Fig. 2.
Conversion of 5-FC into 5-FU in PBSCs, MCF-7 BCCs, and an 0.1% mixture of MCF-7 cells in PBSCs after exposure to Ad.CMV-CD adenoviral vector. Cells (2.5 × 106) were exposed for 90 minutes to 100 MOI of Ad.CMV-CD and then incubated for 48 hours in a 25-cm2 flask with 10 mL of medium containing 500 μmol/L 5-FC and 40 μCi of [6-3H]5-FC. One milliliter of medium was collected after 24 hours, mixed with an equal amount of ice-cold methanol, and analyzed by HPLC as described in the Materials and Methods. The numbers above each histogram column indicate the total amount of drug in micromoles (either 5-FC or 5-FU) per flask.