protein modifications and environmental factors affecting enzyme activity may also add a proportion to the pooled variability of DPD enzyme activity. Lastly, DPD-drug interactions are common in therapeutics, with the most well-characterized paradigm the withdrawal of sorivudine due to fluoropyrimidine toxicity deaths in 5-FU treated cancer patients; a mechanism involving DPD severe inhibition.

CONCLUSIONS: DPYD polymorphisms are the main source of DPD variability. A study on DPYD epigenetics (both transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally) holds promise to provide insights into molecular pathways of fluoropyrimidine toxicity. Additional post-translational DPD modifications, as well as DPD inhibition by other drugs, may explain a proportion of enzyme activity variability. Therefore, there is still a lot we can learn about the DPYD/DPD fluoropyrimidine-induced toxicity machinery.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Current drug metabolism - (2024) vom: 19. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Manolopoulos, Vangelis G [VerfasserIn]
Ragia, Georgia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

5-FU
Capecitabine
DPYD
Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase
Epigenetics
Fluoropyrimidines
Genetics
Interactions
Journal Article
Toxicity

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Date Revised 20.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.2174/0113892002296707240311105527

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NLM369941667