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(D) Immunofluorescence of NPM1 in GBM9 cells with or without 0.5 μM brequinar and with or without 25 μM uridine for 24 h. NPM1 redistributed to the edges of the nucleolus (indication of nucleolar stress) upon brequinar treatment, which was rescued by the addition of uridine. Asterisks indicate p-values ≦ 0.05. (E) Relative proliferation of the LN229 and GBM9 cells in the presence of increasing amounts of temozolomide (TMZ). Proliferation was assessed by crystal violet staining after 4 days of treatment. N = 3–4. DHODH, the only enzyme in this pathway that localizes in the inner mitochondrial membrane, mediates the oxidation of dihydroorotate to orotate by reducing ubiquinone [4]. The 6 enzymatic reactions of the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway are performed by 3 essential enzymes: 1-Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthetase 2, 2-Aspartate Transcarbamylase, and 3-Dihydroorotase (CAD); Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (quinone) (DHODH); and 1-Orotate Phosphoribosyl Transferase and 2-Orotidine-5'-Decarboxylase/Uridine Monophosphate Synthetase (UMPS). Copyright: © 2020 Lafita-Navarro et al. Right panel shows the quantification by image J. Moreover, UMP and uridine levels in the serum (UDP and UTP were undetectable) of brequinar-treated mice were also unaffected (Fig 4F). To test this hypothesis, we used 2 DHODH inhibitors, brequinar, which is currently in clinical trials for leukemia (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03760666) and ML390 (Fig 1C) [39]. (E) Correlation of pre-rRNA, mature 28S and 18S rRNA, and ACTIN RNA levels with tumor weight. * indicates p-values ≦0.05. e1009117. Then, cells were resuspended in 0.5 mL PBS and fixed by adding 70% cold ethanol in drop-wise manner on a vortex. Membranes were washed 3 times with TBS-T for 10 min and imaged using BIO-RAD chemiluminescence imager. (I) Western blot quantification by Image J of γH2AX in Fig 2K and additional experimental replicates. (I) Relative proliferation of SF188 TMZ-sensitive and -resistant cells with or without TMZ. Therefore, we performed another subcutaneous xenograft experiment, injecting 3 x 106 LN229 cells and starting treatment 5 days after injection with a daily regimen of 10 mg/kg sodium brequinar for 55 days (Fig 3A). (B) Table showing the characteristics of the cell lines used in the present manuscript. Tables including numerical values of the experiments represented in S2 Fig. This is consistent with the p53 status in SF188 (S1B Fig. (F) Three representative control and brequinar-treated LN229 xenografts tumors showing increased blood vascularity in the control group (left panel) and qPCR for VEGFA in the LN229 xenografts. Both pathways are increased in regenerating tissue or in the human lymphocyte undergoing blast transformation. Media with drugs and uridine were replaced the day after cell seeding, and proliferation assessed after 4 days. (C) Tumor weight of LN229 xenografts at day 60 (end of experiment). While previous studies attributed this phenotype to a decrease in stemness of glioblastoma-initiating cells [34, 35], our current results indicate that the decrease of glioblastoma cell proliferation upon inhibition of DHODH is caused by a specific decrease in pre-rRNA and rRNA abundance, which leads to nucleolar stress and insufficient protein synthesis (Fig 6). (G) Immunofluorescence of rRNA in GBM9 by using the anti-rRNA Y10b antibody with or without 0.5 μM brequinar. Inhibition of the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis by blocking the activity of DHODH leads to reduced pyrimidine nucleotide availability and thus affects the synthesis of pre-rRNA and rRNA. Keyword - Pyrimidine biosynthesis (KW-0665) Map to. To eliminate the possibility that the decrease in any nucleotide type leads to a decrease in 47S pre-rRNA synthesis due to cell cycle arrest, we used 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), an inhibitor of the enzyme thymidylate synthetase (TS), which produces dTMP from dUMP (S4A Fig). (E) Mouse weights at day 60 before the tumors were harvested. or brequinar + TMZ. To confirm that brequinar inhibited the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis in vivo in the tumor xenografts, we used LC-MS/MS to measure the amounts of brequinar as well as UMP, UDP, UTP, and uridine present in tumor tissue in the control and brequinar-treated group. Software, The day after seeding, fresh media