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Cellosaurus publication CLPUB00485

Publication number CLPUB00485
Authors Kuiper C.M., Broxterman H.J., Baas F., Schuurhuis G.J., Haisma H., Scheffer G.L., Lankelma J., Pinedo H.M.
Title Drug transport variants without P-glycoprotein overexpression from a human squamous lung cancer cell line after selection with doxorubicin.
Citation J. Cell. Pharmacol. 1:35-41(1990)
Abstract A series of cell lines with increasing levels of multidrug resistance, SW-1573/2R50, 2R80, 2R120, 2R160 and 2R250, was derived by selection with doxorubicin from the human squamous lung cancer cell line SW-1573 in order to study the expression of P-glycoprotcin during subsequent stages of resis-tance development. Up to SW-1573/2R120 the cell lines exhibited low levels of cross-resistance to vincristine, and gramicidin D, but relatively high levels of cross-resistance to etoposide. Cellular accumulation of daunorubicin and vincristine was markedly decreased in all sublines and a small modulation of resistance levels and drug accumulation by verapamil could be detected. However, no P-glycoprotein could be detected by Western blotting using C219 and no overexpression of the indr1 gene occurred in these sublines. Cell lines SW-1573/2R160 and SW-1573/2R250 display a large increase in doxorubicin resistance levels coinciding with a large overexpression of P-glycoprotein (about 3.5 x 10E5 molecules/cell) as calculated from binding experiments with 125I-labeled MRK-16. These findings indicate that early steps of pleiotropic resistance to anticancer drugs, induced by doxorubicin selection, can be mediated by other mechanisms than a gradual increase in P-glycoprotein expression. This mechanism gives a relatively high etoposide resistance. As a consequence, low level, drug transport-dependent resistance might be missed by detection methods using mdr-1 specific reagents.
Cell lines CVCL_1720; SW1573
CVCL_WG75; SW1573/2R50
CVCL_WG76; SW1573/2R80
CVCL_WG70; SW1573/2R120
CVCL_WG71; SW1573/2R160
CVCL_WG77; SW1573/2R250