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Role of the lung resistance related to protein (LRP) in the drug sensitivity in cultured tumor cells
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Pergamon, 2002.
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Abstract
- Drug resistance, one of the major obstacle in the successful anticancer therapy, can be observed at the outset of therapy (intrinsic resistance) or after exposure to the antitumor agent (acquired resistance). To gain a better insight into the mechanisms of intrinsic resistance we have analyzed two human cell types derived from untreated tumors: MCF-7 breast cancer and A549 non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We have examined: the cytotoxic effect induced by doxorubicin (DOX); the time course of drug accumulation by flow cytometry and intracellular drug distribution by confocal microscopy; the expression and distribution of proteins related to anthracycline resistance, such as P-gp (P-glycoprotein), MRP1 (multidrug resistance-associated protein) and LRP (lung resistance-related protein). The cytotoxicity assays showed that A549 cells were less sensitive than MCF-7 cells to the DOX treatment in agreement with the different DOX uptake. Moreover, while in A549 cells DOX was mostly located in well defined intracytoplasmic vesicles, in MCF-7 cells it was mainly revealed inside the nuclei. The analysis of P-gp and MRP expression did not show significant differences between the two cell lines while a high expression of LRP was detected at the nuclear envelope and cytoplasmic levels in A549 cells. These findings suggest that the lower sensitivity to DOX treatment showed by lung carcinoma cells could be ascribed to drug sequestration by LRP inside the cytoplasmic compartments.
- Subjects :
- Cytoplasm
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Neoplasms
Antineoplastic Agents
Breast Neoplasms
Drug resistance
Biology
Toxicology
Flow cytometry
Settore BIO/13 - Biologia Applicata
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Tumor Cells, Cultured
medicine
Humans
Cytotoxic T cell
Doxorubicin
ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1
Lung cancer
Vault Ribonucleoprotein Particles
A549 cell
medicine.diagnostic_test
General Medicine
Flow Cytometry
medicine.disease
Neoplasm Proteins
Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
Cell culture
Cancer research
Female
Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins
Intracellular
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3065ba1f046133ab2e7f60b2b64e7c93