with drugs and uridine was added. β-actin levels were normalized to RNA load for the cDNA production. Tumors activate purine and pyrimidine biosynthetic pathways to increase the supply of nucleotides to fulfill the requirements of highly proliferative cells [1, 2]. This increase was enhanced when TMZ and brequinar were combined, and this effect was rescued by the addition of uridine (Fig 2K, and S2I Fig). As expected, 5-FU decreased proliferation of glioblastoma cells (S4B and S4E Fig), and the addition of uridine did not rescue this effect (S4E Fig). Yes https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117, Editor: Simon Khagi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNITED STATES, Received: May 20, 2020; Accepted: September 14, 2020; Published: November 17, 2020. Previously, it was shown that SF188 cells were less sensitive to TMZ than other glioblastoma cells [43]. (E) Amounts of brequinar, UMP, UDP, UTP and uridine measured by LC-MS/MS in the liver tissues of mice used for xenografts. It is possible that the MGMT locus is highly transcriptionally active as a mechanism to increase MGMT levels and DNA repair. (D) qPCR of 47S pre-rRNA and 28S and 18S rRNAs in the brain tissues of the mice used for LN229 xenografts. (K) Western blot of SF188 TMZ-sensitive or -resistant cells with or without TMZ, brequinar or brequinar + TMZ with or without uridine for γ-H2AX, p53 and, MGMT. Consequently, the impairment of the pre-rRNA synthesis upon DHODH inhibition leads to nucleolar stress specifically in glioblastoma cells but not in non-transformed cells. Tables including numerical values of the experiments represented in Fig 1. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s009. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.g003. (I-J) qPCR of ACTIN with or without brequinar for 24 h (I) or ML390 (J) for 48 h and uridine in LN229, GBM9, and SF188. Numerical values for each of the experiments represented are available in S9 Data. Yes While inhibition of DHODH causes a decrease in rRNA production in glioblastoma cells, it does not affect ACTIN abundance at short incubation periods. TMZ-resistant cells grew slower than the TMZ-sensitive cells even in the absence of TMZ (Fig 2I, and S2H Fig). Interestingly, brequinar treatment decreases the expression of MGMT in cells where MGMT is highly expressed and thus are more likely to become resistant to TMZ. Moreover, DHODH inhibition decreased the proliferation of glioblastoma cells, including temozolomide-resistant cells. Cellular nucleotides, composed of purines and pyrimidines, play a vital role in constituting nucleic acids RNA and DNA. No, Is the Subject Area "Biosynthesis" applicable to this article? Cancer cells have elevated rates of rRNA synthesis so that they can produce enough ribosomes to meet the demands for protein synthesis that are linked to increase cell growth and division. (A) Representation of subcutaneous xenograft experiment with LN229 glioblastoma cells. The lysates were passed through a 20G syringe and incubated on ice for 15 min with resuspending every 5 min. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s002. SB is the Mays Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Oncology. Western blot analysis indicated that DHODH and UMPS protein levels were higher in the glioblastoma cells LN229, GBM9, and SF188 in comparison to normal human p14ARF-/- immortalized astrocytes, which are non-transformed differentiated glial cells (Fig 1B) [27]. Data were analyzed using GraphPad for nucleotide quantification. Surprisingly, the levels of 47S pre-rRNA positively correlated with tumor size only in the control group and not in the brequinar-treated group (S5E Fig). Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Affiliation The decrease in pyrimidine levels caused by brequinar, could then decrease the levels of MGMT mRNA and therefore decrease the repair of DNA damage caused by TMZ. For all experiments, media with drugs and metabolites were replaced the day after seeding, and cells harvested at the indicated time points. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s007, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s008. The samples were snap-frozen three times in liquid nitrogen. The different steps of ribosome production (rDNA transcription, pre-rRNA processing, and assembly of the ribosome subunits) occur in the nucleolus [23]. Drugs for in vitro experiments: brequinar (24445, Cayman Chemical) dissolved in DMSO. The samples were resuspended in Buffer A containing the internal standards (IS) UMP-13C9,15N2 (UMP-IS) and tolbutamide (Resuspension Solution). Pyrimidines are synthesized from carbamoyl phosphate and aspartate. