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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-2
pubmed:abstractText
Exploiting vulnerabilities in the intracellular signaling pathways of tumor cells is a key strategy for the development of new drugs. The activation of cellular stress responses mediated by the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) allows cancer cells to survive outside their normal environment. Many proteins that protect cells against ER stress are active as protein disulfide isomerases (PDI) and the aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that apoptosis in response to ER stress can be increased by inhibiting PDI activity. We show that the novel chemotherapeutic drugs fenretinide and velcade induce ER stress-mediated apoptosis in melanoma cells. Both stress response and apoptosis were enhanced by the PDI inhibitor bacitracin. Overexpression of the main cellular PDI, procollagen-proline, 2-oxoglutarate-4-dioxygenase beta subunit (P4HB), resulted in increased PDI activity and abrogated the apoptosis-enhancing effect of bacitracin. In contrast, overexpression of a mutant P4HB lacking PDI activity did not increase cellular PDI activity or block the effects of bacitracin. These results show that inhibition of PDI activity increases apoptosis in response to agents which induce ER stress and suggest that the development of potent, small-molecule PDI inhibitors has significant potential as a powerful tool for enhancing the efficacy of chemotherapy in melanoma.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1538-7445
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
68
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5363-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Bacitracin, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Boronic Acids, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Cell Death, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Drug Synergism, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Endoplasmic Reticulum, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Fenretinide, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Melanoma, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Oxidative Stress, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Protein Disulfide-Isomerases, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Pyrazines, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Treatment Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:18593938-Tumor Cells, Cultured
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Increasing melanoma cell death using inhibitors of protein disulfide isomerases to abrogate survival responses to endoplasmic reticulum stress.
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