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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
33
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-19
pubmed:abstractText
Acquisition of drug resistance is one of the main obstacles encountered in cancer chemotherapy. Overexpression of multi-drug resistance 1 (MDR1) gene and its protein product P-glycoprotein, accompanied with a decrease in doxorubicin accumulation level, was observed in doxorubicin-resistant R-HepG2 cells, a subline derived by selection of human hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 cells with doxorubicin. In addition, Northern-blot analysis revealed an eight fold upregulation of the imprinted H19 mRNA in R-HepG2 cells. H19 knockdown by transfection with antisense H19 oligonucleotides suppressed the MDR1/P-glycoprotein expression, increased the cellular doxorubicin accumulation level and sensitized doxorubicin toxicity in both HepG2 parent cells and R-HepG2 cells. Results from methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction analysis indicated that the MDR1 gene promoter was hypomethylated in R-HepG2 cells. Antisense H19 oligonucleotides transfection induced a marked increase in the percentage of MDR1 promoter methylation and decrease in MDR1 expression in R-HepG2 cells. Thus, the H19 gene is believed to induce P-glycoprotein expression and MDR1-associated drug resistance at least in liver cancer cells through regulation of MDR1 promoter methylation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0950-9232
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4877-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-10-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Antibiotics, Antineoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-DNA Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Doxorubicin, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Liver Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Oligonucleotides, Antisense, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-P-Glycoprotein, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-RNA, Small Interfering, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-RNA, Untranslated, pubmed-meshheading:17297456-Transfection
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Riboregulator H19 induction of MDR1-associated drug resistance in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't