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s015. Reactome. Importantly, uridine did not increase proliferation of the DMSO-treated cells (Fig 2B and S2C and S2D Fig). By analyzing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) (Fig 1A) and the Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas (CGGA) (S1A Fig), we found that the mRNA levels of the enzymes in the de novo pyrimidine pathway, DHODH and UMPS, were elevated in high-grade glioma (IV/glioblastoma) patient samples. The first reaction is the conjugation of carbamoyl phosphate and aspartate to make Nâcarbamoylaspartate. In fact, the mRNA levels of the human vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), known to increase vascularity in glioblastoma [57], were lower in the brequinar-treated group after 55 days of treatment (Fig 3F, right panel). The events of pyrimidine metabolism are conveniently if somewhat arbitrarily grouped into four pathways: de novo synthesis of uridine 5'-monophosphate (UMP), the biosynthesis of other pyrimidine ribo- and deoxyribonucleotides, pyrimidine salvage reactions, and pyrimidine catabolism. We examined p21 expression as a readout of p53 activity and found that despite the increase p53 levels upon brequinar or ML390 treatment in all the glioblastoma cell lines, p21 only increased in LN229 (Fig 2M–2O). siRNAs used in this study are listed in S2 Table. Methodology, (K) Cell cycle representation of results in Fig 2L. UTP, UDP and UMP were detected by LC-MS/MS using a Sciex QTRAP 6500+ mass spectrometer, operating in MRM (multiple reaction monitoring) mode, coupled to a Shimadzu (Columbia, MD) Prominence LC. Our study demonstrates that glioblastoma cells heavily rely on the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway to generate ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and thus, we identified an approach to inhibit ribosome production and consequently the proliferation of glioblastoma cells through the specific inhibition of the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway. 2. Temozolomide (T2577, Sigma) dissolved in DMSO. In recent years, the molecular organization of nucleotide biosynthesis in plants has been analyzed. Numerical values for each of the experiments represented are available in S10 Data. We found that TMZ, but not brequinar, increased H2AX phosphorylation. (C) Brequinar levels quantified by LC-MS/MS in LN229 cells treated with 0.1 μM brequinar. For protein electrophoresis, samples were mixed and boiled for 5 min with denaturant buffer Laemli at 1X final concentration. No, Is the Subject Area "Glioblastoma cells" applicable to this article? It is possible that longer treatments or higher amounts of the DHODH inhibitors brequinar or ML390 would affect transcription more generally. Therefore, we examined apoptosis by measuring cleaved caspase 3 to define whether the decrease in cell number upon DHODH inhibition in glioblastoma cells was also due to increase cell death. Tables including numerical values of the experiments represented in Fig 3. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s011. For all the experiments, media with drugs and uridine were replaced the day after seeding. (E) Relative proliferation of the SF188 glioblastoma cells with or without 5 μM 5-FU and with or without 25 μM uridine. All statistical analyses were performed using two-tailed unpaired T-student statistical analysis, p ≦0.05 was considered statistically significant. ADVERTISEMENTS: Let us make an in-depth study of the biosynthesis of purine nucleotides, pyrimidine nucleotides and deoxyribonucleotides. (A) Amounts of brequinar, UMP, UDP, UTP and uridine in the LN229 xenografts measured by LC-MS/MS. See also Supplementary S5B Fig. Nucleotides for in vitro experiments: uridine (AAA1522706, Alfa Aesar) dissolved in water. On day 5, sodium brequinar was administered by daily IP at 10 mg/kg for 55 more days. Therefore, we asked whether the combination of TMZ with brequinar synergized to kill glioblastoma cells. Indeed, we found by Western blotting that brequinar treatment led to increased p53 protein (Fig 2F, 2G, 2K and 2M–2O, and S2F, S2G and S2J). Tables including values of the experiments represented in S3 Fig. Media with drugs was replaced every 2 days for 6 days. * indicates p-values ≦ 0.05. This suggests that inhibition