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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
15
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-8-31
pubmed:abstractText
Antiestrogen resistance is frequently observed in patients after longterm treatment with tamoxifen, a nonsteroidal antiestrogen widely used for endocrine therapy of breast cancer. In vitro studies in resistant cells showed that the expression of natural estrogen-responsive genes is frequently altered. Using MVLN cells, an MCF-7-derived cell model, we previously demonstrated that 4-hydroxytamoxifen (OHT) treatment irreversibly inactivated an estrogen-regulated chimeric luciferase response by a direct effect of the drug and not through a cell selection process (E. Badia et al., Cancer Res., 54: 5860-5866, 1994). In the present study, we present tamoxifen-resistant but still estrogen-dependent clones isolated after long-term treatment of MVLN cells with OHT and show that progesterone receptor (PR) expression was irreversibly decreased in some of these clones, whereas the PRA:PRB ratio of residual PR remained unchanged. The irreversible inactivation of both chimeric luciferase gene and PR gene expression was associated with the disappearance of DNase 1-hypersensitive sites. In the case of the chimeric gene, at least one of these sites was close to the estrogen responsive element. Genomic sequencing analysis of a clone with very low PR content did not reveal any methylation on CpG dinucleotides or any mutation in the PR gene promoter region. In all of the resistant clones tested and independently of their PR content, estrogen receptor expression was only lowered by half and remained functional, whereas pS2 expression was not modified. We also observed that the residual luciferase activity level (1-2%) of the MVLN clones, the luciferase expression of which had been irreversibly inactivated, was raised 4-fold by trichostatin A treatment. We conclude that long-term OHT treatment may modify the chromatin structure and thus could contribute to differentially silencing natural target genes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/4-hydroxytamoxifen, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Chromatin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA, Neoplasm, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Deoxyribonuclease I, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzyme Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Estradiol, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Estrogen Antagonists, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Estrogens, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hydroxamic Acids, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Luciferases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Estradiol, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Progesterone, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/TFF1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tamoxifen, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Thymidine Kinase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tumor Suppressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Vitellogenins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/trichostatin A
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
60
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4130-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Chromatin, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-DNA Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Deoxyribonuclease I, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Estradiol, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Estrogen Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Estrogens, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Gene Silencing, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Hydroxamic Acids, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Luciferases, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Receptors, Estradiol, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Receptors, Progesterone, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Tamoxifen, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Thymidine Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Tumor Suppressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Vitellogenins, pubmed-meshheading:10945620-Xenopus
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Long-term hydroxytamoxifen treatment of an MCF-7-derived breast cancer cell line irreversibly inhibits the expression of estrogenic genes through chromatin remodeling.
pubmed:affiliation
Unité 439, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Montpellier, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't