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M Tashima

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Enhancement by caffeine of neocarzinostatin cytotoxicity in murine leukemia L1210 cells.

Posttreatment incubation with nontoxic doses of caffeine resulted in enhancement of cell lethality and inhibition of cell growth in L1210 mouse leukemia cells which had been exposed to a protein antibiotic, neocarzinostatin. In addition, caffeine treatment appeared to inhibit the eventual maturation of newly synthesized DNA in L1210 cells following exposure to this antibiotic. These results, indicating the existence of caffeine-sensitive repair in L1210 leukemia cells treated with neocarzinostatin, provide further evidence for DNA damage as a mechanism of the cytocidal action of the antibiotic.

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RNA-reverse transcriptase complex from cultured human myeloma-leukemia cells.

A high molecular weight RNA-reverse transcriptase complex in the culture media of peripheral leukocytes obtained from two Japanese patients with myeloma-leukemia was detected by demonstration of a 3H-uridine peak and a peak of DNA polymerizing activity banding at a density of 1.15-1.19g/ml. The enzyme in the complex was able to utilize poly(rA)-d(pT)10 or poly (rC)-d(pG) 12-18, but not poly (dA)-d(pT) 10 or (dT) 12-18 as template-primers. The sucrose density sedimentation analysis revealed that RNA in the complex sedimented at a location of approximately 50s and 20-30s.

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