of DHODH specifically impairs the production of pyrimidines in tumor tissues with low side effects. Interestingly, in the conditions described above, there was no measurable cytotoxicity for any of the 3 drugs as indicated by the absence of subG0 cell cycle phase. Surprisingly, treatment with ML390 or brequinar, which did not increase DNA damage (Fig 2F, 2G and 2K), did cause an increase in p53 protein levels that was reversed by the addition of uridine (Fig 2F, 2G, 2K and 2M–2O, and S2F, S2G and S2J Fig). Importantly, different cancer types, such as acute and chronic myeloid leukemia (AML and CML) [14, 15], multiple myeloma [16], melanoma [17], K-Ras–driven pancreatic cancer [18], PTEN-mutated breast cancer or glioblastoma [19], and chemotherapy-resistant triple-negative breast cancer cells [13], have been found to be vulnerable to the inhibition of DHODH. There are about 400 rDNA loci per diploid genome in human cells and about 20–50% of them are transcriptionally active [22], ensuring sufficient rRNA is produced for ribosome biogenesis [21]. Numerical values for each of the experiments represented are available in S2 Data. This explains the decrease in tumor growth of the brequinar-treated xenografts. Is the Subject Area "Uridine" applicable to this article? Yes To determine the effects of limiting the pyrimidine pool on rRNA transcription, we added brequinar or ML390 to the culture media of LN229, GBM9 and SF188 cells and studied their effects on the production of 47S pre-rRNA as measured by qPCR. Conceptualization, The reactions annotaed here, catalyzed by dCMP deaminase and dUTP diphosphatase yield dUMP, which in turn is converted to TMP by thymidylate synthase. (C) Representation of the effects of temozolomide (TMZ) and the depletion of nucleotides causing DNA double-strand breaks and the phosphorylation of H2AX (γ-H2AX). Although the 47S pre-rRNA did not change, the brequinar-treated tumor xenografts had lower levels of 28S and 18S rRNAs (Fig 4B). This metabolic pathway was recently identified as a prime target of broad-spectrum antiviral molecules, but our data unraveled a yet unsuspected link with innate immunity. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s014. The columns were kept at -80 oC until use. recycling of the bases. N = 4. (B) Western blot of p14 ARF-/- human astrocytes, LN229, GBM9, and SF188. Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Affiliation While several individual reactions in this pathway are reversible, other irreversible reactions drive the pathway in the direction of UMP biosynthesis in the normal cell. Investigation, Once the tumor volume reached 100 mm3, tumor volumes were periodically recorded. Funding acquisition, (A) CAD, DHODH and UMPS mRNA levels in lower (II-III) to higher grade (IV/GBM) glioma patients from TCGA database. During de novo biosynthesis, the nucleotide is synthesized from scratch, or a new pyrimidine is created from the molecules that make it up. Investigation, De novo synthesis and salvage pathway are the two pathways for nucleic acid synthesis in vivo (Evans and Guy, 2004). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s005. N = 2–5. Relative RNA levels are shown as a ratio between the experimental and control conditions. The BioLogic LP low-pressure chromatography system (BIO-RAD) was used to analyze the centrifuged fractions. Alternatively, it is possible that brequinar induces changes in the methylation status of the MGMT promoter or that other unknown pre- or post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms are responsible for the decrease in MGMT protein levels upon brequinar treatment. Together these results demonstrate that the effects of brequinar in limiting pyrimidine production are more specific to glioblastoma cells and thus may be a safe drug with minimal side effects. Indeed, we showed that DD264 or brequinar, a well-known inhibitor of pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway, both enhanced the expression of antiviral genes in human cells. For the experiments in vitro, expression levels for 47S pre-rRNA, 18S rRNA and 28S rRNA were normalized to β-actin expression. Viral replication heavily relies on â¦ Then each quantification was normalized by the amount of loading control (actin or tubulin). The TMZ-sensitive cells showed decreased proliferation in the presence of TMZ or brequinar alone and the combination of both agents decreased it further (Figs 2J and S2H). Therefore, we conclude that DHODH inhibition specifically