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, 2006; Tang et?al., 2006). We and other investigators have shown that the relative sizes between the alcohol and acyl (acid) moieties of an ester contribute significantly to the isoform-specific hydrolysis. For example, the anti-influenza prodrug, oseltamivir, has a larger acid group and is hydrolysed by CES1 (Shi et?al., 2006). In contrast, the anti-cancer http://www.selleckchem.com/screening/pfizer-licensed-library.html prodrug, irinotecan, has a larger alcohol moiety and is hydrolysed preferably by CES2 (Wu et?al., 2002). However, there are exceptions on this alcohol/acyl ratio rule. For example, cis- and trans-permethrins, although identical in terms of the relative sizes of the acid and alcohol moieties, are differentially hydrolysed by CES1 and CES2 (Yang et?al., 2009a). Likewise, PPD (pentyl carbamate of p-aminobenzyl carbamate of doxazolidine), a prodrug of the anti-cancer agent doxazolidine, is hydrolysed by CES2 to release 1-pentenol (Barthel et?al., 2008). This alcohol moiety is much less than the corresponding acid moiety ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temsirolimus several major rat CESs (Shi et?al., 2008) but slightly induced human CES1 and CES2 (Zhu et?al., 2000). Recently, several anti-cancer agents including 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) were shown to induce CES2 in several colorectal tumour lines through transactivation by the tumour suppressor p53, although the magnitude of the transactivation was only moderate compared with the induction of CES2 mRNA (Choi et?al., 2006). This study was performed to determine whether the induction occurs in vivo and whether the induction leads to enhanced cell-killing activity of irinotecan and PPD. http://www.selleckchem.com/products/pifithrin-alpha.html As observed in vitro, robust induction of CES2 was detected in xenografts and the induction occurred in a dose-dependent manner. A set of molecular experiments established that the induction was achieved by both transactivation and increased mRNA stability through p53. However, neither p63 nor p73, functionally related proteins to p53, supported the transactivation. In addition, 5-FU pretreatment significantly increased cell killing of irinotecan and PPD. The increase was detected in LS180 but not Huh7 cell line. Likewise, LS180 line, but not Huh7, supported robust induction of CES2.