Rong Huang, Daryl J Murry, Dhanashri Kolwankar, Stephen D Hall, David R Foster
Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Biochemical pharmacology 2006 Jun 14The increased expression of drug transporters following cancer chemotherapy contributes to resistance. This may reflect transcriptional up-regulation and/or clonal selection. We quantified the expression of mRNA for ABCB1 (mdr1), ABCC1 (mrp1), ABCC2 (mrp2) and ABCC3 (mrp3) to evaluate the potential contribution of induction. ABCB1, ABCC1-3 mRNAs were quantified by real time RT-PCR and normalized to GAPDH. We used intestinal cells that express high pregnane X receptor (LS174T), low pregnane X receptor (Caco-2) and lung cells (A549) that express glucocorticoid receptor and low pregnane X receptor. Rifampin (10 microM) caused significant induction of ABCB1 (595+/-263%, p<0.05) in LS174T cells but induction was absent in Caco-2 or A549 cells. ABCC1 was not induced in any cell at 24, 48 and 72 h following rifampin treatment. In contrast, vincristine (10 nM and 100 nM), a ligand for ABCB1 and ABCC1-3 and a potential PXR/CAR ligand, induced ABCC2 and ABCC3 expression in LS174T cells at 48 h (372+/-87% and 303+/-42%, respectively, p<0.05). A similar induction of ABCC2 and ABCC3 genes was also seen with 10 nM VCR in A549 cells following 48 h treatment. In summary, there may be a significant contribution of transcriptional activation to multi-drug resistance. However, this is cell selective and is not necessarily dependent on PXR mediated effects.
Rong Huang, Daryl J Murry, Dhanashri Kolwankar, Stephen D Hall, David R Foster. Vincristine transcriptional regulation of efflux drug transporters in carcinoma cell lines. Biochemical pharmacology. 2006 Jun 14;71(12):1695-704
PMID: 16620787
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