Table 4 The effects of decitabine dosage and treatment time on decitabine incorporation in DNA and DNA hypomethylation.

From: Tracking Decitabine Incorporation into Malignant Myeloid Cell DNA in vitro and in vivo by LC-MS/MS with Enzymatic Digestion

Decitabine dose (µM)

24-h Study

48-h Study

Decitabine incorporation (fmol/mg DNA)

DNA methylation

Decitabine incorporation (fmol/mg DNA)

DNA methylation

HL-60

U937

HL-60

U937

HL-60

U937

HL-60

U937

0.000

0.000

0.000

4.86

4.89

0.000

0.000

4.86

4.89

0.100

88.0

46.0

4.21

4.47

96.0

65.0

4.10

4.23

0.500

120

64.0

3.66

4.16

132

95.0

3.45

3.99

1.00

133

94.0

3.16

3.45

155

114

2.77

3.06

10.0

136

96.0

2.88

3.25

172

146

2.04

2.70