Cytotoxic effects of treosulfan and busulfan against leukemic cells of pediatric patients.

Purpose: The alkylating agent treosulfan exerts a high cytotoxic activity against various malignant cells. Due to limited non-hematological toxicity, treosulfan might be a promising compound in myeloablative therapy for hematopoietic transplantation in children. Since in vitro data regarding the activity of treosulfan against childhood leukemic cells are limited, we compared the effect of treosulfan and busulfan against pediatric leukemic and non-malignant cells.

FieF (YiiP) from Escherichia coli mediates decreased cellular accumulation of iron and relieves iron stress.

The Escherichia coli yiiP gene encodes an iron transporter, ferrous iron efflux (FieF), which belongs to the cation diffusion facilitator family (CDF). Transcription of fieF correlated with iron concentration; however, expression appeared to be independent of the ferrous iron uptake regulator Fur. Absence of FieF led to decreased growth of E.

The chromosomally encoded cation diffusion facilitator proteins DmeF and FieF from Wautersia metallidurans CH34 are transporters of broad metal specificity.

Genomic sequencing of the beta-proteobacterium Wautersia (previously Ralstonia) metallidurans CH34 revealed the presence of three genes encoding proteins of the cation diffusion facilitator (CDF) family. One, CzcD, was previously found to be part of the high-level metal resistance system Czc that mediates the efflux of Co(II), Zn(II), and Cd(II) ions catalyzed by the CzcCBA cation-proton antiporter. The second CDF protein, FieF, is probably mainly a ferrous iron detoxifying protein but also mediated some resistance against other divalent metal cations such as Zn(II), Co(II), Cd(II), and Ni(II) in W.