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Table 1 Substrate specificity

From: Feline thymidine kinase 1: molecular characterization and evaluation of its serum form as a diagnostic biomarker

Substrate

Relative activity

dThd

100

Triflurothymidine (TFT)

80.0

Azidothymidine (AZT)

51.8

2′-deoxy-3′-fluorothymidine (FLT)

33.5

α-dThd

5.1

Dideoxythymidine (D4T)

4.1

dUrd

146

5-fluorodeoxyuridine (5FdU)

122

2′-deoxy-2′-fluoro-arabinofuranosyl-5-methyluracil (FMAU)

47.2

D-FMAU

65.5

L-FMAU

20.4

5-Bromovinyl-deoxyuridine (BvdU)

6.8

Uridine

0.9

dCyd

< 0.01

dAdo

< 0.01

dGuo

0.2

  1. The assays were performed by using a coupled spectrophotometric method at 21 °C. The concentration of the substrate was 0.1 mM with 1 mM ATP as the phosphate donor. The data are given as percentage of that with dThd as the substrate (1.64 μmol/mg/min)