Association of fludarabine pharmacokinetic/dynamic biomarkers with donor chimerism in nonmyeloablative HCT recipients

Purpose Fludarabine monophosphate (fludarabine) is an integral component of many reduced-intensity conditioning regimens for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Fludarabine’s metabolite, 9-β-D-arabinofuranosyl-2-fluoroadenine (F-ara-A), undergoes cellular uptake and activation to form the active cytotoxic metabolite fludarabine triphosphate (F-ara-ATP), which inhibits cellular DNA synthesis in CD4+ and CD8+ cells. In this study, we evaluated whether fludarabine-based pharmacologic biomarkers were associated with clinical outcomes in HCT recipients.