scholarly journals β-elemene, a compound derived from Rhizoma zedoariae, reverses multidrug resistance mediated by the ABCB1 transporter

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 858-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUI-QIN GUO ◽  
GUAN-NAN ZHANG ◽  
YI-JUN WANG ◽  
YUN-KAI ZHANG ◽  
KAMLESH SODANI ◽  
...  
Cancers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1963
Author(s):  
Qiu-Xu Teng ◽  
Xiaofang Luo ◽  
Zi-Ning Lei ◽  
Jing-Quan Wang ◽  
John Wurpel ◽  
...  

The overexpression of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters is a common cause of multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancers. The intracellular drug concentration of cancer cells can be decreased relative to their normal cell counterparts due to increased expression of ABC transporters acting as efflux pumps of anticancer drugs. Over the past decades, antimicrobial peptides have been investigated as a new generation of anticancer drugs and some of them were reported to have interactions with ABC transporters. In this article, we investigated several novel antimicrobial peptides to see if they could sensitize ABCB1-overexpressing cells to the anticancer drugs paclitaxel and doxorubicin, which are transported by ABCB1. It was found that peptide XH-14C increased the intracellular accumulation of ABCB1 substrate paclitaxel, which demonstrated that XH-14C could reverse ABCB1-mediated MDR. Furthermore, XH-14C could stimulate the ATPase activity of ABCB1 and the molecular dynamic simulation revealed a stable binding pose of XH-14C-ABCB1 complex. There was no change on the expression level or the location of ABCB1 transporter with the treatment of XH-14C. Our results suggest that XH-14C in combination with conventional anticancer agents could be used as a novel strategy for cancer treatment.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Jun Wang ◽  
Nagaraju Anreddy ◽  
Bhargav A. Patel ◽  
Eduardo E. Chufan ◽  
Satyakam Singh ◽  
...  

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (23) ◽  
pp. 4383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Liao ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Pranav Gupta ◽  
Zi-Ning Lei ◽  
Jing-Quan Wang ◽  
...  

The overexpression of ABC transporters induced by anticancer drugs has been found to be the main cause of multidrug resistance. It is actually also a strategy by which cancer cells escape being killed. Tetrandrine is a natural product extracted from the stem of Tinospora crispa. In this study, tetrandrine showed synergistic cytotoxic activity in combinational use with chemotherapeutic drugs, such as Doxorubicin, Vincristine, and Paclitaxel, in both drug-induced and MDR1 gene-transfected cancer cells that over-expressed ABCB1/P-glycoprotein. Tetrandrine stimulated P-glycoprotein ATPase activity, decreased the efflux of [3H]-Paclitaxel and increased the intracellular accumulation of [3H]-Paclitaxel in KB-C2 cells. Furthermore, SW620/Ad300 and KB-C2 cells pretreated with 1 μM tetrandrine for 72 h decreased P-glycoprotein expression without changing its cellular localization. This was demonstrated through Western blotting and immunofluorescence analysis. Interestingly, down-regulation of P-glycoprotein expression was not correlated with gene transcription, as the MDR1 mRNA level exhibited a slight fluctuation in SW620/Ad300 and KB-C2 cells at 0, 24, 48, and 72 h treatment time points. In addition, molecular docking analysis predicted that tetrandrine had inhibitory potential with the ABCB1 transporter. Our results suggested that tetrandrine can antagonize MDR in both drug-selected and MDR1 gene-transfected cancer cells by down regulating the expression of the ABCB1 transporter, followed by increasing the intracellular concentration of chemotherapeutic agents. The combinational therapy using tetrandrine and other anticancer drugs could promote the treatment efficiency of drugs that are substrates of ABCB1.


2017 ◽  
Vol 396 ◽  
pp. 145-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Jun Wang ◽  
Yun-Kai Zhang ◽  
Guan-Nan Zhang ◽  
Sweilem B. Al Rihani ◽  
Meng-Ning Wei ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sen-Ling Feng ◽  
Hai-Bin Luo ◽  
Liang Cai ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
...  

Oncotarget ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 15494-15509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Ge Qiu ◽  
Yao-Jun Zhang ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
Jin-Ming Zhao ◽  
Wen-Ji Zhang ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S47-S47
Author(s):  
Guopei Zheng ◽  
Sisi Yi ◽  
Yafei Li ◽  
Fangren Kong ◽  
Yanhui Yu ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A93-A93
Author(s):  
D ROST ◽  
J KONIG ◽  
G WEISS ◽  
E KLAR ◽  
W STREMMEL ◽  
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