limits the production of pre-rRNA and thus affects the viability of glioblastoma cells. Investigation, Experiments were performed a minimum of 3 times. In fact, the size of the nucleolus positively correlates with rRNA synthesis, cell growth, and malignancy of tumors [24]. Pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway enzyme activities in ATCC â¦ De Novo biosynthesis of a pyrimidine is catalyzed by 3 gene products CAD, DHODH and UMPS. Furthermore, we compared the effects of TMZ and brequinar on DNA damage in the TMZ-sensitive and TMZ-resistant SF188 cells. The â¦ Drugs for in vivo (subcutaneous xenografts) experiments: brequinar sodium (Tocris 6196/50) dissolved in water. For all the Western blot experiments, media with drugs and metabolites were replaced the day after seeding and cells harvested at the indicated time points. Also see Supplementary S2I and S2J Fig. However, higher concentrations of brequinar and ML390 (1 μM and 4 μM, respectively), activated apoptosis in LN229, SF188 and GBM9, but not in ARPE. For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click N = 2–6. Brequinar treatment led to nucleolar stress as seen by UBF (Fig 5A and S6A Fig) and NPM1 (Fig 5B and S6C–S6E Fig) redistribution to the periphery of the nucleolus. However, given that p21 did not increase even when p53 protein levels did, our results suggest that p53 is not active in GBM9. Next, a ratio was obtained normalizing to the DMSO condition. The sucrose gradient column comprises 2 mL of 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50% sucrose solutions. N = 3. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117.s019. Pyrimidine biosynthesis Stable Identifier. (E) Immunofluorescence of NPM1 GFP-tagged in LN229 cells with or without 0.1 μM brequinar and with or without 100 μM uridine for 24 h. NPM1 redistributed to the edges of the nucleolus (indication of nucleolar stress) upon brequinar treatment, which was rescued by the addition of uridine. Methodology, Affiliation Then, the supernatant was collected as the serum fraction. PLoS Genet 16(11): The pyrimidine ring is synthesized before it is conjugated to PRPP. All mice samples for LC/MS measurements were harvested 3 h after the last brequinar injection. Scale bars = 5 μm. Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Roles Yes A Phenomenex (Torrance, CA) Synergi Polar-RP column (2.0 X 150mm, 4 micron packing) was used for chromatography with the following conditions: Buffer A: ddH2O with 0.2% acetic acid. â¢ Pyrimidne synthesis is a de novo synthesis pathway involving six step reactions. Tables including values of the experiments represented in S4 Fig. The poor prognosis associated with glioblastoma warrants major efforts towards improving current therapeutic interventions. At the end of the experiment, tumors were harvested and weighed. To determine whether brequinar treatment affects pyrimidine synthesis in other non-transformed differentiated tissues in the mice, we collected brain and liver tissues in addition to serum from the same mice used for the xenograft experiment. Cells were harvested and lysed in RIPA buffer (25 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1% SDS + protease and phosphatase inhibitors and MG132). (H) Representation of the in vitro generation of SF188 TMZ-resistant cells. Pyrimidine biosynthesis links mitochondrial respiration to the p53 pathway Anastasia A. Khutornenko,aVladimir V. Roudko,aBoris V. Chernyak,a,bAndrey B. Vartapetian,aPeter M. Chumakov,c,d,1and Alexandra G. Evstafievaa,b,1 aBelozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119992, Moscow, Russia; The carbamoyl phosphate synthetase used in pyrimidine biosynthesis is located in the cytoplasm. This together with the reduction in MGMT expression caused by brequinar explains the increased phosphorylation of H2AX in the combined TMZ and brequinar treatment (Fig 2F, 2G and 2K, and S2J Fig). Also see Supplementary S2H Fig. Treating LN229 and GBM9 cells with 10 μM TMZ, which had a limited effect on proliferation (S2E Fig), with brequinar or with a combination of both agents in the presence or absence of uridine, demonstrated that TMZ, but not brequinar, increased H2AX phosphorylation (Fig 2F and 2G and S2F and S2G Fig). N = 2 for p53, N = 3 for MGMT. Here, we show that the activation of the de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines is an adaptive mechanism used by glioblastoma cells to sustain the high transcriptional rates exhibited by cancer