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Functionally relevant genetic variants of glutathione S-transferase GSTM5 in cynomolgus and rhesus macaques.
Xenobiotica; the Fate of Foreign Compounds in Biological Systems 2018 September 15
1. Glutathione S-transferase (GST) is a family of enzymes important for conjugation with glutathione of endogenous and exogenous compounds. Human GSTM1 null allele is associated with toxicity and cancers. Cynomolgus and rhesus macaques have molecular and enzymatic similarities of GSTs to humans; however, genetic variants have not been investigated. In macaques, instead of pseudogenized GSTM1, GSTM5 is a predominant GSTM isoform. 2. In this study, resequencing of GSTM5 in 64 cynomolgus and 31 rhesus macaques found 6 non-synonymous variants, and 1 variant (IVS5 + 1) causing exon skip. Of these 7 variants, 3 and 1 were found only in Indochinese and Indonesian cynomolgus macaques, respectively. 3. Cynomolgus GSTM5-mediated styrene 7,8-oxide and trans-stilbene oxide conjugation activities correlated with GSTM protein levels immunochemically quantified in cynomolgus liver samples. Using recombinant GSTM5 proteins, 4 of the 6 non-synonymous variants including E29Q, L96R, M166V, and S201N showed substantially lower metabolic activities. Moreover, a homozygote for E29Q and heterozygotes for S201N or IVS5 + 1 showed significantly lower conjugation activities in liver cytosolic fractions as compared with wild-type animals. 4. Therefore, the present results suggest that inter-animal variability of GST-dependent drug metabolism is at least partly accounted for by GSTM5 variants in cynomolgus and rhesus macaques as preclinical animal models.
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