cells. Therefore, targeting aberrant rRNA production by reducing nucleotide availability could provide an effective strategy to treat glioblastoma and, potentially, other tumor types. Importantly, the addition of exogenous uridine, which reconstitutes the cellular pool of pyrimidine by the salvage pathway, to the culture media recovered the impaired rDNA transcription, nucleolar morphology, p53 levels, and proliferation of glioblastoma cells caused by the DHODH inhibitors. Moreover, because DHODH is a structural mitochondrial protein also involved in the electron transport chain, the effects of DHODH knockdown on proliferation (S3A and S3B Fig.) (E-F) UMP, UDP, UTP and uridine measured by LC-MS/MS in LN229 after incubation with brequinar, 4 replicates, (E) and in GMB9 after incubation with ML390 (F), 3 replicates. Uridine did not rescue the effects of 5-FU in proliferation. Lysates were set on ice for 15 min and resuspended every 5 min. Cell cycle was analyzed using FlowJo software. For example, PRPP is added to anthranilate during the biosynthesis of tryptophan in bacteria. Validation, Given that tumor growth and the amount of pyrimidine metabolites were reduced in the brequinar-treated mice, we quantified the 47S pre-rRNA and the 28S and 18S rRNAs as well as ACTIN in the tumor xenografts. (A) mRNA expression of lower grade (II-III) to higher grade (IV/Glioblastoma) gliomas from patients whose tumors are archived in the CGGA database. Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, (D) Representative xenograft tumors from control and brequinar-treated mice. We then compared the amounts of 47S pre-rRNA, 28S and 18S rRNAs and ACTIN levels with each tumor weight to see whether a larger tumor size correlated with higher levels of rRNAs. The following precursor to fragment ion transitions were optimized for each nucleotide: UMP 325.084 to 97.1; UDP 405.053 to 97.0; UTP 484.984 to 96.9; UMP-IS 336.092 to 102.0. * indicates p-values ≦0.05. Another mechanism used by cancer cells to stimulate the de novo pyrimidine synthesis pathway is the activation of CAD by phosphorylation [13]. The addition of uridine to the culture media rescued growth of glioblastoma cells (Fig 2B and S2D Fig). Pyrimidine biosynthesis Sort By: Featured Items Newest Items Best Selling A to Z Z to A By Review Price: Ascending Price: Descending Products Per Page: 8 12 16 20 40 100 Balanced columns were centrifuged in a swinging bucket rotor at 34,000 rpm for 2 h at 4°C, acc = 8, dec = 0. Mammalian pyrimidine biosynthesis: fresh insights into an ancient pathway. In two further reactions, catalyzed by a bifunctional cytosolic enzyme, orotate reacts with 1-phosphoribosyl 5-pyrophosphate (PRPP) to yield orotidine 5'-monophosphate, which is decarboxylated to yield uridine 5'-monophosphate (UMP). All animal experiments were performed following UTSW IACUC guidelines (APN# 2017–101798). TMZ is the main chemotherapeutic agent used for the treatment of glioblastoma [29]. Secondary antibodies (Alexa Fluor 594 Goat Anti-Mouse IgG H+L and Alexa Fluor 594 Donkey Anti-Goat IgG H+L -Thermo Fisher), were diluted at 1:1000 in 5% BSA-PBS, incubated for 1 h at RT, washed with PBS 3 times for 10 min and mounted with Mowiol mounting media. It is possible that the residual DHODH levels after siRNA transfection are enough to maintain the production of pyrimidines through the de novo pathway. We then compared the effects of TMZ and brequinar alone or in combination on the proliferation of the TMZ-sensitive and TMZ-resistant cells in the presence or absence of uridine. To investigate the need of glioblastoma cells for the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway, we chose 3 distinct cell lines (S1B Fig): SF188, a commercially available pediatric male cell line expressing p53 that is mutated in the DNA binding domain (G622E); LN229, a commercially available adult female cell line with mutated p53 outside the DNA binding domain (P98L); and the patient-derived GBM9 with unknown p53 status [38]. Our results indicate that the p53 response is triggered by the inhibition of ETC at the cytochrome bc1 complex. p21 expression was not elevated in SF188 and GBM9 cells upon DHODH inhibition, indicating that additional mechanisms are responsible for reduced proliferation in these cells upon brequinar and ML390 treatment. The blank was subtracted from the standard curve and the subtracted values were used to determine analytical concentration of the compounds. 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